The Golden Era

Hendon Air Show poster.

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A Warsaw police officer demonstrates experimental body armour in 1921.

A 17th Pursuit Squadron P-26A at Iba Field, the Philippines, during gunnery training.

1923 Vanishing rural Brooklyn: Hendrickson's Corners at the junction of Kings Highway, Flatbush Avenue and long-gone Mill Lane in Flatlands. This is all now a major commercial and urban hub. From New York City History and Memories, FB.

Life, October 23, 1944

     In 1926, it numbered half a million members, by far the largest at the time. Around this time the Stahlhelm entered politics, although unlike similar groups, it didn’t endorse a single party preferring instead to present itself simply as Conservative. It must be said that most of those who became deputies did so as members of the Monarchist Party (DNVP) or Liberal-Nationalist Party (DVP).      As volkish elements entered the Stahlhelm, it continued to slide into a more radical and authoritarian mindset that culminated in the more moderate DVP severing ties with them. The Stahlhelm eventually joined the DNVP/NSDAP coalition that brought Hitler to power.      After 1933, the Stahlhelm was first put under the command of the SA’s leader and in 1935 it was dissolved with its members being absorbed into the Nazi’s Organisation, either in the SA or in the veterans association. Interestingly, the later kept using a steel helmet (though undefaced) as one of its symbols.” (Source.)

Today in 1935, T.E. Lawrence, known to the world as Lawrence of Arabia, died as a retired Royal Air Force mechanic living under an assumed name.

Magazine uploaded by Tracey Gutierres

 “The Saturday Evening Post,” November 4, 1939

From the car files: luncheon event mailer promoting the preview of the 1939 Chevrolets.

USS Isabel– a yacht, built in 1917 by Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine, was acquired by the Navy before completion, from her owner, automobile manufacturer John North Willys of Toledo, Ohio; converted to Navy use as a “destroyer leader” She later served in the East Asiatic Fleet.

USS Palos (PG-16) Her crew “manning the rail” on Christmas Day, 1924 Hankou, China.

Wrocław, Poland 1910/20

Lee Miller and and Agneta Fischer

1925-26 Lingerie from "Fashion Service" magazine. From Pinterest.

(2162.) Elegant afternoon dress of imprimé canton crêpe worked on diagonal lines with coloured pipings and slightly gathered seams. Little bows serve as breast pockets.