Human Role Collection (page 7)

Cycle Battalion
May 1915: Men of the Bersagliere (Italian rifle battalion) on the move across country with their bicycles. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Police Timing
January 1909: A Policeman signalling from a roof top as a method for timing motor cars. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Car Factory 1914
22nd January 1914: An employee checking the machinery at the Wolseley Motor Companys Works at Adderley Park, Birmingham. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Military Types
1906: Russian and Japanese military men after the Russo-Japanese War sitting in front of an ornately carved screen. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Chinese Soldiers
1906: Chinese soldiers in the Russo-Japanese War. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Traffic Signals
21st July 1926: New traffic signals on the corner of Piccadilly and Old Street in London. (Photo by Kirby/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Buttons Ltd
July 1909: Workers cutting buttons in a factory in Birmingham. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Fitting Gun Sights
9th January 1930: Workers at the Bristol Aeroplane Co works at Filton, Gloucester, fitting controls and calibrating the gun sights of the Bristol Bulldog

Plough The Park
19th January 1917: Ploughing land in Richmond Park to help the war effort. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Alexander Bell
Scottish inventor Alexander Graham Bell ( 1847 - 1922 ) who invented the telephone. Bell, born in Edinburgh, worked with his father, Scottish educator Alexander Melville Bell

Turkey Farm
A group of workers at a Norfolk turkey farm. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Demolition
A man carries out demolition work on the Festival of Britain site, at the South Bank, London. The shot tower is in the background. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

US Mail
American Mail Vans. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Hello Girls
Female operators at the switchboard of the Magneto Exchange of the National Telephone Company, USA. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Warming Drink
February 1916: Standing beside her bus a woman bus conductor is drinking hot milk from a large mug. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Wartime Skirmish
February 1916: A Russian patrol skirmishing during World War I. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Threshing Machine
September 1907: Farm workers grinding and threshing by motor at the Dennis Brothers Farm in Kirton, Lincolnshire. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Head For Heights
May 1919: Mr Post repairing the 450ft mast at Marconis transmitting station in Chelmsford.Marconi Wireless Telegraph Works, Chelmsford, Essex. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

All-Out
1919: Police strike meeting at Tower Hill, London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Sunken Cargo
September 1919: A wrecked barge at on the River Thames at Blackfriars Bridge in London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Welcome Home
March 1919: Guards march through London after World War I. (Photo by A. R. Coster/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Disused Chimney
July 1919: Steeplejack Jim Larkin demolishing a chimney. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Boxkite Biplane
October 1909: Aviator Rougier flies close to the crowd in his boxkite biplane during Blackpool Flying Week. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Railway Religon
1906: A crowd gathered to watch a Russian Orthodox service in progress in an ornate railway carriage on the Manchurian Railway. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Factory Fodder
1st July 1909: Two youths operate the factory machines involved in the blowing process, at the High Grade Hatters Sutton & Torkington Ltd. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Belfast Strikes
1st July 1907: A Belfast quayside as the Irish army is sent in, in an attempt to end the dock strike. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Office Workers
1910: Clerks at work in the offices of a London bus company. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Bottling Department
1908: The bottling department at Henley and Sons Cider Works at Newton Abbot in Devon. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Escape And Pump
circa 1906: Two horse drawn fire carts leave the station to tackle a blaze: the escape is on the left and the pump on the right. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Parliament Street
2nd December 1924: A policeman holds up the traffic in Parliament Street to allow members of parliament to get to the House of Commons on a rainy winter evening

Stables
May 1911: The stables used by a bus company to accommodate horses used for pulling the London Horse Bus. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

US Guard
27th March 1917: The armoured vehicle squadron of the US National Guard, in Washington DC with the US Capitol Dome viewable in the background. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Railway Porter
26th October 1907: A railway porter stands with a trolley on a platform luggage weighing scale at Marleybone station, London

Jones Mill
circa 1909: The interior of Jones Cotton Mill in Manchester. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Cotton Mill
circa 1909: The harnessing process at Jones Cotton Mill, Manchester. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Goods Porter
26th October 1907: A goods porter on the Great Central Railway pushing a crate. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Horse Cups
14th June 1907: A policeman guarding the prizes at the Richmond Horse Show. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Army Forge
1st February 1901: Shoeing smiths at work in a cavalry camp during the Boer War. (Photo by Reinhold Thiele/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Maori Elder
1906: An old Maori woman sitting outside her hut smoking a pipe making a basket. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Cigarette Factory
1st July 1909: Women rolling tobacco by hand in a factory in Manchester (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Tynwold Ceremony
1st April 1909: Tynwold ceremony on Tynwald Hill. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Paddington Station
1st May 1911: The arrival of the Boston Boat Train, at Paddington Railway Station, London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Himalayan Ascent
1st May 1913: Members of the Bullock Workman expedition in the Himalayas ascending an ice wall near the summit of Junction Peak. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Snow Peaks
1st May 1913: Members of the Bullock Workman expedition in the Himalayas in the high snow peaks of Tyrkestan. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Argus At Rosyth
November 1918: Airmen and seamen cheering King George V from the aircraft carrier Argus on his visit to the Fleet at Rosyth, on the Firth of Forth. The carrier is painted in dazzle camouflage

Mayfly Launch
12th May 1911: The first naval airship, the Mayfly in her hangar before launch. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Balloon Construction
September 1906: The balloon workshops at Short Brothers. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Gold Chain Making
circa 1909: Girls working in a section of the polishing room, making gold chain at Goods & Sons Birmingham. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

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