Finance Collection (page 17)

Armaments Plant
Blast furnaces at the Krupp steelworks in Essen, the chief arms supplier of the German Empire. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Piccadilly Lights
1932: Night time advertising in Piccadilly Circus, London. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Health Shop
circa 1930: A shop selling, Hygienic Rubber Goods has its windows full of advertisements for patent medicines and medical appliances. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Stocking Show
circa 1935: Stockings on display in a shop window. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Fokker Plane
1924: A Fokker aircraft with the registration letters PH-AEZ. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Load It Carefully
1933: A woman watches a porter loads her luggage into a taxi. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Amphibious Craft
circa 1930: A motorboat car on the River Spree in Berlin. Invented by a Herr Grosse it takes 15 minutes to transform the car into a motorboat with two floats

Hirth And Weller
1930: German aviators Wolf Hirth and Oscar Weller in their 40hp Klemm L25aI monoplane. The pair are attempting a transatlantic flight from Berlin to Chicago via the Orkneys, Iceland

Dornier Aircraft
circa 1930: The all-metal Dornier Ronnet aircraft produced in Berlin. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Herald Square
1898: Commotion in the busy Herald Square, New York. The New York Herald building is decked in decorations. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Thames Regatta
June 1900: A regatta on the Thames. (Photo by Paul Martin/General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Balloon Explosion
circa 1912: A balloon explodes with great ferocity in America. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Bluebells To Sell
circa 1910: Two girls gathering bluebells in Abbey Wood and placing them carefully in a toy pram to sell in the street. Picture Post - pub. 1949 (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Zeppelin
circa 1914: German Zeppelin used in raids on French strategic points on the west front. During 1916, whilst on one of the raids, the Zeppelin was badly holed by shells

Crop Fields
circa 1935: Crop fields in the British countryside. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Escalator
circa 1930: An escalator on London Underground with posters on show at the side. (Photo by William Davis/General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Constructing Bell
1926: The luminous Liberty Bell under construction for the Sesquicentennial Exposition at Philadelphia, celebrating the 150th anniversary of American independence

Cheapside
1878: Congested streets in Cheapside, London. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Beekeeper
circa 1910: A beekeeper showing part of her hive. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Seamens Cross
circa 1926: Lit up by floodlights, the huge Seamens Institute Cross towers over New York. It is designed to be visible from ships passing Sandy Hook, a peninsula of New Jersey

Rum Quay
circa 1910: Rum Quay in the West India Docks, London. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Sacks Of Goods
circa 1920: A warehouse in Liverpool Docks piled high with sacks of goods. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Dock Warehouse
circa 1920: Piles of crates awaiting collection in a warehouse in Liverpool Docks. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Whaling Station
1912: Barrels piled up at a whaling station in a mountainous region. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Taxi Cab
circa 1930: A shiny black taxi cab waiting for a fare. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

USS Brooklyn
circa 1930: The United States Ship (USS) Brooklyn in dry dock. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Ready For Flight
circa 1930: A biplane outside its hangar ready to take off. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Toy Store
circa 1925: A toy department in Londons West End. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Flying Walrus
circa 1924: A Vickers Supermarine Walrus in shallow waters. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Shoters Court
September 1937: Waiting in Shorters Court for messages from brokers for delivery to the neighbouring Stock Exchange. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Rabbit Rifles
circa 1935: Two men looking through the window of a gun shop at Charing Cross. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Washington Bridge
New Yorks George Washington Bridge from the New Jersey side, the space left for subway tracks is visible in the centre. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Torpedo Attack
A steamer comes under attack from a torpedo during the First World War. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

German U-Boats
Two German submarines, the U35 and U42, surface off the Mediterranean coast. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Steamboat
A steamboat on the Mississippi River at night. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Icebreaker
The cutter Bear, used by US admiral Richard Byrd on an expedition to the South Polar regions. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Siemens Train
The first model electric train made by Werner Siemens and Halske in operation at the Berlin Trade Fair. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Gold Prospectors
Two prospectors panning for gold in California. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Canal Dredger
Dredging equipment used in the construction of the Suez Canal. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Cockpit Machine Gun
A German airman demonstrates the greater range of fire achieved by mounting his gun on a swivel upon a rotating ring. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Marriage Boom
A woman posts up advertisements on the wall of a Marriage Bureau in France, all from young men seeking marriage after World War I. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

USS Leviathan
The USS Leviathan, a former vessel of the Hamburg-American Line steams into New York Harbour. Originally named Vaterland, she was seized by the US Government in New York during World War I

SS Majestic
Crowds wave as the White Star liner Majestic leaves her pier, loaded with tourists bound for Europe. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Aquitania Component
A giant condenser is hoisted up to its position on board the Cunard liner Aquitania during its construction at the John Brown & Company shipyard, Clydebank

SS Orsova
The Orient Steam Navigation Company passenger liner SS Orsova, built on the Clyde and launched in 1909. She was torpedoed off Plymouth during World War I, then repaired and returned to service

Girl About Town
A girl about town leans on her Alvis motor car and surveys the dilapidated facade of a thatched cottage. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Bankside View
St Pauls Cathedral seen from Bankside on the River Thames, London, with barges on the river.. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Electric Car
American inventor and physicist Thomas Edison (1847 - 1931) with his first electric car, the Edison Baker. He is holding one of the batteries used to power the vehicle

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