Lucille Baldwin Brown

 Lucille Baldwin Brown was born on Suwannee Street in Smokey Hollow community to Mr. and Mrs. Dallis Baldwin (who co-founded St. John now New St. John Church). Lucille was the first black public county librarian. ca. 1940s

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Rosa Parks

Rosa Parks in the 1940s. Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was an African-American civil rights activist, whom the U.S. Congress called "the first lady of civil rights", and "the mother of the freedom movement". Wikipedia Text

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Dymaxion House

Interior view of Buckminster Fuller’s “Dymaxion” house. Photographer: John Philips - 1941  

The Dymaxion House made Fuller suddenly famous on the American architectural scene. The house was a turn away from the orthogonal plan, hexagonal symmetry, a tripod supporting pole in the center from which cables stretch out to the decks- like spokes and a rim from the hub of a wheel. The outer walls of vacuum casein elements are a non-load-bearing screen - opaque, transparent, or translucent. The rooms are lit indirectly by a system of mirror prisms. Publication : 1929
Production : Wichita, Kansas : 1944 - 1945

Interior view of Buckminster Fuller’s “Dymaxion” house. Photographer: John Philips - 1941

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Swing Ride

People enjoying themselves on the swing ride held at the Hoppings fairin Newcastle. 1940's

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Betti Mays

Betti Mays was a dancer, singer and popular chorus girl in the 1940's. She  appeared in soundies and films. 

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Laurel and Hardy

Laurel and Hardy were one of the most popular and critically acclaimed comedy double acts of the early Classical Hollywood era of American cinema. 

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Shelley Winters

1940s cheesecake photo of Shelley Winters

Shelley Winters, (August 18, 1920 – January 14, 2006) was an American actress who appeared in dozens of films, as well as on stage and television; her career spanned over 50 years until her death in 2006. Two-time Oscar-winning actress Shelley Winters borrowed her stage name from her favorite poet, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and her mother's maiden name, Winter.

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Madge Bellamy

Madge Bellamy (June 30, 1899 – January 24, 1990) was an American film actress who was a popular leading lady in the 1920s and early 1930s. Her career declined in the sound era, and ended following a romantic scandal in the 1940s. 

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Canada Lee

Canada Lee, (March 3, 1907 — May 9, 1952) was an American actor who pioneered roles for African Americans. A champion of civil rights in the 1930s and 1940s, he died shortly before he was scheduled to appear before the House Un-American Activities Committee. (Lee has signed and inscribed this fine sepia toned photograph, stamped on verso, "A. Steiner Photographer...." "To my sister Helen Martin From her brother 'Bigger' Canada Lee.")

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Irene Dunne

Irene Dunne (December 20, 1898 – September 4, 1990) was an American film actress and singer of the 1930s, 1940s and early 1950s. Dunne was nominated five times for the Academy Award for Best Actress, for her performances in Cimarron, Theodora

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Dean Stockwell

Dean Stockwell (born March 5, 1936) is an American actor of film and television, with a career spanning over 65 years. Photogenic American child actor of the 1940s, popular due in no small measure to his air of innocence and his beautiful, cherubic face with its dimples and his sparkling eyes, topped with a crown of curls. Still an actor in demand. |  Cropped screenshot of Dean Stockwell from the trailer for the film Stars in My Crown. c. 1950,

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Mitzi Mayfair

Mitzi Mayfair with the Ziegfeld Follies where she performed from July 1, 1931 to November 21, 1931

Mitzi Mayfair, born as Emylyn Pique, (6 June 1914 - May 1976) took the professional name of Mitzi Mayfair. She was a tap dancer in Broadway plays and appeared in movies from the mid-1930s into the 1940s. She was married to 20th Century Fox executive Charles Henderson. Her biggest claim on enduring fame was appearing as herself in the movie Four Jills in a Jeep (1944); the true story of this movie chronicles how she and three other Hollywood celebrities went to the front lines of World War Two to entertain the U.S. Troops.

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James Baskett

James Baskett (February 16, 1904 – July 9, 1948) was an American actor known for his portrayal of Uncle Remus, singing the song "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah" in the 1940s Disney feature film Song of the South.

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Marie Bryant

Hollywood dancer and choreographer Marie Bryant (November 6, 1917 - May 23, 1978). Marie was one of the most popular Black exotic dancer of the late 1930s and early 1940s. A former Cotton Club dancer, over the years her students included Marlon Brando, Debbie Reynolds, Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, Vera-Ellen, Cyd Charisse, Ava Gardeners, and Mitzi Gaynor. She also worked with Fred Astaire’s choreographer, Hermes Pan and served as an assistant to Jack Cole.

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Vintage Film

 Gone with the Wind is a 1939 American historical epic film adapted from Margaret Mitchell's Pulitzer-winning 1936 novel of the same name. American classic in which a manipulative woman and a roguish man carry on a turbulent love affair in the American south during the Civil War and Reconstruction.

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Vintage Dancing

Bent Creek Ranch Square Dance Team at Asheville Mountain Music Festival. Lomax Collection, Library of Congress
Modern Western Square Dance is the form that was established by Lloyd Shaw in the 1930s and 1940s, who succeeded in providing clubs and callers with a standard set of calls to use.| vintage

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Hugh Mulzac

Hugh Mulzac, the first African-American captain in the U.S. Navy to command an integrated crew during World War II, with his family at a 1940s dinner in his honor.

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Vintage Photo

Vintage fancy-dressed children' portrait  from Buenos Aires, c. 1920s - 1940s

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Veronica Lake

  Veronica Lake was born in Brooklyn, New York with the birth name of Constance Frances Marie Ockelman. (November 14, 1922 – July 7, 1973) was an American film actress and pin-up model. c. 1940s

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Rita Hayworth

Rita Hayworth (born Margarita Carmen Causino: October 17, 1918 – May 14, 1987) was an American dancer and film actress who garnered fame during the 1940s as one of the era's top stars. c.1939 

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