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Punk Car.
Promotional still for Creature from the Black Lagoon, 1954.
Professional airwalkers Gladys Roy and Ivan Unger playing tennis on the wing of a biplane in-flight, 1925.
Prince Franz Joseph.
Postcard published by the Rotograph Co., NYC, 1904-1909.
Plongeurs.
Soldats allemands en Egypte.
Siblings Sharing Birthday Party.
questcequecestqueca: Hans Richter
oO requiem Oo
magictransistor: Here’s What We’ll Wear (1956)
Singing heads.
Playboy Paparazzi, Italia, 1970.
Pistol Shooting Robot.
Phoropter, 1895.
Salvador Dali par Philippe Halsman.
Philip Jones Griffiths - Soldat britannique à Belfast, Irlande, 1973.
Pays-Bas, lieu inconnu, 1920.
Outsized bretzel, 1958.
One day Mrs. Wynant Hubbard of Miami decided to defrost the fridge. Look what flew into Mrs. Hubbard’s cupboard.
Dans cette photo, nous voyons Chester E. Macduffee et sa nouvelle création, la combinaison de plongée atmosphérique (ADS), en forme d'homme qui crée une pression interne régulière pour le porteur et qui lui permet de plonger en haute mer sans être
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No, it’s not pussycat sauce. Eight-week-old Fluff was noodling around and she fell in. Here she’s being rescued.
John Walters, 1971.
John Lennon by Alan Aldridge & Duffy.
Mustasche party.
Nina Leen - Fashion squirrel, 1940’s. In the 1940s a squirrel owned by the wife of a Washington dentist became famous throughout the United States. The squirrel’s name was Tommy Tucker and he wore women’s clothing.
Mr. and Mrs. Leon Uayyatt, 1932.
Mouton volant, 1936.
Scuba diver with an umbrella, 1949. In 1943, Captain Jacques-Yves Cousteau invents, with Emile Gagnan, the first commercially successful open circuit type of Scuba diving equipment, the aqualung.
Scrambling for Pennies, 1911. Before Halloween came into its own as a holiday in this country, there was “Thanksgiving masking,” where kids would dress up and go door to door for apples, or “scramble for pennies.”
Extreme hairiness (called hypertrichosis) runs in families. This hairy family, from Burma, toured the United States.
Men fainted when Grace McDaniels, the Mule-Faced Woman, removed her veil in the sideshow.
Makajumo of julo - Theory of evolution, 1925.
Kellar - Self Decapitation
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Echafaudages en bambou (bamboo scaffolding), 1972.
Kellar - Levitation
Morris Sheppard meets a tall cowboy.
Montage photo - Metropolis + Femmes sur un toit de Berlin.
John Chillingworth - An employee of Gems Ltd, a firm based in a disused chapel off Portobello Road, London, fixes the wax head of a model onto its body. November 1950.
Joël-Peter Witkin
Herbert List
Headless portrait, 1800’s.
Harry Gardiner hangs from the 24th story of the Hotel McAlpin in New York.
French daredevil Jean-Francois Gravelet Blondin, a.k.a The Great Blondin, pushes a wheelbarrow across a tightrope above the Niagara River Gorge, c. 1859.
Fiji mermaid
Ferdinando Scianna
samwanda: atomic-flash: Baumgartl Heliofly III-59 · 1940s Austrian Experimental Backpack Helicopter
mendenlama: From Sisters Liberty (Сестрички Либерти, 1990) directed by Vladimir Grammatikov
Senor Wences (Ventriloque)
madebyabvh: Salvador Dalí
Space Ghost Naftalina
America by Motorcycle the book...get it on Amazon.
abandonedfunhouse: The Great Ziegfeld, 1936.
Salvador Dali jumping rope, 1960.
Recrues de la marine utilisant des matelas comme protection, 1917.
Saru no Gundan, 1974.
vieuxmetiers: Peintres sur la Tour Eiffel, Paris, 1932.
Masque à oxygène pour aviateur, 1919.
