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The cool kids and their records, circa 1950s.

fylatinamericanhistory:

The entire April 1913 issue of National Geographic magazine was devoted to Machu Picchu and the National Geographic Society-funded expedition of the Inca site which had taken place during the previous year. American academic Hiram Bingham, III claimed to have “discovered” the centuries-old site on this date in 1911. The original article is up at the magazine’s website.

magic-of-cinema:

Smultronstället 1955 / Ingmar Bergman

life:

On the birthday of Frederick Law Olmsted — the father of American landscape architecture — we celebrate Olmsted’s and his partner Calvert Vaux’s best-loved creation: Central Park.

Here, photos of Central Park from the summer of ‘61.

(Leonard McCombe—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)

the-overlook-hotel:

Continuity Polaroid of actor Danny Lloyd on the Guest Room Hallway set of The Shining.

(photo courtesy Filippo Ulivieri, who has written an Italian biography of Kubrick’s longtime personal assistant Emilio D’Alessandro)

karlstraube:

Willie Mays, “The Catch.”  Game 1, 1954 World Series.  New York Giants vs. Cleveland Indians at Polo Grounds. 

life:

Seven decades ago, Jackie Robinson stepped onto Brooklyn’s Ebbets Field and changed not only the face of professional baseball in America: in ways subtle and profound, he changed the nation itself.

Here, a selection of both classic and, in some cases, rare pictures that paint a portrait of a man whose dignity, competitive fire and grace under pressure set him indelibly and inevitably apart from his peers and his rivals.

(Allan Grant—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)