The Dirty Thirties

2009

December
November
October
August 163
July 152
June 87
May 122
April 192
March
February
January
“Three female blackshirts, members of the British...
Sep 20th
Condom ad. For those who wanted to get safely dirty in the...
Sep 19th
Otto Dix: ‘The Triumph Of Death’ (1934)
Sep 19th
Haile Selassie plots Rastafari world domination.
Sep 17th
Blaupunkt
Sep 15th
Lee Miller, by Man Ray.
Sep 15th
John Dillinger
Sep 14th
Bonnie Parker
Sep 14th
Lester Gillis aka “Baby Face Nelson”
Sep 14th
billyjane:a_k: Karl Struss ~ dance study 1930
Sep 14th
Joan Crawford - Halloween 1933 ...
Sep 14th
oldhollywood: Sylvia Sidney in City Streets (1931, dir....
Sep 14th
“Thanks to the Party, Thanks to Dear Stalin for a...
Sep 12th
How to Apply 1930s Makeup “Tweeze eyebrows very...
Sep 12th
I Want Work.
Sep 12th
Soviet Stamp, 1931 - Polar bear watching the transfer of...
Sep 12th
Rene Zuber, 1930. via
Sep 12th
Smitty the Flying Office Boy, a 1930 comic compilation...
Sep 12th
Marie-Berthe [Aurenche], Max Ernst, Lee Miller, and Man Ray...
Sep 12th
exclamationmark: Junkers (1930)
Sep 12th
Carole Lombard demonstrating the rhumba. via
Sep 12th
Paul Muni ‘Scarface: The Shame Of The Nation’ (1932) ...
Sep 12th
Dietrich. Blonde Venus (1932)
Sep 12th
Madam Satan, 1930.
Sep 12th
billyjane:a_k: Brassaï, c 1931
Sep 12th
Listen Listen
Django Reinhardt — Minor Swing
Sep 12th
Alexey Grigoryevich Stakhanov A miner in the Soviet Union,...
Sep 11th
Gracie Fields (1898-1979) “Born over a fish and chip...
Sep 11th
Merle Oberon via
Sep 11th
April 3, 1939. Washington, D.C. “Col. Roscoe Turner,...
Sep 11th

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Sep 11th
Little Ceasar (1931)
Sep 11th
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Sep 9th
Jozsef Pecsi, 1932.
Sep 9th
butterflyeffects: Man Ray, Tears, 1930. (via)
Sep 8th
Listen Listen
Ella Fitzgerald — A-Tisket, A-Tasket ..with Chick Webb & his Orchestra, 1938.
Sep 8th
A dancer of the Monte Carlo Ballet, 1937 (via)
Sep 8th
billyjane: daily dose of Man Ray,man solarized...
Sep 8th
It Happened One Night, 1934 mabelmoments: “Perhaps ...
Sep 8th
oldhollywood: Olivia de Havilland at 19 in one of her...
Sep 7th
25 Lessons in Hypnotism, 1935 (via)
Sep 6th
Screenshot of the cartoon: Felix the Cat in April Maze,...
Sep 6th

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Sep 6th
exclamationmark: John Gutmann Photography: Love-Hate...
Sep 6th
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Sep 6th
Ecstasy, 1933. -via thesweetestpsychopath:drakecaperton
Sep 6th
Gail Patrick, 1937
Sep 6th
Vogue 1936 - Illustrated by Braquin
Sep 6th

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Sep 5th
thesweetestpsychopath: One of the only known photos of...
Sep 5th
Anna May Wong by Carl Van Vechten -via...
Sep 5th
Couple in Racoon Coats.  Harlem, 1932. (via)
Sep 5th
Sep 5th
Isa Miranda in ‘Hotel Imperial’, 1939. (via)
Sep 5th
Listen Listen
Robert Johnson - Terraplane Blues (3:04 - November 23, 1936) thesweetestpsychopath: When...
Sep 5th
Weird Tales March, 1938 thesweetestpsychopath:trixietreats:...
Sep 4th
moorewr:xplanes:  the LZ-129 Hindenburg, circa 1936
Sep 4th
Nude with Lamp Fixture 1934 by Man Ray ...
Sep 4th
oldhollywood: Josef Von Sternberg & Marlene Dietrich...
Sep 3rd
Listen Listen
Marlene Dietrich - Ich bin von Kopf bis Fuß auf Liebe eingestellt / Falling in Love Again (Can’t...
Sep 3rd
Startling Detective Adventures, 1932. (via)
Sep 3rd
Listen Listen
Harry Richman & Orchestra — Puttin’ On The Ritz  (1930)
Sep 3rd
Breezy Stories, 1935.  Artwork by Enoch Bolles. via
Sep 2nd
Colleen, 1936 via
Sep 2nd
Buster Keaton in Le Roi des Champs-Elysees, 1934. via
Sep 2nd
Jean Harlow via
Sep 2nd
Ballet at St Aidans [School?] Maroubra Bal, Australia,...
Sep 2nd
Patricia Ellis, 1936. via
Sep 2nd
Eye-Shade For Watching Planes Modern Mechanix, 1931. via
Sep 2nd

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Sep 2nd
Claudette Colbert as Cleopatra, 1934. (via)
Sep 2nd
Listen Listen
Boris Karloff & friends: “ha-ha-ha” (The Bride Of Frankenstein) mogadonia: via:...
Sep 2nd
Fay Wray (via)
Sep 2nd
Boris Karloff, 1931 (via)
Sep 2nd
Count Basie and his Orchestra in concert, 1939.
Sep 2nd
Listen Listen
Count Basie — One O’Clock Jump  (1937)
Sep 2nd
Carole Lombard via
Sep 2nd
Condemned To Live, 1935 via
Sep 1st
exclamationmark: Frances Farmer
Sep 1st
The Podunk Limited, 1933. via
Sep 1st
The Ink Spots
Sep 1st
Listen Listen
The Ink Spots — If I Didn’t Care  (1939) This was the Ink Spots’ first million...
Sep 1st
1931 La Argentina by Madame D’Ora Thanks for the note,...
Aug 31st