Washington, D.C. July 26, 1919. Bathing beach parade at Tidal Basin.
June 17, 1922. Washington, D.C. Group winners of Tidal Basin Beauty Contest.
(via interwar)
”
[Inside the coats in the window, all the pockets are empty. She is dreaming into them. How strange it would be to have a coat with empty pockets.] You could spend a whole lifetime and put nothing in them, ever, hands without obstruction, obligation, memory.
Aimee Bender, from “Winter” (via the-final-sentence)
”
If there was nothing to regret,
If there was nothing to regret,
there was nothing to desire.
Vera Pavlova, from “[If there is something to desire]”, trans. Steven Seymour (via the-final-sentence)
(via the-final-sentence)
Omaha Beach, June 1944
92nd “Buffalo” Division photographed during the liberation of Genoa, Italy in April 1945.
