R. M. Stigersand

R. M. Stigersand in the Men's High Diving competition, Olympic Games, London, 1948. 

Source: nationalmediamuseum

Vintage Photo

The Chelsea Arts Club Fancy Dress Party, 1927

Source: holdthisphoto  | National Portrait Gallery, London

Tallulah Bankhead

Tallulah Bankhead in the London stage production of The Dancers (1923) 

Source: classicfilmheroines | Wikimedia Commons

Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud, born Sigismund Schlomo Freud (6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939), was an Austrian neurologist who became known as the founding father of psychoanalysis. He was a physiologist, medical doctor, author, psychologist and influential thinker of the early twentieth century. Working initially in close collaboration with Joseph Breuer, Freud elaborated the theory that the mind is a complex energy-system, the structural investigation of which is the proper province of psychology.

Source: notablebiographies | health.gather | iep

John Loder

John Loder (3 January 1898 — 26 December 1988) was a British-American actor. He was born William John Muir Lowe in London. Loder was a tall, debonair, immaculately-groomed British leading man best known for his pipe-smoking chaps, actor John Loder (ne John Muir Lowe), the son of a British general, first served in Gallipoli in WWI and was a German prisoner of war at one point.

Source: imdb | google

Vintage Photos

Victoria bus station in London in 1927.

Elevator in the London underground.

Source: flickr

Vintage Photo

Motorized Nanny | London | 1922 | vintage

Source: Koninklijke Bibliotheek