1940 – Selldon Photography

Bugs Bunny Goes on the Air (1940)

Jul 27, 2025Selldon0007 Lego Models, Selective Coloration1940, 27/07, Bugs Bunny

Bugs Bunny is a cartoon character created in the late 1930s at Warner Bros. Cartoons (originally Leon Schlesinger Productions) and voiced originally by Mel Blanc. Bugs is best known for…

The McDonald’s Corporation is founded (1940)

May 15, 2025Selldon0009 Objects, Selective Coloration15/05, 1940, Fast Food, Hamburger, McDonalds

McDonald’s Corporation, doing business as McDonald’s, is an American multinational fast-food chain, founded in 1940 as a restaurant operated by Richard and Maurice McDonald, in San Bernardino, California, United States.…

McDonald’s is founded (1940)

Apr 15, 2025Selldon0009 Objects, Selective Coloration15/04, 1940, Fast Food, Hamburger, Maurice McDonald, McDonalds, Richard McDonald

First African American Depicted on a US Postage Stamp (1940)

Apr 7, 2025Selldon0002 Stamps, Selective Coloration07/04, 1940, African American, Booker T. Washington, Stamp, Stamps, US Postage Stamp

In 1896 when Washington reviewed the study conducted by George Washington Carver about the infection plaguing the soybean crop, he invited Carver to head the Agriculture Department at Tuskegee, where…