she dreams awake

Kendal

[fifties-sixties-everyday-life]

Circa 1930s

[photosobscura]

“Careful now” https://www.instagram.com/p/CqLVxHtpkpH/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[flowerytale]

Margaret Atwood, from The Blind Assassin

[melethrille]

i do not wish to be here today, take me to my dreamland

[thecinamonroe]

Marilyn Monroe photographed by Cecil Beaton at the Ambassador Hotel in New York, February 1956.

[livingwiththeinternet]

Domenico Fiasella, Bacchus and Ariadne 

[simena]

Pierre Carrier-Belleuse (detail)

[punlovsin]

via

square america

[flowerytale]

The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1920–1923

[punlovsin]

..

[fordarkmornings]

James Jebusa Shannon (American, 1862-1923)

Sirens

[twoseparatecoursesmeet]

Chicago Students, 1950s

[movie-gifs]

Yvonne De Carlo as Anna Marie in Salome, Where She Danced (1945) dir. Charles Lamont

[barcarole]

Some pages from Virginia Woolf’s photo album at Monk’s House.

[fripperiesandfobs]

Evening dress by Bruyère ca. 1953

From Tessier-Sarou

[boxesofoldphotos]

UntitledWomanByTheStairs View at Nullbrook More from Nullbrook

[trees-and-planets]

— Albert Camus, The Possessed