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Topical Press Agency Collection (#48)

Early 20th Century images captured by one of the leading photo agency of the time

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Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Wood For Paper

Wood For Paper
circa 1950: Wood pulp at the storage depot of the Imperial Paper Mills at Gravesend, Kent, awaits transformation into paper. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Trial In Scotland

Trial In Scotland
June 1908: A car taking part in the RAC and SAC Trial approaches Frinagow Hill, on the Glasgow to Aberdeen run. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Bamboo Jungle

Bamboo Jungle
Three young girls outside a plantation which provides 10, 000, 000 canes of bamboo, near Bodmin in Cornwall

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Lydia Ward

Lydia Ward in Guys Hospital, London

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Tube Train

Tube Train
Interior of an all-steel London underground train

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Fencing Equipment

Fencing Equipment
A collection of fencing equipment

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Airship Balloon

Airship Balloon
circa 1930: The balloon of an airship when inflated floats in its hangar. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Bus Traffic

Bus Traffic
June 1912: Traffic at Charing Cross in London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Coal Truck Crash

Coal Truck Crash
December 1923: A lorry delivering coal, which has skidded off the road and crashed into the railings outside a house. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Plane Crash

Plane Crash
A crowd gathered around the wreckage of Lincoln Beacheys crashed aeroplane, at Ascot Park, Los Angeles, California

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Holiday Time

Holiday Time
Holiday makers sitting on the sands at Clacton-on-Sea, Essex

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Steam Lorry

Steam Lorry
November 1923: A steam traction engine with a broken rear axle in Pall Mall, London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Crevasse Crossers

Crevasse Crossers
December 1910: Three mountaineers crossing a crevsasse on the Pers Glacier in the Alps. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Trolley Accident

Trolley Accident
A trolley car hanging over a bridge after coming off the tracks into the Desplaines River on the outskirts of Chicago at Lyons, Illinois

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Frame Of Zeppelin

Frame Of Zeppelin
February 1919: The wooden frame of a zeppelin under construction at Short Brothers Works. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Olympia Aero Show

Olympia Aero Show
14th March 1914: Display stands at the Aero Show, Olympia, London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Making Buttons

Making Buttons
circa 1909: Workers in a Birmingham button factory packaging the finished product. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Baseball Crowd

Baseball Crowd
A crowd at a baseball match in New York. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Grain Boats

Grain Boats
November 1918: Boats carrying grain on the Great Lakes. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Safely Dry

Safely Dry
October 1922: The yacht Ara in dry dock. The yacht, owned by millionaire William K. Vanderbilt, is currently overdue in New York harbour by four days

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Scottish Shipyard

Scottish Shipyard
The Cunard luxury liner Aquitania surrounded by scaffolding while under construction at the Clydebank shipyard owned by John Brown & Company

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Dornier Flying Boat

Dornier Flying Boat
circa 1930: The Do R4 Dornier Flying Boat invented by German pioneer Claude Dornier (1884 - 1969). (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Smoke Helmet

Smoke Helmet
circa 1908: A fireman from the London Fire Brigade, wearing a smoke helmet. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Top Down View

Top Down View
July 1907: A photograph taken from above of a man walking upstairs. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Matches And Fag Ends

Matches And Fag Ends
The matches and fag ends box at the Embankment Fellowship Centre, London, a night centre, canteen and recreational facility for ex-service men over 45-years of age

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Royal Tournament

Royal Tournament
The Physical Training Display by the combined Womens Services (WRNS, WRAC and WRAF), during the Royal Tournament at Earls Court, London

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: King Charles Spaniel

King Charles Spaniel
17th March 1914: Lady Cynthia Grahams King Charles Spaniel watches the presentation of shamrock to Irish Guards at Wellington Barracks from the comfort of her car

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: British Topical Press Agency (1903 - 1957)

British Topical Press Agency (1903 - 1957)
Fine Art Storehouse Vintage Photo Gallery: Press Photography: British Topical Press Agency (1903 - 1957)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Point Of Impact

Point Of Impact
2nd October 1916: A group of men cluster round a dent in the grass caused by a falling body at a zeppelin crash site in Potters Bar. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Motor Badge

Motor Badge
11th January 1917: A hackney carriage with a new licensed motor badge. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Take Off

Take Off
March 1916: A bi-plane taking off from the airfield at Hendon Flying School. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Bi-Plane Parts

Bi-Plane Parts
March 1916: The mechanical workings and propeller of a bi-plane at Hendon Flying School. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Plane Parts

Plane Parts
March 1916: The mechanical workings of a bi-plane at Hendon Flying School. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Bi-Plane

Bi-Plane
March 1916: A bi-plane on the airfield at Hendon Flying School. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: A Days Rations

A Days Rations
August 1916: A days food rations for a German prisoner in Britain. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Saw Mill

Saw Mill
July 1916: Steam saw mills at Virginia Water, Surrey, being used by the Canadian Forestry Battalion to process timber. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: For The Fallen

For The Fallen
August 1916: A memorial to the war dead at St Judes, Hampstead. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: One-Legged Race

One-Legged Race
July 1916: A very literal one-legged race held during a garden party for wounded soldiers at Roehampton House. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: U-Boat At Sheerness

U-Boat At Sheerness
July 1916: Mines on the deck of the captured German submarine UC5, moored at Sheerness. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: On A Flooded Road

On A Flooded Road
December 1915: A car driving down a flooded road in Berkshire. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Junior Car Club Race

Junior Car Club Race
August 1922: Contestants taking part in the Junior Car Club 200 mile race at Brooklands. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: I Need A Drink

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)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: London Store

London Store
January 1924: The DH Evans shop on Oxford Street, London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Wheel Locks

Wheel Locks
Circa 1650, Wheel locks for guns. Top: chiselled in relief upon a punched ground, (c1710). Middle: engraved with a lion hunt; (c1650). Bottom: engraved, c1650

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Chinese Earth Spirit

Chinese Earth Spirit
Circa 750 AD, An earth spirit with a human face, horns and wings on a horses body on show at an exhibition of art of the Tang Dynasty, (618 - 907 AD), held in 1955

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Pamela

Pamela
1744, Pamela Tells A Nursery Tale, an illustration of Richardsons Pamela, by Joseph Highmore, on show at the Royal Academy Exhibition of British Art

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Ovis Poli

Ovis Poli
Circa 750 AD, On show at the 8th Antique Dealers Fair at Grosvenor House, London, is a stone head of the Tang Dynasty period found at Hupeh in northern China, entitled Ovis Poli

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Hemispherical

Hemispherical
Circa 1580, A Hemispherical, made by Hyeroimus Vulperica, in 1580, part of a complete collection of 16th century astronomical



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