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6,476 1950s Historical Events Images and Stock Photos

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1920s young woman portrait at the beach, italy. - 1950s historical events stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images

1920s young woman portrait at the beach, Italy.

paperboy with extra news on bicycle - 1950s historical events stock illustrations

Paperboy with extra news on bicycle

1920s italian family portrait - 1950s historical events stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images

1920s italian family portrait

close up of a red tractor on grass - 1950s historical events stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images

Close up of a red tractor on grass

bohemian paris, 1950s - 1950s historical events stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images

Bohemian Paris, 1950s

Alabama State troopers "frisk" Negro youths arrested during demonstrations here 2/4 prior to boarding them on buses. More than 130 were arrested. UPI...

Protesters in Civil Rights March

early nineth century workshop - 1950s historical events stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images

Early nineth century workshop

Workers waiting for employment, in the village of Castelmezzano , Italy, 1957. From the exhibition "Olives and bolts - farm laborers and factory...

Italian Unemployment

1940s 1950s ATOMIC BOMB BLAST MUSHROOM CLOUD

1940s 1950s ATOMIC BOMB...

Guggenheim Museum under Construction, Fifth Avenue between 88th and 89th Streets, New York City, New York, USA, Gottscho-Schleisner Collection,...

Guggenheim Museum under Construction

retro space woman in combat in outer space - 1950s historical events stock illustrations

Retro Space Woman In Combat In Outer Space

The invasion of South Korea last Sunday by communist-dominated North Korean forces; the United nations cease-fire order and President Truman's...

London Press Headlines for Korean Crisis

bohemian paris, 1950s - 1950s historical events stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images

Bohemian Paris, 1950s

man listening with hand to ear - 1950s historical events stock illustrations

Man listening with hand to ear

Line of African Americans hailing from states across the USA march to protest segregation. Ca. 1950.

African Americans Protesting Segregation

1920s italian family portrait - 1950s historical events stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images

1920s italian family portrait

man listening with hand to ear - 1950s historical events stock illustrations

Man listening with hand to ear

Fashionable Woman enjoying Cocktail at Sidewalk Bar, Capri, Italy, Toni Frissell Collection, June 1959.

Fashionable Woman enjoying Cocktail at Sidewalk Bar, Capri, Italy, Toni Frissell Collection, June 1959

Nevada - Frenchman's Flat - members of 11th AB Div. Kneel on ground as they watch mushroom cloud of atomic bomb test 1951.

Nevada - atomic bomb test.

Cuba: Fidel Castro during "March to Havana."

Fidel Castro During March

American civil rights activist Rosa Parks sits in the front of a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, after the Supreme Court ruled segregation illegal on the...

Rosa Parks Riding The Bus

Mao Zedong, Chinese Communist revolutionary and leader, c1950s. The son of a peasant farmer, Mao Zedong led the Red Army which undertook the epic...

Mao Zedong, Chinese Communist revolutionary and leader, c1950s(?).

Castle Romeo was the code name given to one of the tests in the Operation Castle series of American thermonuclear tests beginning in March 1954 at...

Nuclear Test USA - Castle

11th Airborne division troops watch an atomic explosion at close range at the AEC's testing grounds in the Las Vegas desert. The troops participate...

Troops Watching Atomic Bomb Explosion

Members of the World Peace Congress of Rangoon demonstrating against British nuclear tests.

World Peace Congress

closeup of an old, used british ration book opened up. - 1950s historical events stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images

Closeup of an old, used British ration book opened up.

Photograph of a Civil Rights sit-in led by Clara Luper to desegregate the lunch counter at Katz Drug Store at Main and Robinson in downtown Oklahoma...

Civil Rights Sit-In

Civil Defense Recruitment Series 2B poster featuring color photo image of atomic explosion, Test Baker of the Operation Crossroads pair of nuclear...

Join Civil Defense

bohemian paris, 1950s - 1950s historical events stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images

Bohemian Paris, 1950s

bohemian paris, 1950s - 1950s historical events stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images

Bohemian Paris, 1950s

Race Relations, Education, USA, pic: 1950's, Little Rock, Arkansas, White students about to enter Central High School as National Guardsmen prepare...

Race Relations Education. USA. pic: 1950's. Little Rock, Arkansas. White students about to enter Central High School as National Guardsmen prepare to bar black students.

Soviet space program propaganda poster, 1959.

Soviet space program propaganda poster.

Page from a U.S. Marine Corps yearbook including Lee Harvey Oswald, second from left, bottom row.

U.S. Marine Corps Yearbook Photographs

African American mother walking with children to distant school re segregation of elementary grade students throughout the state prompting famed...

African American mother walking w. children to dis

New York, New York-Chaim and Bina Gasthalter of Poland wlak across the field at Idlewild Airport with their six children after landing from Stockholm...

Gasthalter Family Arrives at Airport

The Cuban rebel leader Fidel Castro , surrounded by the members of his leftist guerrilla movement "26th of July Movement", in which other revolution...

BIO CASTRO-CIENFUEGOS-REVOLUTION

Mao Zedong, Chinese Communist revolutionary and leader, c1950s-c1960s. The son of a peasant farmer, Mao Zedong led the Red Army which undertook the...

Mao Zedong, Chinese Communist revolutionary and leader, c1950s-c1960s(?).

che guevara painted on a wall in habana - 1950s historical events stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images

Che Guevara painted on a wall in Habana

Member of the 'British Housewives League' burning her identity card and census form outside the House of Commons during a protest against man-made...

Rations Protest

Meat hanging up at Smithfield Market, London, after meat rationing ended.

Meat At Smithfield

Smithfield butcher G Rawlings displaying a large joint of beef on the day meat rationing ended after WW II.

Mrs Ann Smith of Wandsworth in south London tears up her ration book on the last day of rationing, introduced 14 years ago in wartime.

Tearing Up Book

Photograph showing the segregation of African-American and white people by a long counter covered with slices of bread at a barbecue in Alabama....

The segregation of African-American at a BBQ

Woman stands outside a butcher's shop window at the end of food rationing, Victoria, London, July 4th 1954.

UK Food Rationing Ends, 1954

Woman behind a butcher's shop window displaying meat and a sign with the words: 'Stop Press - July 4th - Meat Independence Day - Freedom of Purchase...

UK Food Rationing Ends, 1954

Comandante Fidel Castro the new leader of Cuba talks to reporters about his successful Cuban revolution to ouster Dictator Batista at a press...

Fashionable Woman, Street Scene, Capri, Italy, Toni Frissell Collection, June 1959.

Fashionable Woman, Street Scene, Capri, Italy, Toni Frissell Collection, June 1959

Pool Scene, La Coquille Club, Palm Beach, Florida, USA, Toni Frissell Collection, December 1954.

Pool Scene, La Coquille Club, Palm Beach, Florida, USA, Toni Frissell Collection, December 1954

Petrol Rationing Ends, 26th May 1950. 'Petrol off ration - come and get it' Scenes at a garage after the announcement.

Petrol Rationing Ends, 26th May 1950

Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh wave at the crowds from the balcony of Buckingham Palace in London, after Elizabeth's coronation, 2nd...

Mailman on Route, Washington D.C., USA, Warren K. Leffler, U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection, April 1957.

Mailman on Route, Washington D.C., USA, Warren K. Leffler, U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection, April 1957

Group of Mailmen about to start their deliveries from Post Office, New York City, New York, USA, Thomas J. O'Halloran, U.S. News & World Report...

Group of Mailmen about to start their deliveries from Post Office, New York City, New York, USA, Thomas J. O'Halloran, U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection, May 1957

Passengers arriving at Ellis Island on board the USS General R. M. Blatchford, which has brought displaced persons from postwar Europe to the USA,...

European Refugees Arrive In New York

The "Little Rock Nine" form a study group after being prevented from entering Little Rock's racially segregated Central High School, 13th September...

Little Rock Nine

Black little girl leaves a cafe through a door marked 'For Colored,' circa 1950.

Segregated Cafe

Metal bus sign with a stenciled black paint in black that reads: [THIS PART OF BUS FOR / COLORED RACE]. In 1960, students planned, coordinated and...

Sign From Segregated Nashville Bus Number 351

Ten-year-old Mitchell Legler , his sister Sandra , and her friend, Nancy Walker , test the escape hatch of the Legler family's bomb shelter in...

Children Testing Bomb Shelter Escape Hatch

View of nine-year-old African-American student Linda Brown sits with her classmates at the racially segregated Monroe Elementary School, Topeka,...

Linda Brown In Class At Monroe Elementary

The mushroom cloud from "Grable", the first nuclear artillery shell, part of Operation UPSHOT-KNOTHOLE. The artillery piece used to fire the nuclear...

Atomic Artillery Shell Test

The detonation of the atomic bomb nicknamed "Smokey," as part of Operation PLUMBBOB in the Nevada desert. 1957.

Mushroom Cloud from a Nuclear Test

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