A page from a 1948 printing supplement showing the skill of students at the old Leicester College of Art, known for its printing courses. The College of Art helped form the basis of the now De Montfort University
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Taken from The Man in the Manhole and the Fix-it Men by Juniper Sage, 1946
Artwork by Bill Ballantine
Gordon Parks - Drugstore Cowboys, Turner Valley, Canada, 1945
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Taken from an anthology entitled Prince of Darkness, 1946
The illustrations are details from The Temptation of St Anthony, an etching by Jacques Callot, 1630
Edward Weston - Mammy’s Cupboard, Natchez, Mississippi, 1941
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Matsumoto Eiichi - Shadow of a soldier remaining on the wooden wall of the Nagasaki military headquarters (Minami-Yamate machi, 4.5km from Ground Zero), 1945
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Aldous Huxley - Brave New World, 1963 edition
Cover: “Waiting,” by Attilio Salemme, 1946
Young motorist in an Austin pedal car, c. 1949
This kid had the best toys. Check out his Schwinn bike
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A Royal Navy sailor on board HMS Alcantara uses a portable sewing machine to repair a signal flag during a voyage to Sierra Leone, March 1942
Photograph by Cecil Beaton
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A Schwinn bike and its garage-mates, c. 1949
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