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Showing posts with label 1925. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1925. Show all posts

Saturday, March 2, 2013

Ossabaw Island, Georgia

African American with loggerhead turtle, Ossabaw Island. ca 1925
georgiahistory | GHS Manuscript Collection

Monday, January 21, 2013

Marion McCall Converse

New York circa 1925. "McCall." Marion McCall Converse, the future ex-wife of Converse M. Converse, a society couple whose split came in a much-publicized divorce.
shorpy | George Grantham Bain Collection

Saturday, November 3, 2012

Friday, October 5, 2012

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Blue Devils

The Oklahoma City Blue Devils was the premier Southwest territory jazz band in the 1920s. Originally called Billy King's Road Show, it disbanded in Oklahoma City in 1925 where Walter Page renamed it. The name Blue Devils came from the name of a gang of fence cutters operating during the early days of the American West. Several prominent jazz musicians were members, including Lester YoungWilliam "Count" Basie and Buster Smith. (Lester Young (center) with Theo Ross and Buster Smith. c. 1932)
Source: tsutpen | wikipedia

Monday, September 3, 2012

Vintage Fashion

Evening Cape, House of Worth 1925, French, Made of lame 
Source: ornamentedbeingLACMA

Saturday, September 1, 2012

Vintage Photo

Star Touring Car, 1924, 1926, Glen Knabenshue,  youngest son of pioneer aeronaut Roy Knabenshue at the wheel of a 1925 Star Four Touring, Los Angeles, California, c 1925 
Source: earlyaeroplanes

Thursday, August 23, 2012

Chick Webb

William Henry Webb, usually known as Chick Webb (February 10, 1905 – June 16, 1939) was an American jazz and swing music drummer as well as a band leader. Chick Webb moved to New York around 1925 and from January 1927 led a group at the Savoy Ballroom that later became one of the outstanding bands of the swing period. Webb, a diminutive hunchback, was universally admired by drummers for his forceful sense of swing, accurate technique, control of dynamics, and imaginative breaks and fills
Source: wikimedia | pbs.jazz

Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Vintage Photo

Saturday Matinee, 1925. Sidney Lust's Leader Theater at 507 Ninth Street NW in Washington, D.C. Now playing: "The Air Mail," starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr., and an "Our Gang" short. National Photo Company glass negative.

Source: browse

Saturday, July 21, 2012

Vintage Film

Mary Pickford in Little Annie Rooney (1925)
Directed by William Beaudine.

Source: silent pickford | tumblr