Deco Crystal

Decanter by Karl Palda
Czechoslovakia, 1930

Aerocover

The airplane is Heinkel He 70 Blitz
1937

4th of July

 Streamlined street car passing Washington Monument

Washington, D.C., circa 1938

via Shorpy

Diesel Battleship

Admiral Graf Spee was a Deutschland class pocket battleship. Launched in 1934, she was named after the World War I Admiral Graf Maximilian von Spee who died, along with two of his sons, in the first Battle of the Falkland Islands on 8 December 1914.
Together with her sisterships it represented a unique capital ship concept - very compact, heavily armed, diesel-propelled. Her range was quite remarkable - 19,000 nautical miles at 10 knots.
Damaged by the British cruiser artillery in the famous Battle of the River Plate, Admiral Graf Spee was scuttled near Montevideo, Uruguay, 17 December 1939.

Angle of View

A Girl With the Leica
Photo by Alexander Rodchenko
c. 1934

Info (EN)

Sky Warriors

Stained glass in the church in Crewe, UK.
Installed in memoriam of the RAF airmen
1949

Industrial Currency

5 Korun (five crowns) silver coin
Czechoslovakia, 1925