Aug 6, 2025
Silent film star Mabel Normand arrives at Grand Central Station with a large pile of luggage containing the wardrobe for a new movie she is filming in New York, August 6, 1925.
Photo: Bettmann Archive/Getty Images/Fine Art America
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Silent film star Mabel Normand arrives at Grand Central Station with a large pile of luggage containing the wardrobe for a new movie she is filming in New York, August 6, 1925.
Photo: Bettmann Archive/Getty Images/Fine Art America
The "Anything on Wheels" Derby is off to a rolling start on the Lower East Side, August 6, 1952. Boys and girls on roller skates, bicycles, tricycles, scooters, go-carts, doll carriages, and other factory- or home-made vehicles race on the block, which was closed to regular traffic.
Photo: Carl Nesensohn for the AP
Cover of the sheet music for three songs from one of Earl Carroll's Vanities shows, including "Once in a Lifetime," 1928. That year, the show opened on August 6 and ran for 6 months. W..C. Fields was one of the acts.
Photo: Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum