Tumblr (3.0; @legrandcirque)http://legrandcirque.tumblr.com/<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4kof4UwGP1qfet8co1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>J. Gurney & Son</strong>, <span class="description"><em>Edwin Booth as William Shakespeare’s Hamlet</em>, ca. 1870.</span></p>http://legrandcirque.tumblr.com/post/36735999682http://legrandcirque.tumblr.com/post/36735999682Wed, 28 Nov 2012 05:25:36 -0800<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4kojbF2qR1qfet8co1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>J. Gurney & Son</strong>, <span class="description"><em> Edwin Booth as Iago in Shakespeare’s Othello</em>, ca. 1870.</span></p> <p><span class="description">Source: Library of Congress<br/></span></p>http://legrandcirque.tumblr.com/post/36734634320http://legrandcirque.tumblr.com/post/36734634320Wed, 28 Nov 2012 04:39:02 -0800<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4korkXJ971qfet8co1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>M. P. Rice</strong>, <em>Walt Whitman and Peter Doyle</em>, ca. 1869.</p> <p>Source: Ohio Wesleyan University, Bayley Collection</p>http://legrandcirque.tumblr.com/post/36733388379http://legrandcirque.tumblr.com/post/36733388379Wed, 28 Nov 2012 03:52:45 -0800<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4koswb3K31qfet8co1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>Mathew Brady</strong>,<em> Junius Brutus Booth</em>, ca. 1850.</p> <p>Source: Library of Congress</p>http://legrandcirque.tumblr.com/post/36732253075http://legrandcirque.tumblr.com/post/36732253075Wed, 28 Nov 2012 03:06:07 -0800<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4kox9ahkJ1qfet8co1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Left to right: John Wilkes Booth, Edwin Booth and Junius Booth, Jr. in Shakespeare’s “Julius Caeser” at the Winter Garden Theatre, New York City, 1864.</p> <p>Source: McClellan Collection, Brown University</p>http://legrandcirque.tumblr.com/post/36731252487http://legrandcirque.tumblr.com/post/36731252487Wed, 28 Nov 2012 02:19:40 -0800<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4kp9oALoH1qfet8co1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><span class="description">Actor Jose Ferrer in costume at Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, ca. 1955.</span></p> <p><span class="description">Source: City of Toronto Archives<br/></span></p>http://legrandcirque.tumblr.com/post/36730285201http://legrandcirque.tumblr.com/post/36730285201Wed, 28 Nov 2012 01:33:16 -0800<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4kpgb2M1Z1qfet8co1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>James Lafayette</strong>, <em><span class="description">Ethiopian General & Governor of Harar, Ras Makonnen, </span></em><span class="description"><em>on a visit to England for the Coronation of King Edward VII</em>, 12 August 1902.</span></p> <p><span class="description"><br/></span></p>http://legrandcirque.tumblr.com/post/36729263861http://legrandcirque.tumblr.com/post/36729263861Wed, 28 Nov 2012 00:47:14 -0800<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4krhunt3y1qfet8co1_400.png"/><br/><br/><p>Margaret Gorman, the first Miss America, 1921.</p> <p>Source: Library of Congress</p>http://legrandcirque.tumblr.com/post/36726662959http://legrandcirque.tumblr.com/post/36726662959Tue, 27 Nov 2012 23:13:45 -0800<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4krt3Kybb1qfet8co1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong> Rob Kaminer</strong>, <em>Mary Leona Gage</em>, 13 April 1965.</p>http://legrandcirque.tumblr.com/post/36724931659http://legrandcirque.tumblr.com/post/36724931659Tue, 27 Nov 2012 22:27:40 -0800<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4ld2aZVH41qfet8co1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Bass Strait, September 4, 1941. HMAS <em>Sydney</em> in the foreground escorting convoy US.12A, comprising the <em>Queen Mary</em> (right) and <em>Queen Elizabeth</em>, past Wilson’s Promontory off the coast of Victoria, Australia.</p>http://legrandcirque.tumblr.com/post/36722792161http://legrandcirque.tumblr.com/post/36722792161Tue, 27 Nov 2012 21:41:11 -0800<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4ld626YLE1qfet8co1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><span class="description">The British liner <em>RMS Queen Mary</em> arrives in New York harbor, 20 June 1945, with thousands of U.S. troops from Europe. </span></p> <p><span class="description">Source: US Navy<br/></span></p>http://legrandcirque.tumblr.com/post/36720230329http://legrandcirque.tumblr.com/post/36720230329Tue, 27 Nov 2012 20:54:44 -0800<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4lddl1Loo1qfet8co1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><span class="description">USS Lafayette after catching fire at New York harbor, </span>9 February 1942.</p> <p>Source: National Archives and Records Administration</p>http://legrandcirque.tumblr.com/post/36717333377http://legrandcirque.tumblr.com/post/36717333377Tue, 27 Nov 2012 20:08:15 -0800<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4ldf92lMU1qfet8co1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><em>Normandie</em>, renamed USS <em>Lafayette</em>, lies capsized in the frozen mud of her New York Pier, 22 February 1942.</p>http://legrandcirque.tumblr.com/post/36713977366http://legrandcirque.tumblr.com/post/36713977366Tue, 27 Nov 2012 19:21:46 -0800<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4ldm2R2Vs1qfet8co1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><span class="description"> The Grand Salon of the SS France (1912).</span></p>http://legrandcirque.tumblr.com/post/36710316745http://legrandcirque.tumblr.com/post/36710316745Tue, 27 Nov 2012 18:35:10 -0800<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4ldmxyIiY1qfet8co1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><span class="description"><span class="language en" title=""></span> The Mixed Salon aboard the SS France (1912).</span></p>http://legrandcirque.tumblr.com/post/36706644608http://legrandcirque.tumblr.com/post/36706644608Tue, 27 Nov 2012 17:48:48 -0800<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4lff2QP721qfet8co1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><span class="description"><span class="language en" title=""></span> The Eaton’s Santa Claus Parade on James Street, 1918, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. At the end of the parade, Santa would climb from his float up a ladder into the Eaton’s department store.</span></p> <p><span class="description">Source: Archives of Ontario<br/></span></p>http://legrandcirque.tumblr.com/post/36703051644http://legrandcirque.tumblr.com/post/36703051644Tue, 27 Nov 2012 17:02:30 -0800<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4lms076rQ1qfet8co1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>The SS <em>Eastland</em> docked, ca. 1916.</p>http://legrandcirque.tumblr.com/post/36699487082http://legrandcirque.tumblr.com/post/36699487082Tue, 27 Nov 2012 16:16:00 -0800<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4lmtjGj6P1qfet8co1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><span class="description">Eastland disaster, the Kenosha, a tugboat, rescuing survivors from the hull of the overturned steamer, </span>Chicago, Illinois, 24 July 1915.</p> <p>Source: Library of Congress</p>http://legrandcirque.tumblr.com/post/36695883675http://legrandcirque.tumblr.com/post/36695883675Tue, 27 Nov 2012 15:29:31 -0800<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4lnkyO2WX1qfet8co1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><span class="description">The Maine entering Havana harbor, January 1898.</span></p>http://legrandcirque.tumblr.com/post/36692315157http://legrandcirque.tumblr.com/post/36692315157Tue, 27 Nov 2012 14:43:03 -0800<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4lo8jbVHY1qfet8co1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><span class="description">Sailors unloading the coffins of children from the Lady Grey following the sinking of the RMS Empress of Ireland, Quebec, Canada, May 1914.</span></p> <p><span class="description">Source: Library of Congress<br/></span></p>http://legrandcirque.tumblr.com/post/36688702707http://legrandcirque.tumblr.com/post/36688702707Tue, 27 Nov 2012 13:56:24 -0800