I've started collecting old hardcover books with awesome illustrations on the dust-jackets. I thought I'd share just a few of my favourite covers (I got bored of scanning them pretty quickly)


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I hope it's O.K. to post these - I spent an hour screencapping this movie for the hair and outfits and I figured I may as well share them after spending all of that time capping it!


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Hello guys! First post here - but a good one I hope. Enjoy! :)

All pictures come from the wonderful book "The Circus, 1870-1950" by TASCHEN, which contains about 900 other color and B&W vintage illustrations and photographs! It's a must-have for any circus lover.

More info about this incredible book can be found here. You can leaf through the ( Read more... )

I hope this is OK. I've got a handful of amazing magazines from the 1930s and 1940s and I've been meaning to scan them for a long time, now. Anyway, I've scanned a couple of pages from one of them. There are lots of amazing advertisements that I want to scan and share but for now I've got some silly pictures that go with the stories in the magazine ( Read more... )

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JALOU gallery has an online archive in which you can browse every single edition of L'Officiel from 1921 to today. The earlier numbers are a veritable treasure trove in vintage advertising, fashion and articles.