I’ve been poking around in the Library of Congress online photographic collection (and boy is it a bitch to figure out how to find anything) and I stumbled across a bunch of photographs of hotties that are pretty amazing. Not a one of them would look out of place in a Hollywood movie of today. Okay, enough of my blathering, you folks want links don’t you? Well, here they are.
The first girl in your OP is Evelyn Nesbit, who had a juicy history. She was a sexpot at sixteen, married to a sexual sadist in her early twenties, and became famous first as a “Gibson Girl,” then as the girlfriend of John Barymore, and finally as the wife of a famous architect, the woman for whom her jealous husband murdered another ex boyfriend. Quite a story! Wikipedia has a few other pix of her, but I have seen the one you posted elsewhere with her story.
I thought porn had to adhere to the two clicks rule?
It’s sexy, but a couple don’t seem period. Ther are two pictures that seem modern-- in black and white digital. Or maybe these are just ruminations from the past
I’d say Evelyn Nesbit would fit right in with just a change of dress. Put her in blue jeans with a blouse tied together over a bare midriff and she’d stop traffic anywhere.
I have a book of photographs of the Mississippi steamboat business in the late 1800s. One of them is a candid snapshot of a couple enjoying an excursion. The girl is a major-league cutie, the guy is a fairly good-looking fellow, and they look like they’re having the time of their lives. Utterly charming.
Woah! I just checked out your link, and saw that L. M. Montgomery used a photo of her as a model for Anne of Green Gables (one of my favorite book series and movies). Evelyn and Anne couldn’t be more different, but that’s a very fun little factoid.
Er… is this the time to mention that I was looking at a collection of photographs related to the SS Eastland disaster, and was thinking that this woman needed someone to comfort her?
Of course, with the time machine there are a number of hotties who could be SAVED without ever causing the great-grandparent problems mentioned up thread.
(Really, it’s all about doing good deeds. Honest.)
Who was it who said everybody used to be homely? He should step this way.
According to family legend, my paternal grandmother and her sisters were the belles of Salt Lake City, ca. 1908. Another story has my great grandmother taking the girls down to Santa Monica around that time, following a quarrel with my ggf.
They stopped at Salt Lake to inquire the way
Where Brigham declared that sweet Betsy should stay
But Betsy got frightened and ran like a deer
While Brigham stood pawing the ground like a steer!
