Sweet & Wonderful

The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, New York, June 19, 1932

Shirley Temple Black

(April 23, 1928 – February 10, 2014)

“As long as our country has Shirley Temple, we’ll be alright.” —Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Judy Garland boarding a train, ca. 1939

ROMEO & JULIET | BLACK SHAKESPEARE | 1930s

—- A group of African American college drama students in full makeup and costume during a dress rehearsal for Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet. Howard University, Washington DC, 1930s. Addison Scurlock (1883-1964), photographer.

1932’s Dynasphere! A one-wheel four-seater. Via British Pathé

Summer days. Paris 1937

Native American woman with child at train station” circa 1930 by Boston Public Library

The importance of consent: a narrative.

I will forever reblog this gifset.

look at how badass she is though i mean some of it gets on her too and doesn’t even give a fuck

She pours hot liquid on her own leg she’s that badass.

fire cannot kill a dragon.

Hand tinted postcard used 1931…apparently sent from a luridly coloured alternate universe.

The Central Park shanty town c.1930, constructed by destitute people in the wake of the Great Depression