Barnum & Bailey Showgirl, 1946 Barnum & Bailey Showgirl, 1946
from The Circus Book: 1870-1950 (Dominique Jando) thanks to How To Be A Retronaut
Actress Hermione Baddeley (1906–1986) attends the Film Memories Ball dressed as the Disney character Minnie Mouse. (Photo by Sasha/Getty Images). 10th March 1933
‘All the clocks had stopped…A void out of time. And here they are – looking out and holding themselves still – holding still at that point where two worlds join – the familiar – and the other.’
David Lynch in a foreword for Haunted Air by Ossian Brown [also]
from littlewhitelies
“Miss Devil, (Betty Taylor), smiles triumphantly as she overlooks the Hell scene presented by the Freshman stunt winners in their picturization of “Helle’s Bell.”The belles and gruesome skeltons in the pictures create the setting for the sad tale of Orpheus and won the cup for the class.”
Costumed football match, 1920
Doris Lloyd by Alfred Cheney Johnston
[ from the 1917 Follies shoot that marks Johnston’s emergence as a professional performing arts photographer with a credit. ]
courtesy of Historical Ziegfeld
Nina Payne in Josephine Baker revue,1928
Nina Payne was an eccentric, futurist American dancer who, after long years in vaudeville travelling across the USA, made a trip to Europe and became an instant hit in Paris where she remained throughout the 1920s.
Madame Yevonde as Harlequin, 1925
Folies-Bergère, 1932 by Brassaï
from girlfriday
Vintage Dancer, c. 1910 by Nelson Evans
from quiet_place
Janet McGrew by Edward Thayer Monroe