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c.1950s:
‘It’s Great to Be Alive!’ Safety Manual
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1950s
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Gene Gable
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1955:
“Why wait till 1955? We might not even be alive”
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1931:
Faking street hazards for safety manuals
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1933:
Young skater with safety cushion
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Sword Fighting Manual, c.1500
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1900:
The Great Paris Exposition Telescope
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1938:
Katharine Hepburn following the Great New England Hurricane
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10th January 1915:
11th Battalion posing on the Great Pyramid of Giza
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1959:
Advice to Yeti Hunters
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c. 1955:
“Actual Business Letters”
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1956:
Police Armour
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1952:
Marilyn Monroe spitting out a drink
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1950s:
Portable music
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12th January 1950:
The Neck Brush
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1957:
Monsanto “House of the Future”
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1956:
Elvis yawning
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1951:
Elsa Schiaparelli Eyelash Glasses
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1959:
Zsa Zsa Gabor and Buster Keaton at the Moulin Rouge, Paris
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c. 1950s:
Children watching TV
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1956:
Coffee Pot Trucks
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1956:
The Queen meets the Oba of Benin
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1957:
Power Mower Deluxe
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1950s:
Elvis winking
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1957:
A visit to London
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1954:
Construction of Disneyland
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1950s:
New York by Saul Leiter
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Husband-Hunting Tips from New Romance, 1950s
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1950s-1960s:
Fairey Rotodyne
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1959:
Fidel Castro in New York
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c. 1964:
Whites only
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1956:
‘Here’s What We’ll Wear in Space’
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c. 1950s:
Yuri Gagarin as a Student
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1954:
Marilyn Monroe performing to troops in Korea
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1951:
Atomic Bomb Hairdo
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c. 1950s:
Marilyn Monroe upside down
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c. 1953-1963:
David Bowie at school