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1947:
“When Tears of Shame Smell!”
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Fashion and beauty
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1940s
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Ptak Science Books
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c. 1955:
Tiny Tears – Star Pupil of the Ding Dong School
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1940s:
Welding a Metal Swimsuit
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1940s:
“No More Ladders”
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1940s:
Monocle Hat
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1940s:
Before and after corsets
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1944:
Girl’s Hairdo Reveals Love Life
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1947:
Miss Diaper Queen
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1941:
‘Glamour Bonnet’
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c.1940:
The ‘No Hat’ Craze
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Glamorglo Plastic Hats, 1940s
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c. 1944-1947:
The Chiquita Banana
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1943:
“Army Day – Crocodiles Keep Out” Cannon Towel Ads
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Costumes by Nicolas de Larmessin II, 1700
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1932:
The New Eyelashes
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Vitamin Donuts, WWII
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1948:
The First McDonald’s
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c.1945:
Female Ventriloquist
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24th June 1944:
Tank Altar, Saipan
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c. 1940s:
Young Beatles
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1948:
Lip Tester
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1949:
Tanning Vending Machine
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1940s-1950s:
Auto accidents, Boston
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1943:
Model Airplanes Decorate the Ceilings at Union Station, Chicago, Illinois
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1946:
Denture Shop, India
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1948:
Norman E. Timbs Buick Streamliner
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LeBaron Chrysler Newport Phaeton concept car, 1940
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Radiation Posters, 1947
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1947:
Howard Hughes’ “Spruce Goose”
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Reconstructing the White House, 1948-1952
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1949:
18-year-old James Dean in a photo booth
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c. 1944:
Before she was Lauren
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1940s:
John Wayne’s punch
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1945:
Opening the Mona Lisa at the end of WWII
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December 1944:
Lace helmet, Battle of the Bulge
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1940s:
Boeing Plant 2