#20th c

[wherearewedamfino]

Go For the Kids: Children and the Picture Theatre

Wests Theatre’s ‘Win a Pony Competition c 1957. The prize was part of a promotion campaign for the Tim Hovey Film, The Private War of Major Benson. Tim was a juvenile star of the era and Wests Picture Theatre and the local radio station 5AD in a joint promotion wanted to find Adelaide’s cutest boy between the ages of 6 to 9. The prize? Their very own Pony. I dread to think what happened to that…

[brouillxrd]

Undiscovered Genius of the Mississippi Delta – Basquiat – 1983

[ritualvirtuality]

please do look it up if you dont know the date bc there may be at least an approximate answer and otherwise the last option will completely dominate and this poll will be boring.

and dont be like 'but i cant sing'... just answer the earliest tune you know well enough that you COULD sing it

periods of western classical music provided only for reference

[jeannepompadour]

Jean Patou brown cotton tulle evening gown, circa 1932

[arthistoryanimalia]

For #WhoopingCraneDay :

N.C. Wyeth (American, 1882-1945)

The Dance of the Whooping Cranes, 1939

oil on panel, 30 x 22¼ in. (76.2 x 56.5 cm);

printed as a plate in the illustrated edition of The Yearling (1939)

[zorubark-art-account]

104 years ago in Palestine

Don't, never forget they have a traditional clothings, a culture...

[oncanvas]

The Duel on the Beach, N. C. Wyeth, 1920

Oil on canvas 40 ½ x 29 ¾ in. (102.9 x 75.6 cm)

[disease]

"CHRIST WITH SAINTED KNIGHTS" J. C. LEYENDECKER // 1900s [oil on canvas | 30 1/4 × 20"]

[cyparissinos]

“Whose happiest days were far and away through fields … he and another wandering”

Illustration by Margaret C. Cook In Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman 1913 edition

[uwmspeccoll]

Typography Tuesday

Rebuild Something New, Revolutionary. Industrious Grand Intentions Wanted, Handy and Neat Combined. Stand Indian Maid, Ancient National Rambler: The Beauty American.

A little patriotic poem of Indigenous sovereignty and the American future from Brass Type, an early 20th-century type specimen book from the H. C. Hansen Type Foundry, Boston, Massachusetts. Hansen operated from 1872 to the early 1920s, and was the only independent type foundry remaining in Boston after the consolidation by the American Type Founders in 1892.

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[wherearewedamfino]

OZONE ALBERTON

Ozone Alberton – year unknown. Image reproduced courtesy of https://caths.org.au/ The house showing on the right belonged to the Waterman family and was their family home. The Ozone Alberton was built in 1924, in Fussell Place. It was the second Ozone theatre purpose-built by the Waterman family (The Watermans owned the Ozone chain of theatres). The first purpose-built theatre that the Ozone…

[laniidae-passerine]

really taken with how Louis is the only one of his siblings without a religiously coded name. Paul as in the apostle, constantly talking about what the Lord wants and trying to guide Louis in the right direction through his preaching. Grace as in the freely given, pure love and forgiveness offered by God, the sweet sound that can save any sinner. Louis loses Paul and then he loves the Devil, forever turning his back on Grace.

[theglitterdome]

Middle Finger Monday

The cast of The Outsiders - 1983

Matt Dillon, Tom Cruise, Ralph Macchio, Emilio Estevez, C. Thomas Howell, Rob Lowe, and Patrick Swayze

[jeannepompadour]

“The Spanish Fan” by Elizabeth Finley Thomas, c. 1905

[mahgnib]

Advertising card for the Alhambra Theatre, but I can’t seem to find which of the several Alhambra Theaters this is. Listed as being c. 1920.

[visual-sandwich]

Frank C. Kirk, Industry, n.d., oil on canvas, sight 10 1⁄8 x 12 in. (25.7 x 30.5 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum