The price would have been, on average for the decade of the 1950's, 12.2% of the average price today.
Pablo Picasso's Boy with a Pipe (the link is broadband with audio and video; here is a lower tech image) is on the auction block at Sotheby's, this Wednesday evening. Some analysts expect the painting to go for at least $100 million, an all-time record. The Whitney family bought that same picture in 1950 for $30,000. $104.1 million was the end price.
A brassband from Switzerland in the 1950'ies..
It was during the Abstract Expressionistic movement. in the 1950's there was a thing called the New York school where artists like Pollack and Max Earnst and those types were showing at the newly established Guggenheim Gallery. check out New York School for more info, or abstract expressionists. It was the only addition to Art North America has ever contributed.
California's centennial celebration was on September 9th, 1950.
She retired in the early 1950's
About £15, the monthly wages of the average household in 1950.
In the US in 1950, the average price of a gallon of regular leaded gasoline was 27 cents.
The average price of a gallon of regular leaded gasoline in 1950 was $.27 cents.
average gold value in 1950 $40.25oz
Average price per ounce of gold in 1950 was $40.25
The average price of a gallon of regular leaded gasoline in 1950 was 27 cents (about $1.70 in today's dollars).
Roberto Clemente (1934-1972) Charles T. Harris (born 1908) Photograph, 1960, NPG.93.392 National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
The average price for gas in 1950 was about 14 cents per gallon.
The price of a middle class home in 1950 was $14,000. The average person made $3,216. A Ford car was $1,339 to $2,282.
The average home price in the United States in 1950 was around $7,354. It's important to note that this price is an average and can vary depending on location and many multiple factors. In comparison to today's home prices, this figure may seem significantly less due to factors such as inflation and changes in the housing market over time.
The average petrol price in 1950 in UK was about $36 per gallon. However, the prices have kept fluctuating over the years but there has been a significant price of the same.
Found one ad for$ .43 per pound in New hampshire, 1950. Expect the price to vary by location and by season of the year.