Mary Evans Picture Libraryさんのイラストまとめ

Congratulations to the whole @RyderCupEurope team who won the @RyderCup in stunning style yesterday - possibly not like this though! Golfer Bob Morrison emulates William Tell...in Allers Familj-Journal 19 July 1922 @Mary_Evans #golf #sport #vintagesport

F. Scott Fitzgerald, chronicler of the Jazz Age, was born #OTD in 1896. The jazz age is one of our specialist subjects here at the archive - we even represent the 3500-strong Jazz Age Club image collection. Click here to browse a selection https://t.co/BfUU6CLriQ

#OTD 1930, Private Lives, written & starring Noel Coward w/ Gertrude Lawrence, opened at Phoenix Theatre.Sets designed by Coward's collaborator, Gladys Calthrop - caricature of Lawrence by Autori in Tatler that yr, photo of Coward & Calthrop from 1937. Programme from 1980 revival

Gorgeous #September front cover illustration of the Delineator featuring a woman in a typical 1920s cloche hat eating an apple from an apple tree. Illustration by Helen Dryden for The Delineator magazine, September 1928
Peter & Dawn Cope Collection @Mary_Evans #vintage #fashions

Congrats to @LewisPugh on his epic achievement #TheLongSwim - 330 miles from Lands End to Dover - to push for action on oceans. #OTD in 1905, 4 swimmers, incl. Annette Kellerman had to abandon attempts to swim in a race across Channel due to adverse weather conditions

Max Beerbohm, essayist, parodist & caricaturist, was born #OTD in 1872. Here he is caricatured by three others: Powys Evans in the Saturday Review, Tom Titt & Sickert in Vanity Fair.

#OTD in 1745, Peter the Great, Tsar of Russia, marries Grand Duchess Ekaterina Alekseyevna who would, after his death, and a coup d'état in 1762, become Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia until her death in 1796.

"Altogether such a cheeful king" The future William IV, reigned 1830-37 was born #OTD in 1765 at Buckingham House. Went variously by the nicknames 'Sailor Bill' (due to his naval career), or, rather more cruelly, 'Pineapple Head' due to his large cranium & tufts of hair!

#OTD in 1942 Disney's 5th animated film is released - Bambi. Artists working on the film were taken to LA Zoo & a menagerie of animals including rabbits, owls & skunks was kept at the studio so those working on the film could see animal movements 1st-hand, with gorgeous results

Kenyan archaeologist Louis Leakey was born #OTD in 1903. His excavations in the Oduvai Gorge in what is now Tanzania led to his human evolutionary theory of African genesis - that early man originated in Africa. #Archaeology