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photography by evelyn bencicova

Male and Female, 1919

Get Your Man publicity portrait by Gene Robert Richee, circa 1927.

Salvador Dali et son mannequin à l’exposition surréaliste, Paris, 1938

Steampunk Vehicles Drivers Tag

Evelyn Nesbit in early 1900s

Tamara Karsavina, Vaslav Nijinsky, and Adolph Bolm in Le Carnaval.

Myrna Loy in Bride of the Regiment (1930)

Vera Nemchinova en Colombine et Nicolas Zverev, l’Arlequin (Source Bnf), 1915.

I am she who did not laugh. Was it pity or was it love? Olga Baclanova as Duchess Josiana in THE MAN WHO LAUGHS 1928, dir. Paul Leni

Eisenhower drove cross country on the Lincoln Highway in 1919 as part of an army convoy which took four months to cross the country.  The contrast between that experience and his experience driving on the Autobahn during World War II led to Eisenhower’s proposal for a national highway system.  

Suzan Pitt working on the miniature theater set, with an audience of clay figures, from her animated film Asparagus, 1979

Helen Kane portrait was taken by photographer Otto Dyar, (1929.)