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| USA Olympic Ski Team, Opening Day of the Lake Placid Winter Olympics, February 4, 1932. From left, Coach Julius Blegen, John Steele, Carl Holmstrom, Edward Blood, J. Harsh, Lemoine Batson, Casper Simon, Ray Middleson, Pedar Falstad, Erling Anderson, and Lloyd Ellingson. Photograph FPG/Getty Images, www.olympic.org |
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| Opening Ceremony of the St. Moritz Winter Olympics, Switzerland, January 31, 1948. Ceremony opened by Swiss president Enrico Celio. Photograph by Chris Ware/Keystone/Getty Images, www.olympic.org |
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| Helena Rubinstein (1870-1965) in the garden of her Paris apartment, 1937. A major exhibition entitled Helena Rubinstein: Beauty is Power will be on view at The Jewish Museum in New York City from October 31, 2014 – March 22, 2015. Photograph by F.S. Lincoln. Fay S. Lincoln Photograph collection, 1920-1968, HCLA 1628, Special Collections Library, University Libraries, Pennsylvania State University. |
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| Dior Homme Fall/Winter 2014/15 Photograph www.gq.com |
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| Lincoln Kirstein (1907-1996), Photograph by Walker Evans ca. 1930 Kirstein, co-founder with George Balanchine of the School of American Ballet and the New York City Ballet (of which he was General Director from 1946-1989), is widely considered one of the most important American cultural figures of the 20th century. He served in World War II from 1943-1945, initially on a project identifying and documenting works of art by enlisted soldiers, and soon after as a member of the Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives section. |
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| Gerald and Sara Murphy on La Garoupe beach, Antibes, Summer 1926. The Murphys are credited with the idea of living year round on the French Riviera. Before the Murphys arrived, a summer season seemingly did not exist on the Riviera. Photograph Gerald and Sara Murphy Papers, Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. © Estate of Honoria Murphy Donnelly/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY. x220 |
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| Lovely meringue mushrooms from Mrs. London’s, Saratoga Springs, New York www.mrslondons.com |
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| Gorgeous pine cones from the woods of South Carolina — among the loveliest of gifts. |
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| Image of the Imperial Ballet’s original production of The Nutcracker at the Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg, Russian Empire. December 1892. Stanislava Belinskaya danced the role of Clara and Vassily Stulkolin danced the role of Fritz. Photographer unknown. |