Japanese cosmetics ad, 1930s on Flickr.
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“Let’s use it!!” Cream to protect your hands or face from harsh detergents and from becoming rough. Get your youth back. Works for everything, why don’t you put it on your skin. (Thanks to Paula Wirth for translating!)
Scanned from Taschen’s “Japanese Beauties”.
Geiko Fukusuke 1930s by Blue Ruin1 on Flickr.
Via Flickr:
Geiko (Geisha) Fukusuke, wearing a rinzu (figured silk) kimono with a delicate honmon pattern of interlocking swastikas (a Buddhist motif), interspersed with flowers and arabesques.
Earl Christy, The New Movie Magazine, 1930s
Found in The Golden Age of Illustration Project thread.
Parisians walk on the street past lottery and vermouth advertisements in 1935.
Photograph by Maynard Owen Williams, National GeographicUsed to have that Nicolas poster in my college dorm.
Lightbulb ad, 1930s on Flickr.
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Are you using Japanese domestically produced lightbulbs in your home? (Thanks to Paula Wirth for translating!)
Scanned from Taschen’s “Japanese Beauties”.
Max Beckmann (German, 1884-1950), Quappi in a Pink Jumper, 1932-34. Oil on canvas, 105 x 73 cm. Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid.
Renee Heribel , mostly forgotten 1920s/early 1930s actress
(Source: maudelynn.tumblr.com )