Arts Culture And Entertainment Collection (page 12)

Iona Abbey
6th August 1955: The Abbey on the tiny island of Iona, begun in 1203 and neglected after the Reformation, which is being rebuilt by members of the Iona Community

Housing Jungle
29th October 1955: Houses are becoming slums, the back to back houses in Salford, Lancashire, where due to rent restrictions proper maintainance becomes impossible

Art Collector
26th June 1948: A 90 year old collector, Joseph Granger, with some of his paintings which he has been collecting for fifteen years

Mystery Play
circa 1953: The backview of an audience watching a mystery play performed out of doors. Original Publication: Picture Post - 5758 - Mystery Plays On A Cart - unpub

Bernard Shaw At 90
July 1946: Irish dramatist and writer George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950) sitting in a garden at the time of his 90th birthday. Original Publication: Picture Post - 4140 - Ninety This Month - pub

Irish Castle
8th April 1950: A woman walks through the grounds of an Irish castle. Original Publication: Picture Post - 5004 - Irelands Castles: Grandeur In Decline - pub

Lancashire Valley
4th June 1955: A cow standing in a valley in Lancashire. Original Publication: Picture Post - 7794 - What Hope In The Hills - pub. 1955 (Photo by Maurice Ambler/Picture Post/Getty Images)

Salford Slum
19th November 1938: Storey Street in a poor area of Salford. Original Publication: Picture Post - 41 - Manchester - pub. 1938 (Photo by Kurt Hutton/Picture Post/Getty Images)

What A Neck
28th February 1953: A little boy is fascinated by the stuffed giraffes on show at the Natural History Museum, London. Original Publication: Picture Post - 6432 - Natures Back Room Boys - pub

Flooded Homes
6th July 1946: Flooded homes in the village of Norton Canes in the Cannock Chase coalfield. The buildings are being undermined by the mine subsidence

Bridge Party
27th November 1953: English novelist William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) is the guest of honour at a bridge party at Crockfords Club

Rothesay Road
21st May 1955: A street in the Scottish holiday resort of Rothesay on the island of Bute. Rothesay used to be known as Glasgow-by-the-sea but improved transport links have encouraged visitors

I Know What I Like
1957: A pig-tailed schoolgirl studies a painting in the Tate Gallery, London. Original Publication: Picture Post - 9112 - Tate Gallery - pub. 1957 (Photo by Grace Robertson/Picture Post/Getty Images)

Diana Dors
Blonde British actress Diana Dors (1931 - 1984) arrives at the Cannes Film Festival, 3rd May 1956. Original Publication : Picture Post - 8396 - Diana - Queen Of Cannes - pub

Capel Celyn
A view over the village of Capel Celyn in the Tryweryn Valley near Bala, Merionethshire, Wales, 27th February 1957. In 1957

Jane Avril at the Jardin de Paris

Luminous Pantomimes, the Optical Theater of E. Rey

Ruined interior of the Palais des Tuileries in Paris
The ruined interior of the Palais des Tuileries in Paris. It was destroyed in 1871 by supporters of the Commune of Paris, the French revolutionary government during the Franco-Prussian War

Statue Of Liberty In Paris
View of the Statue of Liberty enclosed by scaffolding, while under construction, seen from the Rue de Chazelles, Paris, France, circa 1884

Ready For The Ball
1866: A victorian fashion plate from La Mode Illustree, showing two ladies in extravagant hooped ballgowns. Published in Paris, 1866 Vict 0102 79 (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Place De La Concorde
The Place de la Concorde in Paris, looking up the Avenue des Champs Elysees toward the Arc de Triomphe, circa 1850. The River Seine is on the left of the square and the Hotel de Crillon on the right

Iles De La Cite
A view southwards across the River Seine in Paris, circa 1880. The Ile Saint-Louis is on the left and the Ile de la Cite on the right, with the cathedral of Notre Dame amidst its buildings

Hippodrome Gateway
The main gate at the Hippodrome de Longchamp race track in the Bois de Boulogne, Paris, circa 1950. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

1937 Paris Worlds Fair
View of the one of the main gates into the Worlds Fair ground, Paris, Framce, 1937. Visible in the distance is the Eiffel Tower (center)

Guggenheim Urban Shapes
The Guggenheim Art Museum is located at 1071 Fifth Avenue on the corner of East 89th Street in the Upper East Side neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City

Vicenza
The two columns in Piazza dei Signori, in Vicenza, with the clock tower on the left, circa 1829. An engraving by T. Jeavons after a drawing by Samuel Prout. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Lord Byron
English romantic poet George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron of Rochdale (1788 - 1824). Original Artwork: Fred Bruckmann Studio (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Phonautograph (c. 1860) by Scott and KAonig, published in 1880
Phonautograph (c. 1860) by Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville (French printer and bookseller, 1817 - 1879) and Rudolph Koenig (German acoustician, 1832 - 1901)

Peoples Beehive
1840: The British Beehive, a cartoon depicting the population as members of a behive with the Queen at the top and various other occupations in cells below her

Crystal Palace
1851: Crowds outside the Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, London, designed by Sir Joseph Paxton for the Great Exhibition of 1851. Original Artwork: Drawing and lithograph by Augustus Butler

Oliver Twist
circa 1840: Oliver is teased by Fagin and his gang of pickpockets in a scene from Charles Dickens Oliver Twist. Original Artwork: Engraving by George Cruikshank. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Sami And Inuits
circa 1800: From left to right, two Swedish Sami, two Norwegian Sami, two Inuits from Victoria Land in Antarctica and an Inuit from Cape Barrow in the Arctic

Saucy Tartars
circa 1800: Three blushing Tartar women wearing ankle length robes and head scarves. Original Artwork: Engraved by Medland after Geisler. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Blenheim Ball
1893: Dancing at Blenheim Palace to celebrate the Duke of Marlboroughs coming of age. Original Artwork: Painting by Reginald Cleaver (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Emily Bronte
circa 1835: English poet and author of Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte (1818 - 1848). Original Artwork: Painting by Charlotte Bronte. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

Is It Not Cold?, a painting depicting three women and a child walking together on a winters day, by Italian artist Giuseppe De Nittis, circa 1875. (Photo by Edward Gooch/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

View of row house apartment buildings from 203-19 West 63rd Street in New York City
circa 1930: View of row house apartment buildings from 203-19 West 63rd Street in New York City. An oyster bar occupies a storefront. (Photo by Edwin Levick/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Vanderbilt Mansion
circa 1920: An exterior view of the Cornelius Vanderbilt Mansion, located on Fifth Avenue and 58th Street in Manhattan, New York City

circa 1935: Exterior view of tenement buildings along Ridge Street on the Lower East Side, New York City, 1930s. (Photo by Edwin Levick/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Street Vendors On Lower East Side, New York
Street vendors carry their goods in baskets on a sidewalk on the Lower East Side, New York, 1900s. (Photo by Edwin Levick/Getty Images)

Elias F. Noyes Building In New York Financial District
View of the Elias F. Noyes Building at the corner of William Street and Beaver Street, New York, New York, 1910s. (Photo by Edwin Levick/Getty Images)

Gimbel Brothers Department Store in New York City
The Gimbel Brothers department store in New York City, which opened in 1912, circa 1920. (Photo by Edwin Levick/Archive Photos/Getty Images)

Grand Central
circa 1925: Light streams through arch-shaped windows as passengers pass through Grand Central Station, New York City, NY. (Photo by Edwin Levick/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Easter Bonnets
6th April 1971: Three wide-brimmed Easter bonnets. (Photo by Sydney O Meara/Evening Standard/Getty Images)

Funeral Train; King George VI coffin is loaded onto a train at Paddington Station
15th February 1952: The coffin containing the body of King George VI is loaded onto a train at Paddington Station, London, to take it to Windsor. (Photo by Harry Shepherd/Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Aerial View of Battersea Park Festival Gardens
In the 1950s Battersea Park became " The Festival Gardens", opened in celebration of the 1951 Festival of Britain

Big Ben
circa 1950: Big Ben is the great bell in the clock tower on the eastern end of the Houses of Parliament in London. The statue of Queen Bodicea is in the foreground

Bankside Power Station
Bankside power station (centre) on the south bank of the River Thames, London, August 1956. The building later became the Tate Modern art gallery. The view is from Unilever House

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