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"He slept that night in his own country and he had a dream wherein he saw God's pilgrims laboring upon a darkened verge in the last of the twilight of that day and they seemed to be returning from some deep enterprise that was not of war nor were they yet in flight but rather seemed coming from some labor to which perhaps these and all other things stood subjugate."
The Crossing, Cormac McCarthy


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Husky leap year cops nab a bachelor trying to sneak out of town on a 6:37 a.m. train. 
That’s the caption accompanying this photo in the March 22, 1948, issue of LIFE magazine. The headline to the accompanying story?
SPINSTERS’ HOLIDAY: The she-wolves of Aurora, Ill., celebrate leap year by running officials out and bachelors in.

washingtonpoststyle:

Husky leap year cops nab a bachelor trying to sneak out of town on a 6:37 a.m. train. 

That’s the caption accompanying this photo in the March 22, 1948, issue of LIFE magazine. The headline to the accompanying story?

SPINSTERS’ HOLIDAY: The she-wolves of Aurora, Ill., celebrate leap year by running officials out and bachelors in.

Bill and Hillary Clinton, 1975.

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If movies could time travel.

clubmonaco:

Jackie O. Riding

I love Jackie O…as a young girl, as a young woman, as a widow, she was always a fashion icon. -F.E. Castleberry

csebastian:

A couple take a walk on the Library lawn during a weekend visit, c.1964. The college began admitting men in 1969.

October, 2011 - Vassar Homepage Archive

theclotheshorse:

A London book store, 1956.

jesuisperdu:

arthur leipzig

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clubmonaco:

Golden Retrievers

Does it get any preppier than golden retrievers? And four of them at that. Great to have at your feet come winter.

The Birth of Women’s Studies.

Beryl Forbes Eddy ‘58 (left) and Mary Elizabeth Sellers ‘58 wait ouside the bus during the 1955 Sarah Lawrence College trip to the Tennessee Valley Authority. Courtesy of the Sarah Lawrence College Archives from the online exhibit “southern journeys: slc visits the tennessee valley.”  Documentation and photographs relating to the Tennessee Valley Authority field trips taken by Sarah Lawrence students between 1941 and 1955, curated by Abby Lester with the assistance of Jessie Wilkerson MA ‘06

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oldhollywood:

1930’s state-of-the-art forensic fingerprint analysis via M (1931, dir. Fritz Lang)