Hedy Lamarr: The 1940s Hollywood Beauty With Brilliant Mind_lag
After a brief early film career in Czechoslovakia, she fled from her husband, a wealthy Austrian ammunition manufacturer, and secretly moved to Paris. There, she met Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer…
35 Vintage Photos That Defined Street Fashion in the 1940s_lag
World War II dominated the first half of the 1940s as well as fashions in the Western world. Materials such as silk, nylon, wool, leather, rubber, and…
The Most Beautiful Train in the World: Interior of Southern Pacific Daylight Train From the 1930s and 1940s_lag
Here we see the interior of the Southern Pacific service originally called the “Daylight Limited” and later the “Coast Daylight.” It was the Southern Pacific’s train between…
30 Great Snapshots of People Celebrating Halloween From the 1940s to 1980s_lag
Halloween has long been associated with images of witches, ghosts, clowns and many other supernatural or scary characters. From then on, Halloween has evolved into a celebration…
Amazing Vintage Photographs of Automats in New York From the 1940s and 1950s_lag
Once the largest restaurant chain in the United States, Automats were a sort of intermediate between a cafeteria and a vending machine. The walls of the Automat…
Taste of a Decade: A Glimpse Inside American Restaurants and Cafeterias in the 1940s_lag
During the war (1941-1945) the creation of 17 million new jobs finally pulls the economy out of the Depression. Millions of married women enter the labor force….
A Series of Vintage Photos Documented a Day in the Life of a 1940s Housewife_lag
In 1941, LIFE magazine sent photographer William C. Shrout to document the lives of one of the biggest single demographics in the U.S: the 30 million housewives who did…
Pictures of High School Proms in the 1940s and 1950s_lag
In the United States, and increasingly in the United Kingdom and Canada, a promenade dance, most commonly called a prom, is a semi-formal (black tie) dance or…
Stunning Colorful Photos of the Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Circus in the Late 1940s_lag
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, affectionately known as “The Greatest Show on Earth,” holds a remarkable place in American entertainment history. These fascinating Kodachrome photographs…