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wh0-is-lily · 1 day

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"Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring." - Marilyn Monroe, 1950s.

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vintage-old-hollywood · 2 days

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Martha Hyer

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popculturebaby · 2 months

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Ava Gardner’s MGM Employment Portrait in 1941

She was 19 years old.

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secretceremonies · 5 months

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Sisters of Divine Providence trying out new .22 caliber guns presented to them at camp Mishannock by Harrington and Richardson of Worcester, Massacusetts. (1957)

#nuns #1950s #retro #vintage #1950s vintage #old #black and white photography #vintage photography #nuns with guns #1950s history #old photography #old photo

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spoiledstarlets · 11 days

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coolvintagecars · 13 days

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Pontiac (1958)

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queenie435 · 3 months

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𝗖𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗹 𝗝. 𝗪𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗺𝘀, "𝗕𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗠𝗮𝗻 𝗗𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝘁 𝗪𝗵𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝗢𝗻𝗹𝘆 𝗙𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻," 1964

Cecil J. Williams (born November 26, 1937) is an American photographer, publisher, author and inventor whose photographs document the civil rights movement in South Carolina beginning in the 1950s.

📸 Coming back from a 1956 trip photographing South Carolina’s segregated beaches for Jet magazine, Cecil J. Williams stops at a filling station, closed at the time, and drinks from a “WHITE ONLY” water fountain. Image captured by Rendall Harper, a friend of the photographer.

#ceciljwillams #black history month #black history #white only #civil rights #human rights #history #1950s #1950s history

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texaschainsawmascara · 5 months

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