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Bonnie and Semoura Clark black vaudeville photographs and ephemera, 1909-1958.
via: http://beinecke.library.yale.edu

Labbe, Edmond – Exposition internationale des arts et des techniques, Paris 1937: rapport general. Tome 2, album annexe.
[Paris : Ministere du commerce et de lindustrie, [1941]
via: http://beinecke.library.yale.edu

via: http://www.98bowery.com/

The Commanding Officer of the Japanese aircraft carrier Shokaku watches as planes take off to attack Pearl Harbor, during the morning of 7 December 1941. The Kanji inscription at left is an exhortation to pilots to do their duty.

Recovered from a Japanese Navy aircraft downed during the attack on Pearl Harbor, 7 December 1941. The chart identifies ship mooring locations and is entitled (at upper left): “Report on positions of enemy fleet at anchorage B”. The chart identifies mooring locations with a radial grid. Sectors and distances are coded by single katakana figures.

Cartoon found in a crashed Japanese Navy aircraft following the attack on Pearl Harbor. The Japanese inscription at left reads: “Hear! The voice of the moment of death. Wake up, you fools.”

View of Pearl Harbor looking southwesterly from the hills to the northward. Taken during the Japanese raid, with anti-aircraft shell bursts overhead.
Large column of smoke in lower center is from USS Arizona (BB-39). Smaller smoke columns further to the left are from the destroyers Shaw (DD-373), Cassin (DD-372) and Downes (DD-375), in drydocks at the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard.

Takes the oath prior to giving testimony during a Congressional investigation of the Pearl Harbor attack, during World War II.
Admiral Richardson was the Commander in Chief, United States Fleet, from January 1940 until February 1941. He retired on 1 October 1942, but remained on active during the rest of World War II.

via: http://www.history.navy.mil/

“Syd is 25 now, and worried about getting old. “I wasn’t always this introverted,” he says, “I think young people should have a lot of fun. But I never seem to have any.” Suddenly he points out the window. “Have you seen the roses? There’s a whole lot of colours.” Syd says he doesn’t take acid anymore, but he doesn’t want to talk about it… “There’s really nothing to say.” He goes into the garden and stretches out on an old wooden seat. “Once you’re into something…” he says, looking very puzzled. He stops. “I don’t think I’m easy to talk about. I’ve got a very irregular head. And I’m not anything that you think I am anyway.”
- From Mick Rock’s final interview with Syd in Rolling Stone, Dec 1971

It may be proposed that the context, or surrounding, of art is more potent, more meaningful, more demanding of an artist´s attention, than the art itself. Put differently, it´s not what the artist touches that counts most. It´s what he doesn´t touch.

“The unicorns were the most recognisable magic the fairies possessed, and they sent them to those worlds where belief in the magic was in danger of failing altogether. After all there has to be some belief in magic – however small – for any world to survive”.

Terry Brooks, The Black Unicorn

Portrait of Salvador Dalí for LIFE magazine by Philippe Halsman in a »making of« version: this version has a wider crop than the published version, showing the assistant holding the chair, the prop that lifts the stool, and the piano wires used to hold the picture and the easel in place (in fact the frame on the easel is still empty). Wet spots from some of the many previous attempts (28 in total … that’s 84 thrown cats) can also be seen on the floor.

Am 5. September 1977 wurde Hanns-Martin Schleyer in Köln entführt. Drei Sicherheitsbeamte sowie der Fahrer wurden erschossen. Das Foto zeigt drei Polizeibeamte, die am Tatort die Leiche eines der Opfer untersuchen. Im Hintergrund steht Schleyers Mercedes.

RAF-Geisel Hanns Martin Schleyer am 13.10.1977

Hanns-Martin Schleyer als Corpsstudent in Heidelberg.