Civilian Collection

Barrage Balloon
1st August 1918: A barrage balloon tethered at Queens Club, London, in the background the tents used for housing the balloons. (Photo by A. R. Coster/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Airspeed Consul
30th September 1946: An Airspeed Consul civilian passenger plane on show at the display of planes for the businessman at White Waltham Airfield, near Maidenhead

Newcastle Slums
circa 1910: A woman attends to domestic chores in a slum housing area of Newcastles by-ways. (Photo by Herbert Felton/Herbert Felton/Getty Images)

Backyards
December 1923: Slum housing in Crossland Square, Bethnal Green, London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Stephensons First
1925: George Stephensons first successful steam engine, the property of Hetton Colliery, takes part in a centenary procession

The Beresford Apartment House In New York
Photo shows the view north up Central Park West from in front of the Natural History Museum to the Beresford apartment building, New York, late 1930s

Eat Less Bread
circa 1916: A World War I poster urging civilians to Eat Less Bread. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Residential area in Auckland
The Auckland urban area in the North Island of New Zealand, is the largest and most populous urban area in the country

Prague skyline with Clock Tower and Vltava River, Czech Republic

High angle view of Prague Old Town, Czech Republic

Tourists watching street perfrormers on the Old Town Square, elevated view, Prague, Czech Republic

A Street In Istanbul
circa 1920: A residential area of Istanbul with steep steps leading up between the houses. Two boys can be seen carrying a load between them up the steps

Zhong Shan Road
circa 1930: The Bund in Shanghai a waterfront street housing most of the big banks and top-class hotels (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Berlin Houses
circa 1925: A residential street in Berlin. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

No Singing
circa 1920: A woman erects a sign to a wall, asking the occupants of charabancs, an early form of motor coach, not to disturb residents with their singing

Weapon Of War
November 1915: Civilians and soldiers inspect a captured German torpedo on display in the Horseguards Parade, London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Welsh Riot
25th August 1911: Shops boarded up after looting by Anti-Semitic mobs in Ebbw-Vale and Tredegar in which Jewish shops and property were wrecked. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Howth Funeral
29th July 1914: Mourners pay their respects to the victims of the massacre at Bachelors Walk, where the Kings Own Scottish Borderers killed three and injured thirty civilians in frustration

Terraced Street
7th April 1914: The junction of Avenue Road and Townsend Road, a residential area in St Johns Wood, London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Barnes Estate
1929: The LCC (London City Council) housing estate at Barnes, in South West London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Welsh Riot
25th August 1911: The raising of rents and the price of perishable goods during the transport strike caused the violent outburst of anti-semitic riots at Ebbw-Vale

Cable Layer
10th October 1935: Residents of Greenwich, London, waving goodye to the Dominia a cable laying ship on its way to work in the Mediterranean. (Photo by A. Hudson/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

US Flats
April 1926: New housing in New York is constructed on stilts. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Council Slum
circa 1977: Graffiti painted onto a wall in front of a council housing block. (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images)

Hackney High Rise
14th February 1977: Tower block housing in Hackney. (Photo by Colin Davey/Evening Standard/Getty Images)

Southwark Housing
31st October 1969: The Queens Buildings housing estate in Southwark, London. (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images)

Stern Reminder World War II
5th September 1939: A message painted onto a pavement in Chorlton, Manchester, reminds residents to carry their gas masks with them at all times. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Warsaw Ghetto
Two inhabitants of the Warsaw Ghetto outside a hairdressers shop in Nazi-occupied Poland, circa 1940. They are forced to wear coloured patches on their backs to mark them as Jews

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People scanning the casualty lists posted outside the Prussian Military Academy in Berlin during World War I, circa 1916. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Cartoon showing residents complaining about the effects of gas lighting
A cartoon showing residents complaining about the effects of gas lighting in the street. Entitled, The good Effects of Carbonic Gas (sic). (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

Tidings From The Front, an 1898 painting by American painter Gilbert Gaul (1855 - 1919), depicting a family receiving news of events in the U.S. Civil War, circa 1863

Delhi Cenotaph
circa 1960: Military men and civilians crowding round the cenotaph monument in Delhi on Armistice Day. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

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