Troopships Depart Sydney

This photo is from a collection depicting the wartime departure of the 6th Division for the Middle East,
9-10 January 1940.

Flickr | State Library New South Wales

Here Come the Cars

February 1940. "Auto transport passing through Eufaula, Oklahoma." Now playing at the Chief: "Hunchback of Notre Dame." by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration.

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Eddie Cano

Childhood portrait of Eddie Cano (he became famous Latin jazz musician), circa 1940.

Childhood portrait of Eddie Cano (he became famous Latin jazz musician), circa 1940.

Source: Los Angeles Public Library

Seydou Keïta

Seydou Keïta (1921 in Bamako, Mali — November 21, 2001 in Paris) was a self-taught portrait photographer from Bamako. He is mostly known for his portraits of people and families he took between 1940 and the early sixties and that are widely acknowledged not only as a record of Malian society, but also as pieces of art.

Source: wikipedia

Vintage Photo

McDonald's Corporation  is the world's largest chain of hamburger fast food restaurants, serving around 68 million customers daily in 119 countries. Headquartered in the United States, the company began in 1940 as a barbecue restaurant operated by Richard and Maurice McDonald; in 1948 they reorganized their business as a hamburger stand using production line principles. Businessman Ray Kroc joined the company as a franchise agent in 1955. He subsequently purchased the chain from the McDonald brothers and oversaw its worldwide growth.

Source: wikipedia | funbazaar

Vintage Photo

"A Frenchman weeps as German soldiers march into the French capital, Paris, on June 14, 1940, after the Allied armies had been driven back across France."  - French people bid troops of the French Army goodbye as they leave metropolitan France at Marseille harbour, 1941, to reach the French colonies in Africa to be organized as Free French Forces.

Source: National Archives and Records Administration, http://www.archives.gov/research/military/ww2/photos/images/ww2-81.jpg

Vintage Photos

Vintage Jockstrap Photo, c.1940

Source: wikimedia

The Golden Gate Quartet

The Golden Gate Quartet is an American vocal group. It was formed in 1934 and, with changes in membership, remains active. It is the most successful of all of the African-American gospel music groups who sang in the jubilee quartet style. c. 1940

Source: washermansdog

Vintage Photo

Anti-Lynch campaign, vintage postcard

 In 1937 and again in 1940, yet two more anti-lynching bills passed through the House of Representatives, but were defeated in the Senate. Although the NAACP had failed to get a federal law passed, lynching had almost disappeared by 1950. - vintage

Source: legendsofamerica