1950 1959 Collection (page 7)

Black and white illustration of 1950s jeep

Illustration of a woman looking into camera on old-fashioned TV set

Shrewsbury Castle
circa 1950: Shrewsbury Castle in Shropshire. (Photo by F. J. Wymer/Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Blue Mosque
circa 1950: The Mosque of Sultan Ahmet, the Blue Mosque in Istanbul, Turkey, the only mosque with six minarets. (Photo by George Pickow/Three Lions/Getty Images)

Cycle Reflection
circa 1956: A girl with a bicycle looks at a shop window display in Saigon (Ho Chi MInh City). (Photo by Three Lions/Getty Images)

White Water
circa 1955: The swirling eddies and currents of the river zambezi at Victoria Falls on the border between Zimbabwe and Zambia. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

Andes Christ
circa 1950: The statue of Christ of the Andes at a height of 12, 500 feet on the Bermejal or Uspallata Pass between Mendosa, Argentina, and Santiago, Chile

Bonsai
circa 1950: A 500 year old Japanese pine bonsai Tree. (Photo by Evans/Three Lions/Getty Images)

Coastal Farmland
circa 1950: Thatched cottages near Malin Head in County Donegal. (Photo by Noel Habgood/Keystone/Getty Images)

Pray And Hope
1st October 1957: Pilgrims on their knees praying at the shrine of Lourdes in France. (Photo by Bert Hardy/Picture Post/Getty Images)

Back To Front
1955: A clock and a price-list inside Joseph Tomassis barbers shop in London is reversed so that a client facing the mirror can keep a check on the time and how much their treatment will cost

Towards Broadmoor
12th May 1956: A visitor reads a signpost indicating the direction to the special hospital at Broadmoor in Berkshire, for those who commit crimes due to their mental state

Defunct Windmill
circa 1950: A disused windmill in Mountnessing, Essex surrounded by a hedgerow. (Photo by Bellisario/Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Ford vintage convertible car, (B&W)

Jodrell Telescope
18th April 1957: Almost completed, the radio telescope at Jodrell Bank, Cheshire. The responsibility of Manchester University and partly funded by the Nuffield Foundation

Lutnik 1
13th January 1959: Satellite Lutnik 1 on a wheeled dolly, aerials extended. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

Jodrell Bank
26th June 1957: The giant 250 feet diameter Radio Telescope nearing completion for the University of Manchester at Jodrell Bank, Cheshire. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Telescope
circa 1950: Mark II radio telescope, Jodrell Bank. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

God Bless
23rd August 1956: A mother sits on a bed to hear her young son in dressing gown and slippers kneel beside her to say his prayers. (Photo by Chaloner Woods/Getty Images)

Blustery
circa 1957: Washing lines strung across a village street and secured against the wind with a long plank of wood. (Photo by Chaloner Woods/Getty Images)

Hand Tool
circa 1955: Keen hand drills for the do-it-yourself enthusiast. (Photo by Chaloner Woods/Getty Images)

Fancy Heel
15th November 1955: Stiletto heeled shoes with pointed toes.The heels are decorated and the shoes are worn with stockings with seams. (Photo by Chaloner Woods/Getty Images)

Off The Shoulder
4th November 1957: A young debutante making her social debut at a formal party. Womans Own (Photo by Chaloner Woods/Getty Images)

Viewing Sculpture
A boy looks at a sculpture in an art exhibition in a garden at Boreham Wood in Hertfordshire. (Photo by Reg Speller/Getty Images)

Turkey Jockey
25th October 1952: A puppy sitting on his turkey friends back. (Photo by Reg Speller/Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Sea Crash
4th June 1955: A four-engined Sunderland aircraft which crashed into the sea off Eastbourne is towed towards the shore. (Photo by Reg Speller/Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Cold Christmas
A turkey wrapped up in a blanket and scarf to keep it warm and free from colds and chills, at Hambledon Farm, Welwyn, Hertfordshire, 30th October 1950. (Photo by Reg Speller/Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Palladian Style
25th March 1953: Exterior of Hagley Hall, Stourbridge, Worcestershire, the ancestral home of Lord and Lady Cobham. (Photo by Reg Speller/Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Beachy Head
22nd May 1952: A lighthouse off the cliffs of Beachy Head, Sussex (Photo by Reg Speller/Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Flood Damage
18th August 1952: Lying crushed among the trees and rubble, is one of the many cars swept away by the flooding at Lynmouth. (Photo by Reg Speller/Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Laika the satellite dog in her specially designed contraption in Sputnik II before take-off. Her last meal was poisoned to prevent her dying a slow death of starvation

Test Launch
1957: Sputnik II, the second Russian satellite to enter space, on a test launch. (Photo by APA/Getty Images)

Cumberland Terrace
2nd December 1957: Cumberland Terrace in Regents Park, London, which the Crown Estate Commissioners are to be restored and possibly converted into modern flats. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Mount Fuji
1956: The dormant volcano Mount Fuji in Japan. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Oil Pipe
29th April 1958: A section of pipe frames the crude oil distillation unit at the BP (British Petroleum) oil refinery in Aden. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Cargo Ship
11th February 1955: Super-streamlined Russian merchant ship Taganrog (2, 792 tons) in the Surrey docks where she is discharging a cargo of crab and salmon. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Big Noses
circa 1950: Decorated human skulls used by witch doctors in Ghana. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Switches for light and door, interior of a house from the 1950s, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Hood of 1950s purple Cadillac

Cathedral Interior
A view of Salisbury Cathedrals choir in the east of the 13th century building. The pipes of the organ can be seen on the right. (Photo by London Stereoscopic Company/Getty Images)

Baby wrapped in blanket, holding toy rabbit

Hand holding globe

Hands typing

Hand using adding machine

Cowboy riding bucking horse

Skydiver jumping out of plane

People crossing Park Avenue, New York City, (B&W)

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