simone de beauvoir, emma goldman, & rosa luxemburg on the beach smoking pipes. This an apocryphal caption: de Beauvoir, Goldman, and Luxemburg didn't actually know each other. but isn't it pretty to imagine the possibility of these women together?
The Elephant and Castle station of London Tube during the air raid. Londoners would use the tube as an air raid shelter if they didn't have one in their garden or one near where they lived - 1940
The daughter of poor tobacco farmers, Ava Gardner was a church going country girl from Grabtown, North Carolina when she signed her first Hollywood contract in
Ladd's papers include these photos of a World War I veteran with and without his mask, circa American Red Cross/Anna Coleman Ladd papers/Archives of American Art/Smithsonian Institution
Scott Fitzgerald’s briefcase. The monogram reads: Scott Fitzgerald 597 - Ave. New York The address is not Fitzgerald’s but that of his publisher, Charles Scribner’s Sons.
American model, Ziegfeld girl and silent film actress, Olive Thomas, made over 20 movies in the 4 years to It is said that her ghost haunts the New Amsterdam Theatre on Street!
Rows of corsets on display in the front window of a corset store located along the Boulevard de Strasbourg in Paris, France. Photograph by French photographer Eugene Atget, titled 'Boulevard de Strasbourg'.