Dorothy Lamour sings in colorful tones whilst Hotel Berlin appears to be on something of a cloak and dagger lockdown. Tense nerves make a body quarrelsome while khaki pants-wearing gentlemen folk sip whisky after gardening. A Helena Rubenstein cosmetic color wheel acts as a guide to ladies looking for that elusive combination of enviable luxury and seemingly effortless glamour. Coal is busy making steel while "bluejackets" revel in a moist shave. Such was life in the advertising of the (now seemingly innocent) 1940s... colorful and comical in some places, stark and dramatic in others.
1940s advertising illustrations and personal photos from when America was fighting the good fight.
1940s, 50s & 60s overlaps. All of life's "major themes": World War 2, Suburban Americana, Romance, Fishing and Piglets!
World War 2-era faces of men, captured by amateur snapshooters and photobooths.
