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Photographed by Robert Capa; novelist Ernest Hemingway and his son
Gregory relax during a hunting trip in Sun Valley, Idaho, USA, in 1941.

Problems, Problems...

Oh dear, please forgive me for once again allowing my updates to fall by the wayside... I apologize most sincerely! I hope you can appreciate that sometimes, the more mundane activities of everyday life must take precedence.

I hope you've all been keeping well!
Louie Gee

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Displaying their athletic prowess for onlookers, two men throw dancer

Peggy Wilson between them on a beach in California, USA, c. 1934.

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Employees stand inside a newly-opened Peoples Drug

Store in Washington D.C, USA, in the early 1920s.

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Members of Iowa Wesleyan College's first Women's Basketball Team (1902-1903),

pose for a group portrait in their campus gym in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, USA in 1902.

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Codenamed 'Castle Bravo', a 15-megaton hydrogen bomb is test detonated by

the U.S. military at Bikini Atoll, in the Marshall Islands, 1st March 1954.

Hi everyone!

I am finally (and after many false re-starts) back!! I cannot tell you how much I've missed being able to post here, so I'm thrilled to be able to get back to it!

I've given up on the idea of posting the photos under the dates I had originally planned to post them on (far too time consuming to change them all), so I'll just begin posting them from the present date. Sound Ok?

So glad to be back!! And many, many thanks for all your lovely comments!
Louie Gee

Hi everyone!

Sorry i've had to take another really long break - just when I thought I would finally have the time to catch up with posting!

Still, I am back now! And I will try to catch up with the photos. I've had so many really lovely comments from people, that I just want to say 'thank you!' for.

All the best,
Louie Gee

Hi everyone!

Due to unforeseen circumstances I've had to take an unscheduled break from posting - but now I'm back! I'll be posting the photos I had intended to post (under the dates I had originally intended to post them) and I hope to catch up soon.

Thanks for all your lovely comments about the photographs!
I'll try to reply to you all, I promise,

All the best!
Louie Gee

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Acclaimed British actor Terence Stamp poses for photographer

Terence Donovan at his studio in London, UK, in 1967.

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Passengers crowd the platform at Frankton Junction railway

station near Hamilton, in Waikato, New Zealand, in the 1930s.

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Photographed by Marion Post Wolcott; a young family sit outside their house on

Bayou Bourbeau plantation near Natchitoches, Louisiana, USA, August 1940.

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Promoting the Republican Party radio stations set up for his U.S. Presidential

bid, Calvin Coolidge poses with his car radio in Washington D.C, USA, in 1924.

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British racing driver Stirling Moss lines up 4th on the starting grid for the Formula

One Grand Prix at the Nürburgring in Nürburg, Germany, 5th August 1956.

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Photographed by Ian Berry; tourists and residents spend a Sunday afternoon on
the hill overlooking the harbour in Whitby, North Yorkshire, UK, Summer 1974.

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Amateur inventor Yasutaro Mitsui poses with

his 'Steel Humanoid' in Tokyo, Japan, in 1932.

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Dressed in their best, five boys pose for a portrait during Chinese New

Year celebrations in Chinatown, New York, USA, 30th January 1911.

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Director Vincente Minnelli talks to actress Judy Garland on the set of 'Meet

Me in St. Louis' at the MGM Studios in Culver City, California, USA, in 1944.

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Enjoying the fine Spring weather, local residents sit on

the beach at Felixstowe, Suffolk, UK, in the 1890s.

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On a day-off from their jobs as coal miners, members of the Kibblesworth

Colliery Band pose together in County Durham, UK, in the early 1900s.

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Photographed by Josef Koudelka; local residents let off rockets

as part of a town festival in Guadix, Andalucía, Spain, in 1971.

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American author and abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe sits with her

family in front of their home in Mandarin, Florida, USA, in the 1870s.

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Photographed by Eve Arnold; actors Marilyn Monroe & Montgomery Clift

rest briefly between takes of filming 'The Misfits' in Nevada, USA, in 1961.

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Calling for a Communist revolution, anti-Tsarist protesters gather

outside the Winter Palace in Petrograd, Russia, February 1917.

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Photographed by Ben Mancuso; Elvis Presley presses his nose against a mirror

in the lobby of the Warwick Hotel in Manhattan, New York, USA, in 1957.

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Going to extreme lenghts to watch a baseball game, dedicated sports fans climb

a telegraph pole at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, October 1909.

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Photographed by Charles C. Zoller; children pose in their costumes as part of the

Independence Day celebrations in Rochester, New York, USA, 4th July 1929.

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Photographed by E.O. Hoppé; a sudden downpour leaves
the streets unusually quiet in London, UK, in the 1930s.

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Photographed by Margaret Bourke-White; Indian independence movement leader

Mohandas K. Gandhi reads by his spinning wheel at his home in India, in 1946.

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Photographed by Arthur Leipzig; a group of boys play on a street

covered with their chalk games in New York, USA, Summer 1950.

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As part of a campaign to promote his latest film, seven of director Mack Sennett's

famous 'bathing beauties' pose for photographs in Washington D.C, USA, in 1919.

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Awaiting the next connection to New Jersey, passengers sit in the waiting room

of the Erie Railroad Ferry Terminal on Chambers Street in New York, USA, c. 1940.

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Photographed by Charles W. Cushman; intrigued children throng the street after

a fire alarm sounds in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, 17th September 1938.

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Posing for Cecil Beaton; Mrs John Wyndham, Lady Cranborne & Lady Roderic

Pratt mimic John Singer Sargent's 1899 painting 'The Wyndham Sisters' in 1950.

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Actors Sean Connery & Ursula Andress mess around during a break in filming

'Dr. No' at Laughing Waters Beach in Ocho Rios, Saint Ann, Jamaica, in 1962.

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Dressed as Neptune, Hudson Maxim poses with 'Miss America' Margaret Gorman

at a beauty pageant in Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA, 7th September 1922.

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A young boy works at a fruit and vegetable stall on a

street in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, October 1909.

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American artist Andy Warhol poses with actress and socialite Edie Sedgwick and

her friend Chuck Wein, on a street in Manhattan, New York, USA, February 1966.

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Preparing for a state function, U.S. President Richard Nixon works on his speech

in the Lincoln Sitting Room of the White House in Washington D.C, USA, in 1971.

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Wearing the favoured Edwardian style of dress, two ' Teddy Boys'

pose for a photographer on a street in Manchester, UK, in 1955.

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Escorting an Allied convoy, a U.S. Navy blimp hovers watchfully overhead on

the lookout for signs of enemy submarines in the North Atlantic, in 1943.

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Standing just left of centre, U.S. President Woodrow Wilson addresses the crowd

outside the State Department in Washington D.C, USA, Sunday 14th June 1914.

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A view of Stepcote Hill and the Old Teignmouth Inn taken

from Edmund Street in Exeter, Devon, UK, in the 1930s.

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Assembled guests attend the ceremony for the laying of the foundation

stone of Saint Fin Barre's Cathedral in Cork, Ireland, 12th January 1865.

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Taking publicity photos for recruitment material, a U.S.A.F. photographer goes

about her duties at Eglin Air Force Base in Valparaiso, Florida, USA, in the 1950s.

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Fashionable socialite Paula Gellibrand, the Cuban Marquise de Casa

Maury poses for photographer Cecil Beaton in London, UK, in 1928.

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Legendary Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova directs her young pupils during

a ballet lesson at her home, Ivy House, in Hampstead, London, UK, in 1912.

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Outraged at the Kent State shootings, LSU students stage a 'Peace Rally' against

the Vietnam War on their campus in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA, in 1970.

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Members of rock band 'Led Zeppelin'; Robert Plant, John Paul Jones, John Bonham

& Jimmy Page, pose for Herb Greene in San Francisco, California, USA, in 1969.

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Thousands of onlookers crowd the street for the film premiere of 'Hell's Angels'

at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood, California, USA, 27th May 1930.

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Two local fishermen proudly display their catch on the banks of Loch

Awe near Kilchrenan in Argyll, Scotland, UK, in the early 1900s.

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Photographed by Charles W. Cushman; a woman poses for a portrait artist

in Jackson Square in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, 9th January 1959.

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Photographed by Raymond Depardon; a man carries a male magazine through

the streets near the Rockefeller Center in Manhattan, New York, USA, in 1981.

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Members of the local Surfing Club pose with their Long Boards

on the beach at Santa Cruz in California, USA, June 1941.

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Celebrating aviator Charles A. Lindbergh's solo transatlantic flight, 3.5 million

people turn out for a parade in his honour in New York, USA, 13th June 1927.

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During what would become her last visit to the country, the British monarch

Queen Victoria sits outside the Palais Edinburg in Coburg, Germany, in 1894.

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Scout Movement founder Robert Baden-Powell and his wife, arrive for their son's

christening at St Peter's Church in Parkstone, Dorset, UK, 14th February 1914.

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Photographed by Christopher Rose; a Vietnamese girl guides her blind

father through an American checkpoint in Phan Thiet, Vietnam, in 1968.

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Preparation for a possible Nazi invasion, barbed wire entanglements

protect Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament in London, UK, in 1940.

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Competing in the Intercollegiate Rowing Association Regatta, the Syracuse

University team eat dinner in Poughkeepsie, New York, USA, 19th June 1908.

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Alaska Road Commission workers celebrate the American 'Independence

Day' holiday on the 4th July in Livengood, Alaska, USA, in the late 1930s.

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Designed by George H. Wyman; the grand interior court dominates the Bradbury

Building at 304 South Broadway in Los Angeles, California, USA, in the 1960s.

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Photographed by Richard Miller; actress Lauren Bacall gives an interview

at the film premiere of 'The Vikings' in New York, USA, 11th June 1958.

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(L to R) Horace Locke and Les, Bert & Herbert Drabble perform as

'The Peerless Dance Band' in Maltby, Yorkshire, UK, in the 1920s.

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Members of the local Weirick family tether their boat on the

west shore of Lake Maxinkuckee, Indiana, USA, in the 1940s.

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Photographed by Mark Shaw; French fashion designer Coco Chanel sits at her

desk in her private apartment at 31 Rue Cambon in Paris, France, in 1957.

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A Cuban street vendor sells fruit from his roadside stall

in 'Little Havana' in Miami, Florida, USA, in the 1970s.

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Photographed by Moffett; famous husband-and-wife ballroom dancing team

Vernon & Irene Castle pose for a studio portrait in New York, USA, in 1915.

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Gen. Horace Porter addresses the cadets during a graduation ceremony at the

United States Military Academy at West Point in New York, USA, in 1906.

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Photographed by John Vachon; local boys sit behind their desks

at their school in San Augustine County, Texas, USA, April 1943.

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Photographed by Sid Avery; Debbie Reynolds & Fred Astaire relax during a break

in filming 'The Pleasure of His Company' in San Francisco, California, USA, in 1960.

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Junior members of the Women's Surf Lifesaving Team pose on the Ocean

Beach at Mount Maunganui in Tauranga, New Zealand, in the 1930s.

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Dressed for his role as mascot of the Royal Flying Corps, 'Bully'

sits in his master's car in London, UK, 20th October 1917.

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Police officers admire a newly captured shipment of illegal alcohol

during a Prohibition raid in Detroit, Michigan, USA, c. 1928.

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Photographed by Frank Johnston; celebrated Aboriginal artist Albert

Namatjira paints the outback landscape in Australia, in the 1950s.

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Photographed by Kurt Hutton; a group of young women enjoy themselves

on a roller-coaster at a fair in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, UK, Summer 1938.

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Photographed by Karen L. Hermiston; the Cunard White Star liner Mauretania II

is towed by tugs out of its berth in Liverpool, Lancashire, UK, 5th February 1946.

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Sixth from left, early female photographer and photojournalist Frances Benjamin

Johnston sells tintype portraits at a country fair in Virginia, USA, May 1903.

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Photographed by John C.H. Grabill; prospectors Spriggs, Lamb & Dillon

pan for gold in a stream in Rockerville, Dakota Territory, USA, in 1889.

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Delegates at a Real Estate Brokers' Convention pose in front of St. Ann's

Inn at 6th and Broadway in Santa Ana, California, USA, in the 1920s.

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During her tour of the country, First Lady of the United States Jackie Kennedy,

and her sister Lee Radziwill, visit Lake Pichola, Udaipur, India, 17th March 1962.

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Photographed by her father Jean-Baptiste Tournassoud; daughter Juliette poses

in the garden of the family home at 20 Rue DuGuesclin in Lyon, France, c. 1914.

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Photographed by Arthur Rothstein; a photomural promoting the sale of defense

bonds dominates the Grand Central Station concourse in New York, USA, in 1941.

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Photographed by Phil Jordan; George Rae jumps from the 30-metre 'Skarland Jump'

on Ski Hill at the University of Alaska campus in Fairbanks, Alaska, USA, in 1955.

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Photographed by Arnold Genthe; French actress Sarah Bernhardt tours the city

ruins after the devastating earthquake in San Francisco, California, USA, in 1906.

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Using electric adding machines, workers calculate bonuses for servicemen after

World War I, at the Veterans Bureau in Washington D.C, USA, in the early 1920s.

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Photographed by Jimmy Sime; a formally uniformed Eton schoolboy is watched by

local boys at the Eton v Harrow cricket match at Lord's in London, UK, in 1937.

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Wearing the latest in fashion, a woman pushing a baby stroller is photographed by

Friedrich Seidenstücker as she walks her dog in West Berlin, Germany, in 1950.

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Known as the 'Titanic Orphans', survivors Michel and Edmond Navratil at the

home of fellow passenger Margaret Hays in New York, USA, 22nd April 1912.

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Posing for John W. Draper; Dorothy Catherine Draper sits for the first American

daguerreotype photo of a woman at NYU in Manhattan, New York, USA, in 1839.

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Surrounded by the grand Victorian architecture of the country's oldest shopping

precinct, shoppers peruse the Royal Arcade in Melbourne, Australia, in the 1960s.

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Photographed by Marion Post Wolcott; labourers pick cotton on

a plantation near Clarksdale, Mississippi, USA, November 1940.

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Photographed by Drahomír Josef Růžička; skyscrapers dominate the skyline

over the East River docks in Lower Manhattan, New York, USA, in the 1930s.

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Three of Britain's finest stage actors; Ralph Richardson, Laurence Olivier & Alec

Guinness, pose for photographer Terence Donovan in England, UK, August 1980.

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Photographed by Charles C. Zoller; a Native American chief stands by the river

after a dedication ceremony at Ellison Park in Rochester, New York, USA, c. 1929.

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Surrounded by other children, a boy sells umbrellas on the street

in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York, USA, in 1908.

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Audrey Hepburn & Grace Kelly wait backstage at the Pantages Theatre for the

28th Academy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles, California, USA, 21st March 1956.

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Photographed by Ida Wyman; a man looks in a waste basket

on the pier at Coney Island, New York, USA, Summer 1945.

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Photographed by Frank Hurley; Sir Ernest Shackleton (at left) at 'Ocean Camp' on

the frozen Weddell Sea during the 'Endurance' expedition to Antarctica, in 1915.

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Celebrating the end of term and the start of a 10-week summer holiday, children

jump for joy as they leave their school in Miami, Florida, USA, 25th July 1968.