Painting by Philip R. Goodwin, 1904; I haven’t yet found the story it illustrated.
Lana
I’ve always thought of Lana Turner as a hard, brassy blonde, but this photo of her as a teenager makes one wonder why Hollywood couldn’t leave well enough alone.
Mail & a Dachshund
Mail, a doxie, a maid, a manicurist and a personal assistant, it boggles the mind. With art by Charles Edward Chambers from the collection of the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art.
Polo at Aiken
What a View
Postcard of the Prince of Wales Hotel lobby, in Waterton, Alberta, Canada. The photo is by T. J. (Tomar Jacob) Hileman (1882–1945), the official photographer for the Great Northern Railway. In 1924, Hileman took photos of Glacier National Park and Waterton Lakes National Park, traveling with his bulky camera equipment on horseback, even at times perching on a narrow ledge to get the right shot. The Prince of Wales Hotel was built by the railway, and must have been an easier day for him.
Mail Art, 1911
Mail art by “W.E.P.” on a postcard posted on January 17, 1911, from Come Home at Once: Intriguing Messages from the Golden Age of Postcards (2014) by Guy Atkins, an absolute must-own for anyone who loves mail, postcards and mail art.
Complete Agreement
“I, a simple soldier, stood here in the place from which the fate of the German people was once guided, and from which it was defined. I began to understand some things. It became increasingly clear to me why we had now to experience the end of Germany.
“No one in the room dared to express his own opinion. Everything that came from the Führer’s mouth was received with complete agreement. This was a group of courtiers without parallel. Or were they worried that they might be uprooted from this still-secure and privileged life if they voiced their own opinion?”
— General Helmuth Weidling, in the Reich Chancellery, April 25, 1945, quoted in Swansong 1945: The Collective Diary of the Last Days of the Third Reich edited by Walter Kempowski. Hitler took his own life five days later. Weidling surrendered Berlin to the Russians on May 2nd.
