1900 1909 Collection (#18)

Spanish Scene
1909: A group of young Spaniards play soldiers, marching down a wide tree-lined street. (Photo by Edwards/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Rochester Bridge
circa 1909: Rochester Bridge, crossing the Medway River, England. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Watching Airship
22nd July 1905: A crowd at Alexandra Palace, north London, watching the Barton-Rawson airship prepare to ascend. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Views On The Medway
circa 1909: A group of mostly elderly people sitting on a bench, feeding the pigeons at Rochester Castle grounds. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Army Horses
1909: Spanish soldiers wait with horses, under palm trees on a road side. (Photo by Edwards/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Traction Engine
1908: A traction engine drawing a tar-sprayer for road repair experiments near Putney. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Horse Tram
circa 1909: A Hampstead to Euston horse tram. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Davos Platz
February 1908: Davos Platz, a health resort and winter sports centre, in the mountain valley of the Landwasser. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Horse-Drawn Bus
July 1907: Passengers on a horse-drawn bus. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Horse De Comabat
July 1907: A traction engine rendered Horse de combat by strikers during the Belfast strike by dockers and the Royal Irish Constabulary. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Power Wheel
circa 1900: Actual power wheel used by railways engineer George Stephenson to drive a lathe at Killingworth Colliery, Northumberland. (Photo by Kirby/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Dining Ape
circa 1900: Esau the ape eating. (Photo by Reinhold Thiele/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Piano Primate
circa 1900: Esau the ape at the piano. (Photo by Reinhold Thiele/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

St Pancras Station
July 1907: St Pancras Railway Station, London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Soldier Height
July 1907: Measuring new recruits at St Georges Barracks, London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Jack Sheppard
July 1907: The house of the English robber Jack Sheppard (1702-1724) in Southwark, London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Grimsby Fish
March 1907: Unloading fish from boats at Grimsby, north-eastern England. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Sheffield Bank
22nd April 1909: The United Counties Bank in Sheffield, England. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Grimsby Harbour
March 1907: Grimsby fishing port, north-eastern England. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Teeth Brushers
30th November 1908: Spare the brush and spoil the TEETH. Schoolgirls in a dental hygiene class demonstrating how to hold a toothbrush. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

St Pancras
July 1907: St Pancras Railway Station, Euston Road, London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Kennel Special
January 1909: Putting dogs onto a train for the Manchester Dog Show. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

The 19th Hole
circa 1900: Ranelagh Golf Club, London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Antique Ambulance
1906: A motor police ambulance for the City Of London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Village Street
Circa 1900: A street in Leigh, Essex, which affords a pleasant view of the chuch tower. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Marble Arch
1908: Marble Arch in central London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Lettuce Farming
21st March 1908: Women workers on a fruit and vegetable farm in Thatcham Berkshire, digging a hole while in the background lettuces are picked from their frames

Railway Disaster
July 1906: The wreckage of the trains following the Salisbury railway disaster. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Minehead Square
1907: Trams stopping to pick up passengers at Minehead Square in Belfast. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

A crowd inspects damage to a house by a regiment of soldiers at Donegal Quay
August 1907: A crowd inspects damage to a house by a regiment of soldiers at Donegal Quay. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Tommie Troops
circa 1901: British soldiers known as Tommies having a scratch meal during the South African campaign. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

London Cabs
1909: A four wheeler and a hansom cab driving past the Hotel Metropole, London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Boiler Shop
24th February 1907: The boiler manufacturing area of Yarrow torpedo factory, Poplar, East London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Making Buttons
circa 1909: Workers in a Birmingham button factory packaging the finished product. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Elementary School
circa 1906: Children at Denmark Hill Elementary School in London are taught a lesson using a sand model. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Button Factory
circa 1909: Hundreds of workers punching buttons out of sheet metal in a Birmingham factory. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Electrical Exhibition
7th October 1908: An electric iron, kettle, curling tongs and shaving pot on display at The Electrical Exhibition, Manchester. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Early Cab
circa 1906: A passenger entering a taxicab outside the Savoy Theatre, London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Ice Lifting
25th June 1907: Slabs of ice being winched through a trap door in an ice manufacturing plant. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Barton Airship
1906: Doctor Bartons airship tethered in Alexandra Park, north London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Kingsway Construction
circa 1906: Construction workers laying the foundations of Kingsway, central London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Balloon Sewing
September 1905: A woman sewing hot air balloon silk at the Short Brothers hot air balloon factory. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Torpedo Works
24th February 1907: The fitting shop of Yarrow torpedo works, Poplar, East London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Fish Unloading
1907: Fishermen unloading their catch at Grimbsy Fish Pontoon, Lincolnshire. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Fish Auction
1907: Traders inspecting fish at an auction on Grimbsy Pontoon quayside, Lincolnshire, where the fish are auctioned in the manner known as calling. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Engineering Works
circa 1909: Men at work in busy factory shop-floor. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Votes For Women
23rd November 1907: The Womens Freedom League demonstrate against Man-Made Laws, UK. (Photo by N. Miller/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Spalding Skaters
January 1908: A group of men skating arm-in-arm at Courbit Wash, Spalding, Lincolnshire. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

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