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Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward shopping for books in Paris, 1959.

A 7-year-old Wyatt Earp with his Mother Virginia Ann, 1855

Italian Fiesta at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street, New York City. July, 1918

A FLASH BLACK MOMENT IN HISTORY:
In 1963, the photographer Richard Avedon took a picture of a man named William Casby.
William Casby, born in 1857, was 106 years old at the time.
In his hands, he was holding his great, great, granddaughter, Cherri Stamps McCray.
The image is amazing because the elderly gentleman holding his descendant so tenderly, was born into slavery more than a century prior.
Casby would eventually live until 1970, dying at the age of 113.
His great and great grandchildren are alive today, and many of them remember him.
It puts into perspective just how relatively recent slavery existed. Because as far away and distant as it may feel now. Even in modern-day America, there are people who have active memories of talking to former slaves.

Coal miner's family, Pursglove, West Virginia...West Virginia, 1938

Rosemary Kennedy 💔 , sister of John F Kennedy , pictured in 1938 .
In 1941 , aged 23, her father forced her to undergo a lobotomy , due to her mood swings , seizures and intellectual disability . This procedure rendered her permanently incapacitated and unable to speak .

#1938 #1941

A View on 7th Avenue just South of 42nd Street in Manhattan in 1908

Massachusetts after a snow storm.

The notorious criminals Bonnie & Clyde photographed in 1933

Early signs of over-industrialization. Pratt, Kansas 1911.

I just love those, "go stand by the television" photos.

1935 Adler Diplomat eight-wheeler

New York City 1970s

New York City, 1920s.

One of the first traffic signals in use, New York City, 1922.

North Carolina, 1939...

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North Carolina. Rural filling stations become community centers and general loafing grounds. The men in the baseball suits are on a local team which will play a game nearby. They are called the Cedargrove Team...

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Farm Security Administration Dorothea Lange photographer

A photo by Berenice Abbot of a woman wiring an IBM computer, 1948.

An Empire State builder hanging on a crane above New York City, 1930.

San Francisco (1960)

Portrait of American actress Maude Adams, 1899.

Maude Ewing Adams Kiskadden followed in her mother’s acting footsteps early in life, making her own acting debut at just nine months old. She continued to act through childhood, taking her mother’s maiden name as her stage name, becoming known to the world as Maude Adams.

As an adult, Maude became the most famous and highest-paid actress of her time. Her greatest success was playing Peter Pan in the 1905 Broadway production of Peter Pan.

Offscreen, Maude was shy. She loved fashion, and she was generous, known for helping recovering soldiers and natural disaster victims and raising money to build college theaters. And she would send tickets to disadvantaged kids so they could see Peter Pan.

Throughout her career, she also took part in technology development, helping invent better lighting, and working on experiments of color film. And later in life, she became a teacher, leading the drama department at Stephens College in Missouri.

Adams retired in 1918 after a severe bout of influenza. Often described as shy, Adams was referred to by Ethel Barrymore as the "original 'I want to be alone' woman". Her retiring lifestyle, including the absence of any relationships with men, contributed to the virtuous and innocent public image promoted by Frohman and was reflected in her most successful roles. Biographers have concluded that Adams was a le***an. She had two long-term relationships that only ended upon her partners' deaths: Lillie Florence, from the early 1890s until 1901, and Louise Boynton from 1905 until 1951. Adams was known at times to supplement the salaries of fellow performers out of her own pay. Once while touring, a theater owner significantly raised the price of tickets, knowing Adams's name meant a sold-out house. Adams made the owner refund the difference before she appeared on the stage that night. Adams was the head of the drama department at Stephens College in Missouri from 1937 to 1949, becoming known as an inspiring teacher in the arts of acting.

She died, aged 80, at her summer home, Caddam Hill, in Tannersville, New York, and is interred in the cemetery of the Sisters of the Cenacle, Lake Ronkonkoma, New York. Louise Boynton is buried alongside her.

New York, 1953 –

Source: Vivian Maier Estate, Courtesy of Maloof Collection and Howard Greenberg Gallery NY

Ross Culberson Bane and his wife Alice Marie Bane at a bar somewhere in Texas. It is undated, but Ross died in 1962 at the age of 65, and he looks to be in his early 50s here, so perhaps 1952 or so. It LOOKS as if he might be leading Alice Marie out to dance, in DIRECT VIOLATION OF THE SIGN in the background. 🙂 I love the old jukebox, the Southern Select beer sign, the Chesterfield cigarette sign etc ... So iconic. Incidentally, Alice Marie died in 1989. She and Ross are buried in Groveton, Texas.

Manhattan: 48th Street And Broadway -Looking North (1963)

2 young ladies driving and riding in a Lawson’s Motor Wheel of 1902.

Steinway Street at 30th Avenue in Astoria, Queens. (1944)

Cheyenne girl, Gertrude Three Fingers. New Mexico. c.1890-1904.

Filming of the MGM opening credits, 1928.

Manhattan, New York City, 1918.

Old Car Lot, Lancaster, Ohio 1938.

Home of Wealthy Filipinos 1870s