A young passenger asks a station attendant for directions. Bristol Railway Station, England, 1936Actress Anna May Wong, 1938Elephant’s tea party, Robur Tea Room, 1939.“Please Mr Motorist, watch out for me”, 1937Worker on beam of building at 40 Wall Street, 1930.Car show in London, 1932.Ginger Rogers, 1937A Smoke and a Ride. Birmingham, England. 1930s.A little girl holds a penguin’s flipper as they walk together around the London Zoo, 1937.Fashion in Paris, 1930s.Study of a small girl with a prize Scottish terrier dog, 1935Ice for sale. Harlingen, Texas, 1939.‘Dangerous But Passable,’ San Francisco, 1935.Berlin decorated for the visit of Mussolini in September 1937.Screenwriter Irvin S Cobb, host of the 7th Academy Awards in 1935, gives a special, tiny Oscar to Shirley Temple for her ‘outstanding contribution’ to the industry in 1934, a year when the 6-year-old star made 12 movies.Publicity shot for the Frank Dillon Tire Co., 1933.New York Public Library Book Wagon, New York City, 1930sDrive-in shoe repairing, 1938.First Bikini, 1936A cowgirl puts a nickel in an El Paso parking meter to hitch her pony, October 1939.Carpenter’s Sandwiches, Sunset and Vine, Los Angeles, 1932.A telephone operator at Haywards Heath telephone exchange, 1937.The 1930s smoking style, 1934.Prostitutes, Mexico City, 1934.The famous 1934 photograph of the Loch Ness monster.Hotdog stand in North End, corner of Hanover and Blackstone Street, Boston, 1937.Marina Ginesta, a 17-year-old communist militant, overlooking Barcelona from Hotel Colón during the Spanish Civil War, 1936.Miss Cigar Queen contestants, Los Angeles, 1937.Tea on the diving board at Finchley swimming pool, London, 1938.Japanese school girls receiving shooting training, 1930s.Young women at the beach, 1930s.Workmen dismantling the clock outside the Daily Telegraph for the building’s remodel, London, 1930.Free calisthenics lessons are given daily for beach visitors in Long Island, New York, 1939.Women walking in the rain, Paris, 1934Downtown Ventura, California, 1930.Two young women enjoying themselves on a rollercoaster at Southend Fair, England, 1938.Electricians working on the Eiffel Tower, Paris, 1937.Little boy selling Coca-Cola, Atlanta, 1936.Huge Black Cat, San Diego, 1935.Man enjoying the End of Prohibition. Cleveland, Ohio, December 1933A figure-skating man in New York City, 1937Mae West with her diary, 1930sBerlin, 1930sYoung woman riding on the back of a turtle at Mon Repos Beach, 1930.Actresses exercising, 1933.Cider and apple stand on Lee Highway, Virginia, 1935.Jean Harlow and Clark Gable in “Red Dust”, 1932A Jewish woman who is concealing her face sits on a park bench marked “Only for Jews”, Austria, 1938.1939 “Oscar Mayer Ice” Streamline Delivery TruckBridesmaid and two flowergirls enter the church, St. Marks, Darling Point, Sydney, 1935.
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