The Dust Bowl, or the Dirty Thirties, was a period of severe dust storms causing major ecological and agricultural damage to American and Canadian prairie lands in the 1930s and 1940s, particularly in 1934 and 1936. ...
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The Coca-Cola illustrated advertisements are by creative legend Pete Hawley. Hawley created a provocative style for Jantzen advertising in the 1940′s and 1950′s spanning 17 years. He illustrated over 100 magazine ads for swimsuits, lingerie, sweaters and other ...
At just before 5am on the 19th August 1942 the Allied forces launched a sea bound attack on the German occupied port of Dieppe on the north coast of France. ‘Operation Rutter’ as it was known ...
Imagine the scene. Men and women are drugged, stripped naked and then dragged aboard aeroplanes, before being pushed out into the ocean and plunging to their deaths in the cold waters of the Atlantic. In an ...
The Battle of Britain was the first major campaign to be fought entirely by air forces, and was also the largest and most sustained aerial bombing campaign to that date. From July 1940 coastal shipping convoys ...
From left to right: Han Solo, Darth Vader, Chewbacca, Leia, Luke Skywalker and R2D2 And out of interest, Heights: Harrison Ford 6’1″ David Prowse 6’6″ or 6’7″ Peter Mayhew 6’9″ Carrie Fisher 5’1″ Mark Hammil 5’7″ ...
The Spanish Civil War was fought in Spain from 17 July 1936 to 1 April 1939. The war began after a pronunciamiento (declaration of opposition) by a group of generals under the leadership of José Sanjurjo ...
As photographed by Life Magazine in 1955 Las Vegas was a booming desert town. Driven by gambling, the migration due to high unemployment, and the glitz and glamour of the desert oasis. At Las Vegas last ...
How things have changed, back in 1942 making TV programmes was a potential minefield for directors and producers. Television was extremely tame and heavily censored until the early 1970s, potential pitfalls included hot kissing, tight sweaters and ...
In the summer of 1947 a group of American designers visited England, Czechoslovakia and Poland to evaluate the progress of post-war reconstruction. The photos are from their visit in August of 1947 to view the progress in ...
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