portraits
California, 1936
Daughter of Migrant Tennessee Coal Miner Living in American River Camp near Sacramento, California. Photo by Dorothea Lange, 1936.
Zelda
Zelda Fitzgerald, 1924, age 23. Zelda died on this day in 1948. (via scribnerbooks)
California, 1940
Photo by Dorothea Lange. 4.11.1940.
Edison, Kern County, California. Young migratory mother, originally from Texas. On the day before the photograph was made she and her husband traveled 35 miles each way to pick peas. They worked 5 hours each and together earned $2.25. They have two young children… Live in auto camp.
Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday at the Downbeat Club in New York, between November 1946 and March 1947. Photo by William Gottlieb. (via)
Babe Ruth, 1919
Via Shorpy
Bricklayer’s Mate
August Sander, Bricklayer’s Mate (Germany, 1928). (via)