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Background imageSingle Collection: Wells Lecture

Wells Lecture
1944: English author H G Wells (Herbert George Wells, 1866 - 1946) lecturing at the Czechoslovakian Institute in London. (Photo by Erich Auerbach/Getty Images)

Background imageSingle Collection: Bernstein Conducts

Bernstein Conducts
8th December 1966: US composer, conductor and pianist Leonard Bernstein (1918 - 1990) conducting. (Photo by Erich Auerbach/Getty Images)

Background imageSingle Collection: Stravinsky Conducts

Stravinsky Conducts
8th December 1958: Russian-born composer, conductor, pianist and writer Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (1882 - 1971) conducting

Background imageSingle Collection: Steel Works

Steel Works
29th April 1939: Railtracks which bring locomotives to and from the Guest Keen Baldwins steel works in Cardiff, Wales. Original Publication: Picture Post - 116 - Steel - pub

Background imageSingle Collection: Museum Goer

Museum Goer
29th May 1954: A man looks at a sculpture in a museum in Bristol. Original Publication: Picture Post - 7170 - The Best and Worst of British Cities 5: Bristol, Straight Faced City - pub

Background imageSingle Collection: Air Raid Damage

Air Raid Damage
1st October 1940: A warden inspecting the damage after German aircraft dropped bombs on the city. (Photo by William Vanderson/Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Background imageSingle Collection: Hitler Undone

Hitler Undone
February 1945: An American GI removing a sign which reads Adolf Hitler Street from the side of a building in Duren, Germany. The street is to be renamed following the Second World War

Background imageSingle Collection: Zeppelinfield

Zeppelinfield
1945: The huge Zeppelin Stadium at Nuremberg, built to display Nazi might, is in Allied hands. Here the Nazi Party held its rallies and Hitler made his speeches. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

Background imageSingle Collection: German Guard

German Guard
December 1939: A German soldier standing guard by a field gun, in the French countryside, during the Second World War. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageSingle Collection: Boy In Horozonial Stripe Shirt & Girl Wearing A Ve

Boy In Horozonial Stripe Shirt & Girl Wearing A Ve
UNITED STATES - Circa 1930s: Boy In Horozonial Stripe Shirt & Girl Wearing A Vertical Stripe Jumper Shorts Set On A Bicycle Sharing A Single Bottle Of Soda With Two Straws Trees. (Photo by H)

Background imageSingle Collection: Mechanicville Controller

Mechanicville Controller
A railroad despatcher looking over the railway yards at Mechanicville on the The Boston & Maine Railroad, New York State, January 1928. (Photo by FPG/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageSingle Collection: Stone Arch of Church After Chicago Fire, 1871

Stone Arch of Church After Chicago Fire, 1871
A formally dressed Black man stands in front of the stone arch of the Second Presbyterian Church, through which can be seen the remains of the Tribune Building

Background imageSingle Collection: Portrait of American abolitionist and womens rights activist Lucy Stone

Portrait of American abolitionist and womens rights activist Lucy Stone (1818 - 1893) (Photo by Frederic Lewis/Getty Images)

Background imageSingle Collection: Woman Driving Early Automobile

Woman Driving Early Automobile
Side view of a woman driving an early 20th century automobile with an old-fashioned car horn attached to the steering shaft, 1900s. (Photo by Frederic Lewis/Getty Images)

Background imageSingle Collection: Black US Soldiers Pointing Rifles In Civil War

Black US Soldiers Pointing Rifles In Civil War
Two Black soldiers in the Union Army aim their rifles beside a corner of a builidng in Picket Post, a Mathew Brady photograph from the American Civil War, 1860s

Background imageSingle Collection: H G Wells

H G Wells
English novelist Herbert George Wells (1866 - 1946), whose most famous works include The Time Machine and The Invisible Man, 4th May 1940. Picture Post - 282 - Unite Or Perish - pub.1940

Background imageSingle Collection: Climbing Steps

Climbing Steps
10th July 1945: A child climbs the steps at Roehamptons outdoor swimming pool in South London. Original Publication: Picture Post - 1481 - Swim Pool Fantasy - pub

Background imageSingle Collection: Upside Down

Upside Down
24th August 1946: A young girl has a look at an upside-down world as she visits the sea for the first time. Original Publication: Picture Post - 4191 - First Sight Of The Sea - pub

Background imageSingle Collection: Derelict Cottage

Derelict Cottage
28th May 1955: A derelict cottage in a rural village. Traditional homes have been replaced by modern cottages with more facilities and the old buildings are now used for storage or farm animals

Background imageSingle Collection: Doomed Street

Doomed Street
9th March 1946: A solitary figure walks down a deserted street in Londons East End, which London County Council plans to redevelop as part of its post-war rebuilding programme

Background imageSingle Collection: Back Pack

Back Pack
24th February 1951: A Tibetan loads wool onto a mule, to sell in the Indian markets. Original Publication: Picture Post - 5210 - Tibet Dissolves - pub

Background imageSingle Collection: Castle Combe

Castle Combe
3rd August 1946: A man walks towards the picturesque village of Castle Combe, Wiltshire. Original Publication: Picture Post - 4151- A Walk In The Heart Of England - pub

Background imageSingle Collection: Courting Couple

Courting Couple
16th April 1956: Young lovers walking down a solitary road in Gretna Green. Original Publication: Picture Post - 8451 - Gretna Green - unpub. (Photo by Charles Hewitt/Picture Post/Getty Images)

Background imageSingle Collection: Black Watch Sniper

Black Watch Sniper
20th August 1955: A lone soldier of the Black Watch Depot, Queens Barracks, Perth, during target practice. The Black Watch, Am Freiceadan Dubh in Gaelic

Background imageSingle Collection: Button Back Hat

Button Back Hat
1956: A flower pot hat which buttons at the back at a fashion show at Burlington House, London. Original Publication: Picture Post - 8799 - Hat Fashions - unpub. (Photo by David E)

Background imageSingle Collection: View Of Venice

View Of Venice
9th February 1946: A silhouette of a gondola on the canal in Venice. Original Publication: Picture Post - 3067 - Venice Is Still Serene - pub. 1946 (Photo by Haywood Magee/Picture Post/Getty Images)

Background imageSingle Collection: Goal Scoring Machine

Goal Scoring Machine
1st December 1951: Arthur Milton of Arsenal aims a shot at a novel goal-scoring machine during a training session. Milton also plays cricket for Gloucestershire

Background imageSingle Collection: Parliament Fog

Parliament Fog
21st January 1939: The Houses of Parliament, London, engulfed in fog. Original Publication: Picture Post - 68 - Foggy Morning - pub. 1939 (Photo by Kurt Hutton/Picture Post/Getty Images)

Background imageSingle Collection: TS Eliot

TS Eliot
2nd June 1951: American-English poet and playwright TS Eliot (1888 - 1965). Original Publication: Picture Post - 5314 - Are Poets Really Necessary

Background imageSingle Collection: TS Eliot

TS Eliot
2nd June 1951: American-English poet and playwright, TS Eliot (1888 - 1965). He wrote amongst many other things, The Waste Land and the plays, The Cocktail Party and Murder in the Cathedral

Background imageSingle Collection: Searching Car

Searching Car
2nd September 1950: A customs officer searching the boot of a car at Calais. Original Publication: Picture Post - Through The French Customs - pub

Background imageSingle Collection: Fighter Pilot

Fighter Pilot
28th June 1952: A US Airforce pilot stationed in Britain standing in a doorway with a sign above him reading Through These Portals Pass The Best Damn Fighter Pilots In The World

Background imageSingle Collection: Thomas Leaning

Thomas Leaning
10th August 1946: Welsh poet and playwright Dylan Thomas (1914 - 1953). Original Publication: Picture Post - 4156 - Nest Of Singing Birds - pub. 1946 (Photo by Francis Reiss/Picture Post/Getty Images)

Background imageSingle Collection: Shopping By Bicycle

Shopping By Bicycle
2nd October 1948: For the tenth anniversary of Picture Post, the magazine has sought out the model who posed for their most popular cover, Jane Webb, who has been married three years to David

Background imageSingle Collection: Lighting Candles

Lighting Candles
24th July 1948: A devotee lighting candles at the shrine at Holywell, North Wales. The shrine is sacred to St Winefride, who supposedly rose from the dead by a miracle

Background imageSingle Collection: They re More My Size

They re More My Size
28th February 1953: A young boy examines an exhibit in a glass cage in the elephant room in the Natural History Museum, London

Background imageSingle Collection: Bernard Shaw

Bernard Shaw
20th July 1946: Irish dramatist, writer and social reformer, George Bernard Shaw in the garden of his home in Ayot St Lawrence, Hertfordshire

Background imageSingle Collection: Winter Plough

Winter Plough
12th March 1955: A solitary horse stands beside an idle plough on the shores of Loch Lubnaig in Stirling, Scotland. Agricultural work has stopped for the winter

Background imageSingle Collection: Dylan Thomas

Dylan Thomas
10th August 1946: Dylan Marlais Thomas (1914 - 1953), Welsh poet and playwright. Original Publication: Picture Post - 4156 - A Nest Of Singing Birds - pub

Background imageSingle Collection: Window Shopping

Window Shopping
25th June 1955: A well-dressed woman surveys the window of a jewellery shop in Dundee. Dundee, situated on the banks of the dSilvery Tayf

Background imageSingle Collection: Stiletto Model

Stiletto Model
19th December 1953: Dancer and model Jeann Marsh modelling a pair of stiletto heels. Original Publication: Picture Post - 6833 - Hazards Of The Stiletto Heel - pub

Background imageSingle Collection: Travelling Salesman

Travelling Salesman
12th September 1953: The lonely life of a travelling salesman, carrying his wares from shop to shop and from house to house in search of a customer

Background imageSingle Collection: Dounreay

Dounreay
The bottom half of the worlds first electricity-producing fast breeder reactor at Dounreay Nuclear Power Development Establishment in Scotland, 14th July 1956

Background imageSingle Collection: Marshal Berthier

Marshal Berthier
French cartographer and military leader Louis-Alexander Berthier (1753 - 1815), Napoleon Bonapartes Chief-of-staff, circa 1798. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageSingle Collection: Opera Puffs Cigarettes advertisement

Opera Puffs Cigarettes advertisement
Female model lying down in advertisement for Opera Puffs Cigarettes, Will Not Stick To The Lips (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageSingle Collection: Man observing space through telescope, c. 1644

Man observing space through telescope, c. 1644
Drawing of a man observing space through a telescope, c. 1644. (Drawing by Hulton|Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageSingle Collection: A police officer on the street, San Francisco, early 20th century

A police officer on the street, San Francisco, early 20th century (photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)



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