Cecil Beaton - 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

Mark Rothko - No. 3 (1949)

Witch’s Cradle. by Maya Deren and Marcel Duchamp, 1943

Joseph Janney Steinmetz - Acrobats rehearsing at the Ringling Circus, 1940s

Frank Scherschel, 1946

Karel Teige, 1941

“Leather Jacket worn by crew members of the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress “Screamin’ Demon” of the 401st Bomb Group stationed at an 8th Air Force Base in England, 2 April 1945” 

Ukraine, Yalta, 1984, Druzhba Holiday Center Hall

Air raid wardens demo a trio of spooky elephantine gas masks, designed for the elderly, during a simulated gas attack in 1941 London By Robert T. Gonzalez 

‘Americans in London’. 1947 - Harpers Bazaar - outside Buckingham by Louise Dahl-Wolfe