1919 - Flying through the Arc de Triomphe, Curated by Chris Wild

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Raquel Meller

Raquel Meller, born Francisca Marqués López, was an Aragonese cuplé and tonadilla singer, and diseuse. She was an international star in the 1920s and 1930s, appearing in several films and touring Europe and the Americas.  Artists such as Charlie Chaplin and Sarah Bernhart considered Raquel Meller to have been genius. She performed extensively in the United States under contract for the Schuberts, and performances broke box office records at the time.

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Ralph E. Madsen

1919. "Ralph E. Madsen, the tall cowboy, shaking hands with Senator Morris Sheppard at Capitol."

shorpy | Harris & Ewing Collection glass negative.

Treaty of Versailles Signing

Treaty of Versailles Signing, Hall of Mirrors, (1919), Dignitaries gathered in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles to sign the peace treaty ending WW I (Photographs by Helen Johns Kirtland (1890-1979) and Lucian Swift Kirtland (died 1965)

Source: The Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online Catalog

Vintage Photo

Welcome Home! Charles Gates Sheldon photo c.1919 

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Vintage Photo

Radio wouldn't have been "radio" without these guys. Center is Guglielmo Marconi. Left is Owen Young, board chairman of RCA, on the right is Ed Nally Jr., president of RCA. Owen Young, originally from GE, was instrumental in forming RCA from GE radio assets and with the acquisition of American Marconi in 1919. Ed Nally Jr. was former vice president of American Marconi and became the new president of RCA. RCA was officially created in November, 1919. This photo was taken on board Marconi's yacht, the "Elettra."

Source: radioblvd |  photo: Radio Journal, Sept. 1922

Carole Landis

Carole Landis (January 1, 1919 – July 5, 1948)  was born on New Year's Day in 1919 in Fairchild, Wisconsin, as Frances Lillian Mary Ridste. Landis was an American film and stage actress, who worked as a contract-player for Twentieth Century-Fox.  She worked in over 50 movies, many of her early ones uncredited.

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Dr. Leo Stanley

Dr. Leo Stanley served as a chief surgeon for nearly four decades. Between 1919 and 1922, Dr. Leo Stanley injected 656 prisoners at San Quentin Prison.  Stanley would take the testicles out of executed prisoners and surgically implant them into living prisoners. In other experiments, he attempted to implant the testicles of rams, goats, and boars  into living prisoners. Stanley also performed various eugenics experiments, and forced sterilization  

on San Quentin prisoners Stanley believed that his experiments would rejuvenate old men, control crime (which he believed had biological causes), and prevent the "unfit" from reproducing.

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Chinese Silk Tunic Dress

Chinese Silk Tunic Dress 1919, Designer Lady Duff  Gordon

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