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All images from the Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information collections at the Library of Congress
Colour photographs of American children, 1940s
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Umrao Singh Sher-Gil
“Loch Lomond” – Martha Tilton
Chicago Billboards, 1942
Victorian Artificial Arm
Footage of Chicago Street Corner, 1897
Abandoned Detroit
Pin-Up Girls Before & After, 1950s
Retronautic WTF II
The Disappearing Face of New York
Construction of the Titanic
Shoe Design, 1939
Listening before Radar
Husband tests bullet proof glass with wife, 1930s
Steampunk Leather Masks
Syphilis Posters, 1940s
Corner Portraits, by Irving Penn
Claude Bernou's Map of America, 1681
The First Bikini, 1946
Howard Hughes' "Spruce Goose", 1947
Bicycle ride and picnic with Rita Hayworth, 1940
Willys Jeep Ads, 1945
Image #5 shows Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn?
Ah! Proper children!
If I were to believe this I’d think there were barely any non-white children in the US in the 40′s!