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Finally. About time women can start wearing fox-fur collar and cuff outfits without being ostracized... no, wait. This is from July 1969.

Never mind.


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...The twinkle of mischief in a bright eye?
The gleam of a fresh cheerful smile?
The delicate arch of a slender neck?
The low throaty chuckle of genuine good nature?

Yes, all these and much more.


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A charming scene from a 1901 issue of L'ASSIETTE AU BEURRES. I like the stolid policemen directing traffic.


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Children in Honolulu following Pearl Harbor. The use of poison gas was widely feared in WW II, but it doesn't seem to have been carried out. It was one of the worst horrors of the first World War. Hawaiian residents were issued gas masks and were supposed to keep them handy at all times.


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He had nothing to do with killing Rasputin and he did not hide Anastasia in his attic. His contribution to the world was refined and pleasant.


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From 1962, a lovely pin-up from the great Gil Elvgren.


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