Mary Evans Picture Libraryさんのイラストまとめ

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

Born #otd 1809, in Somersby, Lincolnshire, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during much of Queen Victoria's reign. Caricature by an unnamed artist in 'The Hornet' 6 November 1872 @Mary_Evans