FBI

FBI Special agent in target practice, 1930s, Source FBI Photos

Wikipedia Commons

Janet MacLeod

Professional model Janet MacLeod wearing veiled hat designed by Lilly Dache. New York, NY, 1937, photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt

gstatic

Ossabaw Island, Georgia

African American with loggerhead turtle, Ossabaw Island. ca 1925

georgiahistory | GHS Manuscript Collection

Charlie Chaplin

1917-1918 : Colour photographs of Charlie Chaplin, Chris Wild

retronaut

North Bondi Team

North Bondi team march past, 1930s / by Sam Hood, Flickr

State Library of New South Wales

Ivor Novello

David Ivor Davies (15 January 1893 – 6 March 1951), better known as Ivor Novello, was a Welsh composer, singer and actor who became one of the most popular British entertainers of the first half of the 20th century.

Source: staticflickr

Millie Owens

Meet Miss Millie Owens of New York City....in 1871,  by Okinawa Soba

Source: flickr

Mack & Mack

Mack & Mack, that Clever, Classy, Captivating Couple 

Source: beinecke.library | Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library | Bonnie and Semoura Clark black vaudeville photographs and ephemera
1909-1958

Annie Oakley

Portrait of Annie Oakley, (Little Sure Shot.), with rifle.
Annie Oakley (August 13, 1860 – November 3, 1926), born Phoebe Ann Moses, was an American sharpshooter and exhibition shooter.

Source: library.yale.edu | Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library | J. Wood

Chorus Line

photograph of chorus line

Source: library.yale.edu | Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library | Clark, Bonnie | 1909-1958

Snow Flyer

It was in 1913 that madcap U.S. inventor Virgil D White hit upon the idea of the 'Snow Flyer' kits, which - when attached to a Model T - transformed the popular motor car into the world's first snowmobile. The kits proved useful for country doctors and rural mail carriers.


Source: dailymail

Pillars of Hercules

Pillars of Hercules [rock formation] on Oregon shore line, two towering basalt columns located on the Oregon side of the Columbia River at River Mile. 1910.

Source: flickr | Huron H. Smith Expedition to Oregon

Shuffle Along

Lyricist Noble Sissle and cast members from the musical "Shuffle Along," ca. 1921.   

             Source: digitalgallery | Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture / Photographs and Prints Division           

History

Victory over Japan Day (V-J Day). Crowd gathered outside Hochschild-Kohn and Company. Howard Street, Baltimore. Photograph by Blakeslee Lane, August 14, 1945.

               Source:   mdhs | Baltimore City Life Museum Collection, Special Collections Department, Maryland Historical Society

Rudolph Valentino

Rudolph Valentino, (May 6, 1895 – August 23, 1926),  The Son of the Sheik was an Italian actor, known simply as "Valentino" and also an early pop icon. A sex symbol of the 1920s.  Valentino was known as the "Latin Lover".  Born to a French mother and Italian father Rudolph Valentino grew up in Italy.  "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse" was a major success, launching Valentino into super stardom and giving him the image of a 'Latin Lover'.

Source: moviesmusicandthings

Paula Gellibrand

Paula Gellibrand as photographed by Beaton in 1928 

Source: jbtaylor

Vintage Photo

Boy flying in midair at Clarendon Beach in the Uptown community area of Chicago, Illinois, 1929. Photograph from Chicago Daily News.

Source: chicagohistorymuseum | Photographs from the Chicago History Museum Collection

Napoleon Reid

"Looking to sea from the signal bridge is Napoleon Reid, Seaman 2/c., USNR, shown standing on lookout watch on a ship somewhere in the Pacific.", 03/19/1945

Source: wikimedia | National Archives and Records Administration, College Park | U.S. National Archives and Records Administration

African American Portrait

Daughter of Thomas E. Askew, head-and-shoulders portrait, with open book , 1899 - 1900,  Askew Thomas E. photographer

Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA |   African American Photographs Assembled for 1900 Paris Exposition

Vintage Photo

Two Cuties on a Paper Moon

Source: maudelynn