Savoy Ballroom, Harlem, 1939.
Photo: Cornell Capa via Magnum Photos
Blanc et Demilly, Rue, 1939.
Ottawa Union Station, 1939
Two boys practicing their swordplay, Harlem, 1939–1940.
Photo: Aaron Siskind via Smithsonian American Art Museum
Subways are for sleeping, 1939. In fairness, this gentleman seems to have worn his shoes out walking.
Photo: Bettmann via BuzzFeed News
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A cowgirl puts a nickel in an El Paso parking meter to hitch her pony, October 1939.
Photograph by Luis Marden, National Geographic
Rescue vessel "Vigilante" (Vigilant) from the sunken submarine "Thetis" (HMS Thetis), June 1939.
HMS Thetis was a Group 1 T-class submarine of the Royal Navy which sank during sea trials in Liverpool Bay, North Wales on 1 June 1939. After being salvaged and repaired, the boat was recommissioned as HMS Thunderbolt in 1940.
New York World’s Fair 1939.
Egon Riss bookcase, 1939. Via the archive library.
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