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Another modern, smoking
A self-conscious ‘modern’, not shy of the camera, and breaking several conventions. There is a series of shots of this woman, including the less provocative portrait below. We guess that the period is the 1920s rather than the 1930s, but … Continue reading
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Tagged bamboo, cigarette, consumption, dress, matshed, smoking, woman
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Metropole Hotel, Shanghai, 1930 上海新城饭店老照片
This photograph (BS-s11) of the Metropole Hotel under construction, is from the British Steel Archive Project, in Teesside, from whence came the girders for the building’s steel frame. The Metropole was designed by Palmer and Turner, and was built on … Continue reading
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Tagged advert, advertising, architecture, bamboo, billboard, BSAP, building, car, Chrysler, construction, crane, Goodyear, policeman, poster, rickshaw, Sikh, steel, tire, tram, tyre, vehicle
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