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Title: [Coronation of Rose Queen, Frances Connally, Life Magazine]
Creator: Robert Yarnall Richie
Date: September 30, 1938
Place: Tyler, Texas
Part Of: Robert Yarnall Richie Photograph Collection
Description: This is the coronation of Rose Queen, Frances Connally at the Sixth Annual Rose Festival held in Bergfeld Park in Tyler, Texas. The theme for this festival was ''Southern Plantations''.
Physical Description: 1 negative: film, black and white; 17.7 x 12.7 cm
File: ag1982_0234_1877_02_rosefestival_sm_opt.jpg
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Article and pinup gallery of "The Girls of Hollywood" - complete with vital statistics - from the August 3, 1942 issue of Life Magazine.
(May have been a different time, but I know what I like.)
Today's airbrushed style pinup photo features Christina enjoying the sun on her day off. With the temperatures blazing and not much really to do, Christina has decided to lounge around the deck of the Battleship and catch up on her LIFE Magazine reading that she's a bit behind on. Normally lots of sailors leave the ship to play in the city, but she's noticed for some reason they've all decided to stay onboard...
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Over a thousand Chicagoans, from all walks of life and all parts of the city, came together at Millennium Park to perform "Crowd Out" by Davind Lang.
Although a bit chaotic in the beginning, once the leaders of each of the small groups that formed the whole got things in sync, it became a beautiful performance and a moving experience.
I came upon this event purely by accident and it took me a while to figure out what was going on.
Once surrounded by all these people, I was pretty much stuck, so you see some of the same faces over and over again.
Hinds for Hands lotion advertisement from a 1942 issue of Life Magazine.
"My hands are doing Kitchen duty right on the home front."
"Glad your hands aren't red and chapped, Baby - a thrill to touch 'em!"
From right to left: Yateem petrol station (site of the present-day Yateem Mosque), Cable & Wireless offices (site of the present-day Batelco building), Gray Mackenzie (site of the present-day Downtown Rotana Hotel) and the Judicial Court (site of the present-day Constitutional Court) circa 1952.
The imposing Minaret of the Bin Khalaf Mosque in the background erected by local pearl merchant Ahmed Bin Khalaf in 1926 this Minaret was the tallest built structure in Manama for over a decade until it was overtaken by the Al Fadhel Mosque's Minaret in 1938 the windowed building on the left opposite the Minaret is the Al Tajir family home circa 1952.
Sayed Mahmoud Ahmed Al Alawi (1902-1994) head of the Finance Directorate and Bahrain's first post-independence Minister of Finance, with his staff at the offices of the Finance Directorate
in Manama circa 1952.
My personal favourite LIFE cover by Alfred "Eisie" Eisenstaedt.
Alfred Eisenstaedt (December 6, 1898-August 24, 1995).
Photo courtesy of LIFE magazine.
In 1935, a 37-year-old Alfred Eisenstaedt emigrated to the United States--narrowly escaping the Holocaust in Europe--and landed a job as one of the first staff photographers at LIFE magazine.
He would become one of the most important photographers in America--indeed, the father of photojournalism.
Eisie--as his friends called him--applied a simple credo to taking pictures: "It's more important to click with people than to click the shutter."
The links below will tell you a little more about the great man Eisenstaedt, and his love of Rolleiflex and Leica cameras;
www.cartage.org.lb/en/themes/arts/photography/fieldskinds...
Colorful and patriotic ad for the United States Rubber Company showing off how classy their whitewall tires look on the battlefield. Send for the free booklet on "How To Save Rubber." Taken from the June 23, 1941 issue of Life Magazine.
"Royal Master owners believe in National Defense..."
"Once you ride on U.S. Royal Masters, you'll never buy any other tires."
Assistant operator at Bahrain refinery wearing a white garment over his head to keep cool from the heat circa May 1945.
Marilyn monroe: For LIFE Magazine:
original picture was taken by: ed clark:
8 august 1950: griffith park los angeles:
*colorization*
Feel free to add, copy, or use this picture, anywhere you want:
Black and white ad for Prince Albert featuring another episode of the cartoon "antics" of Ol' Judge Robbins as we see Dan asking Chubbins for a dance.
From a 1940 issue of Life Magazine.
"Step into the circle of HAPPIER SMOKING!"
"Hot smoke bites the tongue"
What the hell kind of a nickname is 'Chubbins' for a girl you want to dance with?
Exterior view of the Adviserate, office building for Sir Charles D. Belgraves (1926-1957) in Manama circa 1952.
(The sole purpose for the existence of this government department was to serve the adviser to the government of Bahrain, Sir Charles D. Belgrave therefore after Belgrave's retirement in 1957 and the subsequent abolishment of his office the Adviserate ceased to exist)
Given the timing and the imagery, it's likely that Gibson's illustration was a commentary on the United States' neutral stance during World War I, which broke out in Europe in July 1914. The quarreling couple could symbolize the conflicting pressures and opinions within the U.S., while the dog in the middle represents the attempt to remain neutral amidst these tensions.
The United States had tried to remain neutral, but several factors led to its entry in 1917: Germany began attacking American ships and the British shared an intercepted telegram that revealed Germany’s promise to Mexico of American territory if the U.S. entered the war. Also, the Russian Provisional Government’s pro-war stance helped overcome President Woodrow Wilson’s reluctance to fight alongside an absolutist monarch. So, on April 6, 1917, President Wilson signed a joint resolution declaring war on the German Empire.
Wilson believed that the U.S. could shape the peace settlement and play a decisive role in the postwar peace conference. His plan was outlined in the "Fourteen Points" and envisioned a new collective security organization called the League of Nations.
[Source: Wikipedia]
time.com/26789/w-eugene-smith-life-magazine-1951-photo-es...
Original caption: After another delivery Maude departed at 4:30 a.m., leaving the case in charge of another midwife.
W. Eugene Smith/Life Pictures/Shutterstock
W. Eugene Smith’s Landmark Photo Essay, ‘Nurse Midwife’
“In December 1951, LIFE published one of the most extraordinary photo essays ever to appear in the magazine. Across a dozen pages and featuring more than 20 of the great W. Eugene Smith’ pictures, the story of a tireless South Carolina nurse and midwife named Maude Callen opened a window on a world that, surely, countless LIFE readers had never seen — and, perhaps, had never even imagined. Working in the rural South in the 1950s, in “an area of some 400 square miles veined with muddy roads,” as LIFE put it, Callen served as “doctor, dietician, psychologist, bail-goer and friend” to thousands of poor (most of them desperately poor) patients — only two percent of whom were white.”
“Nurse Midwife” as it appeared in the Dec. 3, 1951, issue of LIFE magazine.
archive.org/details/Life-1951-12-03-Vol-31-No-23/page/134...
Launch advertising for the lavish series of photography books from Time-Life Books. Trading on the reputation of LIFE magazine as the premier US publication for news and editorial photos, this series of books promised to be the definitive word on photography practice.
Bound in distinctive silver covers, and (in early press runs) using quality gravure photo reproduction, the core titles Light and Film and The Camera were highly influential in photography instruction. Part of their power in illustrating any concept was the ability to draw on LIFE's deep back-catalog of historical imagery to give inspiring examples. Evidently the series reached 17 volumes, although the books on general principles reached many more people than some of the niche topics.
New editions were in print into the 1980s, outliving LIFE magazine itself by a decade.
Photo by Nina Leen
© Time/Life
"Suse Sweaters" - Sweaters matching dresses designed by Susan Dannenberg of Los Angeles from the 1940s.
From the January 27, 1947 edition of Life Magazine:
"Susan liked sweaters but did not have a sweater figure, knitted some for herself while waiting for a broken leg to mend. She decorated them with bleeding hearts, poodles, flowers and pink elephants with the idea of attracting more attention to the sweater and less to the shape of the wearer.
The scheme worked so well that she made some for her friends, then began selling a few. Some of her best customers were Hollywood women like “Slim” Hawks, Esther Williams, Barbara Stanwyck, and Jennifer Jones. By now “Suse” (pronounced Susy) sweaters are sold all over the U.S. The sweaters were all handmade, by 20 knitters and three girls who do nothing but cut out the zany appliques. Some are further decorated with beads and splashy fake jewels. The effect is extravagant and so is the price, from $50 to $70."
($50-$70 in January 1947 would be $750 - $1,054 in 2025.)
Searching the phrase "Suse Sweater" on newspapers.com, the sweaters were advertised almost exclusively in California initially. By 1949, scattered ads were found in a few western states and the northeast. Ads began to taper off by 1952-53, and the last ad I could find using the term was in the L.A. Times during August of 1954, where the sweaters were selling for $33.33 each, or about $400 in 2025 terms.
Ad for Pillsbury's Pancake Fluor - complete with cartoon-bubble speaking wheat, corn, rye and rice kernels - from the October 12, 1942 edition of LIfe Magazine.