Single Collection (#27)

Tilling The Soil
30th March 1917: A woman guides a plough over a field at Cambridge University Farm. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

I Need A Drink
14th July 1926: A horse getting a drink on a hot day in London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Mind Machine
A woman whose head is attached to a machine which resembles a large hairdryer, but is in fact a Lavery Electric Automatic Phrenometer, for measuring brain activity

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

Benito Mussolini Aged 22
Italian dictator Benito Mussolini (1883 - 1945), aged 22. Original Publication: People Disc - HW0218 (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Bobsleigh Ride
A woman tobogganing down the Dorf Dimson bobsleigh run at St Moritz. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Filming Take-Off
A US Army cinematographer filming a US Nieuport 28 biplane taking off during the summer counter-offensive. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Early Flight
Hubert Lathams attempt to cross the Channel in his Antoinette IV monoplane. (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)

Duckshooter
A duckshooter stalking birds on a sledge with a punt gun, on the frozen waters of Crowbit Wash in the Fens. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

London Fogbound
A bargee sitting on the stern of his barge waiting for the London fog to lift before he can start work. (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)

In Traction
December 1915: A steam traction engine drives a heavy load across a bridge. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Highland Parade
November 1915: The Canadian Highlanders marching through London during the Lord Mayors Procession, flanked by a single policeman. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Disrupted Travel
20th October 1938: A rail worker fixing a fog warning notice at South Woodford Railway Station in Essex. (Photo by H. F. Davis/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Aladdin
July 1923: US President Warren Gamaliel Harding (1865 - 1923) in a Shriners Parade. Shriners (Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine for North America)

Benito Mussolini
November 1922: Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini (1883 - 1945). (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

President Taft
circa 1912: 27th President of the United States William Howard Taft (1857 - 1930). (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Underground Mail
9th February 1928: Mail in containers are loaded into trains at Mount Pleasant depot in London. (Photo by E. Bacon/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Pumping Water
6th July 1917: A young boy filling a barrel with a water pump at allotments in Dulwich which are being used to grow produce as part of the war effort. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Manchester Mill
1909: Joness Mill in Manchester. (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)

Caruso In Naples
circa 1920: Italian opera singer, Enrico Caruso (1873 - 1921) on a balcony in Naples. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Ice-Cold
October 1919: An iceman is busy delivering ice despite a London fog. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Victory Car
November 1919: Arrol Johnson Victory car on display at the Olympic Motor Show in London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Snowy Footsteps
28th December 1939: A lone pedestrian walking through the snowfall in a London park. (Photo by J. A. Hampton/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)

Arosa
15th December 1925: Skiing at Arosa in Switzerland. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

North South Divide
10th February 1937: Arsenal goalkeeper George Swindin kicks the ball upfield during a match against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge, London. (Photo by A. Hudson/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Engine Fireman
26th October 1907: A fireman on the Great Central Railway stands by his cab. He holds a wad of cheesecloth used for polishing cab fittings or to protect his hands from hot handles

Car Sale
March 1919: A motor sale at Hendon. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Steam
circa 1910: A release of steam at the Bargoed Colliery in Wales. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Belfast City Hall
circa 1900: Under the dome of the City Hall in Belfast. (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

Irish Girl
1st October 1907: A woman standing in front of a drystone wall in rural Ireland. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Holy Land
25th June 1927: A tanner of Hebron preparing goat skins for carrying water. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Canton Harbour
November 1925: A Chinese gunboat guards Canton Harbour during the war of 1922-6. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Dwarf House
1909: The smallest house in London at 10 Hyde Park Place. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Early Lorry
9th January 1913: An early example of a commercial lorry. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Cavalryman
2nd August 1917: A German cavalryman wearing a gas mask and carrying a long spear or pole - from two different ages of war. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Signal Box Scene
26th October 1907: A signalman operating a signal. (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

Railway Shunter
26th October 1907: A railway shunter ready to couple two wagons, one of which is a Stephenson Clarke 10-tonner. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Wheeltapper
26th October 1907: A man tapping the wheels, examining for cracks, on the Great Central Railway at Marylebone, London. (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)

Hair
1st December 1909: A back view of hairstyle known as Gainsborough. (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)

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

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