![Atop Empire State- in construction; Chrysler Bldg & [Daily] News in middle foreground. (1931)](http://cdn1.retronaut.co/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Atop-Empire-State-in-construction-Chrysler-Bldg-Daily-News-in-middle-foreground.-1931--199x123.jpg "Balancing on the Empire State, 1920s")
‘Lillian Bassman is an American painter and photographer. From the 1940s until the 1960s, Bassman worked as a fashion photographer for Junior Bazaar and later at Harper’s Bazaar’
Fashion, 1940s – 1960s, by Lillian Bassman
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Soviet Man in Space
The Writing Ball
London Trams, 1950s
'The Great Garloo' Ad, 1963
Blackfoot Decorated Tipis c.1900
Sainsbury's Own Brand, 1962 - 1978
'What sort of man reads Playboy?' ads, 1960s
'Superman’s Girlfriend Lois Lane' Comic Covers
'Time of decision' US army recruitment comic, 1963
Modern Man, Carnaby St, Menswear Mail Order Catalogue, 1967
Comic Girl Power, 1940s
Early Photographs of Women's Hair
Hippies of Haight Street, San Francisco, 1967
New York, 1969
UMASS Undergraduate Engineering Class, 1959-1999
Las Vegas Gaming Chips, 1960s-1970s
Parisians, 1963
"My Grandpa's Friends", 1940s
Rest in peace, Ms. Bassman.