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Gil Elvgren
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1950s
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1950s:
Teddy Girls
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1950s:
Gil Elvgren’s Pin-Up Girls: Before & after
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Dayalet Mascots, 1950s
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Porsche Posters, 1950s
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1950s:
A corner in Clerkenwell, London
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c. 1950s:
Girls filling a car
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Elvis in a photo booth, 1950s
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1956-1975:
Tractor Girls of Red China
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c.1950s:
‘It’s Great to Be Alive!’ Safety Manual
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Husband-Hunting Tips from New Romance, 1950s
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1950s:
Albert Einstein in Fuzzy Slippers
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1968:
Girls Say Yes To Boys Who Say No
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1968:
Carnaby Street girls
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1931:
Girls Demand Excitement
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1931:
Korean girls playing on a see-saw
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C. 1940s:
Girls on the wing of a Boeing XB-15
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1936:
Girls Dressed as Appliances at the Los Angeles Electrical Exposition
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Cellophane Ads c.1930s-1950s
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1950s-1960s:
Polish Cold War Neon
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1950s:
Construction of BrasÃlia
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1954:
Marilyn Monroe reading James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’
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c. 1950s:
Rock ‘n’ Roll sur les Quais de Paris
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1950s-1970s:
Nuclear Bomb Tests
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1950s / 1960s:
Afghanistan
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1959:
Early Vegas From the Air
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1880-1920:
Male Anti-Masturbation Devices
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1906:
Colour photographs of San Francisco’s Earthquake and Fire
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1957:
Beard-Growing Contest Entrants, Kansas
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1967:
Sgt Pepper Cover shoot
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1968:
Cumbernauld New Town, Scotland
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1914-1918:
Colour photographs of the German Front
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c. 1930s:
Leaping the puddle
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1961:
Nelson Mandela
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c. 1930s:
Contortionist
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November 1989:
Juggling on the Berlin Wall