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197 Rio De Janeiro 1940s Images and Stock Photos

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Picture taken in October 1946 of the beach of Copacabana in Rio de Janeiro.

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Picture taken in October 1946 of the beach of Copacabana in Rio de Janeiro.

BRAZIL-COPACABANA-ILLUS

Young men in swimsuits sit in the sun outside the Copacabana Palace, a posh hotel at Copacabana Beach.

Outside the Copacabana Palace

Riders crowd the San Januario trolley, a cheap but infrequent means of public transportation in Rio de Janeiro. For those clinging to the outside of...

Overloaded Trolley Car

School girls, wearing uniforms with their school's initials, eat a stew from metal bowls. This is possibly their only meal.

School Girls Eating at Table

The Copacabana Hotel is situated on the Avenida Atlantica in Rio de Janerio, Brazil.

The Copacabana Hotel

Brazil: Looking down upon the beautiful Bay of Rio De Janiero form the top of Coreovado Mountain.

Men on Balcony of Coreovado Mountain Site

Audience Laughing at Joke

Audience Laughing at Joke

Brazilian couple dance the samba in front of a building.

Brazilian Couple Dancing the Samba

Men and Boys in Sleeping Area

Men and Boys in Sleeping Area

Schoolboys use sticks as mock guns while they imitate marching soldiers.

Schoolboys Marching with Sticks

School Children Portrait

School Children Portrait

School Children in Uniforms

School Children in Uniforms

Group of Boys Outside Nestle Incorporated Warehouse

Group of Boys Outside Nestle Incorporated Warehouse

Mother Holding Infant next to Wrought Iron Fence

Mother Holding Infant next to Wrought Iron Fence

Undated picture of Chilean writer, poet and diplomat Pablo Neruda posing in Ipanema beach in Rio de Janeiro.

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Men attending Carnival in Rio wear short grass skirts like those worn by native women of Brazil. Cross-dressing in this style was wildly popular at...

Men at Carnival in Grass Skirts

Mother walks her costumed children to Carnival festivities past signs depicting a Carnival clown in need of Eno Salts, an antacid similar to Alka...

Mother with Children During Carnival

Two fashionably-dresses women walk past a man in his bathrobe in front of the famous Copacabana Hotel. Prior to the glamourous 1940s in Rio de...

Women Walking past Man in Bathrobe

Fishers Pulling in Fishing Net

Fishers Pulling in Fishing Net

Vendor carries a ice box on his head full of ice cream and soft drinks.

Vendor Carrying Ice Box at Beach

Copacabana Beach

Copacabana Beach

Charles Ponzi, who spent 12 years in a U.S. Prison for fraud, snapped at Copacabana Beach in Rio. Ponzi, now 60, is presently engaged in a bitter...

Twenty-Two Years After

Peace At Long Last. Rio De Janeiro, Brazil: Sleeping the eternal sleep that knows no awakening, Stefan Zweig world-renowned Austrian author and his...

Stefan Zweig Lying Dead

Patriotic demonstration in Rio de Janeiro after Brazil declared war on Germany and Japan in 1942.

Patriotic demonstration in Rio de Janeiro after Brazil declared war on Germany and Japan in 1942.

In Rio De Janeiro In The 1940'S Or 1950'S, Pilgrims Form Processions To Their Patroness On Their Way To The Church Our Lady De La Penha, Built In...

Pilgrimage To Our Lady De La Penha, 1940-1950

Man rides a bicycle carrying clothes on the pannier rack in a street of Rio de Janeiro in October 1946.

Picture taken in October 1946 of dancers of Samba schools in Rio de Janeiro.

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Picture taken in 1946 of children looking at dancers of samba schools in Rio de Janeiro.

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Picture taken in October 1946 of dancers of samba schools in Rio de Janeiro.

TOPSHOT-BRAZIL-RIO-SAMBA

View of buildings in Rio de Janeiro in 1948.

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Two of the victims are shown hanging from a shattered fragment of the truck in which twelve persons died when the vehicle lost a front wheel and...

Deadly Truck Accident

Politics, Personalities, USA, pic: 1947, President Harry S, Truman gets an enthusiastic welcome from children in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, President...

Politics, Personalities, USA, pic: 1947, President Harry S, Truman gets an enthusiastic welcome from children in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, President Truman (1884-1972) became the 33rd President of the United States 1945-1953, He helped instigate the Berlin

Delegates from 21 North and South American republics gather in Rio de Janeiro to discuss a border dispute between Peru and Ecuador. January 1942.

Rio Conference of 1942

Spiral staircase in Stantos Dumont, Rio airport, Brazil.

House and Garden 1946

Archway in the Tijuca Garden of Raymundo Castro Maya, Brazil.

House and Garden 1948

Exterior, The Sugar Loaf, a landmark hill in Rio, as seen from the porch of the home of Carlos Guinlos' Brazilian home.

House and Garden 1947

Brazilian soldiers parade through the streets of Rio de Janeiro carrying flags and a portrait of the Brazilian president, Brazil's declaration of war...

Brazilian Soldiers Parade Through Rio de Janeiro, ca. 1942

Sacristy of the Carmo Church, Rio de Janeiro', circa 1943. From The Studio Volume 126.

Sacristy of the Carmo Church

Vintage illustration of Mermaid, Grande Hotel, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1940s.

Mermaid, Grande Hotel, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

An US Official is greeted on the runway during an Official US visit at the Galeao International Airport in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Galeao International Airport

Official US visit at the Galeao International Airport in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Galeao International Airport

Brazilian Guards line the runway during an Official US visit at the Galeao International Airport in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Galeao International Airport

Brazilian Guards line the runway during an Official US visit at the Galeao International Airport in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Galeao International Airport

Stewardess from Panair do Brasil Airways poses outside the Galeao International Airport in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Galeao International Airport

Stewardess from Panair do Brasil Airways poses outside the Galeao International Airport in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Galeao International Airport

Stewardess from Panair do Brasil Airways poses outside the Galeao International Airport in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Galeao International Airport

View of the water next to the Galeao International Airport in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Galeao International Airport

View of a Panair Do Brasil plane hanger at the Galeao International Airport in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Galeao International Airport

View of a DC-3 parked on the tarmac of the Galeao International Airport in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Galeao International Airport

Brazilian Guards line the runway during an Official US visit at the Galeao International Airport in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Galeao International Airport

View of a DC-3 parked on the tarmac of the Galeao International Airport in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Galeao International Airport

View of planes parked on the tarmac of the Galeao International Airport in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Galeao International Airport

1953König von Rumänien 1930-1940mit seiner Ehefrau Elena / Helena Lupescu kurz nach der Trauung in Rio de Janeiro- 1947

Karl II. Rumänien

Geliebte und spätere Ehefrau von Karl II., König von RumänienAufnahme in Rio de Janeiro 1947

Magda (Helena) Lupescu - Geliebte und spätere Ehefrau von Karl II., König von Rumänien

Workers at Construction Site

Workers at Construction Site

Children Gathered Near Laundry Area

Children Gathered Near Laundry Area

Portuguese immigrant family at their home in Rio. The wall is decorated with mementoes brought from Portugal, including a souvenir from the shrine to...

Portuguese Mother and Children

Photographer checks hjs camera, while his subject poses behind him. Photographers use painted backdrops like these to convey a sense of success or...

Photographer with His Subject

Family album picture showing Brazilian army II World War veteran second lieutenant Pedro Paulo de Figueiredo Moreira of the First Brazilian Infantry...

Family album picture showing Brazilian a