1950s Collection (page 26)

Shigeru Yoshida arrives at the San Francisco Peace Treaty, USA, April 1952. Yoshida was Prime Minister of Japan at the time

Wooden toys being finished in Vienna, Austria, bound for America, 1952. Part of the programme of US economic aid to Austria after World War II

A artist from Linz painting the Limberg Dam, Austria, c1947-1951. The dam, part of a large hydroelectricity project, was built with the assistance of the Marshall plan

Radium treatment to cure a nasal infection, France, c1947-1951
Radium treatment to cure a nasal infection, France, 20th century. Part of the Marshall Plan mercy mission. The Marshall Plan was a massive programme of US aid for the reconstruction of Europe after

Monks at dinner in the refectory, Asile St Leon, France, c1947-1951. French Benedictine monks that combine running a hybrid corn experiment farm (part of the Marshall Plan), and an old peoples home

Eleven yeat old boy in an iron lung, Beaujon Hospital, Paris, c1947-1951
Eleven year old boy in an iron lung, Beaujon Hospital, Paris, c1947-1951. Part of the Marshall Plan mercy mission. The Marshall Plan was a massive programme of US aid for the reconstruction of Europe

Umberto Bratti, a Donzere-Mondragon canal and power worker, 1952. The Donzere-Mondragon dam on the River Rhone in France was built in 1952. It provides hydroelectric power

Helicopter landing at Tan Son Nhut Air Base, Saigon, Vietnam, 1953

French Foreign Legion postcard, 1952. The Legion in the Sahara

Henri Etienne St Claire Deville, 19th century French chemist, (c1955). In 1854 Deville (1818-1881) discovered the process for obtaining pure aluminium by reducing aluminium chloride with sodium

The Mercury Seven astronauts, 1959. A group photo in spacesuits of the seven test pilots chosen in April 1959 to participate in Project Mercury, NASAs manned space project

Gargoyle on tower, York Minster, 1958. Artist: CM Dixon
Gargoyle on tower, York Minster, 1958. The largest gothic cathedral in northern Europe and seat of the Archbishop of York

Market Place, York, 1958 Artist: CM Dixon
Market Place, York, 1958. Historic walled city founded by the Romans as Eboracum in 71 AD providin the backdrop to major political events in England throughout much of its two millennia

Street Scene, York, 1958. Artist: CM Dixon
Street Scene, York, 1958. Historic walled city founded by the Romans as Eboracum in 71 AD providin the backdrop to major political events in England throughout much of its two millennia

The Shambles and York Minister, York, 1958. Artist: CM Dixon
The Shambles and York Minister, York, 1958. An old street in York, with overhanging timber-framed buildings, some dating back as far as the fourteenth century and Gothic cathedral

Underground Railway, Leningrad, 1970s. Artist: CM Dixon
Underground Railway, Leningrad, 1970s. Saint Petersburg Metro has been open since 15 November 1955 and is one of the deepest metro systems in the world

Underground Railway, Leningrad, c1970s. Artist: CM Dixon
Underground Railway, Leningrad, c1970s. Saint Petersburg Metro has been open since 15 November 1955 and is one of the deepest metro systems in the world

Munich Astrological Cloc, 1950s
Munich Astrological Clock, 1950s

Boris Pasternak, Russian poet and novelist, Peredelkino, USSR, 1952. Pasternak (1890-1960) is best known outside of Russia as the author of the epic novel Doctor Zhivago, published in 1957

A soda-machine in Moscow

Harrys Truman, 33rd President of the USA, 1945-1953. Truman (1884-1972) took over as President when Franklin D Roosevelt died in April 1945

Vision of an intellectual family in the 1950s, 1883
Vision of an intellectual family in the 1950s. Anticipated result of selective breeding in Man. From A. Robida Le Vingtieme Siecle, Paris, 1883

Bertrand Arthur William Russell (1872-1970), British philosopher and mathematician. Nobel prize for literature 1950

Albert Schweitzer, medical missionary
Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965) Alsatian medical missionary and theologian, philosopher and musican

Telephone switchboard, 1956

Soviet poster commemorating May Day, 1950. Artist: A Bearob
Soviet poster commemorating May Day, 1950

Marshall Plan of US aid for the reconstruction of Europe after WWII, c1948-c1959. The Krorhout Manufacturing Company, Amsterdam, a beneficiary of the scheme

The Death of Stalin, 8th March, 1953. News and photographs of Stalins death from L Humanite Dimanche, published on the 8th March, 1953

News of Stalins death, 7th March, 1953. Article in L Humanite, entitled After the Death of Comrade Stalin, published on 7th March, 1953

Page from Klees golf catalogue, American, c 1940-c1960. The page features illustrations of Wilson Sam Snead Model golf clubs

JH Taylor (1871-1963), five times Open champion, c1940
JH Taylor (1871-1963), five times Open champion, autographed photograph c1940

Eternal Flame in the Field of Mars, St Petersburg, Russia, 2011. Artist: Sheldon Marshall
Eternal Flame in the Field of Mars, St Petersburg, Russia, 2011. The Field of Mars is a park in St Petersburg. The Eternal Flame was lit in 1957

Miss 606, 2012. Artist: Alan John Ainsworth
Miss 606, Cheltenham Jazz Festival, 2012

1954 Studebaker Commander. Creator: Unknown
1954 Studebaker Commander

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