#1950s history

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Kathryn Grayson

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Sisters of Divine Providence trying out new .22 caliber guns presented to them at camp Mishannock by Harrington and Richardson of Worcester, Massacusetts. (1957)

[popculturebaby]

Ava Gardner’s MGM Employment Portrait in 1941

She was 19 years old.

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𝗖𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗹 𝗝. 𝗪𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗺𝘀, "𝗕𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗠𝗮𝗻 𝗗𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝘁 𝗪𝗵𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝗢𝗻𝗹𝘆 𝗙𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻," 1964

Cecil J. Williams (born November 26, 1937) is an American photographer, publisher, author and inventor whose photographs document the civil rights movement in South Carolina beginning in the 1950s.

📸 Coming back from a 1956 trip photographing South Carolina’s segregated beaches for Jet magazine, Cecil J. Williams stops at a filling station, closed at the time, and drinks from a “WHITE ONLY” water fountain. Image captured by Rendall Harper, a friend of the photographer.

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Burlesque dancer San San

[vintagequeens]

Anita Ekberg

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Jackie Kennedy photographed in Hyannis Port on June 10th, 1955.

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Pepsi (1956)

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Jayne Mansfield in the supermarket 1959

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1950s Samsonite train case

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Jane Russell

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View of a 1955 GMC L'Universelle experimental truck. Label on back: "Among the galaxy of experimental cars at the General Motors Powerama in Chicago will be this GMC 'dream truck' L'Universelle, which has created a sensation at public showings since its introduction in January. Although still in the 'show truck' category, plans are being made to put the revolutionary new vehicle into production. From: GMC Truck & Coach Division. Pontiac, Michigan." Handwritten on back: "Concept dream truck. L'Universelle, 1955."

National Automotive History Collection, Detroit Public Library

[popculturebaby]

Marlon Brando as Stanley Kowalski in ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ (1951) ✨

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Carmen de Lavallade & Geoffrey Holder on their Wedding Day, 1955.

[vintagequeens]

Betty Brosmer *Requested*