1940s & 1950s

Photos of a neighborhood cat by Woody Guthrie, NYC, 1947

A woman and her family inside their igloo in NWT in the 1940s

pictures taken by photography students at the california labor school, 1942.

Marilyn Monroe wearing glasses

Dark Passage (1947) dir. Delmer Daves

Marilyn Monroe eating a hot dog at an outdoor table in New York, NY, 1957. Photo by Sam Shaw.

Student at Howard University, 1946

FRED ASTAIRE performs "You're All the World to Me" — Royal Wedding (1951) dir. Stanley Donen

MONKEY BUSINESS (1952) dir. Howards Hawks

Rope (1948)

SHIRLEY MACLAINE as Irene Molloy ⭑ The Matchmaker (1958, dir. Joseph Anthony)

Jimmy Stewart and Cary Grant The Philadelphia Story | 1940

The Shop Around the Corner (1940) dir. Ernst Lubitsch

Marius Goring as Conductor 71 A Matter of Life and Death (1946) dir. Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell

Carolyn Jones drinking a Coca-Cola, circa 1956

THE GHOST AND MRS. MUIR (1947) dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Dir. Jacques Tourneur