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Halifax, Nova Scotia, December 1939--SECOND WORLD WAR--Soldiers of the First Canadian Division embarking, Halifax, Nova Scotia, December 1939.(CP PHOTO) 1998 (National Archives of Canada)PA137186
London, May 1939-- Royal Visits -- Queen Mary on a tour of London's dock yard with Princesses Elizabeth & Margaret Rose (CP PHOTO) 1999 (National Archives of Canada) PA-125804
1939--People--George VI, (1895-1952). (CP PHOTO) 1999 (National Archives of Canada) C-033039
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CP1STO578008 | 1939 
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World War 2 May 1939 Air Raid Precaution (ARP), Mrs. Dobson''s (Middle) Shelter, Park Avenue, Eltham, London. Mirrorpix/Courtesy Everett Collection (MPWA2586233)
PREMIUM -- WHS#14424: Wisconsin Auto License Bureau, 16-20 E. Doty St., Card Typing Department, with women at typewriters and male supervisor. Madison, Wisconsin, 1939. Wisconsin Historical Society/Courtesy Everett Collection.
PREMIUM -- WHS#14430: Roundy Coughlin in a police uniform, stands in front of a motorcycle and a life-sized poster of four movie stars on a tandem bicycle. This event occurred on the Orpheum Theater stage, 216 State St. Madison, Wisconsin, 1939. Wisconsin Historical Society/Courtesy Everett Collection.
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CP2STO50277 | 1939-05 
A. Baron (Bugatti) and Jack Barlett (Alfa Romeo) race together in front of a scrubbed Brooklands hanger.
Bob Ansell ploughs through the water on the Brooklands track in his ERA
No19 Fighter Squadron, based at Duxford, Cambs., flying their two blade propeller Supermarine Spitfire aircraft in formation in the year of the outbreak of the Second World War. No19 was the first RAF Squadron to be equipped with the new Supermarine Spitfire (1938), the only fighter aircraft to be used throughout the War.
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CP2STO50278 | 1939-05 
HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY 'RENT' FOR A KING---BEAVER SKINS AND ELK HEADS P. ASHLEY COOPER, HEAD OF THE HUDSON'S BAY CO, PAYS KING "RENT" OF TWO BLACK BEAVER PELTS AND TWO ELK HEADS IN AN OLD COURT RITUAL IN WINNIPEG, MAY 25, 1939. AT RIGHT IS QUEEN ELIZABETH AND EXTREME RIGHT IS PRIME MINISTER MAC KENZIE KING. HOLDING HIS HAT IS PREMIER JOHN BRACKEN OF MANITOBA. UNDER THE TERMS OF THE COMPANY'S CHARTER GRANTED IN 1670, THE COMPANY WAS TO PAY THE BEAVER SKINS AND ELK HEADS "RENT" WHENEVER THE REIGNING SOVEREIGN OR HIS HEIRS VISITED THE COMPANY'S TERRITORY. Wired Photo - The Globe and Mail Wide World.
ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO FROM LONDON ROTHCHILD BARON RELEASED: HAIR WHITENED AFTER YEAR IN NAZI GAOL. BARON LOUIS DE ROTHCHILD, HEAD OF THE AUSTRIAN BRANCH OF THE FAMOUS BANKING FAMILY HAS BEEN RELEASED AFTER A YEAR SPENT IN A NAZI GAOL IN VIENNA WHERE HE WAS CAUGHT BY THE ANSCHLUSS. HE WAS RELEASED ON MAY 12, AND FRIEND NOTED THAT WHAT HAD BEEN A TRIM ATHLETIC FIGURE HAD BECOME THAT OF A BENT MAN. HIS HAIR WAS WHITE WHICH HAD BEEN A DEEP BROWN. HE TOLD FRIENDS THAT HE WAS FORCED TO DO THE MOST DEGRADING WORK OF THE GOAL. ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO SHOWS: BARON LOUIS DE ROTHCHILD (CENTRE), HIS HAIR WHITENED, SEEN ON HIS ARRIVAL AT THE PARIS GARE DE L'EST YESTERDAY MORNING, MAY 13, 1939 THE DAY AFTER HIS RELEASE FROM THE VIENNA GAOL WHERE HE HAD SPENT A YEAR. FP/V 208631 14539M D P 08 0 N4 OOL EX OG.
FILE - In this May 3, 1939 file photo, a noose dangles from an automobile carrying Ku Klux Klan members, warning blacks to stay away from polling places for a municipal primary election in Miami. In spite of the threats, over 600 black voters cast their ballots. (AP Photo/File)
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Halifax, Nova Scotia, December 1939--SECOND WORLD WAR--Soldiers of the First Canadian Division embarking, Halifax, Nova Scotia, December 1939.(CP PHOTO) 1998 (National Archives of Canada)PA137186
London, May 1939-- Royal Visits -- Queen Mary on a tour of London's dock yard with Princesses Elizabeth & Margaret Rose (CP PHOTO) 1999 (National Archives of Canada) PA-125804
1939--People--George VI, (1895-1952). (CP PHOTO) 1999 (National Archives of Canada) C-033039
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CP1STO578008 | 1939 
A jitterbug competition in progress.
An air-raid warden sets a black-out time clock indicator at an A.R.P. post near London during the Second World War.
Evacuated children having their dinner.
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ROYAL FAMILY Gt. Britain Princess Louise [Viceregal consort of Canada, Died Dec 3, 1939] Associated Press Photo 12/3/39 GS 3:15 PES FLS EAST A NR SU R-S TRIN ALL CAN NONS HFD MON
PASSED BY THE MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SHETLAND ISLANDS GERMAN RAID ON SHETLANDS DOES GREAT DAMAGE -- TO A RABBIT. ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO SHOWS: STANDING IN THE DEEPEST CRATER MADE BY GERMAN BOMBS DROPPED ON THE SHETLAND ISLES LAST WEEK THIS MAN HOLDS UP THE ONLY CASUALTY---A RABBIT---AND PART OF THE BOMB CASING. CRATER IS SEVEN FEET DEEP. 11/21/1939 WL9 219411 211139M
BREMEN (Ship) ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO FROM LONDON 10/19/1939 HOW THE BREMEN GOT AWAY: DUTCH CREWMAN TELLS STOR THE BREMEN WAS CAUGHT BY THE WAR IN NEW YORK HARBOUR. FOR MANY DAYS NOTHING WAS HEARD OF HER. THEN THE MEMBERS OF THE CREW BEGAN TO ARRIVE BACK IN HAMBURG AND IT WAS REPORTED THAT THE BREMEN HAD ARRIVED IN A NORTH RUSSIAN PORT MURMANSK WAS QUOTED. THE SHIP WAS PAINTED A NEUTRAL COLOUR WHILST AT SEA AND THE CREW DARE NOT GO BELOW TO SLEEP, FOR FEAR OF BRITISH CRUISERS. HER RADIO WAS MUTE, GERMAN NAVY BEJNG QUITE POWERLESS TO GIVE ASSISTANCE. THE FEAT OF TAKING THE SHIP THROUGH THE NORTH ATLANTIC MUST BE REGARDED AS ONE OF THE CLEVEREST PIECES OF NAVAL SKILL AND TACTICS OF THE WAR. ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO SHOWS" MEMBERS OF THE CREW OF THE BREMEN LINED UP ON DECK RECEIVING INSTRUCTIONS AS TO WHAT THEY MUST DO IF THE SHIP IS SUNK. THE CAPTAIN WAS DETERMINED THAT SHE SHOULD NOT BE TAKEN IN A SEAWORTHY COND1TION AND HAD MADE FULL PREPARATIONS TO SINK THE SHIP HIMSELF IF A BRITISH WARSHIP WERE SIGHTED. FL 217852 191039M OFFS EX F
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PREMIUM -- WHS#14303: Group portrait of Boys Choir wearing choir robes, holding song books and singing on stairs at the First Methodist Church, located at 203 Wisconsin Avenue. Madison, Wisconsin, 1939. Wisconsin Historical Society/Courtesy Everett Collection.
PREMIUM -- WHS#14468: Two welders in welding shop at Howard Welding Company, located at 319 E. Wilson Street. Madison, Wisconsin, 1939. Wisconsin Historical Society/Courtesy Everett Collection.
PREMIUM -- WHS#2086: Women working in casing department at the Oscar Mayer & Company meat packing plant, 910 Mayer Avenue. Madison, Wisconsin, 1939. Wisconsin Historical Society/Courtesy Everett Collection.
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CP2STO47724 | 1939 
Policemen with tin helmets and gas masks.
Women on their way to work with gasmasks in boxes.
King George VI with Queen Elizabeth at the King's public schoolboys and industrial lad's camp, which is usually held annually at Southwold, is being held this year in the grounds of Abergeldie Castle, within walking distance of Balmoral Castle.
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CP2STO50271 | 1939-08 
(Gen) Ismet INEUNU Turkey. Politician President Ismet Ineunu
ROYAL FAMILY Great Britain King George VI 8/11/1939 King as Photographer
FILE - This Aug. 23, 1939 file photo shows Winston Churchill. A cigar once half-smoked by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill during a 1947 trip to Paris has sold for just over $12,000 during an online auction. Boston-based RR Auction says the 4-inch (10-centimeter) cigar was bought Wednesday evening, Oct. 11, 2017, by a collector from Palm Beach, Florida. The buyer's name wasn't released. (AP Photo)
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CP1STO579884 | 1939-08 
Peterborough Cathedral Cambridgeshire circa 1939 Landmark Religion Street Scene. ©Mirrorpix/Courtesy Everett Collection (MPWA2692649)
PREMIUM -- WHS#14536: Men loading cases of paint into tractor-truck at Mautz Paint Co., 939 E. Washington. Madison, Wisconsin, 1939. Wisconsin Historical Society/Courtesy Everett Collection.
PREMIUM -- WHS#14537: Newsstand in the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific railway depot, 644 W. Washington, displaying soft drinks, tobacco products, and reading materials. Madison, Wisconsin, 1939. Wisconsin Historical Society/Courtesy Everett Collection.
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CP2STO50285 | 1939-01 
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