Alexis Smith in an amazing negligee, photographed by Eugene Robert Richee
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Thoughts of the overly romantic twenty-something female in the early twenty-first century
~ Sunday, May 27 ~
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Babe Monroe, Ziegfeld Girl in Ziegfeld’s Midnight Follies, August 1920
Photographed by Alfred Cheney Johnston
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Betty Compson in The Green Temptation, 1922
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1921. A lady and her phonograph
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~ Thursday, May 24 ~
The most beautiful Mary Pickford
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Allegory of Patience, Carlo Dolci 1677
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~ Wednesday, May 23 ~
~ Tuesday, May 22 ~
Gabrielle Ray, beautiful Edwardian actress
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~ Friday, May 18 ~
Carole Lombard photographed by Alex Kahle, 1939
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“an irresistible siren, with an extraordinary gentle exterior, under which lies a character of stainless steel” — Anita Loos on Lillian Gish
Image scanned from “Dorothy and Lillian Gish”
Still the most beautiful face I know of.
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~ Sunday, May 13 ~
The beautiful library in my city reopens in September. It’s been closed for refurbishment all the time I’ve lived here and I’m so excited to be able to go inside. It’s the most amazing Arts and Crafts building and the money was donated to the city (he left £60,000 in his will to the city, a huge amount in the late 19th century) by a resident of Melbourne who had been born in Canterbury. Quoth Wikipedia: ‘His bequest was left for “the erection and endowment of an institute for working men”’
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Black chiffon evening dress with silver lace bodice, c. 1920. The dress has a fashionable low waist and a stunning long train. The asymmetrical neckline is ornamented with applied pearls; the skirt...
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