Shoutout to Phyllis. ✊🏻 (1944)

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My Grandpa in the early 50s the year his high school hockey team won the Minnesota state tournament

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Hoover Dam construction in 1935

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Detroit Beatnik Cool c. 1959 - The Minor Key with Win Wells at the mic. Jazz, poetry, coffee and BYO weed. Dress code black turtleneck, dark glasses + frequent finger snapping and head nodding. Patrons included many underage young ladies and On the Road wanna be's. HOWL required reading.

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Tina Turner in 1984, the year her hit album ‘Private Dancer’ was released.

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My dad balancing me in '79

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Tina Turner and Janis Joplin performing at Madison Square Garden, 1969

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Tina. 1985. Mad Max. Legend

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Princess Fawzia bint Fuad of Egypt as the Queen of Iran in 1942.

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Dorothea Lange in 1936, pictured atop a Ford Model C in California. While best known for her humanizing images of the Great Depression, Lange also recorded the forced evacuation of Japanese Americans from the West Coast while on assignment for the War Relocation Authority. Deeming them too critical,

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A photo of a Japanese family in 1942

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