Sept. 30, 1928: At the Washington State Fair in Seattle, thrills for the Sunday drivers out there, though precisely what manner of thrills, we can only guess. Photo: The New York Times
Nov. 5, 1922: Lulu McGrath is greeted by a diver in “Wonders of the Sea,” filmed off the Bahamas during the early days of underwater motion pictures. A report the following spring on a project by J.E. Williamson, the film’s director, related the perils of camera work at the time: “Not so very long ago, an intrepid photographer, when attempting to get a picture from an airplane of the crater of Vesuvius, just saved himself from falling into the seething, angry lava. This same cameraman, who is employed by Fox News, had another narrow escape from death in an airplane a few weeks ago. But he is inoculated with the spirit of adventure and keeps going.” Photo: The New York Times
April 14, 1929: “The Future Generals and Captains of the Armies,” young Nandi men of East Africa after a series of rites of initiation, which are elaborated on a bit in unpublished text that was affixed to the back side of this print. Photo: The New York Times
Aug. 20, 1925: Claire Luce, a famous American dancer, donned the “famous feather costume of Mistinguett,” a famous French dancer, in Paris. Photo: The New York Times
June 28, 1926: “The Painter and the Inspiration: Dora Duby,” an American dancer, posing for Jean Gabriel Domergue in his studio in Paris — not the only instance of artists with with their muses in The Times’s Lively Morgue. Photo: The New York Times
May 11, 1929: An international Rhönrad contest in Würzberg, Germany. The Rhönrad, or German wheel, was invented in 1925 and apparently shown at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, but was not entered as an official sport. Photo: The New York Times
Feb. 11, 1926: From the Mid-Week pictorial, Sally O’Neil, who “Makes an Appealing Offering for Feb. 14,” was an actress from the silent era of the 1920s. Ms. O’Neil, née Virginia Louise Concepta Noonan, was born in Bayonne, N.J., and it was speculated that her strong accent had a role in her diminished fame after the advent of talkies. Photo: The New York Times
From Aug. 10, 1925, on the top of “the new Steinway building” on 57th St., the famed Vienna-born Albertina Rasch rehearsed with members of her ballet. The old Steinway Hall had been on 14th St. since 1866. Photo: The New York Times
From the Mid-Week Pictorial, Jennie MacGregor, scooped up by the Minneapolis police on April 10, 1924 for “dispensing wet goods” from her bootlegger’s life preserver. Its caption was headed with “A Perfect 36” — perhaps a reference to Tennessee, the 36th state to ratify the 19th Amendment, granting women’s suffrage? Photo: The New York Times
From the the Mid-Week Pictorial, a nabbing of smugglers, dated July 16, 1925. The caption: “Camouflage that failed: Schooner Nantisco at the Army Base, Brooklyn, after capture by revenue agents, who discovered 3,000 cases of liquor concealed under a load of lumber.” Photo: The New York Times
