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vintageblackglamour:

Jazz singer Joya Sherrill, on tour with Benny Goodman in 1962, sits under a hair dryer with with women in Russia. Ms. Sherrill also performed with Duke Ellington and was one of the first African Americans to host a children’s television show. She died in 2010 at the age of 85. Photo via LIFE magazine.

monsieurleprince:

William Oliver (1823 - 1901) - Portrait of a lady reading a book

Written on Tuesday 04, 2012
academic, art, victorian, XIX century, vintage, William Oliver, book, books, elegance, beauty, genre painting,

monsieurleprince:

Gustave de Jonghe (1829 - 1893) - A moment of distraction

Written on Thursday 22, 2012
academic, art, XIX century, victorian, vintage, elegance, beauty, Gustave De Jonghe, genre painting, interior,

jailagracedunearchiduchesse:

Sophie Vlaming-Grazia Paris Magazine

Written on Monday 05, 2012
sophie vlaming, supermodel, model, topmodel, editorial, magazine, fashion, swimwear, bathingsuit, pool, grazia, retro, vintage, pin up girl, pin up,

Jane Renouardt

by Léopold Reutlinger

Portrait of Jeanne Nokin, C. 1913. Autochrome photograph by Georges Gilon

(via sharontates)

fashion-and-film:

An American in Paris (1951)

Two women stand in a library in front of tribute to Dr. Ralph Bunche (1904-1971). In 1950 he became the first African American to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his success in negotiating a truce to the Arab-Israeli conflict in 1949.

by Charles “Teenie” Harris

Stanley Kubrick - Dentist’s Office [Woman reading in the waiting room at a dentist’s office.] 1946

Stanley Kubrick, 1949

Gerd Baatz - Image of destruction in Berlin , 1944-1945

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