what it says on the tin

[coolchicksfromhistory]

Lillian Boyer was one of the best known stunt people of the 1920s.  A former waitress, Lillian began her career as an aerial performer on a lark but quickly made it her profession.  For $100 a day, Lillian walked on the wings of planes, transferred herself from a moving car to a moving airplane, took parachute jumps, and hung off a plane by her teeth.  Stricter regulations ended her career in 1929 and Lillian fell into obscurity until historians became interested in her career towards the end of her life.

The photos shown above are all from the San Diego Air and Space Museum Flickr account, except for the wing walker photo which is from the Library of Congress.  For more details of Lillian’s life, read her 1989 LA Times obituary. 

[museum-of-artifacts]

Ancient Roman helmet worn by the elite Roman cavalry (equites Romani). 1st century AD

[animus-inviolabilis]

Terracotta Head of a Bodhisattva wearing a garland Gandhara

5th century (from John Eskenazi Ltd.)

[mini-girlz]

Yoruba Female

Date: 12th–15th century

Geography: Nigeria, Ife

Culture: Yoruba peoples

Medium: Terracotta

Dimensions: H. 8 ½ x W. 5 ¼ in. (21.6 x 13.3 cm)

> metmuseum.org

[back-then]

These all work in Cleveland Hosiery Mills, Cleveland, Tennessee, 1910

[gentlethrills]

LA

[rarebritney]

Vivetta Resort 2016

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[ephemeral-elegance]

Japanese Mother of Pearl Hairpin, ca. Showa period

via Creative Museum

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[back-then]

Camille Claudel and Jessie Lipscomb (on the right) c. 1885-87

[memewhore]

[maybelatersamel]

My great grandmother Ella Duhon Trahan in a field of flowers.

[camilledecussac]

Doggy dog

[ofwhichiamtheworst]

a male feminist walks into a bar

because it was set so low

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