mine: —things I've made —ao3
historical: —vintage photography —ww2 history —reading —the veterans
decided you should all know about Public Service Broadcasting's album The War Room, which explores the British experience of WW2 via the medium of its propaganda films.
Band member J. Willgoose Esq. discusses Leslie Howard's 1942 war film The First of the Few -- starring Howard as the Supermarine Spitfire's designer R. J. Mitchell and several RAF pilots as themselves -- which PSB sampled for "Spitfire":
Beuford Smith. Harlem, NY, n.d.
British WWI Propaganda
Arkady Shaikhet The Reichstag, Berlin 1945
Memphis, 1942
Lee Friedlander Maria (Friedlander’s Wife), New York City 1959
Woman with a hand crank gramophone, 1943, Sweden.
1940s
/ Nina Leen, Teenage Girls at a Football Game, Missouri, 1944.
World War I amputee fitted with a welding arm, 1920.
Fox Photos. Londoners braving the snow and sleet outside Blackfriars tube station. 1933
November 8, 1945
Chiffon and lace nightgown
(Alfred Eisenstaedt. 1938)
Someday, Chicago, ca. 1949 - by Yasuhiro Ishimoto (1921 - 2012), Japanese/American
The fog and chimney sweeps, Kragujevac
Tomislav Peternek, 1954
Photo by Russell Lee: Mr. Leatherman, homesteader, shooting hawks which have been carrying away his chickens, Pie Town, New Mexico (1940)
