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Post-War Photos in Color, 1946

Some amazing color photographs show what life looked life in 1946, just a year after the war’s end.

Accident in Geneva, 1946.
Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles, 1946.
Montrose Beach in Chicago, 1946.
1946, Scotland, UK — A man and his wife string onions from walls of their thatched cottage — Image by © B. Anthony Stewart/National Geographic Society/Corbis
1946, Scotland, UK — A man and his wife and some helpers mend fishing nets in a street — Image by © B. Anthony Stewart/National Geographic Society/Corbis
Shagin, USSR 1946.
Stockholm winter, 1946.
1946, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK — Tourists and soldiers walk in Edinburgh Castle yard overlooking city — Image by © B. Anthony Stewart/National Geographic Society/Corbis
In this trailer ride mustering of the U.S. Air Force, 1946.
Waterlogged Japanese aircraft carrier “Amagi” in the port of Kure, 1946.
Inside Ye Olde Cellar Bar, Chicago, 1946.
Cuzco, Peru, 1946.
The experimental model of the kitchen, the United States, 1946.
New York, 1946.
People bathing in the salt water pool in the English Devon, 1946.
Prague, 1946.
Meeting of the Tribunal
In England, Churchill lost the election and the rest, 1946.
Hiroshima in March 1946.
Camaguey, Cuba, 1946.