Today I'm writing about how sex selection emerged as one of the leading promises of 20th-c. biologists/eugenicists as they got to grips with sexological genetics. 😬
Ad for The Science of Life (by Julian Huxley, G. P. Wells, & H. G. Wells) in Popular Science Monthly (March 1931).
The Narnain Rocks in the valley between Beinn Narnain, disappearing off to the right, and the Cobbler, disappearing into the cloud on the left, in the Arrochar Alps. In the 1930s, groups of factory workers, shipyard employees and the unemployed from Glasgow would, whenever they could get the time, make their way here by any means possible to challenge themselves by climbing the many surrounding rock faces.
Unable to afford any other accommodation, they would spend their nights sleeping in the shelter provided by these house-sized rocks before heading back to the city when their time was up.
For #ThrowbackThursday here's something of possible interest to #Portsmouth people too. This is a picture of workers digging up or laying road outside what was Landport Drapery Bazaar (later to become part of Commercial Road). One of the workers there is my wife's grandad. I love the look of the people here; men in flat caps, women in cloche hats. That would seem to date this photo to around 1930 but I can't be sure.
Though unnamed, the timing and the reference to the Graf Zeppelin as its predecessor indicates that this cutaway is of the Hindenburg. It started construction in 1929, and the image is from Popular Mechanics' February 1930 issue
The Frasher Foto Postcard Collection https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt6s2019xp/ hosts over 5,000 picture postcard views of California and the Southwest taken by Burton Frasher in the 1910s–1950s. Among the many shots of landscapes and people are street scenes, offering a time-travel tour of early 20th-century American signmaking.
Clara Bow’s fifty-fourth movie was No Limit, produced between September and October, 1930, with location filming in New York between 17 - 30 October. The movie was released on January 24, 1931. Clara played Helen “Bunny” O’Day. Gloria Jacobson stood in as Clara’s double.
It's only a shanty in old shanty town
The roof is so slanty, it touches the ground
But my tumbledown lobster shack by an old railroad track
Like a millionaire's mansion is calling me back
🧵 A lifelong 1930s-phile and fan of the British Dance Bands of the period, I have become mildly obsessed with picture discs of the 1930s. I had no idea the technology was possible so early in the 20th century. Such wonderful designs and colours. Here's a small selection... #artdeco#1930s#graphicdesign#design#vinyl#music
I was compelled to recreate the Trusound logo as a vector graphic. Hopefully, my fixation will stop there because I can't afford to start collecting the records! #artdeco#1930s#graphicdesign#design#vinyl#music