Forties Collection (page 14)

People with roulette wheel, Nevada, USA
People gathered around a roulette wheel, Nevada, USA. Date: circa 1940s

Harolds Club at night, Virginia Street, Reno, Nevada, USA
Harolds Club at night with its giant ceramic mural, Virginia Street, Reno, Nevada, USA, with the Reno Club on the right. Date: 1949

Club Row at night, Virginia Street, Reno, Nevada, USA. Date: 1940s

Del Norte wonder stump, near Crescent City, California, USA
Del Norte wonder stump, a fallen redwood tree near Crescent City, California, USA. Date: circa 1940

Title page design, For Victory Paint Book, WW2
Title page design, For Victory Paint Book, with Allied flags and a V sign, used as a propaganda symbol for Victory during the Second World War. Date: 1940s

Bovril drinking film scene, In Which We Serve, WW2
Bovril drinking film scene, In Which We Serve (directed by Noel Coward and David Lean, 1942), showing soldiers rescued from Dunkirk on the bridge of a destroyer with mugs of hot Bovril rather heavily

Bovril and Pemmican products, WW2
Bovril and Pemmican products, together with oatmeal, meat and tea, supplied in ration packs during the Second World War. Date: 1940s

Bovril factory at Ampthill, Bedfordshire, WW2
Aerial view of the new Bovril factory at Ampthill, Bedfordshire, built outside London to avoid bombing raids during the Second World War. The factory was operational by the end of 1940

Bovril factory bombed, Old Street, London, WW2
Bovril factory bombed, Old Street, London, during the Second World War in the autumn of 1940. A large consignment of goods ready for dispatch was destroyed, windows were shattered

Las Cadenas bar, Seville, Spain
Street with Las Cadenas bar (right), and a partial view of the Giralda belltower in the distance (left), Seville, Spain. Date: circa 1940

Poster, Dig for Victory, WW2
Poster, Dig for Victory, step on it! 1940s

Poster, The need is growing, Dig for Victory still, WW2
Poster, The need is growing, Dig for Victory still. 1940s

Dutch wartime poster -- Be Brave, Be Stormers. Showing a young cadet in uniform, carrying a flag. Date: 1940s

One Battle, One Will, One Goal
German World War Two propaganda poster - One Battle, One Will, One Goal...Victory at any price - showing workers and soldiers working towards victory

WW2 - Ju88 attacked by Spitfires - ditched off Pagham, Essex
1940

Poster, Churchills praise for RAF Pilots
Poster, Never was so much owed by so many to so few - Prime Minister Winston Churchill from a speech made on 20 August 1940

Pasadena, California, USA - Palm Tree-lined Street
Pasadena, California, USA - A Palm Tree-lined Residential Street Date: 1946

Advert for stockings by Bear Brand 1940
Luxury stocking, showing a model holding up a pair of sheer Bear Brand stockings Date: 1940

Hello Stranger - A large dog greets a little black kitten who is walking along his back. Date: 1940s

Birthday Card design - Men playing football with some fans on the touchline supporting their side. Date: circa 1950

Birthday Card design - Glamour, Pin-Up, Woman on Telephone. Date: circa 1950

Pakistan International Airlines - Douglas DC-3
Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) - Douglas DC-3 passenger aircraft. Date: 1947

The Spit Bridge, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
The Spit Bridge - a steel and concrete girder bridge with a bascule lift span across the Middle Harbour, northeast of the central business district in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Rio Nido Hotel, Sonoma County, California, USA
Rio Nido Hotel, Russian River, Sonoma County, California, USA, a famous music venue. Date: 1942

The Old Post Office - Tintagel, Cornwall
The Old Post Office, viewed from the north-east. The Old Post Office is thought to date from the 14th or 15th century. Originally a manor house or stewards house

Black GIs at Rainbow Corner, London American Red Cross Club
Black GIs in the Information Bureau at Rainbow Corner, the London American Red Cross Club. Thousands of messages are written on a large blackboard

Havana, Cuba - The National Hotel (centre) (Hotel Nacional) Date: circa 1940s

Paris, France - La Tour Eiffel and Avenue de New York Date: circa 1940

Paris, France - Basilique de Sacre-Coeur de Montmartre. Date: circa 1940

Main Street, Gibraltar. British sailors stationed at Gibraltar using some of their spare time to do a spot of shopping. Date: circa late 1940s

Peggy Piano Desmond - BBC Queen of the Ivories
Peggy Piano Desmond (1913-1977) - The BBCs Queen of the Ivories Date: circa 1943

HM Submarine Trump - P333 - T Class
HMS Trump (pennant number P333) was a British submarine of the third group of the T class. She was built by Vickers Armstrong, Barrow

Members of the Ballet Montmartre pose for artist, Harrogate
Members of the Ballet Montmartre (on tour in the UK as part of an all-French Variety Bill) pose for Hungarian Artist Jean-Georges Simon in Harrogate

Sindbads Blue Lagoon near Malindi, Kenya, East Africa
Hotel Sindbads Blue Lagoon near Malindi, Kenya, East Africa. The Hotel is now in ruins. Date: circa late 1940s

Berlin, Germany - after WW2 - Town Hall, Konigstrasse with Marienkirche in background. Date: circa 1945

Berlin, Germany - after WW2 - Chancellery - Mosaic Hall Date: circa 1945

Khedivial Mail Line S. A. E. T. S. S. El Malek Fouad
Khedivial Mail Line S.A.E. T.S.S. El Malek Fouad. Built in 1947, re-named Nefertiti in 1956 and then re-named Olbia in 1961. Date: 1940s

The Vega (Vegetarian) Restaurant, London WC2 - on the corner of Whitcomb Street and Panton Street. Opened by German emigrants Walter Fliess (1901-1985) and his wife Jenny in 1934

Place Name Large Letter Card - Chico, California Date: 1943

1940s Wedding party - September 14th 1944. Taken from an album of photographs prepared by the new wife (in this shot) for her husband who worked overseas

Thora Hird - British Actress
Thora Hird (1911-2003) - British Actress. Best known for her roles in Meet the Wife, a 1960s BBC situation comedy and her 17-year role as Edie Pegden in Last of the Summer Wine. Date: circa 1942

Pan American Boeing 314 - Yankee Clipper, USA
Pan American Boeing 314 - Yankee Clipper - USA. IN service 1939-1943 - crashed in Portugal when coming in to dock when the wing hit the sea when turning. Of the 39 people on board, 24 died

German parachute troops, WW2
Germanys Newest Weapon - The Parachute Troops. The New Method of Warfare in the Attack on the Low Countries. Date: 1940

Model wearing tight knitted sweater in fancy rib stitch. Date: 1940

Model wearing a tight knitted sweater in a diamond pattern of rib and garter stitch. Date: 1940

Illustration of how buttons can be used as decorative trims to garments. Date: 1940

Model wearing a blouse with a collar decorated in buttons. Date: 1940

Model wearing a knitted bolero jacket. Date: 1940

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