Adventures of the Blackgang

player Billy Bevan flanked by four bathing beauties, 1920s

Mack Sennett (January 17, 1880 – November 5, 1960) was a Canadian-born American director and was known as the innovator of slapstick comedy in film. During his lifetime he was known at times as the “King of Comedy”. His short “Wrestling Swordfish” was awarded the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film in 1932 and he earned an Academy Honorary Award in 1937.

Beginning in 1915, Sennett assembled a bevy of girls known as the Sennett Bathing Beauties to appear in provocative bathing costumes in comedy short subjects, in promotional material, and in promotional events like Venice Beach beauty contests.

maudelynn:

Onyx Silk Stockings Womens’ Nylons Hosiery, USA (1915)

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theticketthatexploded:

Wagner and Carrigan

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dtxmcclain:

American sailors in Apia, Samoa, May 3rd, 1911.

On back: “Edds Friends Navy” — “Pomeroy, Garrison, Rizzo, Eaton, Anniston”

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xplanes:

“Louis Paulhan in a race” (via)

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xplanes:

“1910 - 2nd Paris Air Show - New Biplane”
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firelily:

edwardianera:

Postcard view of woman pavement artist, Kingsway, London, WC2, UK, circa 1910

Love this

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coolchicksfromhistory:

Margery Ordway, regular, professional, licensed, union crank-turner at Camp Morosco, has gone into camera work as nonchalantly as other girls take up stenography, nursing, husband-stalking.

theticketthatexploded:

Washington, 1915 - ‘The Birth of the American Flag’