Brooklyn Bridge under construction
Two men stand on a high catwalk, surveying the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, with Manhattan in the background. Large ships and ferries sit in docks in the East River. The Brooklyn Bridge opened on 24 May in 1883.
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Henry Ford in his first car
Henry Ford was born on this day in 1863. He is seen here in his first car, the Ford Quadricycle, built in 1896. The photograph has been painted with the Stars and Stripes and a patriotic message.
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Colonial troops in London
Members of the British empire's armed forces gather for a group portrait on a wet London street. Tens of thousands of soldiers from all parts of the empire took part in a procession to mark Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee on 22 June 1897.
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Tsar Nicholas II
Nicholas II, Tsar of Russia with the Tsaritsa pictured as they leave church, circa 1900.
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Benito Mussolini's mug shot
Before founding the fascist movement in Italy, Mussolini was involved in Italian socialism. In 1903 he was arrested in Bern, Switzerland, for advocating a violent general strike. He had left Italy in 1902 partly because he wanted to avoid conscription.
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Captain Scott's hut
Sleeping quarters in the hut at Cape Evans, Antarctica on 9 October 1911. Apsley Cherry-Garrard, standing on the left and whose birthday it is today, wrote 'As Antarctic huts go, it was as palatial as is the Ritz, as hotels go' in his book The Worst Journey in the World.
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Lingerie
A well-dressed audience enjoy a lingerie show in a private residence in New York, 1925.
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The Albertina Rasch Girls
The Albertina Rasch Girls photographed on 28 September 1932 by Alex 'Sasha' Stewart. 'Sasha' was a portrait photographer and inventor who opened his first studio in 1924. He was in great demand as a theatre and society portrait photographer and his work was published in magazines such as Tatler and The Illustrated London News. He also patented the Sashalite, an early flashbulb, which was invented to replace the dangerous flash technique of igniting magnesium powder.
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Sherlock Holmes
Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes in a promotional portrait. The image was used in posters for The Pearl of Death (1944) and Pursuit to Algiers (1945)
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Pablo Picasso
talks with a friend at the opening of his ceramics exhibition at the Antibes museum on 7 September 1948
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Soldiers advance to Pyongyang
Soldiers stop to play music, October 1950.
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Mirrors, 1951
Ernst Haas was one of the pre-eminent photographers of his time. He is well-known for his innovative use of colour, this frame shows his equal mastery of black and white.
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Jesuit priests
hear confessions from catholic pilgrims at the Martyr's Shrine, near Midland, Canada in 1955
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The Human Be-In
A member of the crowd creates a giant bubble at the Human Be-In which took place on 14 January 1967 in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco.
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Apollo 12 on the moon
Pete Conrad shot this image of his fellow astronaut Al Bean on 19 November 1969. Nasa supplied the Apollo astronauts with their chest-mounted Hasselblad cameras for the purpose of scientific observation but they frequently found themselves creating beautiful and atmospheric pictures that captured the imagination of the people back on Earth.