#1940s

[catsofyore]

My mom gave me the most wonderful Easter gift - this kitty book she loved as a child. Her own copy is long gone but she found this one in beautiful condition with the original bell and ribbon!

[summertimenoir]

Lucille Ball in Du Barry Was A Lady (1943) - costume design by Irene

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Night on Bald Mountain - Fantasia (1940)

[questionableadvice]

Historical medical poster collection, c. 1946-1950. Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, Yale University.

[reminiscent-smile]

Lauren Bacall

[pompeianred]

Gene Tierney as Ellen Berent LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN (1945)

[frostedmagnolias]

Dress

c. 1949

by Norman Norell

UNT Digital Library

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Norman Rockwell - Prom Dress (1949)

[normasshearer]

I saw us traveling far away together. All the places I've always longed to go. I saw us leaning on the rail of a ship, looking at the sea and stars... standing on a tropical beach, in the moonlight, with the palm trees sighing above us. Then the palm trees changed into those pollarded willows by the canal, just before the level crossing. And all the silly dreams disappeared.

BRIEF ENCOUNTER 1945, dir. David Lean

[butchqueersapphic]

Japanese actress and male impersonator, Kawaji Ryuko. Ryuko was the star of Shochiku Kagekidan Women's Theater (Shochiku Revue) in the 1940s and 50s

[lonestarflight]

A Northrop YB-49 Flying Wing in flight. It was powered by 8 Allison J35-A-15 turbojet engines, producing 4,000 lbf (18 kN) of thrust each.

Date: late 1940s

NARA: 176246732

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Haven't I Got Swell Eggs - art by Gil Elvgren (1946)

[miamaimania]

"The Impossible III" by Maria Martins, 1946

[kitsunetsuki]

John Rawlings - Vogue, Oct. 15, 1944, from John Rawlings: 30 Years in Vogue by Kohle Yohannan (2001)

[adventurelandia]

"Don't be a Job Hopper" 1940s Disney WWII propaganda poster