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c.1945:
Female Ventriloquist

c.1940:
The ‘No Hat’ Craze

24th June 1944:
Tank Altar, Saipan

1942:
Horsemeat not rationed

c. 1940s:
Dog in a tuba

1947:
“When Tears of Shame Smell!”

1941:
‘Glamour Bonnet’

1947:
Miss Diaper Queen

c. 1944-1947:
The Chiquita Banana

c. 1940s:
Young Beatles

WWII:
Nurses in gas-masks

1939-1945:
“Buy War Bonds” posters

1941:
Bomb damage to 23 Queen Victoria Street during the Blitz

1948:
Frankenstein and the Mermaid

1941:
Christmas for Evacuees, Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire

1939:
Bela Lugosi as Santa Claus

1941:
Santa in a Jeep

1939-1945:
“Housewives! Save waste fat for explosives!” Posters

1940:
Churchill with a “tommy gun”

1947:
Neil Armstrong’s High School Yearbook photo

1940s-1950s:
Auto accidents, Boston

1943:
Model Airplanes Decorate the Ceilings at Union Station, Chicago, Illinois

c.1930:
Policemen testing life-jackets, London

1946:
Denture Shop, India

1940s:
Welding a Metal Swimsuit

c.1943/1944:
Aircraft on the streets of Liverpool

c.1945-1946:
Midget Submarines

1940s-1950s:
Machinalia by Boris Artzybasheff

1940s:
“No More Ladders”

1941:
Disney Artists’ Strike