Some amazing color photographs show what life looked life in 1946, just a year after the war’s end.
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Accident in Geneva, 1946. |
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Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles, 1946. |
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Montrose Beach in Chicago, 1946. |
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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 |
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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 |
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Shagin, USSR 1946. |
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Stockholm winter, 1946. |
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1946, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK — Tourists and soldiers walk in Edinburgh Castle yard overlooking city — Image by © B. Anthony Stewart/National Geographic Society/Corbis |
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In this trailer ride mustering of the U.S. Air Force, 1946. |
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Waterlogged Japanese aircraft carrier “Amagi” in the port of Kure, 1946. |
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Inside Ye Olde Cellar Bar, Chicago, 1946. |
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Cuzco, Peru, 1946. |
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The experimental model of the kitchen, the United States, 1946. |
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New York, 1946. |
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People bathing in the salt water pool in the English Devon, 1946. |
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Prague, 1946. |
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Meeting of the Tribunal |
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In England, Churchill lost the election and the rest, 1946. |
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Hiroshima in March 1946. |
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Camaguey, Cuba, 1946. |