Saturday, July 21, 2007

Searching Eyes





Faces on a Streetcar, 1





Finding the Fare
Almost There





Lonesome Tyke





Faces on a Streetcar, 2

Starkeeper
An edit from an old poster
Artist Unknown


Rosalind Russell, 1





A New York State of Mind





"Cute", She Wrote
Angela Lansbury in an early portrait
Rebecca at Sixteen





Rebecca at Sixteen, Close-up of Bouquet





Rebecca at Sixteen, Close-up 2







Going Green
As a vaporous green haze settles over the country, zombie-like men in raincoats stare mindlessly at billboards, while model T's hustle off to various uncertain rendezvous.

Sunday, July 15, 2007

Frosty Times
Sitting on a Wall
From a Daguerreotype, C. 1840's
Reading Rocks







Echoes of Compulsion
Although this appears to be a Monty Python piece, it is, let us rather say, an actual historic poster from the Library of Congress. Try to read the text as if you were John Cleese.








A Streetcar Named Desire
Olive Thomas, 4





The Iowan





A Swing and a Miss





Oyster Shucking, Coastal Georgia, C. 1910
Photo by Lewis Wickes Hine





Practice Makes Perfect
The Last Nuance of the Final Phrase





Grace Greenwood, 1848





Portrait of William Grant Still





Scene from Rural Life, 1






Portrait of Serena
Lillian Gish, 1





Lillian Gish, 2





Lillian Gish, 3





Lillian Gish, 4






Lillian Gish, 5

Sunday, July 08, 2007

Director Max Reinhardt, and Actress, Anita Louise, at the premiere of the movie version of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream", 1935
Anita Louise as Titania, 1





Anita Louise as Titania, 2





Titania by the Waterfall
Anita Louise
Titania with Bottom, 1
Anita Louise with James Cagney





Titania with Bottom, 2
James Cagney with Anita Louise





Titania with the Fairies.
Anita Louise and the Girls of the Cast
Twenties Emotive
Crystal Palace, London, 1851
Crystal Palace, Western USA, 1941
Damsel by the Lake, 2






Sister Says, "Say Cheese"






Carroll Glenn






Portrait of Victor Hugo