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Ava Gardner (1946)

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Women workers employed as wipers in the roundhouse having lunch in their rest room, C. & N.W. R.R., Clinton, Iowa - April 1943

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Social media in 1940 - Men reading headlines posted in street-corner of Brockton Enterprise newspaper office, Brockton, Mass.

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Glynis Johns (1940s)

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Regal Theatre Southside Chicago circa 1941

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Charles Atlas deadlifts a car with 2 women in the front seat, mid 1940s.

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Norma Jeane (aka Marilyn Monroe) in a floral sky blue dress, 1945.

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Ladies admiring the lifeguard at Cumberland Mountain State Park, Tennessee, July 1941. (Tennessee Department of Conservation photo)

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Buying a movie ticket in Blue Island, Illinois in 1943

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Veronica Lake.

Couple in Muscle beach doing a feat of strenght, Muscle Beach California, 1940s.

Abbye Stockton with some of her friends in Muscle Beach, California, 1940s.

Dorothy Lamour (1946)

A Bird in the Head (1946)

Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman (1943)

The Corpse Vanishes (1942) Mystery Horror Movie Starring Bela Lugosi

Group of acrobats from the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus in between shows, 1940s.

Norma Jeane (before becoming Marilyn Monroe) in one of her first shots, 1946

Veronica Lake (1940s)

Teresa Wright (1940s)

Katharine Hepburn (1946) photo by George Platt Lynes

Hazel Court (1940s)

British Railways travel poster (c. 1940)

October 1944 Varga Girl

1940s Movie Actress Composite

Merle Oberon in a publicity photo for A Night in Paradise (1946)

Women seeing a demostration of a wrestling throw, 1940s.

Year 1947, Bodybuilder Steve Reeves and Fitness promoter Abbye Stockton, toured the US to promote fitness and health in the whole country, here during stop they did in Hawaii.

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The Corpse Vanishes (1942) Mystery Horror Movie Starring Bela Lugosi