July 27, 2024
Tag: Helene Held
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Three Tragic Lives
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Three women of extraordinary beauty, talent, and wealth whose lives could be the outline for an anthology of tragic short stories are portrayed in this remembrance. Two were dead before age 50, the other shunned by the world. Helene Held, Nance O’Neil, and Gaynor Rowlands are forgotten today but postcard collectors know their faces and…
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January 26, 2022 5 Comments
Lots of little boys want to grow up to be cowboys. Some do, but other interests often influence later career choices. I never met a boy who wanted to be a cowboy photographer, but Joe Rosettis was a grand success at just that. Most of his real photos are close to 100 years old, and today they are as exciting as they were when Joe snapped them.