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essentz: John Cleese
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3wings: 1950 Gjon Mili (Albanian-American photographer, 1904-84) ~ Seahorses
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glukauf: ca 1908 A view of trawlers in the basin at Lowestoft
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missfolly: 1922 Albert Einstein (German theoretical physicist, 1879-1955) lecturing on relativity, Paris, France
1940’s London, England in hi-res colour. These photographs were taken using Kodachrome film by the improbably and wonderfully named Chalmers Butterfield, probably in 1949 via How To Be a Retronaut
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Circa 1910. “Passenger (observation) locomotive train car of New York Central R.R.” 5”x7” glass negative, George Grantham Bain Collection via
Petit: … unless it’s the soft spot a tough boy has for *his* chicken*
Petit: Nothing so touching as the love of a girl for her chicken …
![June 17, 1922 Washington, D.C., USA ~ Group winners at Tidal Basin bathing beach. On the right we have eternal sweetheart Iola Swinnerton; the others are interchangeable nonentities who serve only to emphasize Iola’s many [and obvious] charms. In the background is the Bureau of Engraving and Printing via](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3cfdjyzj71qaseffo1_500.jpg)
June 17, 1922 Washington, D.C., USA ~ Group winners at Tidal Basin bathing beach. On the right we have eternal sweetheart Iola Swinnerton; the others are interchangeable nonentities who serve only to emphasize Iola’s many [and obvious] charms. In the background is the Bureau of Engraving and Printing via
edwardianera: 1904 Presenting a lovely group of hockey players, who may have been photographed in Tramore, Co. Waterford, March 24th
ca 1906, Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA ~ Bathers peering a century into the future.”Hotel Traymore and Brady’s Baths.” At left, the domed Marlborough-Blenheim hotel. 8”x10” dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Co via
