#1940s photos

[histcryprincess]

French girls wearing their German boyfriends uniforms during World War 2. The photo on the right was found on a German POW.

[inthedarktrees]

Nina Leen, “Summer Underwear,” Life, May 1949  

[helluvatimes]

Hello! Forties

A lady taking a call in the local museum. Photo credit: Jonathan Chua.

Taken in a local museum with the Leica X-Vario. At ISO6400, the shutter speed was a mere 1/80 second due to the slow lens. Image was converted to sepia in post processing to lend an impression of life in the 1940s.

[eternityphotos]

Unique photo model Eve Meyer.

[sealedintime]

Paris after the Liberation, 1944, photo by Lee Miller

[wh0-is-lily]

'Summer Underwear' for LIFE Magazine⁣, 1949 Photography by Nina Leen

[soft-homestyle]

Hedy Lamarr

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Stay cozy.

@soft-homestyle

[monkeypants]

[weirdlookindog]

Leonor Fini, Paris, 1946

[mylittlevintageworld]

[histcryprincess]

German soldiers during a break at the 1936 summer Olympics.

[inthedarktrees]

Walter Sanders, “Speaking of Pictures,” Life, 1946

[ilovemesomevincentprice]

Vincent Price - The Web (1947)

[eternityphotos]

Gorgeous Jayne Mansfield in front of a photographer

[sealedintime]

Vivien Leigh at the British embassy in Paris, in 1947

[retropopcult]

Happy Halloween from Barbara Bates and Penny Edwards, 1947