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Marina Amaral

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18 Dec

Colorized by me: South end of Bowery, Coney Island, New York, 1903.

The Bowery was a raucous area where police frequently looked the other way as drinking, gambling, music and shows took place well into the night.

Coney Island's appeal was that anyone could find the type of experience they desired. For those looking for more variety and fun, and less refinement, the Bowery stood head and shoulders above Brighton Beach and Manhattan Beach.

Original by Detroit Publishing co.

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Marina Amaral

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17 Dec

Georgia O’Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz met in 1916. Her presence revitalized Stieglitz’s photography, which he had neglected in favor of the journal Camera Work and his gallery.

She first posed for him in the spring of 1917.

Over the next 20 years, he made over 300 portraits of her—nude and clothed, performing mundane tasks and posing dramatically in front of her paintings, showing her entire body as well as isolated views of her neck, hands, breasts, and feet.

O’Keeffe wrote that Stieglitz’s “idea of a portrait was not just one picture”; instead, it was a composite of pictures addressing an idea and personality too large to fit in a single photograph.

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Marina Amaral

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15 Dec

I just came across this love letter between two 12th-century nuns. It's hauntingly beautiful.

"To C, sweeter than honey, B sends all the love there is to her love. You who are unique and special, why do you make delay so long, so far away?"
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"Why do you want your only one to die, who as you know, loves you with soul and body, who sighs for you at every hour, at every moment, like a hungry little bird.

Since I’ve had to be without your sweetest presence, I have not wished to hear or see any other human being...

... but as the turtle-dove, having lost its mate, perches forever on its little dried up branch, so I lament endlessly till I shall enjoy your trust again. I look about and do not find my lover — she does not comfort me even with a single word.

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Marina Amaral

@marinamaral2

12 Dec

Colorized by me: 🇫🇷 French tennis player Suzanne Lenglen playing against Mme Golding at the 1922 French Championships at the Croix-Catalan in Paris.

Lenglen owns an impressive record of losing only seven matches in the entirety of her tennis career.

She was ranked as the inaugural world No. 1 from 1921 to 1926, winning 8 Grand Slam titles in singles and 21 in total. She also had 4 separate World Championship titles in singles and 10 in total.

Lenglen won six Wimbledon singles titles, including five in a row from 1919 to 1923, and was the champion in singles, doubles, and mixed doubles at the first two open French Championships in 1925 and 1926.

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Marina Amaral

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9 Dec

Born in 1874 in London, Mary Ann was a conventionally attractive and charming young woman and led an ordinary city life. Her empathetic and compassionate nature led her to work as a nurse. Over the years, she came to be recognized as the world’s ‘Ugliest Woman’.

Bevan started exhibiting the symptoms of acromegaly soon after she was married, around the age of 32. After the death of her husband in 1914, she no longer had the income to support herself and her four children.

She applied to a number of prospective employers, but was turned away time and again owing to her physical abnormalities. Labelled as a “freak”, she ran out of options for daily jobs and was struggling to make her ends meet.

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Marina Amaral

@marinamaral2

6 Dec

Colorized by me: Coney Island, The Bowery. 1903.

The Bowery was a raucous area where police frequently looked the other way as drinking, gambling, music and shows took place well into the night.

The Bowery was relatively small but was packed with entertainment. On both sides of Bowery Lane, and along side-alleys, one and two-story wooden buildings were erected. They housed mostly saloons, concert halls, and a few first class restaurants.

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