1940s america

I am six feet tall. These are five very simple words. They’re also words that I find myself saying pretty frequently. But even though I’ve...

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Marvel Captain America Aesthetic

We take an in depth look at the history behind the black market import of denim and jeans into the Soviet Union.

Stanley Kubrick (July 26, 1928 – March 7, 1999) was an American film director, writer, producer, and photographer who lived in England during most of the last four decades of his career. Kubrick was noted for the scrupulous care with which he chose his subjects, his slow method of working, the variety of genres he worked in, his technical perfectionism, his reluctance to talk about his films, and his reclusiveness. He maintained almost complete artistic control, making movies according to…

BLACK 1940'S AMERICA

PM, the 1940s photo-rich New York tabloid, asked readers to interpret its pictures — 75 of which are currently at the Steven Kasher Gallery in Chelsea.

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Love doesn't change though the years do. Sometimes it can be difficult to remember that people in photos from bygone eras had the same concerns, hopes, dreams, and loves that we do. On a whim one morning, I was browsing vintage photos and came across these wonderful pieces of art. Some of them moved

Ahh, to be in love.

1940s

Retro New York on Instagram: “Times Square, 1950s. 📸: unknown”

In 1940 LIFE magazine had a photographic essay about a working girl in a big city based-on the “White Collar Girl” of the Christopher Morley's best-selling novel Kitty Foyle which was adapted into a film starring Ginger Rogers. The photographs were taken by photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt featuring Carol Lorell, a Ginger Rogers look-alike whose life happened to mirror Kitty Foyle's: “Like Kitty, she came from Philadelphia, ran away from home, first lived in a lonely female hotel.” Lorell's…

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Kissing Couple Greeting Card by camcguire

Proclamation 2527 and the Internment of Italian Americans | The National WWII Museum | New Orleans

Madge Evans

This week, from the vast P-I archive of unpublished images, we share photos of Seattle...

Patriotic Patty on Veterans Day. #vintage #photobooth #1950s

I have always been fascinated with the role of women in WWII, particularly the small minority of women whom flew in the Air Transport Auxiliary in Great Britain. However, until very recently I had never heard of the Women Airforce Service Pilots, or WASP as they were known as, who flew planes across the continental […]