old world blues

[normasshearer]

Joan Crawford in SADIE MCKEE (1934) dir. Clarence Brown Costume design by Adrian

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Fulton Street dock, Manhattan skyline, 1935.

Photo: Berenice Abbott via the NY Times

[the1920sinpictures]

1920s Greta Nissen in a great dress! From America in the 1920s, FB.

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Richard Avedon - Dovima, Wrap by Brooke Cadwallader, Great Pyramids of Giza, Egypt, Jan. 1951, from Avedon Fashion 1944-2000 by Carol Squiers and Vince Aletti (2009)

[catsofyore]

His Majesty. Postcard from my collection, mailed 1907.

[legendarytragedynacho]

Louis Armstrong playing for his wife Lucille Wilson at the Pyramids of Giza, 1961

Photo and idea by Bert Stern

[last-picture-show]

/ Anonymous, Street Scene 1940s

[soft-lovely]

loving cuts

[hellooldsmelly]

[anitapallenberg]

Jewel Robbery (1932) | Dir. William Dieterle

[bwmedia]

MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET (1947) dir. George Seaton

[stars-bean]

North by Northwest (1959) dir. Alfred Hitchcock

[kayflapper]

Vintage couple, c. 1930s.

[electronicsquid]

Lana Turner by the side of the pool

(Peter Stackpole. 1939?)

[kayflapper]

Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford & Charlie Chaplin on the set of "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm" (1917.)

[newyorkthegoldenage]

These folks look suitably grim as they listen to the election returns at the temporary "wigwam" in the 7th Avenue Armory on November 6, 1928. Governor Alfred E. Smith, the Democratic candidate for president, is seated in the second row, third from the left. He lost to Herbert Hoover by 17 percentage points. Franklin D. Roosevelt, the (successful) candidate to succeed Smith as New York governor, is in the first row, third from the left.

Photo: Associated Press

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