Still from Les Portes de la nuit
(1946, dir. Marcel Carné)
[From the Réunion des Musées Nationaux]
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Dear God, this is like the Civil Defense handbook that was my paper security blanket for years as a kid. Only with fedoras.
A fedora versus the atom bomb
From How to Survive an Atomic Bomb, by Richard Gerstell, Ph.D., Consultant to the Civil Defense Board (Bantam Books, NYC, 1952). (via Joho)
Yep, that’ll work.
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“Simple” was a character the poet Langston Hughes used in his syndicated newspaper column. Upon seeing the man in this photograph, Hughes said, “That’s him.”
Midwest United States, 1946-49
Published in Ebony, December 1951
From Wayne F. Miller: Photographs 1942-1958
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