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1900 1909 Collection (#14)

Background image1900 1909 Collection: Swimming Lesson

Swimming Lesson
Two children, suspended in the water by rope and poles, are given a swimming lesson in the River Thames at Wallingford. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background image1900 1909 Collection: Benito Mussolini Aged 22

Benito Mussolini Aged 22
Italian dictator Benito Mussolini (1883 - 1945), aged 22. Original Publication: People Disc - HW0218 (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background image1900 1909 Collection: Turkey Farm

Turkey Farm
A group of workers at a Norfolk turkey farm. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background image1900 1909 Collection: Tea Party

Tea Party
Elderly ladies taking tea on an outing to Loughton, Essex. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background image1900 1909 Collection: Bobsleigh Ride

Bobsleigh Ride
A woman tobogganing down the Dorf Dimson bobsleigh run at St Moritz. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background image1900 1909 Collection: Zeppelin Fire

Zeppelin Fire
Crowds survey the wreck of a Zeppelin airship LZ-4, the fourth design of Count von Zeppelin, which caught fire at Echterdingen. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background image1900 1909 Collection: Early Flight

Early Flight
Hubert Lathams attempt to cross the Channel in his Antoinette IV monoplane. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background image1900 1909 Collection: Glass Cloches

Glass Cloches
Glass dome-shaped cloches under which plants are forced for an early harvest on a fruit and vegetable farm. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background image1900 1909 Collection: Catholic Procession

Catholic Procession
Children carrying religious banners in a Catholic procession. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background image1900 1909 Collection: Italian Delicatessen

Italian Delicatessen
An Italian delicatessen in the Italian immigrant area of Londons East End. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background image1900 1909 Collection: Duckshooter

Duckshooter
A duckshooter stalking birds on a sledge with a punt gun, on the frozen waters of Crowbit Wash in the Fens. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background image1900 1909 Collection: Rail Cleaning Van

Rail Cleaning Van
The interior of a London South Western Railway cleaning carriage, with an industrial vacuum cleaner. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background image1900 1909 Collection: Belfast Children

Belfast Children
Children playing in a Belfast street after the National Union of Dockers strike, organised by James Larkin. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background image1900 1909 Collection: US Mail

US Mail
American Mail Vans. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background image1900 1909 Collection: Hello Girls

Hello Girls
Female operators at the switchboard of the Magneto Exchange of the National Telephone Company, USA. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background image1900 1909 Collection: Brooklands Relay

Brooklands Relay
The start of a relay race at Brooklands racetrack. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background image1900 1909 Collection: Spencer Airship

Spencer Airship
A Spencer Airship ascending at Ranelagh, watched by a fashionable crowd. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background image1900 1909 Collection: Hurlingham Balloons

Hurlingham Balloons
Hot air balloons prepared for a race at Hurlingham sports ground, near London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background image1900 1909 Collection: Ranelagh Balloons

Ranelagh Balloons
25th May 1907: Hot air balloons at Ranelagh in Barnes, West London, during a race for the Harbord Cup. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background image1900 1909 Collection: Balloon Race

Balloon Race
7th July 1906: Society visitors gather to watch a balloon race at Ranelagh in Barnes, West London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background image1900 1909 Collection: The Thames

The Thames
March 1908: Boats in the river thames, seen from Hammersmith bridge. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background image1900 1909 Collection: Soup Queue

Soup Queue
September 1906: Slum dwellers in Bury, Lancashire carrying jugs as they wait to collect free soup. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background image1900 1909 Collection: Sing-Song

Sing-Song
1908: A family have a sing-song round a piano. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background image1900 1909 Collection: The Karlskirche

The Karlskirche
circa 1900: The Karlskirche in Vienna. Built between 1715 - 1737 and designed in a baroque rococo style by architect Johann Fisher von Erlach. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background image1900 1909 Collection: WCTU Marchers

WCTU Marchers
circa 1909: Members of the Womens Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) who marched on Washington DC to present a petition supporting prohibition. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background image1900 1909 Collection: Triple Dive

Triple Dive
24th July 1908: Three divers in mid-air action during a diving display at the 1908 London Olympics. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background image1900 1909 Collection: Thames Swimmers

Thames Swimmers
7th September 1907: Competitors line up for the start of the Richmond to Blackfriars swimming race. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background image1900 1909 Collection: Threshing Machine

Threshing Machine
September 1907: Farm workers grinding and threshing by motor at the Dennis Brothers Farm in Kirton, Lincolnshire. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background image1900 1909 Collection: Smoke Helmets

Smoke Helmets
1st March 1908: Three men dressed in Draeger smoke helmets at the time of the Hamstead Colliery disaster, Great Barr, Birmingham. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background image1900 1909 Collection: Clothes Mill

Clothes Mill
1909: Interior of the sewing department of Frankenburys Factory in Manchester. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background image1900 1909 Collection: Manchester Mill

Manchester Mill
1909: Joness Mill in Manchester. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background image1900 1909 Collection: Ice Manufacturing

Ice Manufacturing
26th March 1907: The compressor inside the engine room of an ice factory. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background image1900 1909 Collection: Holland House

Holland House
1908: The facade of Holland House, an E-plan Jacobean manor in Kensington, London. (Photo by W. G. Phillips/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background image1900 1909 Collection: Holland House

Holland House
1908: The facade of Holland House, an E-plan Jacobean manor in Kensington, London. (Photo by W. G. Phillips/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background image1900 1909 Collection: Part Of The Course

Part Of The Course
8th July 1908: The bridge over the river at Uxbridge, part of the 1908 Olympic marathon course in London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background image1900 1909 Collection: Slum Life

Slum Life
1907: Women pushing a pram past a bakery window in Little Italy, a slum area of London in the borough of Holborn. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background image1900 1909 Collection: Dance! Bear! Dance

Dance! Bear! Dance
1909: Two young children in fancy dress, one as a bear, dance together at a garden party. (Photo by W. G. Phillips/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background image1900 1909 Collection: Flying Farman

Flying Farman
October 1909: French pioneer aviator and aircraft manufacturer Henri Farman (1874 - 1958) breaks an English record in his Farman Le Gypaete no 6 at Blackpool

Background image1900 1909 Collection: Boxkite Biplane

Boxkite Biplane
October 1909: Aviator Rougier flies close to the crowd in his boxkite biplane during Blackpool Flying Week. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background image1900 1909 Collection: Railway Religon

Railway Religon
1906: A crowd gathered to watch a Russian Orthodox service in progress in an ornate railway carriage on the Manchurian Railway. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background image1900 1909 Collection: Railway Construction

Railway Construction
1906: Labourers at work on a cutting, during construction of the Manchurian-Siberia railway. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background image1900 1909 Collection: Snowy Track

Snowy Track
1906: A snowy scene viewed from a Swedish passenger train. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background image1900 1909 Collection: Underground Train

Underground Train
circa 1900: An early underground train on the Central London Railway, opened in 1900, which eventually became the Central Line. This engine could be driven in both directions

Background image1900 1909 Collection: Railway Accident

Railway Accident
September 1908: A crowd standing underneath a partially collapsed bridge watching officials investigate an overhead train derailment in Berlin. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background image1900 1909 Collection: Harbour Trains

Harbour Trains
1907: Goods trains at Fishguard Harbour Station, the trucks in the foreground are for cattle. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background image1900 1909 Collection: Sandwichmen

Sandwichmen
April 1907: Sandwichmen dressed up as swells walking down Holborn, London, to advertise Army Graphic. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background image1900 1909 Collection: Factory Fodder

Factory Fodder
1st July 1909: Two youths operate the factory machines involved in the blowing process, at the High Grade Hatters Sutton & Torkington Ltd. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background image1900 1909 Collection: Driving In Tunnel

Driving In Tunnel
May 1908: Motorists emerge from the Kenmare Tunnel during the Irish Automobile Club Reliability Trials. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)



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