Berlin

1935 - Buying a balloon, Berlin

retronaut | Image by Friedrich Seidenstücker

Sir Hudson Fysh

Sir Wilmot Hudson Fysh (7 January 1895 – 6 April 1974) was an Australian aviator and businessman. A founder of the Australian airline company Qantas, Fysh was born in Launceston, Tasmania. Serving in the Battle of Gallipoli and Palestine Campaignas a lieutenant of the Australian Light Horse Brigade, Fysh later became an observer and gunner to Paul McGinness in the AFC. He was awarded a Distinguished Flying Cross during the aftermath of the war for his services to aerial warfare. circa 1935

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USS Macon

 USS Macon Under Construction 1932
USS Macon (ZRS-5) was a rigid airship built and operated by the United States Navy for scouting and served as a "flying aircraft carrier", launching Curtiss F9C Sparrowhawk biplane fighters. In service for less than two years, in 1935 Macon was damaged in a storm and lost off California's Big Sur coast, though most of the crew were saved. The wreckage is listed as USS Macon Airship Remains on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. (read more)

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Vintage Film

A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935) is an American film of Shakespeare's play, directed by Max Reinhardt and William Dieterle, produced by Henry Blanke and Hal Wallis for Warner Brothers, and adapted by Charles Kenyon and Mary C. McCall Jr. from Reinhardt's Hollywood Bowl production of the previous year.

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Tucci Hot Rod

Tucci Hot Rod: 1935 Ford Coupe

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African American Sharecroppers

Children of African-American Sharecroppers, Little Rock, Arkansas by Ben Shahn, 1935, Shahn, Ben, 1898-1969 photographer

via Library of Congress via pingnews., Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, DC 20540 USA

Brigitte Helm

Brigitte Helm in Metropolis (1927, Fritz Lang)

Brigitte Helm (17 March 1906 – 11 June 1996) was a German actress. After her role in Metropolis she made a string of movies in which she almost always had the starring role, easily making the transition to sound films. Her last film was Ein idealer Gatte (An Ideal Spouse) in 1935.

Source: oldhollywood | lucywho

Vintage Photo

Children playing on sidewalk, Georgetown, Washington, D.C., 1935, photography by Carl Mydans

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Vintage Photos

 Thousands of young men flocked to hang upon the words of their leader, Reichsfuhrer Adolf Hitler, as he addressed the convention of the National Socialist Party in Nuremberg, Germany on Sept. 11, 1935.

Hitler's Nazi party convention, underway in Nuremberg, Germany, on Sept. 10, 1935. 

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Vintage Matador

Early 20th century photograph of a matador. c. 1935 

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Vintage Photos

Robert Wadlow (1918-1940) – 8ft11. Tallest man in History. 
Born in 1918, Robert is still to this day known as the tallest person in medical history. When the Pathe cameras went to film him in 1935, he was a mere 8ft1. When they returned the next year, he was 8ft4. By the time of his death at just aged 22, he had grown to 8ft11’’. In this picture, he is surrounded by his family and even though his father was 6ft, none of them stand much above his waist.

In this still, Robert was now 8ft4 and still had some way to go before he reached his final height of 8ft11. On record, there has only been about 18 people in history who have reached over 8ft tall. 

Source: britishpathe

Greta Garbo

Greta Garbo in Anna Karenina (1935), Photographed by Clarence Sinclair Bull, Costume design by Adrian

Source: classicfilmheroines

Thelma Todd

Thelma Alice Todd, July 29, 1906 - December 16, 1935, was an American actress. Appearing in about 120 pictures between 1926 and 1935, she is best remembered for her comedic roles in films like Marx Brothers' Monkey Business and Horse Feathers, a number of Charley Chase's short comedies, and co-starring with Buster Keaton and Jimmy Durante in Speak Easily.

Source: wikipedia | allanellenberger

Dorothy Van Engle

Dorothy Van Engle (August 4, 1917 - May 9, 2004) was born Donessa Dorothy Van Engle and an Actress. African-American star of 'Race Films' in the 1930s. Known in later years by her married name of Donessa Hollon, she was a leading lady recognized for beauty, sophistication and intelligence. Co-starred in the 1935 mystery "Murder In Harlem" and the 1938 musical-drama "Swing!"

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Borris Karloff

William Henry Pratt (23 November 1887 – 2 February 1969), better known by his stage name Borris Karloff, was an English actor. Karloff is best remembered for his roles in horror films and his portrayal of   Frankenstein's monster in Frankenstein (1931), The Mummy (1932), Bride of Frankenstein (1935), and Son of Frankenstein (1939).

Source: wikipedia | freeinfosociety

Annie Mae Merriweather III (Meriwether)

Photographer Consuelo Kanaga, ca. 1935-1936, Annie Mae Merriweather III (or Meriwether)

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The Bride of Frankenstein

 The Bride of Frankenstein, 1935. Boris Karloff is The Monster and Elsa Lanchester is The Monster’s Mate

 Source: silentcuriosity | bbec.ie

Vintage Photo

Chrysler-Building-as-seen-from-42nd-St-looking-west-from-2nd-Avenue.a.-1935-1941

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Vintage Photo

Yankee-Stadium-ca.-1935-1947-Look-at-all-the-different-hats

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Vintage Photo

The Dust Bowl, or the Dirty Thirties, was a period of severe dust storms causing major ecological and agricultural damage to American and Canadian Prairie lands in the 1930s, particularly in 1934 and 1936.

 

Dust storm approaching Stratford, Texas 1935

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