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  • c. 1940s:
  • Military donkey ride
  • c. 1960s:
  • Alfred Hitchcock and children on a sleigh ride
  • August 1938:
  • Baby goes for a buggy ride with trained cat for nurse
  • 1615:
  • Death with a Crossbow
  • 1500s-1900s:
  • Life / Death Masks
  • 1930s:
  • Nutshell studies of unexplained death
  • c.1920s-1960s:
  • Lions in the Wall-of-Death
  • 25th January 1948:
  • “Train of the Stars” crashes through wall
  • 1948:
  • Angels Flight – the shortest railroad in the world
  • c. 1940s:
  • Parking in Pittsburgh
  • 1949:
  • Mercedes Benz SSK “Count Trossi”
  • c. 1940s-1960s:
  • Soviet driving posters
  • 1942:
  • Wreck of the SS Normandie
  • 1948:
  • Norman E. Timbs Buick Streamliner
  • 1945:
  • Douglas XTB2D Skypirate
  • c.1940s:
  • Flight Attendant Guidelines
  • 1946:
  • “Life and Love on the New York City Subway” by Stanley Kubrick
  • 1945:
  • “Deaths Head” Hitler Postage Stamp
  • c. 1943:
  • Batman and Robin
  • 1939-1945:
  • Tangee Lipstick ads
  • 1940:
  • World’s Fair Hairstyle
  • September 1949:
  • Smog Helmet
  • C. 1940s:
  • Girls on the wing of a Boeing XB-15
  • 1942:
  • Barnes Wallis using marbles in his garden to test Dambuster bouncing bomb idea
  • 29th August 1945:
  • Singing to GIs
  • 1940s:
  • John Wayne’s punch
  • 1940s:
  • Before and after corsets
  • 18th June 1939. June 18:
  • Submarine emergency training
  • June 1944:
  • Paratrooper war paint for the Filthy Thirteen
  • 1939-1945:
  • Warning from the FBI
  • 1946:
  • Corsets Cramp Our Style
  • 1944:
  • Lifting a Tank
  • c. 1945 - 1946.:
  • Inside ‘The Well’ US Signal Corps Army Base Terminal
  • 1942:
  • The Dambuster Marbles
  • 1942:
  • Baseball sheep