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  • 1946:
  • Corsets Cramp Our Style
  • 1949:
  • Piccadilly Circus in colour
  • 1949:
  • Tanning Vending Machine
  • c. 1940s:
  • Gum
  • c. 1947-1949:
  • “The Flying Banana”
  • 1949:
  • The ‘Double Ender’ Pipe
  • 27th November 1942:
  • Flamethrowers at the Army War Show
  • c. 1940s:
  • GIs fooling around with a bazooka
  • 1943:
  • Carole Landis in a ‘Farmhouse’ Hat
  • 1941:
  • Listening Post and Air Raid Lights in Pershing Square Los Angeles
  • November 1943:
  • Ice on the HMS Belfast
  • c. 1940s:
  • Parking in Pittsburgh
  • C. 1940s:
  • Girls on the wing of a Boeing XB-15
  • 1939:
  • Painting a Cow
  • 1945:
  • “Deaths Head” Hitler Postage Stamp
  • c. 1943:
  • Batman and Robin
  • 1944:
  • Victory, United States Marine Corps
  • 1940s:
  • St. Patrick’s Day Pin-ups
  • 1948:
  • Lip Tester
  • 1940:
  • “Photograph of a time-traveler”
  • 1940s:
  • Marilyn Monroe as a brunette
  • 1939-1945:
  • Dogfights
  • 1942:
  • The Mickey Mouse Gas-Mask
  • April 1945:
  • The Queen in the Army
  • 1949:
  • 18-year-old James Dean in a photo booth
  • 1940:
  • Orson Welles removes his Citizen Kane makeup
  • 1940:
  • London by moonlight
  • 1945:
  • Soviet troops examining the fallen eagle, Berlin
  • 1948:
  • 13-year-old Elvis’ library card
  • 1948:
  • Breaking the land speed record in Speedos
  • 1940s:
  • Drinking tea in the Blitz
  • 1947:
  • Bell Telephone Acoustics Lab
  • 15th June - 9th July 1944:
  • Sharing bananas with a goat at the Battle of Saipan
  • c. 1940s:
  • Sailors at Coney Island
  • c. 1940s:
  • Celebrity feet