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wehadfacesthen:

Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, 1947, in a publicity shot for Dark Passage
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Wartime sawmill “pit women,” Concord, New Hampshire, 1943. Photograph by John Collier.
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fewthistle:

You Call Everybody Darlin’. Atlantic City. 1948.
Photographer: Nina Leen
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valentinaya:

The gorgeous Lucille Ball 
3375 ♥

An ever so beautiful Diana Dors in the 1940s.
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girlsandmachines:


Cruising teenagers in Detroit celebrating the end of World War II, 1945.
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indypendent-thinking:

France, 1940s
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historicalgotham:

Blackout, 1942. New York City by Andreas Feininger (via LIFE)
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adanvc:

Group of teenagers pushing an old car. St Louis, 1944.
by Nina Leen
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formfollowsfunctionjournal:

Medical Dept, U.S. Army.
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