Taking Collection

T T Photographer
9th June 1951: Don Price taking photos, with a Speed Graphic camera, of the TT race by standing on a Matchless 500 Twin motorcycle. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Parisian Luxury
circa 1824: A Parisian gentleman takes a bath attended by his barber and manicurist. George Cruikshank (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Pilot Aboard
1930: A river pilot from the PLA Pilot station at Gravesend, Kent climbs up the side of a ship to take it to its destination at one of the London docks. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

A Days Outing
circa 1928: A line of seventy-five buses taking five-thousand poor children for a day out at Theydon Bois, Essex. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Flight Deck
Plane taking off from the American aircraft carrier Constellation in the Gulf of Tonkin, Vietnam. (Photo by Terry Fincher/Getty Images)

Tobogganing Slope
1908: A skeleton competitor taking off on the Cresta Run at Saint Moritz, Switzerland. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

X-ray Outfit
1st March 1909: A medical worker, dressed in protective clothing, prepares to take an X-ray. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Fly! Airship! Fly
March 1919: Airship R33 during its take off for its maiden flight at an aerodrome in Barlow, Yorkshire. (Photo by R. Humphrey/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Rocket launcher
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Young man undressing in the sunshine

Corgis In Dog Show
1976: Corgis taking part in a dog show at Olympia exhibition centre, London. (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images)

Tablet, pill on a tongue, mouth

Man taking bath, (B&W)

Surrey Bike Ride
A middle-aged couple take a bicycle ride through Surrey, 1907. (Photo by FPG/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Georgia Cotton Plantation
GEORGIA 1898: A pair of cotton pickers take a break on a plantation in 1898 in Georgia. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archive/Getty Images)

Happy Tank
13th June 1952: A Cromwell tank jumping a distance of 31 feet after taking off from a concrete ramp. A demonstration at the Royal Armoured Corps Centre at Bovington Camp, Dorset. (Photo by E)

Hurricane Fighters
10th December 1940: Two Czech pilots watching colleagues take to the air in their Hurricanes. (Photo by William Vanderson/Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Dunkirk Boats
June 1940: A fleet of small motor boats being towed up the Thames after taking part in the BEF (British Expeditionary Forces) Dunkirk rescue. (Photo by Harold Clements/London Express/Getty Images)

Funeral Train; King George VI coffin is loaded onto a train at Paddington Station
15th February 1952: The coffin containing the body of King George VI is loaded onto a train at Paddington Station, London, to take it to Windsor. (Photo by Harry Shepherd/Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Exhibition Visitors
Visitors to the International Exhibition held in South Kensington, London taking a rest by the Majolica fountain which is surmounted by a statue of St George killing a dragon

Walker in the Sandstone canyon in the national park, Parque Nacional Talampaya, Argentina, South America

Bad Dog
circa 1930: The sun is low in the sky when a man takes his dog for a walk in the park. (Photo by Chaloner Woods/Getty Images)

Taking A Corner
12th October 1929: Competitors take a banked corner in the British RDC 500 mile motor race at Brooklands race track in Weybridge, Surrey. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Triple Header
circa 1920: A mountain train with three locomotives working hard to take the strain. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

London Parade
1918: American soldiers taking part in a peace parade in London. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Walking Club
circa 1870: Members of a walking club taking a rest. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Ready For Flight
circa 1930: A biplane outside its hangar ready to take off. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Tennis Family
circa 1890: A Victorian family taking a break from a game of tennis. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

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)

Beach Study
June 1905: A lady photographer taking portraits on Southend beach. (Photo by Paul Martin/General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Country Drive
circa 1890: A group of men taking a drive in the country. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Beach Photographer
circa 1924: A professional photographer taking snaps of the holiday-makers on the beach at Ostend. She is using a ladder to steady her camera and keep it out of the waves

Off To The Pole
circa 1930: Propellers on the Graf Zeppelin airship as she is about to take off for a polar flight. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Woman taking Horse Chestnuts or Conkers (Aesculus hippocastanum) in her hands from a wicker basket

Bread rolls with fish for sale in Wismar, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany, Europe

Man in shorts in the city

Nettle-tree butterfly, European beak -Libythea celtis- sunbathing, near Lake Kerkini, Greece, Europe

Hyde Park Riders
circa 1890: Horse riders and carriages take a spin along the bridle path in Londons Hyde Park. (Photo by London Stereoscopic Company/Getty Images)

Rustic Bridge
1859: A party of Americans taking the view from the Rustic Bridge at Sleepy Hollow, Tarrytown, New York. (Photo by William England/London Stereoscopic Company/Getty Images)

Tea Time
circa 1865: A middle class family take tea while a St Bernard dog sleeps at their feet. London Stereoscopic Company Comic Series - 35 (Photo by London Stereoscopic Company/Getty Images)

Pumpkin Visitor
circa 1865: A white caped figure wearing a haloween pumpkin mask taking two people by surprise in their kitchen. London Stereoscopic Company Comic Series - 598

Man holding fork, taking bite in studio, (B&W), portrait

Man holding fork, posing in studio, (B&W), portrait

Couple in kitchen, wife taking roast from oven (B&W)

Man taking folded shirt from drawer (B&W)

City Stroll
Two fashionably dressed women take a stroll on a city street, 1909. (Photo by FPG/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Pastoral View
A man leaning on a fence next to a field of cows to take in the view of Blue Ridge Parkway among the mountains of Doughton Park, North Carolina, circa 1930. (Photo by FPG/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Going To School
A teacher goes to take the hand of a small girl on her way in to school in the 1940 s. (Photo by FPG/Getty Images)

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