Chairman Mao proclaiming the establishment of the People's Republic of China 1st October, in Beijing. . Mao Zedong , also known as Chairman Mao, was...
American baseball player Jackie Robinson of the Brooklyn Dodgers, USA, 28th August 1949. The Dodgers played the Pittsburgh Pirates at Ebbets Field in...
International Football Friendly match at Goodison Park, Liverpool. Ireland defeat England 0-2 becoming the first foreign team to defeat England on...
Chairman Mao proclaiming the establishment of the People's Republic of China 1st October, in Beijing. . Mao Zedong , also known as Chairman Mao, was...
Gorgeous Gussie Moran, American National Indoors Singles Champion, shows off her outfit, which she will be wearing at Wimbledon tomorrow, designed by...
Israeli commandos participate in a running exercise during training at an unspecified location, February 1949.
Jackie Robinson Second Baseman for the Brooklyn Dodgers slides into 3rd base as Bill Johnson, Third Baseman for the New York Yankees, #27 Milt Stock,...
Germans in West Berlin salvage food from the wreckage of an Avro York which crashed before landing at RAF Gatow, Berlin, during the Berlin Airlift,...
British Royal Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh, holding her baby son, Prince Charles of Edinburgh, as they leave for the Sandringham Estate...
American actors Lon McAllister Marilyn Monroe and Don Defore posing with a vacuum cleaner at a 'dream house' - a competition prize, which Monroe is...
May Chairman Mao at the Chinese Communist Party's Seventh Plenary Session. Mao Zedong , was a Chinese communist revolutionary who became the founding...
American President Harry Truman and Vice President Alben Barkley, both seated, turn toward the camera during an inauguration lunch, with Bess Truman,...
American President Harry Truman stands in three-quarter length view, flanked by his family and Vice President Alben Barkley and his daughter Marian...
View of the Chinese National Flag in Badaling, the most visited section of the Great Wall of China. On Wednesday, 27 September 2017, in Badaling,...
English film director Carol Reed with American actor Orson Welles on the set of 'The Third Man', 1949. Original publication: Picture Post - The Third...
Boy watching the shipping in the Pool of London from the north bank of the Thames at Wapping, east London, December 1949. Original publication:...
Marshall plan, President Truman signs the Economic Assistance Act, a program for the reconstruction of Europe. , April 19 Etats-Unis, National...
German-born neurologist Professor Ludwig Guttmann instructing a group of physiotherapists at the National Spinal Injuries Centre at Stoke Mandeville...
Little girls running down a grassy hillside. Original Publication: Picture Post - 4848 - Country Holiday - pub. 1949
Man guides a 10-ton stainless steel fermenting tun, constructed in Leven, Glasgow, as it is hoisted by a crane at Glasgow docks onto the ship...
Guinness advertisement in the Elephant and Castle, south London, January 1949. The slogan reads: 'My Goodness, My Guinness.' Original Publication:...
Two starving women at a rehabilitation camp in Jokjakarta, Indonesia, where they are being fed by Dutch Government Agencies.
On his arrival in London, Leicester City fan, George Hughes cheers and waves his rattles fervently in support of his team before their Cup-tie...
Make up in the 1940s. The young actress and model Haide Göransson, 1928-2008, is putting on lipstick. She is sitting on a bench a sunny day in a...
Television in the 1940s. A proud owner of an early television set demonstrates adjusts the picture on the screen by turning the knobs in the front....
The twin spires of Cologne Cathedral rise above the rubble of postwar Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Federal Republic of Germany, 1949.
Young Jewish woman from London erecting a barbed wire fence at Kibbutz Yas'ur, a new co-operative farming settlement in Galilee, northern Israel,...
The National flag of India being hoisted watched by the High Commissioner V. K. Krishna Menon and Christopher Addison, 1st Viscount Addison , Lord...
Headshot of America child actress Natalie Wood, her hair braided, wearing a checked shirt, United States, circa 1949. The image is possibly a...
Section of the crowds that had gathered to buy tickets for American actor, comedian, singer and dancer Danny Kaye's tour date at the Manchester...
Shawl, Hinggi kombu, Shawl with horses and patola motifs., anonymous, Soemba, 1900 - 1949, cotton , length 257 cm × length 252 cm × width 138 cm.
American actress Marilyn Monroe sitting on the arm of an armchair alongside competition winner Virginia McAllister and her son, Gordon, as Monroe...
English professional footballer Ted Sagar , Goalkeeper for Everton Football Club jumps to reach the the football from Jimmy Logie of Arsenal Football...
Million tons of coal during Berlin airlift, 18 February 1949. A blue flag bearing the legend '1 000 tons' flies from this British York aircraft as it...
Referee RJ Leafe looks on as Billy Liddell from Scotland and Outside Left for Liverpool Football Club running with the football prepares to pass...
Unspecified crew on the Brooklyn Bridge during the filming of 'On The Town' on location in New York City, New York, 1949. Directed by Stanley Donen...
Chairman Mao proclaiming the establishment of the People's Republic of China 1st October, in Beijing. . Mao Zedong , also known as Chairman Mao, was...
Picture of starting eleven of Grande Torino football team and a banner reading 'Your legend will never be forgotten. Honor the invincibles' are seen...
General view shows the monument dedicated to commemorate the Superga tragedy. On May 4 an airplane carrying the Grande Torino football team from...
