Group Collection (page 8)

Girl Power
4th September 1940: Members of the Womens Mechanised Transport Corps push an ambulance out of some rough ground. (Photo by Reg Speller/Fox Photos/Getty Images)

The Farewell Meeting
A farewell meeting is held by a group of English Puritans, before leaving for America, circa 1620. (Photo by Archive Photos/Getty Images)

Newcastle Workers
May 1954: Workers pushing their bikes up the hill from the Tyne towards Newcastle town centre. Original Publication: Picture Post - 7143 - Newcastle: Revival Of A City - pub

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

Monkeys Laundering Ruffs
An engraving satirising the new fashion for ruffs, depicting monkeys dressed in human costume, starching and laundering their neckwear, circa 1635

Human Sacrifice
A teocalli or Mesoamerican temple pyramid in Mexico, with a priest offering human sacrifice on the top, circa 1500. An engraving by J. Chapman for the Encyclopaedia Londinensis, 1817

Surgical Tools
Early surgical instruments for the amputation of limbs, used by French surgeon Jacques Guillemeau, 1612. They include knives, pincers, saws and a needle and thread

Princes Skating Rink
Skaters take to the ice at Princes Skating Rink, London, 1909. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Grantham in Lincolnshire, as seen from the railway station, with the spire of St Wulframs Church in the background, circa 1915. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Submarine Evolution
The evolution of the submarine between 1863 and 1899. Shown are Bourgeois and Bruns Plongeur (1863), Halsteads Cunning Whale (1872), Hollands No

Tartarus
The three most famous inhabitants of Tartarus, the ancient Greek equivalent of Hell, circa 1500 BC. From left to right, Sisyphus endlessly shoulders his rock, Ixion is bound to a wheel for eternity

Vision Of Hell
An engraving depicting Hell and its wretched inhabitants, circa 1650. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Wicked Witchcraft
Witches prepare themselves for a journey by broomstick to the Black Mountain, circa 1650. From a 17th century Dutch copperplate by Adrianus Hubertus. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Merchant Of Venice
Salanio and Salarino encounter Shylock on a street in Venice, in Act III, Scene I of Shakespeares The Merchant of Venice, circa 1596. A watercolour by Sir John Gilbert, RA

Battery Wagon
A field telegraph battery wagon in front of Petersburg, Virginia, during the American Civil War, September 1864. From Gardners Photographic Sketch Book of the Civil War by Alexander Gardner

Hideous Harpies
Virgil leads the author through a wood filled with Harpies and miserable souls transformed into trees. An engraving by Gustave Dore, illustrating Canto XIII of Dantes Inferno, written circa 1310

En Route To Ascot
Coaches make their way down the Long Walk in Windsor Great Park, on their way to Ascot Racecourse in Berkshire, 1846. Entitled The Road to the Races. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Elephant Battery
An elephant battery of the Indian Army in Secunderabad, India, 1896. (Photo by Henry Guttmann/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Cholula Pyramid
The Great Pyramid of Cholula, a Mesoamerican site in the Mexican state of Puebla, circa 1530. It dates back to the 3rd century BCE and is the worlds largest pyramid. Drawn by H

Petticoat Duellists, a print depicting two women fighting a duel with pistols, published in 1792. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Wartime Locomotive Shipment
A batch of steam locomotives awaiting shipment to Europe, where they will be used to take transport supplies to the front, 13th March 1945. (Photo by Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Victorian Masons
A group of Victorian stonemasons, 1857. (Photo by Otto Herschan/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Lincoln Steep Hill
Steep Hill in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, leading up to the cathedral, 1866. From sepia. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Chelmsford High Street in Essex, with the Queens Head Inn on the left and the Shire Hall at the end of the road, circa 1890. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Monte Cassino
The Benedictine monastery of Monte Cassino in Italy, circa 1890. It was destroyed in 1944 by Allied bombing, and rebuilt by the State after the war. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Battle Of Quiberon Bay
20th November 1759: The Battle of Quiberon Bay takes place off the coast of France during the Seven Years War. The Royal Navy under Admiral Sir Edward Hawke won a decisive victory over the French

Chung-Wangs Palace
The entrance to the Chung-Wangs palace in Soochow (Suzhou), China, circa 1863. The Chung-Wang or Faithful Prince was the leader of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom during the Taiping Rebellion

A Beautiful Collection
A collection of British moths, circa 1850. They include the dark crimson underwing, goat moth, common tiger moth, drinker moth, death s-head hawkmoth, Kentish glory, scarlet tiger moth, clouded buff

Mortlake Station
Mortlake Railway Station in south-west London, 1867. (Photo by Otto Herschan/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Cavalry At Waterloo Drawn by Howe
British cavalry of the Royal Scots Greys (right) charging the Polish Lancers at the Battle of Waterloo, Belgium, 18th June 1815. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Galway Starvation Riots
Starving townspeople raid a potato store in Galway during a famine, Ireland, 13th June 1842. Food riots occurred all day in the city

Birmingham New Street railway station at the time of its official opening, June 1854. The station had the worlds largest iron and glass roof. Original publication: Illustrated London News, pub

Baghdad Street
A street scene in Baghdad, Iraq, circa 1910. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Workers stop for a meal in the cutting at Irlam, Salford, Greater Manchester, during the construction of the Manchester Ship Canal, circa 1890. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

American Westward Expansion
A goddess helps pioneers establish civilization during the United States Westward Expansion, in a 19th Century illustration entitled American Progress. (Photo by Kean Collection/Getty Images)

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)

Malay People
circa 1850: Five people from the Malay Archipelago; from left to right, two Dayaks or Dyaks from Borneo (a Saghai Dayak and a Loondoo Dayak), and three natives of Java (a priest)

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)

Zulu Warriors
A muster of Zulu warriors preparing for an attack during the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879. Original Publication : The Graphic - 22nd February 1879 (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Country Walk; group of seven children walking in a row, and an eighth being pulled in a cart
Full-length image of a group of seven children walking in a row, and an eighth being pulled in a cart, along a country road. (Photo by Edwin Levick/Getty Images)

New Beginnings
A group of immigrants traveling aboard a ship celebrate as they catch their first glimpse of the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island in New York Harbor. (Photo by Edwin Levick/Getty Images)

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

Ulsters Unemployed
17th December 1955: Unemployed people on the streets of Derry city. In Northern Ireland 30, 000 people are out of work. Original Publication

Punt Picture
A girl takes a photograph of her friends with a large Kodak camera, while sailing in a punt. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Nulli Secundus
Britains first military airship, Nulli Secundus, 110 ft in length, 28 ft in diameter. Suspended from the balloon by a network of cordage is a framework of bamboo and aluminium

Indian Hill Railway
circa 1930: A train in India passing two bullock drawn carts on its way down the hill towards Darjeeling. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Suffragettes chaining themselves to the Railings Outside Buckingham Palace, London
Police arrest Suffragettes who are chaining themselves to the railings outside Buckingham Palace, London. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

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