Actress, dancer, and singer, Betty Grable entertained audiences during the mid-20th century - especially popular during the 1940s.Known for her "million dollar" legs,Grable appeared in pin-up photos - with an image of her in a light bathing suit and heels finding mass appeal am...
years, Linder made several hundred short films portraying "Max", a wealthy and dapper man-about-town frequently in hot water because of his penchant for beautiful women and the good life. Starting with The Skater's Debut in 1907, the character became one of the first identifiable motion-...
Pictures and descriptions of fancy dress costumes from Victorian and other historical sources. Information about historical fancy dress balls from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Costumes for men, women, boys, girls.
“When I went to you a-ba in marriage, the old traditions were supposed to be over. No more buying and selling of women into slavery or marriage. No more dowries either. But it doesn’t matter what the government says. This land belongs to the women in our line. It is ours alone ...
While working at Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show she was given the name of “Watanya Cicilla” by fellow performer Sitting Bull. This name is translated to “Little Sure Shot.” In 1894 Oakley and Butler performed in Edison’s Kinetoscope film the “Little Sure Shot of the Wild West.” ...
Ainu women were known (until fairly recent times) to have tattooed their lips. According to Ainu tradition, they attributed tattooing to a gift from the “Ancestral Mother” of the Ainu Okikurumi (Turesh) Machi, the younger sister of the creator god, Okikurumi. And (like with the Inuit ...
3). At no time did the Burke River contingent rise above two White officers or ten troopers, although an unknown number of Aboriginal women and children would also have been present. Fig. 3 Layout of the Burke River NMP camp (map by Heather Burke) Full size image The ammunition artifacts...
Nebraska, Kansas, the Dakotas & anything west of the Mississippi River was still considered to be the”Old West” or the “Wild West”. Iowa & Missouri, sitting on the Mississippi, were “West” too. There were relatively few women of European descent west of the Mississippi prior to the...
Stetons, AKA "ten-gallon hats," became the hat for cowboys, lawmen, cavalry troops, and showmen like William "Buffalo Bill" Cody in the Wild West. Through the end of the 19th century,different styles of the hatemerged - the Boss of the West (Steton's nickname, incidentally), t...
Stetons, AKA "ten-gallon hats," became the hat for cowboys, lawmen, cavalry troops, and showmen like William "Buffalo Bill" Cody in the Wild West. Through the end of the 19th century,different styles of the hatemerged - the Boss of the West (Steton's nickname, incidentally), t...