#1940s

[azultecnicolor]

Piece a i did for Good Old Fashioned Lovers: A Good Omens Zine 💗

prints

[t0rschlusspan1k]

Image I.D. — “...and if I lose you, then I've lost it all.” — End I.D.

Albert Camus, from Caligula & Other Plays; "State of Siege: A Play in Three Parts,"

[filmgifs]

IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE dir. Frank Capra, (1946)

[scavengedluxury]

Portrait, 1941. From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive.

[diana-andraste]

Dancer dancing, Max Dupain, c. 1940

[saintatomique]

If you're wondering how Slither/Felix could wear a typical rock-n-roll jacket with his futuristic sunglasses, look at Barbara Stanwyck here wearing futuristic snow goggles with her more traditional leather jacket in the exact same way in 1941(!)

Barbara Stanwyck as Helen Hunt YOU BELONG TO ME — dir. Wesley Ruggles, 1941

[bubblyernie]

I dont know what inspired this drawing but ;-; idk theres smth about it. Biddley's weird girl to weirder man pipeline especially. maud's "when i grow up im going to have to fake my own death" is a close second though

art tag // commission info

[allcatsconstitutethesamefamily]

Source details and larger version.

They've had many lives and many ages: cats I've met in my time travels.

[warmfuzzyphoto]

1940s

[theworldatwar]

Soviet artillery on the streets of Berlin - April 1945

[clarabowlover]

Audrey Hepburn

In A Production At the Cambridge Theatre

A Chritmas Party (1949)

[todaysdocument]

Decryption of Soviet Diplomatic Telegram Relating to the Code Name "Enormous" and Photography of Material

Record Group 457: Records of the National Security Agency/Central Security ServiceSeries: Public Release Copies of Records Relating to Project VenonaFile Unit: First Venona Release

VENONA

TOP SECRET [scratched out]

[redacted]

[redacted]

[vii] CAMP-1: Not identified; probably an atomic energy side 9cf references to "Camp-2" and "camps" in eg NEW YORK's No. 1585 of 12 November 1944 and 709 of 5 July 1945 ([redacted]).

[viii] OSA: ie "WASP"; Ruth GREENGLASS.

[ix] KALIBER: ie "CALIBRE"; David GREENGLASS.

[x] LIBERAL: Julius Rosenberg.

[xi] MLAD: ie "YOUNG"; [redacted]

[xiii] Kh'YuS: ie "HUGHES"; Alfred Epaminondas SARANT, who was employed at the BELL Telephone Laboratories [cf. Footnote [xiv]) NEWYORK CITY, from October 1942 to September 1946.

[xiv] APQ-7: Or AN/APQ-7: a high-resolution airborne radar developed by the MASSACHUSETTS Institute of Technology and built BELL Telephones (cf Footnote [xiii]) in the 1940s.

[xb] SVET: ie "LIGHT'"; possibly Aleksander Andreevich RAEV.

[xvi] KILISTRAT: ie "CALISTRATUS"; Aleksander Semenovhich FOMIN.

[xvii] PLANT: The Soviet Consulate.

[xviii] METR: ie "METRE"; Joel BARR.

[xix] TYRE: NEW YORK CITY.

VENONA

TOP SECRET

[scratched out]USSR Ref No. [redacted] 13/7/60)

[Redacted] Issued [redacted] 29/9/76

Copy No. 301

REISSUE [i]

ORGANISATION OF WORK ON ENORMOUS AND PHOTOGRAPHY OF MATERIAL: ARNO. PERS. OSA. KALIBER. LIBERAL. "MLAD". Kh' YuS, Svet. KALISTRAT. METR (1944)

From: NEW YORK

To: MOSCOW

Nos.: 1749, 1750 13 December 1944

[2-part message complete]

[PART I] To Viktor [ii].

Your Nos. 5740[iii] and 5797[iii].

We consider it risky to concentrate all the contacts relating to ENORMOUS [ENORMOZ] [iv] on ARNO [v] alone. This is good in that it limits the circles of [2 groups unrecovered] persons but it is dangerous to disrupt [1 group unrecovered] work on ENORMOUS

[45 groups unrecoverable]

PERS[vi]. [7 groups unrecovered] Camp-1 [vii]. Our proposal

[24 groups unrecovered]

not to give [D5 any more] on ENORMOUS.

2. To leave OSA[viii] and KALIBER[ix] in contact with LIBERAL[x] until [3 groups unrecovered] work.

Cont'd overleaf

VENONA

TOP SECRET [scratched out]

DECLASSIFIED

Authority NW 23159

By [illegible] NARA, Date 5/7/03

[Complete document and transcript at link]

[vintage-every-day]

Model Carol Lorell walks down 3rd avenue in the east ’60s of Manhattan in January 1940. Photo by Alfred Eisenstaedt.

[scavengedluxury]

Kálmán Széll Square, Budapest, 1941. From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive.

[captainbearclaws]

It’s nice to see fathers in such old art and ads cause all we commonly know and are taught about that time was that dads were uninvolved and it was only mothers who cared for kids

Carnation, 1944

Theme Week: Fathers 👨‍🍼