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Operation Schoonschip. Three soldiers are resting in front of a building in a kampong; Date March 29, 1949; Location Indonesia, Dutch East Indies.

Operation Schoonschip. Three soldiers are resting in front of a building in a kampong; Date March 29, 1949; Location Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

Postcard '900. Sport. Fausto Coppi. Cycling Italian Racer. Italian Champion 1935-1937-1940 Winner of the Tour of Italy 1940 - 1947 - 1949 - 1952 -...

Postcard '900. Sport. Fausto Coppi. Cycling Italian Racer.

Make up in the 1940s. The young actress and model Haide Göransson, 1928-2008, is putting on lipstick. She is sitting on a bench a sunny day in a...

Make up in the 1940s. The young actress and model Haide Göransson, 1928-2008, is putting on lipstick. ...

1940s sunglasses. A young woman on a summer day is holding her sunglasses in front of her. 1949

1940s sunglasses. A young woman on a summer day is holding her sunglasses in front of her. 1949...

Television in the 1940s. A proud owner of an early television set demonstrates adjusts the picture on the screen by turning the knobs in the front....

Television in the 1940s. A proud owner of an early television set demonstrates adjusts the picture on ...

The Famous model Bettina and two other models during a windy fashion shoot for Vogue magazine in September 1949, Robert Doisneau had been working for...

Model Bettina For Vogue

Buick Roadmaster. Creator: Unknown.

1949 Buick Roadmaster. Creator: Unknown.

American playwright Philip Barry , circa 1940. Perhaps his most famous work is the Broadway play 'The Philadelphia Story', produced as a film in 1940.

Sugar Ray Robinson crushes Kid Gavilan to retain the welterweight title in 1949. Born in Detroit, Mich., on May 3 Robinson began fighting...

Sugar Ray Robinson crushes Kid Gavilan to retain the welterw

Christian Bérard , French painter and stage designer, Marcel Khill and Jean Cocteau , French writer . Paris, 1938.

Christian Bérard, Marcel Khill and Jean Cocteau

Diagram of J. J. Thomson's apparatus for studying 'positive rays'. Large bulb with A) anode, C) cathode in front of the cylinder of soft iron with...

Diagram of J. J. Thomson's apparatus for studying 'positive rays'.

Illustration celebrating the opening of the wireless telegraph between Paris and Casablanca, showing the men whose work made it possible: Edouard...

The opening of the wireless telegraph.

Photograph of US Admirals with King George V. Left to Right: David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty , Admiral Hugh Rodman , King George V , William Sims , and...

US Admirals with King George V.

Cricketer writer, Neville Cardus, playing for an MCC eleven against Ringwood at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, circa 1937. Sir Neville Cardus was born...

Neville Cardus In Melbourne

Portrait of Countess Maria Tarnowska , sketch by Nino Busetto , from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XXXVII, No 12, March 20, 1910.

Portrait of Countess Maria Tarnowska

Princess Margaret, left, and Princess Elizabeth, future Queen Elizabeth II, right, broadcasting to the children of the empire, 13h October, 1940....

Princess Margaret, left, and Princess Elizabeth, future Queen Elizabeth II, right, broadcasting to the children of the empire, 13h October, 1940

British seaman Frank Laskier makes one of his popular broadcasts during World War II, circa 1942. A gunner in the Merchant Navy, Laskier's ship was...

My Name Is Frank

This station was the busiest terminus in London at this time. During the 1940s lines into the station were electrified, to provide a more efficient...

Passengers arriving at Liverpool Street station, London, 9.00 am, 29 June 1949.

This station was the busiest terminus in London at this time. During the 1940s lines into the station were electrified, to provide a more efficient...

Passengers arriving at Liverpool Street station, London, 9.00 am, 29 June 1949.

Passengers leaving a train at Liverpool Street station at 9.00 am on 29 June 1949. This station was the busiest terminus in London at this time....

Passengers leaving a train at Liverpool Street station, London, 29 June 1949.

Kodachrome colour photograph of John Theodore Cuthbert Moore-Brabazon , taken by JCA Redhead during World War Two. Moore-Brabazon was made Lord...

Sir Moore-Brabazon of Tara, c 1944.

In the summer of 1935 Tom Coleman became the chief engineer for the LMSR, where he remained until his retirement in July 1949. Coleman is best known...

Thomas F. Coleman.

The Merchant Venturer', Metro-Vic Locomotive No 18100 at Bristol Temple Meads station on 31 May 1952. In the late 1940s the Great Western Railway...

Merchant Venturer, Metro-Vic Locomotive No 18100, 31 May 1952.

Poster produced for the Southern Railway , advising children of the dangers associated with trains and railway lines, showing two cartoon children in...

Danger - Donts for Girls & Boys, SR poster, 1940-1949.

Poster produced for Southern Railway to promote rail services between the West of England and Waterloo Station, London. The poster shows �The Devon...

�The Devon Belle�, SR poster, 1947.

Poster produced for Southern Railway to promote rail services between the West of England and Waterloo Station, London. The poster shows �The Devon...

�The Devon Belle�, SR poster, 1947.

Made by the Gramophone Co Ltd, Hayes, Middlesex. From the 1940s the pop-up toaster took over as the standard design. The first pop-up toaster was...

HMV Burlington electric toaster model TU1, c 1949.

Sir Charles Galton Darwin, English mathematical physicist, c.1940. Photograph. Sir Charles Galton Darwin , son of Sir George Howard Darwin and...

Sir Charles Galton Darwin, English mathematical physicist, c.1940.

The chemical engineer Carl Bosch developed industrial ammonia synthesis. He worked with Friedrich Bergius on the invention and development of...

Carl Bosch, German chemist, c 1930s.

The Pye LV30 is a compact nine inch TRF-type table model receiver. It has a distinctive purple screen, which was popular in British sets of the late...

Pye television receiver, model LV30, 1949.

British statesmen arrive at Southampton on the 'Empress of Britain', having attended the British Empire Economic Conference in Ottawa, Canada, 25th...

Return From Ottawa

Artur Axmann , leader of the Hitler Youth from 1940 to 1945.

Artur Axmann , leader of the Hitler Youth from 1940 to 1945, at the start of his trial at Nuremberg. He was sentenced to three years and three months...

Man and his two sons pause at trail signs at Devil's Postpile National Monument in California's Sierra Nevada mountain range near Mammoth Lakes. The...

1940s summer vacations

Metal image of a Pachuco, wearing a Zoot Suit, a style for Mexicans in Southern California in the 1940's, attached to a vintage 1949 Chevrolet Deluxe...

Vintage Chevrolet

The Onslow Court Hotel in Kensington, London, September 1985. In the later 1940s, it was home to John George Haigh, aka The Acid Bath Murderer, who...

Onslow Court Hotel

Leyton Orient Football Club, UK, 16th August 1967. Not in order: Tony Ackerman, Peter Allen, Malcom Slater, Barry Fry, Tommy Anderson, John Snedden,...

Leyton Orient FC

The 1940 Bretton Woods Conference pegged the US Dollar to the British Pound at a favourable rate. However the Pound came under extreme pressure after...

The Bretton Woods Conference pegged the US Dollar to the British Pound at a favourable rate.

Cartoon depicting a dispute between George Lansbury , James Maxton , Douglas Hogg, 1st Viscount Hailsham and James Henry Thomas . Dated 20th Century.

A dispute between George Lansbury, James Maxton, Lord Hailsham and James Henry Thomas.

Homage to film director Federico Fellini, on the stone is written 'To Federico Fellini by Rome and its people 1949'.

Homage to film director Federico Fellini: 'To Federico Fellini by Rome and its people 1949'

From left to right, comedian Tommy Handley , writer Ted Kavanagh and producer and former cricketer Francis Worsley , who are collaborating on the BBC...

It's That Man Again

British comedian Tommy Handley , star of the BBC radio comedy 'It's That Man Again' or 'ITMA', with the show's writer Ted Kavanagh , circa 1940.

It's That Man Again

Dec 21 1948 Communism And Communists Denver - 1940-1949 Credit: The Denver Post

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Communism And Communists Denver - 1940-1949 Credit: Denver Post

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December 21 1948 Communism And Communists Denver - 1940-1949 Credit: The Denver Post

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Communism And Communists Denver - 1940-1949 Credit: Denver Post

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December 21 1948 Communism And Communists Denver - 1940-1949 Credit: The Denver Post

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Warren Thomas Buys School Bus - This title registration of the Colorado revenue department shows that on July 28 James S. Thomas, warden of the state...

Denver Post Archives

Communism And Communists Denver - 1940-1949 Credit: Denver Post

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Communism And Communists Denver - 1940-1949 Credit: Denver Post

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Communism And Communists Denver - 1940-1949 Credit: Denver Post

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Communism And Communists Denver - 1940-1949 Credit: Denver Post

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Communism And Communists Denver - 1940-1949 Credit: Denver Post

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Communism And Communists Denver - 1940-1949 Credit: Denver Post

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December 21 1948 Communism And Communists Denver - 1940-1949 Credit: The Denver Post

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Communism And Communists Denver - 1940-1949 Credit: Denver Post

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December 21 1948 Communism And Communists Denver - 1940-1949 Credit: The Denver Post

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Communism And Communists Denver - 1940-1949 Credit: Denver Post

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December 21 1948 Communism And Communists Denver - 1940-1949 Credit: The Denver Post

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