Human Role Collection (page 4)

Beggar Girls
1872: Two young beggar girls at Quimperle in Brittany. Original Artwork: Painting by Emile Auguste Hublin (Photo by Edward Gooch/Edward Gooch/Getty Images)

Mans Burden
circa 1850: A man with a padlock and chain round his neck labelled wedlock is carrying on his shoulders a drunken woman drinking gin. Behind them is a pawnbrokers nameds Gripp

Women In Harem
circa 1890: Three women and a servant in a harem in Turkey. (Photo by Edward Gooch/Edward Gooch/Getty Images)

Walt Whitman
circa 1885: Walt Whitman (1819 - 1891) American poet, democrat and author. (Photo by Edward Gooch/Edward Gooch/Getty Images)

Laundry Van
circa 1925: A mobile laundrette operating in Newtown, Honley, provides a shirt and collar dressing service as well as dyeing and dry-cleaning for West Riding and Yorkshire

Beach Photographer
circa 1930: A photographer sets up a shot of a group of children on a deserted stretch of beach. (Photo by Chaloner Woods/Getty Images)

Single Span Hangar
4th December 1933: Men at work on the steel girders of a single span hangar being built at Gravesend Airport with a main span of 130ft. (Photo by Reg Speller/Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Virginia Woolf
circa 1933: English critic, novelist and essayist Virginia Woolf (1882 - 1941). (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Traffic Policeman
A Malayan traffic policeman with a semaphore board on his back. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

American Market
Shoppers at a street market in the USA. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Dune Drudgery
Germans hauling a heavy gun into position over sand dunes on the Belgium coast. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Oh! Heres The Missus
circa 1840: Servants enjoying an illicit meal above stairs are horrified by the unexpected arrival of the mistress of the house

Georges Mistress
circa 1825: An illustration by English artist George Cruikshank (1792 - 1878) entitled The Mistress of the House. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Waiting For Transport
circa 1916: German soldiers lying dead and wounded, waiting for transport on the road to Armentiers. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Prison Camp
circa 1916: Prisoners by the Central station in the citadel town of Laon.The cathedral is in the far background. (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)

Streets Of Egypt
circa 1923: The British Army parading through an Egyptian street. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Calvin J Coolidge
Calvin Coolidge (1872 - 1933), the 30th President of the United States of America (1923 - 1929). When Governor of Massachusetts in 1919 he crushed the Boston police strike

Machine Gunners
Gas-masked men of the British Machine Gun Corps with a Vickers machine gun during the first battle of the Somme. (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)

Anti-Aircraft Gun
German artillery, wearing gas masks, with a quick-firing anti-aircraft gun used mainly against low-flying aeroplanes. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Boer Guerrillas
Boer guerrilla commandoes, during the Boer war. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Harvest Help
circa 1895: A Victorian family holding hay rakes are helping with the haymaking. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Gibraltar
1862: Soldiers stand guard by a cannon overlooking the sea on the rocky cliffs of Gibraltar. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Shoeshine
1877: A young independent shoeblack shines the boots of a city gent. Original Publication: From Street Life In London by John Thomson and Adolphe Smith - pub

Future Commuters
circa 1890: Labourers clearing the ground for a railway line running beside a village of thatched huts in Kenya. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Captured Tanks
circa 1917: Germans testing the climbing powers of captured British tanks, redecorated in German colours. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

German Advance
circa 1915: Germans advancing in the Champagne district of France, south of Paris. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Eros Bus
1909: The silhouette of the Eros statue hovers above passengers on board a motor bus passing Piccadilly Circus in London. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

A pick pocket at work in New York, 1940
circa 1940: A pickpocket at work in New York. (Photo by William Davis/General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Gun Turning
circa 1895: The rough turning of a large gun at Woolwich Arsenal. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

London Shoeshine
circa 1900: A bootblack at work in a London street. (Photo by Paul Martin/General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Jane Addams
circa 1925: Jane Addams (1860 - 1935), American social reformer, feminist and co-winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931. She founded the social settlement Hull House in Chicago in 1899

Under Attack
June 1918: French soldiers taking cover in a road near Courcelles, France, whilst a tank is hit by a German shell. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

High Work
1925: Steel workers at work on the cities service building in New York, with the City Bank in the background. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Photographer At Work
1877: A street photographer at work on Clapham Common, London, with a mobile booth. Original Publication: From Street Life in London by John Thomson and Adolphe Smith - pub

Billingsgate
1892: Market porters loading wagons with goods at Billingsgate fish market, London. (Photo by Paul Martin/General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Horse Traffic
1900: A street near the Mansion House in London full of horse-drawn omnibuses being controlled by a policeman. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Mens Work
1876: Barefoot sailors cleaning guns on board HMS Firefly. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Arthur Conan Doyle
circa 1925: Scottish writer of detective stories and historical romances Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930), creator of Sherlock Holmes. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Maids In A Row
1892: Maids pausing on the stairs at the London hotel where they work. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Stalin
circa 1945: Joseph Stalin (1879 - 1953) Soviet Leader. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

Portrait of James Madison
James Madison (1751 - 1836), the 4th President of the United States. Known as the Father of the Constitution, he also co-wrote the Federalist Papers, 1783

Indian Pottery
circa 1800: Two Indian craftsmen in turbans decorate the exterior of a huge vase with stylised peacocks and fish. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Building Tower
Circa 1450, Men at work building a circular tower with large stones. Original Artwork: Manuscript in the collection of the British Museum, London. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

Get Medieval On You
Circa 1250, A depiction of medieval surgery and the setting of limbs from a 13th century treatise on surgery. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

Christ Preaching
Circa 30 AD, Christ preaching in the wilderness. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

Young Immigrant
A young Russian Jewish immigrant at Ellis Island, New York. (Photo by Lewis W Hine/Getty Images)

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