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1948 photo of a
young family in Levittown, NY.
The Nuremburg
Trials take place for the Nazis in 1946.
Mao Tse Tung
brings the Communists to power in 1949.
Jackie Robinson
breaks the Major League baseball color barrier in 1947.
Bathing suit 1949
style.
A Los Angeles
subdivision in 1949.
President Harry
Truman campaigning in 1948.
The Berlin Airlift in
1948-1949.
President Harry
Truman proves the political pundits wrong in the 1948 election.
A crowded trailer
park in 1946.
Close quarters in a
house trailer in 1948.
A new 1949
Studebaker.
Two women play
billiards in 1947.
Two couples in
casual dress in 1947.
1947 sees the two
couples dressed up, but still casual.
Victor Mature and
Hedy Lamarr star in "Samson and Delilah" in 1949.
A 1948
Chevrolet.
George Mikan and
the Minneapolis Lakers take the BAA crown in 1948.
Sign group studying
UFO's in 1948.
Natalie Wood and
Barbara Stanwyck on the set in 1946.
After the creation
of Israel in 1948, Jewish immigrants come in to the country.
Trygve Lie of
Norway becomes the first UN Secretary-General in 1946.
India's Mohandas
Gandhi is assassinated in 1948.
A sleigh ride in
1946.
General Dwight
Eisenhower at a dog show in 1948.
A child taking an
outoor bath in 1946.
A young woman in
1949.
A young couple in
1947.
A family snapshot
in Dallas, Texas in 1949.
A formal portrait of
a young woman in 1949.
A pretty young
woman in this 1948 snapshot.
A young boy on a
tractor in 1949.
Children with their
Easter attire in 1948.
Teenage attire in
1948.
A young couple in
1948.
A pretty young high
school girl in 1949.
Student thespians in
1948.
Four young co-eds
pose atop a monument in 1949.
High school
students hamming it up before the camera in 1949.
Five teenage boys
pose for the camera in 1948.
Cheerleaders at a
high school in 1949.
Check out this
basketball squad in 1949.
A high school junior
class picture in 1948.
Queen of the
Halloween Festival in the fall of 1948.
All-American Girls
baseball player Elizabeth Mahon in 1946.
An injured baseball
player in 1946.
University of
Havana in 1947.
Typical forties
fashion for women in 1946.
Pamela Brown and
John Gielgud in a stage play entitled "This Lady's Not for Burning", in 1948.
Burlesque dressing
room in 1946.
Chamber of
commerce beauty queen candidates in 1946.
Dancing rehearsal
in 1947.
French actress,
Corinne Calvet, in 1949.
A couple enjoying
the night in 1946.
Tennis star, Eleanor
Cushingham, relaxes at a solarium in 1947.
A young, would-be
actress enjoying a chat in 1946.
A young woman
ponders her drink at a nightclub in 1948.
A snazzy 1949
Buick.
Communist Greek
resistant fighters in 1949.
Women's high
fashion in 1946.
The latest dress
from Paris in 1949.
Three army buddies
in 1949.
A woman clowning
around in 1949.
A Saturday
afternoon in a small Iowa town in 1946.
George C. Marshall
was highly respected as Secretary of State in 1947.
Hideki Tojo,
dictator of Japan, on trial for war crimes in 1947.
A massacre in
Calcutta, India in 1947.
Harry Truman and
Winston Churchill in Fulton, Missouri in 1947.
Herman Goering
convicted of war crimes in 1946.
Chuck Yager
breaks the sound barrier in 1947.
The Indianapolis
Motor Speedway re-opens in 1946 after World War II.
Mauri Rose crashes
during the 1946 Indianapolis "500".
The start of the
1947 Indianapolis "500".
Hydroplane legend,
Bill Cantrell, recovering from a spin during the 1949 Indy "500".
Bill Cantrell after
qualifying for the 1948 Indy race in Lou Fageol's "500" entry.
The Harry Truman
family voting in the 1948 election.
Guests on an early
Ed Sullivan TV show in 1948.
A Japanese serial murderer,
Sadamichi Hirasawa, killed 12 people in 1948.
Post war cars in 1946. Here
is a new Cadillac.
The appearance of grade schools
changed in the 1940's.
The 1947-48 version
of the NCAA champs, the Kentucky Wildcats.
The look of high schools was changing
in the 1940's.
Edith Piaf was the top French
songstress in 1946.
Jawaharlal Nehru became the first
Prime Minister of an independent India in 1947.
George Orwell pens 1984
in 1949.
Chuck Yager breaks the sound barrier
in October, 1947.
An explosion in Texas City, Texas
claims almost 600 in 1947.
The "Spruce Goose", a wooden airplane built
by Howard Hughes, in 1947, and flown--once.
At the age of 46, Satchel Paige makes his Major
League debut in 1948.
The first Secretary of Defense, James Forrestal,
commits suicide in 1949.
The latest hydroplane in Detroit in 1949.
The 1946 NIT champions, the Kentucky
Wildcats.
"It's Howdy Doody Time!" on TV beginning
in 1947.
A 1946 Coca-Cola ad.
Ethel Merman in "Annie Get Your Gun"
in 1946.
A new television set in 1947.
1948 sees Joe Louis take out Jersey Joe Walcott.
Actor Ronald Reagan testifies before the House Committee
on Un-American Activities in 1947.
A beautiful 1948 Cadillac.
Author of "Gone With The Wind", Margaret Mitchell,
is run down by a car in 1949, in Atlanta.
Colonel Russ Schleeh pilots a jet cross country in four hours,
in 1949, a new record.
A youthful Billy Graham in 1946.
The 1947-48 Washington Capitols of the new NBA.
Early NBA action in 1947.
A couple in Ohio get married on a flag pole platform in 1946.
The University of Kentucky Wildcats ruled college basketball in the 1940's.
Check out these food prices in this 1947 NYC food market.
The great Ted Williams at bat in 1946.
