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French magazine cover art by Rene Ravo, 1947. From Jay Kirsch

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The Leica Freedom Train was a rescue effort in which hundreds of Jews were smuggled out of Nazi Germany before the Holocaust by Ernst Leitz II of the Leica Camera company, and his daughter Elsie Kuehn-Leitz.

To help his Jewish workers and colleagues, Leitz quietly established what has become known among historians of the Holocaust as the “Leica Freedom Train,” a covert means of allowing Jews to leave Germany in the guise of Leitz employees being assigned overseas. Employees, retailers, family members, even friends of family members were “assigned” to Leitz sales offices in France, Britain, Hong Kong and the United States. Leitz’s activities intensified after the Kristallnacht of November 1938, during which synagogues and Jewish shops were burned across Germany.

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John Mills, Sylvia Syms ... Ice Cold in Alex.

Deleted scene as it was deemed too risqué in 1958.

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Esperanza Spalding - jazz bass player

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Images from the book 'Love Hotels' taken during a road trip between Tokyo and Shikoku Island by photographer François Prost. The hotels were originally intended to offer a space for Japanese couples to conduct amorous activities given the lack of privacy and space within small family homes. 

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Model Ann Chambers watches children play on a ladder on a smoggy post-war London Streeet. Taken by Norman Parkinson for a Vogue photoshoot in 1948.

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Vysoké Tatry | borievkyphotogallery

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'Orphans of the storm' - Portobello Road, London, 1950s

Early in his career maverick film director Russell was a photographer.

Ken Russell

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Dita

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Shropshire House, 1932, architects Waite and Waites.  Photo: Jamie Barras. An modernsit gem on Capper Street, off London's Tottenham Court Road.

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Joanna Lumley models a hideous design for a justly forgotten, 1980s Xmas jumper knitting pattern book. More at messynessy chic.com. The book can reputedly be found secondhand on Amazon and also features Bonnie Langford, Richad Briers and Anne Diamond..

Seasons Greetings.

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The  SR.45 Princess was a British flying boat aircraft, developed and built by Saunders-Roe on the Isle of Wight. Claimed as the largest all-metal flying boat ever produced, its development was cancelled after three prototypes (only one of which ever flew) were constructed. By the mid-1950s, large commercial flying boats were overshadowed by faster and more economically viable,  land-based jet airliners.

Saunders-Roe subsequently concentrated its efforts on producing passenger and freight carrying helicopters and hovercraft. 

The three Princess aircraft were laid up, one at Cowes and two at Calshot Spit where for many years they remained a familiar landmark to those crossing the Solent. All were scrapped by 1967.[

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The Rolleiflex, a camera synonymous with medium format photography, was first introduced in the early 1920s and has become an iconic piece of photographic equipment revered by both professional photographers and enthusiasts alike. It is a twin-lens reflex design, made in Germany by Franke & Heidecke. The camera has two lenses, one for taking the photograph and the other for view finding and uses 120 film. The Rolleiflex has a reputation for reliability, ease of use, rich tonal ranges and remarkable sharpness. It was used by Richard Avedon, Dorothea Lange, and Vivian Maire. Later models incorporating Carl Zeiss lenses. Because it is customarily held at waist height, its pictures have a different perspective from 35mm cameras held up to the eye.

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Hand-delivering milk (in glass bottles) to homes by electric float in Whitton, Surry. Likely during the gruelling winter of 1962/3 when parts of the UK remained under snow with many roads impassable for up to three months.

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Santō Tetsudō - Cranes flying over Shantung. One of a number of advertising posters from Japan’s Taishō era – July 30, 1912, to December 25, 1926. Found at Flashbak.com righteousness”). 

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Bessie Stringfield (1911 or 1912 –1993), the "Motorcycle Queen of Miami", was an American motorcyclist, the first African-American woman to ride across the United States solo and one of the few civilian motorcycle dispatch riders for the US Army during World War II. Her many tours of the continental US carried her through the Great Depression, and she rode Brazil, Haiti, and Europe.