Berlin in July 1945 (color footage)
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The battle of Berlin started on April 16th, 1945, and continued until the city garrison surrendered on May 2nd. The capitulation of…
President Harry S. Truman, in a shirt “Coach Truman, Athletic Department,” leads exercises on the deck of the USS Missouri on his return trip…
Retro Christmas decorations 1890s - 1960s
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Let`s recall how Christmas was celebrated by our parents, grandparents and great grandparents. When decorations were kept carefully year by year, presents…
San Francisco before the earthquake in 1906
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San Fransisco was born as a city in the times of Gold Rush (1849) and boomed, growing from 800 people in 1848 to 35,000…
Painted stockings, 1940s
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1942. It`s not the beginning of body art, women in hard times painted legs to look like they were wearing stockings.
Preparing for the Second World War, in 1939 British government produced several motivation posters. This one was from a “Home Publicity” series….
Baby gas respirators in 1940
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1940. The photo is from the Imperial War Museum in London. Its original caption says: “Three nurses carry babies cocooned in baby…