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1939:
Shoes by Steven Arpad
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Fashion and beauty
Era:
1930s
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Metropolitan Museum of Art
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1930:
Alice White Wearing an Aeroplane Hat
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1937:
Women in shorts cause car to “crash” into pole
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1930s:
Women synchronising knee lifting
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c.1930s:
“Breast washer”
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1936:
Coats Coat Coat Store
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1936:
Woman Invents Dimple Machine
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c.1930:
Proto ‘SatNav’s
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1930s:
The Personal Hygiene Tiger
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February 1938:
Caterpillar Track Motorcycle
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1938:
Mussolini’s Giant “M” Gate
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1935:
IBM
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1931:
Korean girls playing on a see-saw
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c. 1930s:
Two women
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1930s:
Monocycles
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1928-1948:
Brookie, the largest horse ever recorded
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1935:
Self-Portrait in Spherical Mirror, M C Escher
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1931:
Albert Einstein Visits Hopi House
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1930s:
Ericsson Robot, Mexico City
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1939:
New Tempting Ways to serve Bananas
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1934:
Laundry, New York
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Tips for Single Women, 1938
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Einstein on the Beach, 1939
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May 1st, 1931:
Empire State Opening
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1934:
Max Factor’s Beauty Micrometer
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1930s:
Mussolini’s Fascist Headquarters, Rome
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c.1930s:
Kayan Lahwi women, Burma
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1936:
Girls Dressed as Appliances at the Los Angeles Electrical Exposition
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1931:
Faking street hazards for safety manuals
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1938-1939:
Nazi Germany in Antarctica
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1939:
L.A. Alligator Farm
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1939:
Monkey island
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1923-1963:
Autogyros
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1935:
Miss Idaho Potato
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1932:
Yasutaro Mitsui and his steel humanoid
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1931:
Card players who have given up smoking