1940s life

U.S. Everyday life, 1940s More

One in wartime Britain, the other in pre-war America 1941 - In late 1941 - quite coincidentally, there were two picture essays of a typical day in the lives of two different women in the

The World War II had made an impact on American life. Manufacturers began to put more effort into supplying the wartime needs of Europe, cre...

Don't know the exact location of this picture, but apparently in or around the home where we lived in Florida... ********************************** All of the photos in this album are “originals” from the period when I was an infant in the mid-1940s — i.e., the period before I lived in Omaha, Riverside, Roswell, New York, Ft. Worth, and Denver (photos of which you may have seen already in my Flickr archives). Before I get into the details, let me make a strong request — if you’re…

Here are a few unstaged photos from the 1940s that show what life in the Bay State was really like almost 80 years ago.

1940s homemaking is a fascinating topic. The strength and creativity exhibited by the homemakers of that era inspires me and makes me want to learn more about how they coped during a difficult time period.