Days Gone By

A young boy smoking a cigar, Philippines, 1931.

Source: Nationaal Archief

Promotional photo of Ernie Kovacs and Edie Adams for his television show, Take a Good Look, November 1960.

Toni Frissell, Michael Todd, half-length portrait, facing front, at the Jones Beach Theater on Long Island, 1952.

Source: Toni Frissell Collection, Library of Congress

Toni Frissell, Mike Todd, half-length portrait, facing front, at the Jones Beach Theater on Long Island, New York, 1952.

Source: Library of Congress

Brooklyn Dodgers general manager Branch Rickey sitting with his grandson while watching spring training. Photograph by George Silk. Vero Beach, Florida, USA, 1948.

Photograph by Michael Rougier. The Bahamas, 1961.

Photograph by Mark Kauffman. New York City, November 1950.

African-American dancer Katherine Dunham dancing barefoot with a cigar in her mouth and a birdcage balanced on her head in “Shore Excursion.” Photograph by Gjon Mili. New York City, 1943.

Freshman Robert Steiner is given a coke and a cigar and seated in the best chair at Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity House during “rushing” at the University of the South. Photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt. Sewanee, Tennessee, USA, 1940.

A woman trying a lady’s cigar at the Twenty-One Club. Photograph by Ralph Morse. New York City, 1963.