Lost Splendor
Lost Splendor


Lost Splendor

Findings of a Fire-Headed History Student. Twenty-One Years Young
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“Teenagers from Stephens College, Columbia, MO, on their yearly ‘grand tour’ of Wash., D. C., Annapolis & West Point.” 1939 by Alfred Eisenstaedt (via LIFE)
Milan, 1930 ca (by Milan l’era inscì)
Milan, 1930
Cotton Tail, 1932 (via)
Easter Proposal by J.C Leyendecker, March 31st, 1934 (by Plum leaves)
Baltimore Summer: July, 1938 (via Shorpy Historical Photo Archive)
Airborne: Soviet Union, 1930s (via English Russia)
“New York City views. Plaza buildings from Central Park.” February 12, 1933. (via Shorpy Historical Photo Archive)
Rockefeller Center, Manhattan: December 5th, 1933 (via Shorpy Historical Photo Archive)
To Life, United Kingdom c. 1934 (via)

"…It appears that every man’s insomnia is as different from his neighbor’s as are their daytime hopes and aspirations."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sleeping and Waking. December, 1934. 

New York World’s Fair Employee Snowball Fight, 1939 via The New York Public Library

Street View via The Secret Paris of the 1930s
In the Cards via The Secret Paris of the 1930s
Dancing Cheek to Cheek via The Secret Paris of the 1930s
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