SHOWGIRLS & CHORINES . . . of the past

a choreographed Busby Berkeley showgirl fountain for the film 'Footlight Parade', 1933

      

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John Ruge,  1952

       

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Leonard Beaumont art,  1934       see full size

       

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a 1970s René Gruau illustration for 'The Lido' in Paris

       

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the Aquacade at the 1939 New York World's Fair       see full size

       

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a papercut Carnival woman

       

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1964 New York World's Fair evening entertainment

       

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1962  "West Pointettes"       see full size

       

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a René Gruau illustration for Moulin Rouge

       

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1946

       

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1946 Paris

       

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a Spumco animation background       see full size

       

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Joseph Kuhn-Régnier

       

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EC Crime Comics,  Jack Davis

       

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 a Rene Gruau 1983 poster for Moulin Rouge

       

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a 1950 Superior-Cadillac ambulance       see full size

       

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a poster by Russell Patterson

       

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1955 'GM Powerama' showgirls       see full size

       

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1955 GM Powerama showgirls

       

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Armand Vallée       see full size

       

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a 1946 nightclub stage

       

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René Gruau 1985 for 'the Lido'       see full size

       

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1971

       

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a Wallace Wood caricature of Jackie Gleason       see full size

       

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waterski stunt team       see full size

       

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René Gruau 1973

       

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a Ronald Searle sketch in Las Vegas       see full size

       

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a Don Weller psychedelic showgirl

       

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showgirls by Will

       

CONSTRUCTION SITES . . . by different artists

an Adolph Treidler illustration

      

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a 1920 Zeppelin during construction

        

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note the central catwalk for crew members to reach front and back while in flight

      

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the USS Macon during construction in 1933,  crashed 1935

      

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1973   "construction"        click image twice for full size

      

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old wallpaper by Antonio Petrucelli

      

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Arthur Lidov for Fortune Magazine,  1949

      

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a 1797 underwater worker

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the USSR pavilion at Expo '67 under construction

in Canada 

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Samuel L. Margolies,  1939       click twice

      

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a Jack Coggins illustration,  1956

     

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an 1870s photograph showing a woman being dressed in a hoop skirt

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a Lawren Harris painting,  1916       click twice

 

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Johann Ulrich Krause

      

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1966       click twice

      

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an Adolphe-Gustave Binet drawing of workers on the Eiffel Tower

      

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"Palacio's Columbian Globe",  a rejected proposal for the 1893 Chicago World's Fair ... a giant balloon anchored at 1,500 feet

     

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another rejected proposal for the 1893 Chicago World's Fair ...  a monument to Columbus

      

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 Louise Hayward art,  2000s       click twice
              

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Iakov Chernikhov constructivism

      

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a James R. Bingham illustration detail

      

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the Eiffel tower in 1800s Paris       click twice

     

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a Joseph Christian Leyendecker illustration,  1931

      

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a Victor Timofeev drawing

      

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civilization by A. Paul Weber       click twice

      

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an L. Leslie Brooke children's book illustration

      

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a UPA animation 'Mister Magoo' model sheet

     

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the Ford pavilion at the 1936 California Pacific International Exposition

      

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a Gregory Manchess illustration of a deep sea diver in outer space

      

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an M.C. Escher detail