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1942, Book cover for Kathryn Heisenfelt, 1942, Polly the Powers Model and The Puzzle of the Haunted Camera, (Whitman Publishing), Book cover, Private collection of William Jones, LL/65336
Gevaert en Philips, 1942, Front cover of a small Dutch handbook Kunstlicht Fotografie Ein gids voor Amateur en Vakman Door, Back cover, handbook, Bazar Nadar / Wouter Lambrechts, LL/127257
Gevaert en Philips, 1942, Front cover of a small Dutch handbook Kunstlicht Fotografie Ein gids voor Amateur en Vakman Door, Front cover, handbook, Bazar Nadar / Wouter Lambrechts, LL/127256
Howard R. Hollem (American, ?-1949), 1942, Lathe Operator, Consolidated Aircraft Corporation, Fort Worth, Texas, Digital ink print from a Kodachrome transparency, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LL/90271
J.R. Willis / Curteich (Chicago), 1942, Run Get Mama's Camera Quick! - Now the Indians Take the Pictures, [C.T. Art-Colortone Series], Postcard, Private collection of Christopher Steiner, LL/100882
Kodak (artwork and design) Gary Dineen (photograph), 1942, Take along plenty of Kodak Verichrome film (USA Full-size Kodak Girl), Advertising cut-out, Gary Dineen / East Edge Gallery, LL/121712
Max Alpert, 1942, Soviet officer (probably A. G. Yeremenko, Company political officer of the 220th Rifle Regiment, 4th Rifle Division, killed in action in 1942) leading his soldiers to the assault. USSR, Ukraine, Voroshilovgrad region, Gelatin silver print, Creative Commons - Wikipedia, LL/47424
Ministry of Information Photo Division Photographer, 1942, Tray containing a ration book and the weekly ration of sugar, tea, margarine, 'national butter', lard, eggs, bacon and cheese as issued to an adult in Britain during 1942., Gelatin silver print, Imperial War Museum, LL/122394
Oleg Knorring (1907-1968), 1942, Bodies of inhabitants of a Villare Chvarov (Moscow Region) hunged by Germans, Gelatin silver print, Soler y LLach, LL/48097
Unidentified photographer, 1942, Dead soldiers in Eastern Europe, Photograph, FOTO:Fortepan, LL/83040
Unidentified photographer, 1942, View from Repkény Street 3 to the Újlaki Church, in the foreground crossing the Daru Street, Budapest, Hungary, Photograph, FOTO:Fortepan, LL/83042
Unidentified photographer, 1942, A foot, Photograph, FOTO:Fortepan, LL/83038
Unidentified photographer, 1942, Bridge in Eastern Europe during the Second World War, Photograph, FOTO:Fortepan, LL/83044
Unidentified photographer, 1942, Apartment block, Melinda út 30-32, Budapest, Hungary, Photograph, FOTO:Fortepan, LL/83045
Unidentified photographer, 1942, Shooting into a grave in Eastern Europe during the Second World War, Photograph, FOTO:Fortepan, LL/83046
Unidentified photographer, 1942, Humphrey Bogart's lifts he wore during his scenes with Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca, Gelatin silver print, Internet - Original source ill-defined, LL/114953
Unidentified photographer, 1942, Major Tamás Konok, Commander of the 2nd Army Corps of the Hungarian Army with Leica cameras, Photograph, FOTO:Fortepan, LL/83049
Unidentified photographer, 1942, Soviet soldiers captured on the Eastern Front, Photograph, FOTO:Fortepan, LL/83050
Unidentified photographer, 1942, Shadows of saluting soldiers in Eastern Europe, Photograph, FOTO:Fortepan, LL/83039
Unidentified photographer, 1942, False working papers, in German & Ukraine, for Gizella Gross Abramson (1928-2011), part of the Jewish resistance during the Nazi occuipation of Lutsk, Ukraine., Working papers, North Carolina Museum of History - NCMOH, LL/129187
Unidentified photographer (Holmes family?), 1942, Just dropped over to wish you a very Merry Xmas and Happy New Year - Christmas 1942, Christmas greeting, photo collage, Private collection of Robert E. Jackson, LL/116106
Edward Steichen, 1942, "Edward Steichen & Carl Sandburg Exhibition Announcement: Road to Victory" by Steichen, Edward & Carl Sandburg (New York: the Museum of Modern Art, 1942), Book cover, Arcana: Books on the Arts, LL/1237
Karl Blossfeldt, 1942, Book cover for Karl Blossfeldt "Wunder in der Natur" (Leipzig: H. Schmidt & C. Günther. Pantheon-Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft. 1942), Book cover, Van Ham Fine Art Auctions, LL/29183
Laure Albin-Guillot, 1942, Book cover for Laure Albin-Guillot & Paul Valéry, 1942, La Cantate du Narcisse: Vingt Images Photographiques de Laure Albin-Guillot, (Paris: Artra), Book cover, Ader Nordmann, LL/62348
Unidentified photographer, 1942, False working papers, in German & Ukraine, for Gizella Gross Abramson (1928-2011), part of the Jewish resistance during the Nazi occuipation of Lutsk, Ukraine., Working papers, North Carolina Museum of History - NCMOH, LL/127426
Unidentified photographer, 1942, Reverse of false working papers, in German & Ukraine, for Gizella Gross Abramson (1928-2011), part of the Jewish resistance during the Nazi occuipation of Lutsk, Ukraine., Working papers, North Carolina Museum of History - NCMOH, LL/127427