The Garden Of Forking Paths

May 27, 2013

Penitents In Cuenca by José Ortiz Echagüe, 1940

(Source: androphilia, via sevendaysofshade)

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(Notes: 167)

April 12, 2013

A detail from a pictorial map of the Turkish economy, c. 1940.

(via Afternoon Map)

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(Notes: 28)

Filed under: maps cartography Turkey Anatolia economy illustration 1940 vintage

November 3, 2012

Tacoma Narrows Bridge (also known as Galloping Gurtie), 1940

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(Notes: 47)

Filed under: bridges Tacoma Puget Sound 1940 engineering

October 31, 2012

Undated snapshot, c. 1940?

(Source: rogerwilkerson)

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(Notes: 77)

Filed under: costume skeleton vintage 1940 girl family

October 31, 2012

Cover art for Collier’s by Robert Reid, 1940

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(Notes: 10)

Filed under: illustration ghosts Collier's Robert Reid 1940

October 16, 2012

A Messerschmitt Bf 109 in a wind tunnel, 1940

(Source: retronaut.co, via closethempeepers)

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(Notes: 125)

Filed under: airplanes WWII Germany Messerschmitt Bf 109 1940

September 12, 2012

A kitten lounges in a specially made hammock aboard the aircraft carrier HMS Eagle, c. 1940

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(Notes: 50)

Filed under: cats ships aircraft carrier kittens HMS Eagle WWII 1940

September 10, 2012

Ava Gardner, 1940

(via Film Noir Photos)

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(Notes: 51)

Filed under: 1940 Ava Gardner Hollywood beach fishing photography pinup vintage

September 7, 2012

The aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CV-6) on a training exercise near Hawaii, 1940

It was not this exercise, but a similar one in 1941 that saved the US Pacific Fleet’s carrier ships from destruction at Pearl Harbor. While the outcome of the war with Japan was never seriously in doubt, this lucky accident may have hastened the end of the war by up to a year.

The aircraft flying by Diamond Head are Douglas TBD Devastator torpedo bombers.

The biplane on the bottom is a Curtiss SBC Helldiver - the last biplane produced for the US Navy.

UPDATE - fixed the aircraft reference from Dauntless to Devastator - thanks for the tips!

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(Notes: 15)

Filed under: 1940 Hawaii Helldiver USS Enterprise WWII aircraft carrier dive bomber sailors Devastator

September 7, 2012