Dream a Little Dream

People sleeping in days gone by (a part two; part one is here).

A soldier sleeping in the waiting room at Pennsylvania Station, NYC, 1943 (by Alfred Eisenstaedt, unsurprisingly). Source

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A woman sleeping in a train's observation lounge car, US, 1945. Source

A woman in a fancy sleeping mask, 1953. Source

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A sailor sleeping on a pile of life preservers aboard the USS Doran, 1942. Source

Steve McQueen's malamute wakes him up during a hunting trip, California, 1963. Source

A GI and his wife sleep aboard a train, 1945. Source

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Sleeping in Battery Park, NYC, on a hot day, 1910-1915. Source

A little girl asleep on a train, 1945. Source

Russian children sleep in a subway station during German air raids on Moscow, 1941 (Margaret Bourke-White). Source

An Israeli father holds his sleeping daughter by a river, Israel, 1965. Source

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College students sleep aboard a train during an educational tour, 1939. Source

People sleeping, Three Rocks Arch, Oregon, c. 1900-1910. Source

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A teenager sleeps after (or during) studying, 1960. Source

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A woman sleeps on a hammock with barbershop behind, Saigon, Vietnam, 1961. Source

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Wrens sleep in hammocks at a naval base, England, 1944. Source

An American solider sleeping on a train, 1942 (soldiers sleeping on trains could almost be its own post...). Source

High school students dozing on a river cruise, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1958. Source

An American sergeant sleeps on a table in the waiting room at Crewe train station, UK, c. 1944. Source

A little boy sleeps on modern children's chairs, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1948. Source

A Boston woman sleeps with an umbrella for protection during the Boston Strangler period, 1963. Source

GIs sleep aboard a hot train, 1945. Source

Musicians June Christy and Bob Cooper, 1946 or 47. Source

A man sleeping in.. I don't know, Europe? No caption. Source

A sharecropper's daughter sleeping with her dogs, Mississippi, 1936 (also Alfred Eisenstaedt). Source