Q:This isn’t much of an ask but I saw your sweet note and wanted to tell you thank you and that it made me smile! ✨💖✨
Thank you for your lovely stylish photographs, Miss.
A young Marilyn Monroe—then still an unknown hopeful—on the backlot of Fox Studios in 1947.
Woman and Home and Good Needlework, October 1954
Showgirl [Rosemary Williams reading] (1949). Photograph by Stanley Kubrick. Museum of the City of New York.
Kubrick was assigned a job for LOOK Magazine to create an intimate photographic portrait of Broadway showgirl Rosemary Williams. This story captures the young Rosemary as she transforms herself from an everyday gal into a showgirl. A majority of the negatives and prints show the budding Rosemary in her home, Here she is lounging on a chair reading a book.
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Manhunt #5 (February 1948)
#why is there a gorilla looking in the window you ask#because golden age comics fuckin loved gorillas that’s why
for real tho, I read an interesting article about how in the 1950s comics publishers did some customer research that showed that comics with apes in them sold really well. Next thing you know they were sticking gorillas everywhere. I can’t find the original article but here’s one that covers it
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Bit outside Atompunk period but still very retroSelf-Protection Guidebook for Girls and Women
Neff and Reid
1977
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