#1947

[miamaimania]

"Neurotic Symptoms" (1947) ψ Boris Artzybasheff — ink illustration

[thingsfromthedirt]

the Lone Ranger Atomic Bomb ring, distributed by Kix cereal from 1947-1950 for 15 cents and a mail-in box top. it was a spinthariscope containing radioactive Polonium-210. you would take it into a pitch-black room, remove the tail cap from the 'bomb', and look through a tiny lens to see flashes of light from the Polonium-210 atoms decaying into Lead-206

[blondebrainpowered]

Racine Wisconsin Belles, playing the South Bend Blue Sox, 09/14/47. All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.

Photo credit: Everett Collection

[nemfrog]

"A twister forms at sea." Interpreting Science: Understanding Our World. 1947.

Internet Archive

[questionableadvice]

~ Keeping Up With Teen-Agers, by Evelyn Millis Duvall, 1947

[atomic-chronoscaph]

The Metamorphosis - art by Richard Taylor (c. 1947)

[thecinamonroe]

Marilyn Monroe photographed at Fox Studios by David Cicero, May, 1947.