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Topical Press Agency Collection (#65)

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

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Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: A Great Exhibition

A Great Exhibition
1924: The Palace of Beauty, sponsored by soap manufacturer Pears, at the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Ascot Train

Ascot Train
circa 1923: The Ascot Special leaving Waterloo Station, London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Train Wheels

Train Wheels
1926: A scene in a factory which makes wheels for trains. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Police Push

Police Push
circa 1920: Police pushing back the crowd at an unemployment demonstration in Whitehall, London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Prison Van

Prison Van
circa 1924: A side view of a prison van. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Unemployed Demo

Unemployed Demo
circa 1922: A section of the crowd on the May Day labour demonstration in London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: British Air Heroes

British Air Heroes
circa 1926: The sea planes of Captain W H Pulford and his companions alighting at the Lee on Solent after flying 14, 000 miles from Cairo to the Cape. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Irrigation Dam

Irrigation Dam
circa 1935: The irrigation dam at Bog Walk, Jamaica. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Wheat Field

Wheat Field
circa 1935: A large wheat field and a coal mine in western Canada. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Sea Take Off

Sea Take Off
circa 1939: An Osprey plane taking off from an aircraft carrier. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Bare Back Riders

Bare Back Riders
1st August 1938: Three young children on a roundabout at the Bank Holiday fair on Hampstead Heath, London. (Photo by John F. Stephenson/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Power At Sunset

Power At Sunset
circa 1938: Battersea Power Station, on the south bank of the River Thames, at sunset. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Leaving The Hebrides

Leaving The Hebrides
April 1923: A crowd of Hebrideans waving goodbye to their countrymen who are emigrating to Canada on board the Matagama. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Flamingo Hotel

Flamingo Hotel
circa 1929: The Flamingo Hotel in Miami in the aftermath of a great hurricane. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Stocks And Clocks

Stocks And Clocks
7th May 1928: Crowds of stockbrokers outside the stock exchange in Throgmorton Street, London, after business hours. (Photo by J. Gaiger/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: An Overturned House

An Overturned House
1925: A toppled house which was carried more than 50ft in the great US cyclone disaster of 1925. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: High Seas

High Seas
circa 1925: Huge waves destroying the harbour wall in Porthleven, Cornwall. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Snow Battle

Snow Battle
16th January 1929: A snow ball fight in Hyde Park. (Photo by H. F. Davis/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Flood Wreckage

Flood Wreckage
circa 1921: A house wrecked by the floods in Pueblo City, Colorado. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Bus Crash

Bus Crash
circa 1925: A crowd of passers-by gather round an overturned bus in Shirland Road, London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Aero Windmill

Aero Windmill
circa 1925: One of the four great propellers which were mounted in a concrete tower, as a new type of experimental windmill. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Water Power House

Water Power House
circa 1923: The Wilson Dam under construction in Tennessee, an early part of the Tennessee Valley Authority plan. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Hoover Tunes In

Hoover Tunes In
circa 1928: Herbert Hoover (1874 - 1964), Republican Party candidate for the Presidency of the United States of America, listening to a one valve radio set

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Park View

Park View
circa 1923: A group of young boys looking through the railings of Southfields Park. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Young Trickster

Young Trickster
4th November 1925: A practical joker attaching a firework to a policemans jacket. (Photo by Kirby/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: New York

New York
circa 1929: An aerial view of Wall Street, the financial district of New York. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: A Great Dam

A Great Dam
circa 1923: The Wilson Dam at Tennessee, with its giant concrete cones, providing the basis of the Tennessee Valley Authority in 1930s. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Colliery Disaster

Colliery Disaster
circa 1927: A general view of the Ebbw Vale Colliery, where forty miners where killed by an explosion in the pit. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Bridge Construction

Bridge Construction
circa 1929: The construction of a new bridge over Londons River Thames, alongside the old Lambeth bridge, which was due for demolition. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Bristol Brabazon

Bristol Brabazon
circa 1949: The first air to air picture of the giant Bristol Brabazon in flight. Once the largest air liner in the world, the Brabazon had a fuel capacity of 13, 000 gallons

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Windmill

Windmill
22nd March 1938: The windmill at Thorpeness, Suffolk. (Photo by David Savill/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: H Type Submarine

H Type Submarine
1922: The H type submarine in dry dock in Britain. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Rotor Ship

Rotor Ship
1926: Anton Fletchers rotor ship Baden-Baden, propelled by yellow towers attached to rotors, arrives at New York after a transatlantic trip. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Visit To Gasworks

Visit To Gasworks
10th July 1926: A train passing round the plant of the Gas Light & Coke Company, Beckton, with the king and queen aboard. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Performing Dog

Performing Dog
1921: Rex, the thought-reading dog, in action at Olympia Circus, in England. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Dock Opening

Dock Opening
1927: The SS Galantez at the opening of the Gladstone Docks at Liverpool. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Wembley Amusements

Wembley Amusements
1925: A general view of the amusement park at the re-opening of Wembley, north London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Loading Cars

Loading Cars
12th January 1927: Some of the 500 English cars being loaded onto the TSS Hobsons Bay bound for Australia at the King George V Docks, London. (Photo by Kirby/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Telegraph Cable

Telegraph Cable
1926: A team of eight horses pulling the telegraph cable which arrived at Lands End, Cornwall, after being laid 4, 000 miles across the Atlantic. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Herring Trawler

Herring Trawler
1929: Fishermen unloading a herring trawler at Yarmouth quay. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: New Boathouse, Cromer Beach 1928

New Boathouse, Cromer Beach 1928
5th December 1928: The lifeboat HF Bailey II enters the new boathouse at Cromer beach. (Photo by J. Gaiger/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Mending Puncture

Mending Puncture
1926: A dispatch rider mending a puncture. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Leaving Liverpool

Leaving Liverpool
circa 1920: A line of women waving goodbye to the vessel Laconia as she leaves Liverpool. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Instruments

Instruments
1923: Musical instruments belonging to the Savoy Orpheans Band, including saxophones, trumpets and a trombone. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Elettra At Sea

Elettra At Sea
1920: The Marconi ship Elettra at sea. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Calcutta

Calcutta
1928: The seaplane Calcutta lying off the Houses of Parliament on the Thames. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Cat Burglar

Cat Burglar
1924: A man demonstrating how a cat burglar works. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageTopical Press Agency Collection: Road Wash

Road Wash
1925: A roadman spraying down the dust with water in Temple Gardens, London, during a heat wave. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)



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