r/1950s • • 1h ago

Daily Life 2 ladies walk down towards a spot on the beach, 1950s. Kodachrome shot.

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r/1950s • • 1d ago

Celebrity - Female with Context Kodachrome shot fo photographer Frank Worth of Actress Natalie Wood at her home in Laurel Canyon Blvd, Los angeles, California, 1959.

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r/1950s • • 1d ago

Daily Life Kodachrome shot of a young lady taking the sun, 1950s.

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r/1950s • • 1d ago

Celebrity - Female with Context Back in 1956, American actress Jayne Mansfield posing outside her Los Angeles home, dubbed "Mansfield's Madness," located at 9840 Wanda Park Drive in Benedict Canyon.

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Taken at a pivotal moment in her career, this shoot was part of a major publicity push. By 1956, 20th Century Fox had signed her to a long-term contract to position her as a major box-office rival to Marilyn Monroe. Mansfield, who possessed a remarkably high IQ and spoke five languages, consciously leaned into these highly stylized "dumb blonde" photoshoots to charm the media and skyrocket her celebrity status.


r/1950s • • 1d ago

Product Arcade Card

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An arcade card of Debra Paget from the early 50s. These could be found at arcades of course but also in bowling alleys too. I wonder if any of the 1 cent machines still exist.


r/1950s • • 7h ago

Event Hardtack Umbrella underwater nuclear test in the Pacific Ocean near Bikini Atoll. The blast yield of the nuclear device was measured to be 8 kilotons of TNT. The spray dome resulting from the Umbrella blast reached about 5,000 ft (1,500 m) in height, and created a crater 3,000 ft (910 m) in diameter

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r/1950s • • 19h ago

1950s-related (weekend only) Does anyone know anything about this photograph?

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Hi all! My grandmother was gifted this, and she was looking for any information anyone might have about it. What it’s worth? The photographer? Anything anyone might know. Thank you! 🩷


r/1950s • • 2d ago

Celebrity - Female with Context Actress Anita Ekberg in a very early modeling shot in 1951. at this point she was still working as a stewardress. Kodachrome shot.

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r/1950s • • 1d ago

Daily Life Photo album 1950

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r/1950s • • 1d ago

Daily Life 1950

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r/1950s • • 2d ago

Daily Life Kodachrome slide of a lady outside a store "Rose Marie Reid", 1950s.

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r/1950s • • 2d ago

Event Jane Russell and Irene Dunne talking, with Marie Wilson in the background, in the premiere of George Stevens' film "A Place in the Sun" in 1951.

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r/1950s • • 3d ago

Daily Life Kodachrome slide of lady posing in the shade, 1950s.

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r/1950s • • 3d ago

Celebrity - Female with Context Sophia Loren poses at her pond of her villa in Rome, Italy for "LIFE" magazine, 1957. Kodachroe shot

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r/1950s • • 2d ago

TV Happy 75th Anniversary to I Love Lucy! 🎉📺

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r/1950s • • 4d ago

Daily Life Kodachrome shot of bar photographer at the club she is working (small portable camera can be seen on hand), 1950s.

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r/1950s • • 3d ago

Product 1950s Post Cereals: Vintage Airwaves Hit

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r/1950s • • 4d ago

Celebrity - Female with Context Swedish Actress/model Anita Ekberg posing for the comedy film "Abbot & Costello Go To Mars", 1953. She had a small bit part as a venusian guard.

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r/1950s • • 4d ago

Event Ava Gardner and Frank Sinatra on their wedding day on Nov. 7, 1951.

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r/1950s • • 3d ago

Music 1959 - The 10 best songs of the year in Argentine rock [Argentine Rock Awards: 4th edition]

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1959, the decade was closing with Argentine rock expanding among the youth, it was seen as the new electric music of the future, it had popular youth figures.

There was Eddie Pequenino with a rock with horror undertones, Ana María Cachito with the fun of hula-hoop, and Billy Cafaro in communication with an extraterrestrial.

Los Mac Ke Macs with their jazzy harmonies, Baby Bell and her Christmas cheer, Luis Aguilé with his grace and the orchestral elegance, and Andy Maciá in a shot fast rock.

Edith Scandro uniting classical music and rock, Los Santos with voices as delicate as crystal glasses, and Los Cinco Latinos in the 1st international hit of Argentine rock.


MusicaArgentina — 2026


r/1950s • • 5d ago

Celebrity - Female with Context Marilyn Monroe at the set of her film "Love Nest" and at th Beverly Carlton Hotel, Beverly Hills, Los angeles, California, 1951. Photos by Phil Burchman in the hotel roof to promote her film.

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r/1950s • • 5d ago

Daily Life Kodachrome slide of a lady at a boat, 1950s.

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r/1950s • • 5d ago

Event Elizabeth Taylor and Conrad "Nicky" Hilton Jr. pause on the steps of the Church of the Good Shepherd in Beverly Hills, Calif., on May 6, 1950.

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An 18-year-old Taylor married hotel heir Conrad Hilton Jr. - her first of 8 weddings to 7 different husbands, one of whom (Richard Burton) she wed twice.


r/1950s • • 5d ago

TV Harpo Marx, Yvonne De Carlo, and Donald O'Connor promoting a episode of The Colgate Comedy Hour (1951)

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r/1950s • • 6d ago

Daily Life Kodachrome slides of Jamaican lady smiling for some photos, 1958.

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