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Pulp RPG photos
I was going through Google's LIFE photo archive, collecting images suitable for use in pulp RPGs, and thought I should share.

• Aviators
  • Mustachioed French aviator (1913)
  • British aviator in an amusingly painted plane (1920)
  • German aviator in a cold-weather kit (1927)
  • Two British aviators, also in cold gear; the same gents in lighter clothes (1927)
  • Aviator in flight (1938)
  • Young Chinese aviator (1942)
  • Two American aviators wearing goggles and oxygen masks (1942)
  • Grinning American aviator wearing a peaked cap (1948)

• Aviatrixes
  • British aviatrix seated in a de Havilland Moth; standing beside the same plane, adjusting her flying kit (1926)
  • Three American aviatrixes (1943)
  • American aviatrix wearing a beret and sunglasses (1943)
  • American aviatrix wearing a flight cap (1948)

• Others: Men
  • Man in a derby hat, cupping his hands in front of his face to light a cigarette at night (c. 1911)
  • Swedish explorer Sven Hedin, sometimes known as "Haji Baba", posing for a portrait (1920)
  • Debonair man in a monocle and fedora (1927)
  • Bearded man in a newsboy cap and askew glasses (1931)
  • Playboy-looking man with a pipe in his mouth (1932)
  • Young doctor smoking a pipe (1940)
  • 110-year-old Chinese monk (1946)
  • Portly Jordanian man smoking hookah (1948)

• Others: Women
  • Woman taking a photograph (1935)
  • Dispatch rider preparing to mount her motorcycle (1941)
  • Woman wearing riding habit with man's evening coat and striped waistcoat (1943)

• Scenery: Airships & Airplanes
  • Graf Zeppelin flying over Hamburg (1928)
  • Graf Zeppelin flying over London (1931)
    
  • American airship Mayflower preparing to land on deck of the Breman in New York harbor (1930)
  • Mechanics working on an airplane (1939)

• Scenery: Temples, Artifacts, Excavations
  • Temple at Philae (often submerged between 1902 and 1977) (1860); Temple at Philae inundated by waters of Aswan Low Dam (1959)
  • Remains of the Temple of Apollo at Corinth (1925)
  • Silhouette of Shiva among other works of Asian art (1936)
  • Stone head among ruins of a temple in Honduras (1947)
  • Serpent's head on the Temple of the Warriors, Mexico (1947)
  • From the excavation of St. Peter's in Rome; oldest mausoleum found during the excavation; additional angle of the oldest mausoleum (1950)
  • French archaeologist directing the excavation of an Egyptian temple (1960)