interior of William Reifschneider's "balloon shop"
Streator, Illinois ca. 1907-1920

seems to fit with this at barista
this at bibliodyssey
and this at CIB

Truman Capote March 30, 1948. He was 24 23 years old.

Riverheart High School to Montauk - doing the twist in the baggage car 1962

Anita O'Day 1919-2006
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obit at TheaterMania
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Publicity photo 1958 at LoC
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a taste of Anita O'Day at Newport 1958 at YouTube
courtesy ionarts

Col. Umberto Nobile, designer of the dirigible "Norge" walking along the narrow catwalk inside of the huge gas bag during the flight over the polar area
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General Umberto Nobile's airship Italia,
circling over the city of Stolp
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Grand salon of the Dirigible R 100
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James B. Mars and wife
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Harriet Quimby

Capt. Amundsen resting from arduous duties in pilot control car of the dirigible

Genthe Chinatown S.F.

It almost looks like she's jumping, both feet off the ground,
but really she's wearing these:
Arnold Genthe - Chinatown, San Francisco, between 1896 and 1906.
This was taken in April 1906:

Houdini performs for hospitalized children

"During an earlier project when I was making cuddly toys from pigskin, I came up with the idea to make something out of my own skin. At first it scared me, but I could not get it out of my head and eventually I had to do it."

Joanneke Meester
iv nyarts
http://nyartsmagazine.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6529&Itemid=199

Wim Delvoye
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Wim Delvoye

In 1910, Mr.and Mrs. D.H. Woolf walked from Kansas City* to NYC, with their dog. I'm unable at this time to tell you the name of their dog.
It's unlikely they were any more than the most distant relations of Virginia Woolf; and likely no relation of D.H. Lawrence at all.
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*glancing reference at the remarkable showhistory.com with a link to Con mezzi a traino animale at the equally remarkable La storia dei globetrotters.
In both instances the Woolfs are cited near the bottom of the page.
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"around the world within 5 years. These cards are sold to cover the expenses"
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And, by the by, Karl Bushby's still at it. His footprints are now in Russia, having begun their appearance in Tierra del Fuego and continued uninterrupted from there up the American continents and across the Bering Sea.

Pompeii

Eskimo cliff dwellers

Life? or Theater?
Charlotte Salomon
20th Annversary Exhibition
Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
Yale Library
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Charlotte Salomon prepares for her entrance examination to attend the Berlin Art Academy.
Life? or Theater? at the Jewish Museum
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George Duncan's Women of the Third Reich

Nice one:

mega-merger quickens local copper stocks

Jim Jeffries
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Jim Jeffries and wife
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Billy Jordan introducing Jeffries at the famous championship battle at Reno, Nevada, July 4, 1910
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Jack Johnson and James J. Jeffries in ring
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Jeffries knock-out
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Nuttall Ornithological Club, taken near the Brewster Museum, 1889, by flashlight

Tom Paine's Nightly Pest
Gillray (below)

The miser's feast
...a miser seated at a table eating a meager meal; Death stands off to the right as an emaciated and naked manservant holding in his right hand a tray with a bone on it and behind him, in his left hand, the dart of death; Famine, a withered hag, naked to the waist which funnels to a point, wearing a large hat and fashionable skirt, stands at the open door through which enter a fashionably dressed prostitute and another woman carrying stolen articles to leave with the miser. Padlocked chests and cupboards, moneybags, and plastered-over windows (for tax savings purposes) attest to the avarice and miserliness of the occupant

James Gillray
see also:

SIN, DEATH, and the DEVIL. vide Milton.
FRENCH LIBERTY/BRITISH SLAVERY
Scientific researches! - New discoveries in pneumaticks!

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James Gillray at Wikipedia
at Spartacus.school.net

Ernest Schelling
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Band members posed on stage with instruments, a reel mower, and the "follyphone" during rehearsal for the "Musicians Gambol", a benefit to be held at Carnegie Hall December 30, 1929, for the Edward MacDowell Association; among those present is John Philip Sousa.
image loc
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Paderewski avec Ernest Schelling, une amitié solide
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The grasping excessively entrepeneurial David Rumsey and his despicable irritating AMICA (The Art Museum Image Consortium Library {The AMICO Library™} [sic]) have this image of Schelling on offer, provided you subscribe to their enterprise by giving them money ($15US a month, $150US a year).
The same image is at the Library of Congress.
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Schelling's first wife was Lucie Howe Draper, not to be confused with Lucie Bigelow Rosen, who may be seen here performing on an early version of the theremin.