Million Dollar Mermaid

"But surely women rose up from the frothy sea, as resplendent as Aphrodite on her scalloped chariot." X

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"The Sea Girl" written by Ray Cummings ~ 1930 ~ Robert A. Graef (American artist, 1879-1951)

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M. F. Taylor (early 1900s)

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Teofil Kwiatkowski, 1809-1891

Sirens, 1845

Czartoryski Museum, Kraków, Poland

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Ludmilla Tcherina in the tales of Hoffmann (1951) in a giant clamshell bed

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                     🧜🏾‍♀️🧜🏾‍♀️🧜🏾‍♀️ The Mermaids Fairy Soap 🧜🏾‍♀️🧜🏾‍♀️🧜🏾‍♀️

1898 advertisement ~ “Fairy soap bars were originally manufactured by Thomas Hedley Co. of Newcastle upon Tyne which was acquired by Procter & Gamble in 1927.” ~ Wikipedia

[xternidad]

Silly Symphony - King Neptune (1932)

[annoyinglyperfectartisan]

Miranda, 1948

[razzleberryravyn]

Glynis Johns in Mad about Men (1954)

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“The heavens are full of floating mysteries.” ~ Thomas Buchanan Read (American poet, 1822-1872)                                                                     

English translation: Bazaar for the Suffering Childhood, On the Seabed ~ 1900 ~ German chromolithographic postcard by E. Rieck (no biography found) 

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The Siren | A Mermaid

— by John William Waterhouse (1849-1917)

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Mad About Men (1954, dir. Ralph Thomas)

[inthedarktrees]

A young woman training to perform as a mermaid at Weeki Wachee Springs in Florida. Lessons include breath control, underwater ballet, synchronized swimming, graceful movement, and underwater dining etiquette. Audiences watch the mermaids perform from an underground theater embedded in the side of the spring.

Care and Feeding of a Mermaid, 1961

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"Seal of the Damned" Fantastic Universe Science Fiction, July 1957 Cover by Virgil Finlay

[adventurelandia]

Live mermaids on the Submarine Voyage at Disneyland Kodak Presents Disneyland '59 (1959)

[winternymphaea]

glynis johns in 'miranda' (1948) .

[bebemoon]

various 20′s-era djer-kiss cosmetics (by french perfumer kerkoff) advertisements, accompanied by fairytale dreamland illustrations by r.l. & e.d. forkum .

[antiguedat]

Silly Symphony - King Neptune