The Sign of the Cross (1932) is a pre-Code epic film released by Paramount Pictures, produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille from a screenplay by Waldemar Young and Sidney Buchman, and based on the original 1895 play by Wilson Barrett. Both play and film have a strong resemblance to the novel Quo Vadis, and like the novel, take place in ancient Rome during the reign of Nero. [...]
Souvenir from Cairo. Photographers Strommeyer & Heymann, Cairo, cabinet card, circa 1885
Boxing of older ladies with an apron, New York, 1925 ( via )
Queen Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 1819 – 1901) was the monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death. From 1 May 1876, she used the additional title of Empress of India. Below are some of old black and white portraits of Queen Victoria. [...]
This picture is from 1925, and it shows Western Union Messenger Girls at the United States Capitol. A great picture from the "Roaring Twenties". ( via )
A C of C industrial Expo publicity, Miss Vera Vance stands upon a gasoline pump with a hose in her mouth, August 1926.
The history of nursing is also the history of war, for times of war have seen the major advances and achievements of nursing. During WW1, nurses did not serve at the advanced dressing stations on the front lines. (Women nurses were not allowed on the front line back then.) They did however serve at the field hospitals (just behind the front), evacuation hospitals and base hospitals. A few have died as a result of enemy actions during WW1, and many of them died in the line of duty because of the influenza epidemic of 1918. Many women won awards for [...]
Anna Pavlova posed in costume for her ballet Rondino, possibly performed by her company in 1914. Photographs by Mishkin. (via NYPL Digital Gallery )
Boxing has fallen a long way over the past 100 years. The Library of Congress has a jackpot of boxing photos from the early 1910s that perfectly capture the strangeness and simplistic beauty of the bygone sport. [...]
Beijing-based photographer Wang Fuchun produced this series of incredibly vivid pictures of Chinese passengers on trains. A railway worker-turned photographer, Wang has been documenting all sorts of unique moments on trains for decades. From steam locomotives to bullet trains, the past three-decades of changes for China' s railways have all been recorded in Wang's photos. Wang's bond with trains first started several decades ago. Influenced by his elder brother, who had an established career in rail, Wang also became a railway worker in 1970 after he finished his military service. Due to his strong interest in arts, [...]
Road workers in Paris, 1934. Photo: Brassai.
A Royal Navy sailor on board HMS Alcantara uses a portable sewing machine to repair a signal flag during a voyage to Sierra Leone, March 1942, Cecil Beaton, English (1904–1980). © The Imperial War Museums
Here, a number of color photographs of life in Hawaii from 1959, the year Hawaii officially became America’s 50th state. Cattle graze under volcanic cliffs on Oahu, 1959 Foodland supermarket, Hawaii, 1959 [...]
John Wilson Webb, in Pittsburgh, weighs 120 lbs at 34 months. April 17, 1909 (via Shorpy )
Betty Boone jumping over a motor scooter driven by Don Roberson, November 11, 1948 ( via )
There is a dark and glistening river that flows through my dreams – it is the Thames of old London, carrying away the filth and debris of the city and, in return, delivering the riches of the world upon the flood tide rising. Oxford & Cambridge Boat Race at Putney Bridge, c. 1910 [...]
clever titles are so last summer
Slaughterday Weekend: Oh, good, Korn is still kicking.
HEY ANNA-Pompette (EP)
Boards of Canada – Reach For The Dead
