comicallyvintage:

Clark’s first day at radio station STFU.

comicallyvintage:

We are thinking Betty, we are thinking…

life:

Over the past three years, the staff at LIFE.com has pored over tens of thousands of extraordinary LIFE pictures — including some of the most celebrated photographs ever made.

Here, in an exercise that proved thrilling, humbling, satisfying, and exasperating all at once, each staffer selected five all-time favorites. Could we have expanded the list to 10, or 20, or 50 favorites? In a heartbeat. But for now, these will have to suffice. 

This photo created a bit of a debate in the LIFE.com offices when it came up recently. The majority of the office decided that this monkey looked like it was ‘up to no good.’ I, however, am convinced that it’s meditating on the great answered questions of the cosmos. In reality, of course, it’s probably just sitting in a warm cloud of its own pee.” — Michael Y. Park

life:

Talk about fun in the sun…

Four models show off bathing suit fashions on a Florida beach during the summer of 1950.

(see more exclusive photos here)

life:

When Albert Einstein died on April 18, 1955, his funeral and cremation were intensely private affairs, and only one photographer managed to capture the events of that extraordinary day: LIFE magazine’s Ralph Morse.

“I grabbed my cameras and drove the 90 miles to Princeton from my home in northern New Jersey. Einstein died at the Princeton Hospital, so I headed there first. But it was chaos — so many journalists, photographers, onlookers milling around outside what, back then, was a really small hospital. ‘Forget this,’ I said, and headed over to the building where Einstein’s office was.”

Above: Ralph Morse’s photograph of Einstein’s office in Princeton, taken hours after Einstein’s death and captured exactly as the Nobel Prize-winner left it.

(see more — LIFE at 75: LIFE Photographers Look Back)

comicallyvintage:

AYE!

billyjane:

Barnum & Bailey Showgirl, 1946 Barnum & Bailey Showgirl, 1946

from The Circus Book: 1870-1950 (Dominique Jando) thanks to How To Be A Retronaut

(Source: oldchum)