Days Gone By

Jun 9 2012
7:42 am

Gypsy Rose Lee carrying a dog at a train station, circa 1937.

Source: Los Angeles Times photo archive, UCLA Library

Posted 11 months ago
#1930s #gypsy rose lee #vintage #portrait #hats #burlesque #dogs #train station #cute

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Jun 9 2012
2:52 am

Bettie Page, 1950s.

Posted 11 months ago
#1950s #vintage #portrait #pin-up #burlesque #bettie page

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Jun 6 2012
11:25 am

Burlesque star Sherry Britton, ca. 1945.

Posted 11 months ago
#1940s #burlesque #vintage #portrait #bikini #sherry britton #pin-up #wwII #world war II

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Mar 26 2012
7:18 pm

Hans Wild, The exterior of the Gayety Theater, a burlesque club, on Ninth Street, Washington, DC, USA, September 1945.

Posted 1 year ago
#1940s #washington #washington dc #USA #hans wild #burlesque #vintage

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Feb 26 2012
2:50 am

John Dominis, Stripper Evangeline Sylvas angrily breaking the water tank being used by fellow stripper Divena at Casino Royale Club, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, 1949.

Posted 1 year ago
#1940s #new orleans #louisiana #USA #stripper #strippers #burlesque #jealousy #john dominis #wtf #crazy #vintage #strip club

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Feb 20 2012
10:36 pm

Loomis Dean, Stripper Divena performing her act inside a plexiglass tank filled with water at Casino Royale Club, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, 1949.

Posted 1 year ago
#1940s #new orleans #louisiana #USA #stripper #stripping #burlesque #underwater #underwater photography #vintage #loomis dean

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Feb 20 2012
5:11 am

Stripper Evangeline Sylvas beginning her act. Photograph by John Dominis. New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, 1949.

Posted 1 year ago
#1940s #new orleans #louisiana #USA #strip club #stripper #stripping #burlesque #vintage #john dominis

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Feb 10 2012
8:30 pm

Burlesque dancers getting ready in their dressing room at the Windmill Theatre. Photograph by William Vandivert. London, 1940.

Posted 1 year ago
#1940s #london #england #UK #windmill theatre #dressing room #burlesque #backstage #wwII #william vandivert #vintage

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Jan 3 2012
8:34 pm

French burlesque performer Lily Niagara at the Crazy Horse Saloon. Paris, 1959.

(via theniftyfifties)

Posted 1 year ago
#1950s #paris #france #burlesque #lily niagara #stripper #crazy horse saloon

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Dec 10 2011
4:40 am

Gypsy Rose Lee adjusting her makeup before a radio broadcast. Photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt. New York City, 1936.

Posted 1 year ago
#1930s #burlesque #gypsy rose lee #makeup #mirror #new york #radio #USA #NYC #alfred eisenstaedt #reflection #vintage #vintage beauty

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