From Out Of The Past... The History In Pictures Thread

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Suffragette Emmeline Pethick Lawrence from the U.K. on her release from Holloway Prison in 1908 after her arrest during a protest march that was also an attempt to meet the Prime Minister.

July 1917: 16 women from the National Women's Party were arrested while picketing the White House demanding universal women's suffrage. They were charged with obstructing traffic.

After a record snowfall this man was able to build a snowman on Billabong Bridge in Canberra, Australia in the year 1929.

1935: Men arrested for homosexuality pose for a photo at Lecumberri prison. Photo via the National Photo Library of the Mexican National Institute of Anthropology and History.

Cosplay and Cons seem to have always gone together, no? A party during the World Science Fiction Convention of 1962 in Chicago. Photo by Jay Kay Klein.

From 1971, NVA soldiers dash across the open ground near strategic Highway 9 in southern Laos during Operation Lam Son 719, the South’s failed attempt to cut the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Photo by Nguyen Dinh.

Tina Turner at home, 1972.

As American involvment in Vietnam enters its endgame combat boots litter the road on the outskirts of Saigon, abandoned by ARVN soldiers who shed their uniforms to hide their status. “I’ll never forget the shoes and the loud ‘thump, thump, thump’ sound as we drove over them,” recalled the photographer. “Decades of war were over and we finally had peace.” Photo by Duong Thanh.

Sandra Bullock cheerleading at Washington-Lee High School in Arlington, Virginia, 1982.

The Detroit Police tug-of-war team were ready to demolish the competition in 1991.

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May 1981: Pope John Paul II immediately after being shot during a procession in St. Peter’s Square. Though critically wounded, the Pope survived the four gunshot wounds to his abdomen.

A Chinese armored personnel carrier, with crushed bicycles stuck to its side, sits in Tiananmen Square after the brutal crackdown on the youth protests of 1989.

“Las Vegas Beauty Queens” circa 1990. Photo by Annie Sahlin.

Liam Gallagher of Oasis and Damon Albarn then of Blur face off during a charity soccer match in 1996.

Under fire, American forces use the time honoured method to work out where an Iraqi sniper is located in 2003.

September 2007: Iapetus, one of the moons of Saturn, observed by the Cassini probe from a distance of about 73,000 kilometers.

May of 2010, an F-15E Strike Eagle from the 333rd Fighter Squadron on patrol as the Space Shuttle Atlantis launches from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Photo by Capt. John Peltier.

 

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Type 22 frigate HMS Brilliant seen from the US Battleship USS Iowa during the NATO exercise Ocean Safari 85, January 1985.

A very early image of They Might Be Giants, 1985.

SRV. The legend Stevie Ray Vaughan on stage in 1985.

Istanbul market, 1985.

Bon Jovi and Diane Lane by Deborah Feingold, 1985.

Elfquest cover, dated October 1985.

 

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I saw them as late as 1994. I helped my High School buddy move him and his family to Austin, TX after graduation, took a bus back home (It was affordable) and in Arakansas and Washington D.C. stations they were still around. Didn't look much different than those pictures.

The ones I saw were newer but probably still from the 70's.

 

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A battery of Parrott guns manned by Company C, 1st Connecticut Heavy Artillery at Fort Brady on the James River, Virginia, 1864.

Men from the Mohawk Nation at Kahnawake (Caughnawaga) who were the Canadian lacrosse champions in 1869.

Villagers from Svaneti, Northern Georgia (Transcaucasia), 1889.

College students in their dorm room. Based on the sign on the door this could be at the University of Illinois, circa 1910.

Boxer Jack Johnson out for a drive in Las Vegas, New Mexico, 1912.

Bathers at Ghost Ranch near Abiquiu, New Mexico from 1936. Photo by T. Harmon.

Armourers of No. 440 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force head out to re-arm a Hawker Typhoon during WWII in 1944.

May 1953: (Sir) Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay approaching a height of 28,000 feet on Mount Everest. It was here that they would establish their final camp. From this point forward they would be on their own.

A young Sir David Attenborough entertains Prince Charles and Princess Anne in 1958 with a cockatoo during their visit to the BBC Television Studios at Lime Grove.

A street scene in Tehran, Iran pre-revolution in 1967.

 

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Stevie Wonder, London, 1974.

Kiki Dee and Elton John, 1976.

Bruce Springsteen with local police, 1978.

Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers together in 1982.

Michael Jackson drops the puck for a game between the Vancouver Canucks and the Pittsburgh Penguins. Vancouver, 1984.

Falco from the Rock Me Amedeus video, 1985.

Michael Jackson, Francis Coppola, and George Lucas together, 1986.

Kylie Minogue, 1987.

Wynonna Rider and Johnny Depp, 1990.

 

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20-Year-Old Helena Bonham Carter, 1986.

The influential band Sonic Youth, Houston, TX, April 13, 1986.

This is the first photo of the Chernobyl plant, at 4pm, 14 hours after the explosion of the nuclear reactor on April 26, 1986.

Clint Eastwood became the mayor of Carmel, defeating an incumbent in the election to lead his small seaside city in Northern California, and add many four-way stop signs to help ease traffic congestion (1986).

Youth Chess tournament, Ukraine, 1986.

Known as the worst injury in NHL history. Toronto Maple Leaf, Borje Salming, receiving 250 stitches after a Detroit Red Wing player accidentally stepped on his face with skates on in 1986.

Robin Williams and a Cheerleading extra on the set of the 1986 film The Best Of Times.

Still from the film Babes In Toyland from 1986. Yes... That is indeed Neo and Mr. Miyagi in a movie together.

 

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Helsinki Olympics 1952, the Olympic Flame.

In 1952, in Helsinki, Josie Bartel took first place in the 1500 meters race, setting an Olympic record. The athlete's success came as a complete surprise to the organizers. When she came to celebrate the winners, it turned out that there was no recording of the Luxembourg anthem, and the orchestra improvised. Bartel on the pedestal burst into tears, but not from the joy of victory, but from resentment for his small country. The committee hastened to apologize and hush up the situation. Luxembourg never won gold medals at the Olympic Games again. The main stadium of Barthel's homeland was named after him.

On 6 September 1952, a prototype de Havilland DH.110 jet fighter crashed during an aerial display at the Farnborough Airshow in Hampshire, England. The jet disintegrated mid-air during an aerobatic manoeuvre, causing the death of pilot John Derry.

A Bell X-2 skids to a landing at Edwards Air Force Base, April 22, 1952.

New York, 1952.

A young legend to be, Julie Andrews, 1952.

Leonard Nimoy and actress Mona Knox, 1952.

John Wayne and Maureen O'hara in publicity portrait for 'the quiet man' (1952).

Marilyn Monroe visiting American troops in Korea, 1952.

Monroe, photo shoot, 1952.

 

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I remember seeing Babes in Toyland back in the 80's but nothing about it, especially not Keanu or Pat Morita being in it.

 

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Astronomers in Fort Worth prepare for an eclipse, July of 1878.

Guests on their way to Roosevelt House, September 1908.

A Suffragette showing off her “marching costume”, Chicago, 1916.

1917: A taxi driver and his cab. The balloon on the roof is a container for gas, which was used instead of petrol during The Great War and for some time later.

1928: Russian villagers listening to the radio for the first time.

1941: A Sikh driver of the British Indian Army protects his face from sandstorms in Libya, North Africa.

1 February 1943: The US 442nd Infantry Regiment was formed and activated. The regiment is best known for its history as a fighting unit composed almost entirely of American soldiers of Japanese ancestry. The unit's motto was "Go for Broke".

March 1944: A group of New Zealand soldiers pictured near Monte Cassino in Italy.

1945: Tuskegee Airmen attending a briefing in Ramitelli. Library of Congress, photo by Toni Frissell.

1945: Actress Marlene Dietrich signs autographs for American troops in Germany shortly after victory was declared.

 

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1963: Lisa Kennedy stops for an ice cream in a dog cart drawn by her Labrador, Pika. Lisa and Pika were a regular sight around Avalon, NSW, Australia.

In 1967, Star Trek’s Leonard Nimoy released the song "The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins". It told the story of Bilbo and his adventures in Tolkien's novel “The Hobbit”. In this photo, Nimoy celebrates the release of the album in which the song was included.

Major Jim Capers in Vietnam, circa 1967.

Viet Cong infiltrators launch surprise attacks across South Vietnam, marking the start of the Tet Offensive. Among the insurgents' targets is the U.S. embassy in Saigon, January of 1968.

George Harrison photographed in his backyard by Terry O'Neil, 1975.

6th Avenue, midtown New York, 1979.

February of 1983, President Ronald Reagan meeting with Afghan Mujahideen to discuss recent Soviet atrocities. Photo by Michael Evans.

U.S. Marines, wearing protective gas masks, improvise a game of chess at their base during Operation Desert Shield, October 1990. Photo by John Gaps III.

An American Navy F-14A Tomcat flying over burning oil wells. Kuwait, Operation Desert Storm, Feb. 1991.

Will Smith, Hugh Hefner, Karyn Parsons, and Alfonso Ribeiro at the Playboy Mansion to shoot an episode of Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, November 1993.

 

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A woman wearing a mask during the London smog, also puts one on her dog, 1953.

Jackie Cochran becomes the first woman to break the sound barrier, May of 1953.

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On the streets of London, 1953. Performers from Bertram Mills Circus who's Christmas show at Olympia was attended by the Royal family every year from the 1930's to 50's except WWII.

Charlie Parker Quartet at the Open Door (1953).

Marilyn Monroe and Betty Grable photographed at Ciro’s, 1953.

Still from the sci fi film Invaders From Mars, 1953.

Costumed people on the street in Clinton County, Indiana in 1953.

South Africans relax on a sunny, cabana-lined beach in Cape Town during the Apartheid era, South Africa, August 1953. PHOTOGRAPH BY DR. GILBERT H. GROSVENOR, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC.

Students who took part in a strike against inadequate African American schools posing for a photo in Farmville, in Prince Edward County, Virginia. (March 1953)

 

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Princess Diana visits Saudi Arabia in 1986 and refuses to where any head covering as is the law of that nation for women.

Princes of the Universe indeed, front man Freddy Mercury and Brian May on stage in 1986.

Actress Molly Ringwald, Life Magazine 1986.

Metallica, circa 1986. Shortly before the death of Cliff Burton (far left).

Flight crew responsible for a VF-102 pose on deck, circa 1986.

 

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Film still from the movie Adventures In Babysitting, 1987.

Superman saves a hostage from the villain Bloodsport, Superman Vol. 2 #4 from 1987, written and pencilled by John Byrne.

A Russian family in Soviet era Moscow, 1987, KGB HQ in the background.

Kunming, Yunnan, China 1987.

Ad for Panasonic landline telephone from 1997.

From the promotional calendar featuring Bud Light mascot, Spuds Mackenzie, 1987.

 

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“Polio Pioneers” in 1954 after taking a step to end the Polio pandemic by taking the first vaccine.

Payen Pa 49 Katy was a small experimental French turbojet powered tailless aircraft, designed by Nicolas Roland Payen, and first flown in 1954. It was the first French aircraft of this kind and the smallest jet aircraft of its day.





Car phones in 1954.

NYC Newstand, 1954.

American music icon Woody Guthrie wrote a song called "Old Man Trump" in 1954.

No... I didn't make that up.

The song was written about Fred Trump, the former president's father, Guthrie's landlord at the Beach Haven apartment complex in Brooklyn, protesting Trump Senior's racist and discriminatory rental practices.

On of the great platinum sex symbols of the age, Mamie Van Doren, 1954.

Marilyn Monroe and Robert Strauss photographed filming a scene for The Seven Year Itch, 1954. The scene was later cut and still hasn’t been found.

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Groucho Marx, Palm Springs, 1954.

 

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Andre Agassi, 1988.

World music star Sade photographed in Los Angeles, 1988.

Spoiler: Sade- Paradise from 1988

Contestants getting ready for the Miss Soviet Union beauty pageant, the first one held publicly in the country, near a statue of Vladimir Lenin in Moscow, USSR in 1988.

On June 4, 1988, Pope John Paul II visited the Ferrari factory.

Cassandra Peterson (Elvira, Mistress Of The Dark), Paul Reubens (Pee- Wee Herman) and Toni Basil (One hit wonder of early MTV) at a party in 1988.

Cover to the NOW Comics comic book run of James Cameron's The Terminator, both the first comic book adaptation along with the first sequel material for Terminator at that time. From 1988.

New York Times cover page, Friday June 24, 1988.

 

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Stills from the 1955 sci fi epic, This Island Earth.

A very young Mick Jagger in 1955.

Ella Fitzgerald jailed in 1955 for singing to an integrated audience.

Woman in chairlift at Jackson, Wyoming, crica 1955.

Rock Hudson, Tony Curtis & Robert Wagner posing for Life Magazine, 1955.

Joan Collins / photo by Earl Leaf, Los Angeles, 1955.

Former Hollywood child star Shirley Temple, 1955.

British cartoon from 1955 showing a robot labelled "Automation" looming at the gates of a factory.

Marilyn Monroe photographed by Ed Feingersh, 1955.

 

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New York Knicks legend Patrick Ewing, 1994.

From the height of the age of the super model, Claudia Schiffer captured by Richard Avedon, 1994.

SNL and comedy movie star Chris Farely, 1994. He would battle addiction until his death in 1997.

Uma Thurman poses for the photo set that would produce the iconic image for the theatrical poster for Pulp Fiction from 1994.

Director Quentin Tarantino on the set of Pulp Fiction from 1994.

Billy Ray and Miley Cyrus at the Pyramid Arena in Memphis, 1994.

The child actors from Spike Lee's Crooklyn, 1994.

Krist Novoselic & Chris Cornell 1994.

 

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People defacing the severed head of a statue of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin which was torn down in Budapest during the Hungarian Revolution (1956)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_Revolution_of_1956

Children wearing straw capes on their way to a New Year's event in Niigata, Japan in 1956. (Photograph by Hiroshi Hamaya)

Britain's answer to Jayne Mansfield and Marilyn Monroe, Diana Dors at the Cannes Film Festival in 1956.

Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon and a young Buddy Guy. ca. 1956 recording for Chess Records.

Lincoln Futura Show Car, 1956. In ten years time this concept car would be repurposed and used, after some set dressing, as the Batmobile on the Adam West Batman TV show.

Worker painting the Golden Gate Bridge, 1956.

The two Outcasts who won the Wimbledon doubles title in 1956.

In a time when one was not welcome in the tennis world because she was black and the other shunned because she was Jewish they teamed up and beat the best in the world.

The U.K. born Angela Buxton was born in Liverpool on 16 August 1934, one of two children born to Harry and Violet (Greenberg) Buxton. Her grandparents on both sides were Jewish and had immigrated to England from Russia, fleeing from the pogroms in the early 1900s. She was raised partly in South Africa. Buxton's father owned a successful cinema chain in northwestern England, which allowed her to attend boarding school at Gloddaeth Hall. While there, a coach noticed her tennis ability and urged her to acquire more training.


Althea Neale Gibson (August 25, 1927 – September 28, 2003) was an American tennis player and professional golfer, and one of the first Black athletes to cross the color line of international tennis. In 1956, she became the first African American to win a Grand Slam title (the French Championships). The following year she won both Wimbledon and the US Nationals (precursor of the US Open), then won both again in 1958 and was voted Female Athlete of the Year by the Associated Press in both years. In all, she won 11 Grand Slam tournaments: five singles titles, five doubles titles, and one mixed doubles title. Gibson was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame and the International Women's Sports Hall of Fame. "She is one of the greatest players who ever lived", said Bob Ryland, a tennis contemporary and former coach of Venus and Serena Williams. "Martina [Navratilova] couldn't touch her. I think she'd beat the Williams sisters." In the early 1960s she also became the first Black player to compete on the Women's Professional Golf Tour.

Elvis with host Steve Allen on the Steve Allen show after performing Hound Dog for the studio audience, July 1, 1956.

 

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The Star Trek: Voyager cast at the pilot premiere, 1995.

Fans at a backstage Van Halen meet and greet from 1995.

Faith Evans with Tupac Shakur at the release party for the Waiting To Exhale Soundtrack, October 1, 1995.

The Hollywood Reporter Sailor Moon Animation Special Issue January 24, 1995.

Dave Grohl, 1995. NFG.

Milla Jovovich answers fans questions in an online chat on AOL. February 1995.

On the streets of Johannesburg, South Africa 1995.

Line up for Reading Festival '95.

 

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Adolf, Herbert, Leonard, Julius and Milton, better known as Harpo, Zeppo, Chico, Groucho, and Gummo: February 18, 1957.

Two women in front of the peluquería they owned in Cuba, 1957.

Julie Andrews sipping champagne from her glass slipper after performing in the 1957 TV special Cinderella.

Shockwave of a nuclear test crashes a military observation blimp, Nevada desert, 1957.

A group of jeering anti-integrationists trailed two black students down a street in Little Rock, Arkansas, 1957. Ed Clark/Life Pictures/Getty Images

The greats Monk & Coltrane at the Five Spot, 1957.

Singer Billie Holiday (1957).

Actress Dorothy Dandridge (1957).

The bus-sized Soviet nuclear cruise missile from 1957.


The La-350 "Burya" was ~20m in length, with a mass at launch of 96,600kg, and was capable of delivering a 2,200kg warhead to an estimated range of 8,000km (although it was never tested past 6,500km.) Did I mention it was larger than a city bus?

t was also filled with horribly toxic acid as an oxidizer for its rocket boosters, as there was no way to store cryogenic oxidizers (liquid oxygen) for more than a few hours before they boiled off. Problems with fuel would plague the Soviet rocket programs for extended periods, even after the development of proper ballistic missiles such as the R-7. The fueling process for those early ballistic missiles could take up to a day, by which time it was entirely possible they would have been destroyed. The US bypassed this problem with the development of solid fuel rockets, which can be stored for a decade or so with no issue. The Soviets opted to switch to more mobile launch systems while retaining either cryogenic or hilariously toxic 'store-able' fuels.

1957 Moto Guzzi 500cc V8 race bike.

 

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A then 33 year old Charles Darwin and his eldest son William Erasmus Darwin, 1842.

People of Whitechapel, London in 1877. From the book Street Life in London by John Thomson and Adolphe Smith.

The Belmont Hotel on fire in Los Angeles, California, December 1887.

Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas in Naples, 1897.

c1900: Ladies out for a stroll on George Street, Sydney. Photo via the State Library of New South Wales.

1908: Edwardian ladies showing off their outfits. This is not colourised, but is an autochrome. Photo by Gustave Gain.

Workers in a hop field in the Nelson-Marlborough Region of New Zealand, 1910. Photo by Frederick Nelson Jones.

Chief Iron Tail (Sinte Maza), Oglala Lakota. Photo by De Lancey W. Gill., 1913.

1920: Hop pickers on stilts in Faversham, England.

1922: A group of ladies with a canoe in Washington, DC. The lady leaning back in the boat is Kay Laurell, a star of stage and screen. When she died at age 36, it was reported that she died of pneumonia, but it was later revealed that she died giving birth to her first child.

 

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March 1937: A miner and his family have dinner at home in Scott's Run, West Virginia. Photo by Lewis Hine.

Sapper Hibbert (left) and Corporal Simmons, both from Jamaica, serving with the Royal Engineers at Clitheroe, Lancashire, from November of 1940.

A British anti-aircraft battery swings into action during an air raid on the South Coast, 1940.

Londoners taking shelter in an underground train tunnel during the Blitz. Photo via the Imperial War Museum, 1940.

1942: A member of the 25th Battalion of the London Home Guard gives a camouflage demonstration using strips of old wallpaper. Useful advice for fighting in bombed out towns and villages.

June 1944: A local inspects the kilts of Pipe Major William MacConnachie and Pipe Major William Boyd in the Colosseum of Rome.

February of 1945 and a Filipino man holds a sign inviting American soldiers to a YMCA coffee stand during the Battle of Manila. When this photo was taken, the fighting against the Japanese was still going on.

The Melbourne Fire Brigade conducts a training exercise in 1945. Photograph by Cliff Bottomley.

Elizabeth Taylor helps her mother prepare hotdogs and hamburgers at home in Los Angeles, California, 1947. Photo by Earl Theisen.

1949: Crowds in Pitt Street, Sydney, Australia.

 

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June 1949: On the subway in Brooklyn, New York. Gelatin silver print by Angelo Rizzuto.

An accordionist playing in a bistro near Les Halles, Paris, 1950. Photo by Robert Doisneau.

6 November 1950: Prisoners are flushed out by a U.S. patrol operating in North Korea south of Kusong. Photo by Hank Walker.

Eartha Kitt on the sidewalk, 1952. Photo by Gordon Parks.

A young Jackie Kennedy prepares to take a photo of JFK, RFK and Ethel Kennedy as they relax in a garden, 1954.

1955: Betty White is on TV, literally.

Marilyn Monroe entering New York City in a Ford Thunderbird, 1956.

President Eisenhower deploys troops from the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division to Arkansas to enforce the desegregation of Little Rock Central High School in September of 1957.

A 23 year old Elvis Presley in 1958 gets a jab as part of his Army physical at Kennedy Veterans Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. Photo by Don Cravens for LIFE Images.

Thor the Great Dane rides shotgun in Hollywood, 1961. Photo by Ralph Crane.

 

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The 1958 Lanier Paraplane Commuter 110 was one of the last designs stemming from Edward H. Lanier's 1930s patents, and aircraft incorporating apertures in the upper surfaces, which claimed to give benefits in safety, lift and STOL (Short Take Off and Landing) ability.

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The Quarry Men, John, Paul and George, aka, the Beatles before the Beatles, at a gig in 1958.

A soon to be future legen, Bruce Lee in San Fran, 1958.

Tourist next to the Buddhas of Bamiyan in Afghanistan photo by Edmund Melzl, 1958. For being "Un-Islamic" Taliban leaders ordered the statues destroyed in the late 1990's.

Marilyn Monroe as Fabled Enchantresses - 1958 Life Magazine.

Posing for Richard Avedon and prefaced by Arthur Miller’s article ‘My Wife’. Avedon actually was not 100% happy with the images but they were used anyway. Monroe as model channels the previous eras own symbols of sensual ardor like Theda Bara, Clara Bow, Jean Harlow Marlene Dietrich and Lillian Russell.