Lost Splendor
Lost Splendor


Lost Splendor

Findings of a Fire-Headed History Student. Twenty-One Years Young
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“Ballerinas practicing at Paris Opera ballet school.” Alfred Eisenstaedt, 1963 (via LIFE)
Ruth St. Denis, 1910 via The New York Public Library
Paris Youth Culture: France, 1950s by Paul Almasy (via Retronaut)
Ruth St. Denis: The Cobras, 1910 via The New York Public Library
Venus: 1923 via The New York Public Library
Denishawn Dancers: 1919 via The New York Public Library
Dancing Cheek to Cheek via The Secret Paris of the 1930s
“The Oracle Next Door: 1920”
Honor Your Partner via Betty White’s Teen-Age Dance Book, 1953.
Sirens, 1923 via The New York Public Library
The Field: 1922 via The New York Public Library
“Teenagers at a party in 1947 in Tulsa, Oklahoma; LIFE reported that they “munch doughnuts and sip cokes whenever they are not dancing with serious faces to sentimental music.” By Nina Leen (via LIFE)

Isadora Duncan, 1916 by Arnold Genthe via The New York Public Library

(Source: digitalgallery.nypl.org)

Anna Pavlova, The Dying Swan c. Early 1900s via The New York Public Library
Three Graces, Isadora Duncan c. 1923 via The New York Public Library
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