panorama cover 16 feb 1939,Willy Schermele by janwillemsen on Flickr.
Cover of Panorama magazine circa February 1939
Schlagwort: 1939
These men use Shell.1939.
Lithograph in colours.
76 x 113 cm.Art by Richard Guyatt.(1914-2007).
The German racing driver Rudolf Caracciola in his Mercedes-Benz racing car on the track between Dessau and Bitterfeld before the start of a record attempt, 08.02.1939.
Billie Holiday at record producer Harry Lim’s jam session, photographed by Life photographer Charles Peterson, c. 1939
Other musicians in attendance include Duke Ellington, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Johnny Hodgers, J.C. Higginbotham, Hot Lips Page and Chu Berry among others.
Luxury Liner Row, New York, October 1939.
Seen here (L-R) are the SS Normandie, now a war refugee, the RMS Queen Mary, in troopship colors, and WWI veteran RMS Aquitania, also ready for action. The following Spring, QM’s sister ship Queen Elizabeth joined in, and for two weeks, the three largest liners in the world were moored side by side.
(Life Magazine Archive)
Casually bringing back an old favorite.
Here’s 2 other views(the other French line ship is the Ile De France)
What I always liked about these pictures is the Aquitania was only marginally larger than the Olympic, Titanic, and Britannic in length and beam(although the Titanic, Britannic and the Olympic post 1913, were both larger in gross tonnage), so it gives a good impression on what either 3 of them would look like next to the Queen or Normandie.
Reblogging for the extra pics.
Savile Row, 1939
This article from England’s defunct Picture Post magazine depicts the process of ordering and making a suit at Williams, Sullivan, & Co., a firm that occupied 12 Savile Row at the time of publication in 1939. Today the building houses Chittleborough and Morgan, formerly of Tommy Nutters’ shop, and the Scabal flagship store. (Check out a recent Chittleborough and Morgan suit in navy seersucker at Permanent Style.) Picture Post was a photo-heavy publication not unlike LIFE, and this piece gave the reader a glimpse into the clubby atmosphere of a tailor’s shop (for the customers, at least; the article mentions sewing girls making £3 a week—around £165 today).
“Even if you cannot tell an Englishman abroad by anything else, you can tell him by his suit. The suit may be old, it may have done a dozen years’ service, but its cut and the way it hangs on his body identify the owner as an Englishman.”
-Pete
What a fantastic post, thanks!