Art in iron : a reference book of wrought iron work for architects, builders and homeowners by Artcraft Ornamental Iron Company, 1948.

Billboard Painters, art by Stevan Dohanos.  Detail from Saturday Evening Post cover, February 14, 1948.

Women Outlaws

Fox Feature Syndicate / USA 1948

Automat - Grand Central Station - NYC - 1948

Cooling off in New York’s summer heat, 1948, photo by Arthur Fellig (”Weegee”)

Times Square, New York City, 1948.

In 1948, the World Health Organization held its first World Health Assembly, which declared that, starting in 1950, each April 7th would be designated as World Health Day, a global health awareness day with a different theme each year.

World Health Day 2020 has been designated as a day to “celebrate the work of nurses and midwives and remind world leaders of the critical role they play in keeping the world healthy,” a sentiment we can all get behind right now.

This photograph, captured in October 1953, shows some social distancing done wrong at an exhibit from Cleveland’s Health Museum. The museum, which opened in 1940, was America’s first permanent health museum, and was intended to showcase advances in medical and health science and to promote personal and community hygiene.

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1. Marta Toren in Sword in the Desert (1948)
2. Angela Lansbury in Please Murder Me! (1956)
   
3. Barbara Stanwyck with an expired Rod La Rocque in The Locked Door (1929)
   

“Mini push-button television” by Raymond Loewy, 1948.