Princess Margaret, left, and Princess Elizabeth, future Queen Elizabeth II, right, at the Royal Agricultural Show in 1939. Princess Margaret,...
Flags with swastikas in the streets of Gdansk at the German national day, Poland, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year LXVI, No 34, August 20, 1939.
Rear View of Two Women Walking on Curved Walk Leading from Benjamin Franklin Post Office, 12th Street near Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington DC, USA,...
British First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill at a BBC studio in London to make his first wartime radio broadcast, 1st October 1939.
Francoist army parading in front of Francisco Franco, May 19 Madrid, Spain, Spanish Civil War, 20th century.
President Franklin Roosevelt Broadcasting to Nation about European War Crisis, Washington DC, USA, Harris & Ewing, September 3, 1939.
Dude Girl "Rassling" a Calf, Quarter Circle U Ranch Roundup, Montana, USA, Arthur Rothstein, Farm Security Administration, June 1939.
Two Cowgirls, Quarter Circle U Ranch, Montana, USA, Arthur Rothstein for Farm Security Administration, June 1939.
Elsie the barmaid chats to young couples in the Quarter Deck Bar at the Majestic Hotel in Onchan Head, Isle of Man, 9th September 1939. Original...
Young Boy Riding Tricycle, Greendale, Wisconsin, USA, a Greenbelt Community Constructed by U.S. Department of Agriculture as Part of President...
Actors Claudette Colbert as Eve Peabody and Don Ameche as Tibor Czerny on a poster for the Paramount Pictures film 'Midnight', 1939.
Army Tank and U.S. Capitol Building, Army Day Parade, Washington DC, USA, Harris & Ewing, April 1939.
British Olympic skier Peter Lunn and the Hon Antoinette Preston , after their wedding at St. James's, Spanish Place, London, 24th April 1939. After...
Adolf Hitler speaking with some senior officers near the front line, Poland, World War II, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year LXVI, No 38, September...
Work Projects Administration Poster, 'WPA Rumor', Man with WPA Shovel Attacking Wolf Labeled Rumor, Artist Vera Bock, 1939.
Bert Lahr , US actor and comedian, Jack Haley , US actor, Ray Bolger , US actor, Judy Garland , US actress and singer, and Margaret Hamilton , US...
Police officers William Austin and Frederick J Read among a crowd of spectators watching the clock of Big Ben, London, as it strikes 11 o'clock on...
Ohio State, center, John Schick makes a basket during the first NCAA Photos via Getty Imagess via Getty Images Men's Basketball National Championship...
The royal family arriving at the Royal Naval College in Dartmouth, July 1939. From centre, left to right: Princess Margaret , Queen Elizabeth, King...
German invasion of Poland, 1 September 1939, using 45 German divisions and aerial attack. By 20 September only Warsaw held out, but final surrender...
Newspaper seller carries a hoarding pronouncing the declaration of war between Britain and Germany, on the Strand, heading towards Admiralty Arch in...
Adolf Hitler with General Walther von Reichenau at a map briefing during the Invasion of Poland, September 1939. At far right is Reichsführer-SS...
Two young German-Jewish refugees at the porthole of the liner 'St Louis' finally arrive at Antwerp, after being refused entry to Cuba and Miami prior...
1930s 1940s FAMILY MAN FATHER WOMAN MOTHER BOY SON TWO GIRLS DAUGHTERS SITTING TOGETHER LISTENING TO RADIO
Crowd of German-Jewish refugees aboard the MS St. Louis ocean liner wave as they arrive in Antwerp, Belgium, after wandering the Atlantic for...
Members of the Preston Women's Football Team, training for a match against a Belgian team, 12th August 1939.
Farmer in Kansas during the Great Dust Bowl of the 1930s attempts to work formerly fertile land buried in dust.
Promotional portrait of American film director, actor, and screenwriter Orson Welles , dressed in a tweed blazer and tie, who holds a pipe and papers...
Trainee flight attendants graduate from the American Airlines Stewardess College in Chicago, USA, 1939.
American silent film actress Phyllis Gordon window-shopping in Earls Court, London with her four-year-old cheetah who was flown to Britain from Kenya.
Visalia, California- Dr.S.S. Ginsburg, private physician in Visalia and on the panel of agricultural workers health and medical association. He is...
American film stars Spencer Tracy and Bette Davis accept their statuettes at the 1939 Academy Awards. They won the Best Actor and Best Actress Oscars...
Memel, Germany: A picture which clearly illustrates refugee family walks thru the cobbled streets of the twon as uniformed Nazis in the background...
Germany, Third Reich - persecution of Jews 1933-39, emigration Reception camp for European Jews in Shanghai ; some are lucky to find work or open a...
British statesman Winston Churchill at home in the study of his Chartwell estate in Kent, 25th February 1939. Most of his work is done standing up at...
Pawnshops and Secondhand Stores, Gateway District, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, John Vachon for Farm Security Administration, September 1939.
Train at the station, a trip to Berlin by the National Recreational Club in Genoa, August 13 Germany, 20th century.
