Images Dated 8th April 2016 (page 37)

Contemplative Nun
1904: A Carmelite nun, holding a human skull, walks in the garden of the nunnery. Original Publication: From a photograph by Boyer d Agen (Photo by Boyer D Agen/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Road Improvements
1st May 1907: A Gas Light & Coke Company brush and spreader, involved in a dust prevention experiment at Staines, Middlesex. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Indian Toll-Gate
1910: The Maduraroyal toll-gate at the 8th mile point on the Madras to Bombay trunk road. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Muslim Prayer
1905: Two Muslims at prayer in front of a painted backdrop of a Mosque. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Dervishes
circa 1870: A group of dervishes begin their dance known as the dance of the Whirling Dervishes. One year earlier British troops had massacred 1, 000 Dervishes in Somaliland

Crowds At Lourdes
1910: Groups of pilgrims congregate outside a church at Lourdes. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Russian Orthodox
29th September 1906: Russian Orthodox priests celebrate the nameday of the Russian-warrior Saint, Alexander Nevsky. Original Publication: Illustrated London News - pub

Soup Tasting
circa 1905: The captain of the Russian cruiser Almaz tasting the soup supplied to the men for their mid-day meal. One member of the crew has a monkey on his shoulder

Rice Field
1915: A group of men ploughing the rice fields with their oxen and ploughs. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Temple Procession
1905: Samurai (on foot) and Daimyos in the annual Tai Kyoku Den Temple Procession in Kyoto, Japan. Aladdin Stereograph Company - pub. 1905 (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Religious Man
1905: A dervish, from the Muslim sect professing poverty and an austere lifestyle. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Holy Car Procession
29th March 1912: The Holy Car Procession at Mylapore, Madras, where an incarnation of Vishnu is traditionally drawn on a processional chariot. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Scarborough Bowls
circa 1913: A game of Bowls in progress on the bowling green in Clarence Gardens, Scarborough. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Able Seaman`
circa 1905: A Navy sailor in fighting kit, ashore. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Fleet Inspection
25th August 1900: Inspection on board a Russian Cruiser in Chinese waters, by the Admiral of the Fleet. Black And hite - pub.1900 (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Shooting Group
circa 1907: A hunting party in Africa. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Buddhist Priests
circa 1910: Two Buddhist priests in a garden in Bangkok. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Hunker Creek
circa 1898: A group of gold prospectors in Hunker Creek in the Klondike. Powlesland Collection (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Boer War Damage
1900: Royal Engineers walk along a railway damaged by the Boers at Kroonstad which they have to repair. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Chawton, Hampshire
circa 1880: The later home of Jane Austen (1775 - 1817) at Chawton, Hampshire, where her principal novels were written. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Joyeuses Paques
31st March 1904: A German Easter greetings postcard, showing a chick wearing military accessories being photographed by another chick. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Emmeline
circa 1909: A portrait of a young, woman photographer, Emmeline. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Mail Tender
circa 1911: The Great Western Railway mail boat, on the Royal Mail route to London. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Beach Photography
circa 1900: A photographer with his camera on a crowded beach at Portsmouth. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Loading The Mail
15th June 1909: The first French mails are landed at Plymouth, and loaded onto mail vans. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Royal Mail Van
2nd April 1912: A Royal Mail postal van. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Lace
circa 1904: A piece of lace on show at the St Louis International Exhibition of Lace, Emroidery, Textiles and Crochet. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

River Crossing
1908: Officers from the Kings Shropshire Light Infantry, on elephants, cross the river during a tiger hunt. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Rubber Plantation
circa 1908: No 1 The Avenue, Jebong Rubber Estate, British Malaya. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Submarine
February 1912: HM submarine, the A1, developed from the Holland submarine, on the surface near the harbour. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

US Subs
March 1917: Looking down on the deck of an American submarine. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Lifeboat Launch
June 1909: The launching of the Newquay lifeboat. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Steamship Captain
circa 1906: Captain of one of the cross-Channel steamers, plying to St Malo. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Morning Light
May 1906: The square-rigged sailing ship, the Morning Light, in a Norwegian fjord. It was built in 1878 at Yesterham, Nova Scotia, but later sold to Norway. Lilliput

Lifeboat Display
circa 1908: Crowds gather on the beach at Teignmouth, to watch a rescue exercise by the lifeboat crew. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Mountain View
circa 1903: The view from the gallery at Eigerwand Station, on the Jungfrau Railway. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Ice Breaker
circa 1911: A Russian ice breaker at full steam. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Salvation Army
29th May 1914: Members of the Salvation Army entering the offices of the Canadian Pacific Railway, following the sinking of the Empress of Ireland, with great loss of life

Cave Cafe
circa 1903: A man observes the view through a large Zenith telescope in the cavern restaurant at Eigerwand Station, on the Jungfrau railway. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Chinese Railway
circa 1906: A railway cutting through the hills of Manchuria. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Railway Carriages
circa 1902: Central London Railway carriages in the running sheds. (Photo by London Stereoscopic Company/Getty Images)

Railway Cutting
1906: Labourers at work on a cutting, during construction of the Manchurian railway. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Seasonal Worker
1887: A hop-picker climbs over a stile. (Photo by G. Davison/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Buying News
1848: Men crowd round to buy newspapers to read about the rising of 1848 in Paris which forced the abdication of Louis-Philippe. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Graving Dock
circa 1900: The steam yacht, Lizzie, in the graving dock of Bute dockyard, Cardiff. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Disembarking
2nd May 1908: Passengers being taken off the SS Ambrose, by the tender Drake, at Fishguard harbour. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Seacombe Ferry
circa 1903: The landing stage of the Seacombe ferry at Birkenhead, Liverpool. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

British Soldiers
1900: Lord Roberts Infantry crosses the Zand River as a balloon watches for the Boers. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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