Josef von Sternberg , originally Jonas Stern , Austrian-born film director, German-born actress Marlene Dietrich and her friend German writer Erich...
1930s The Los Angeles Times Newspaper September 1 1939 Headlines War German Troops Invade Poland Nazis Bomb Warsaw Ca USA.
The royal family arriving at the Royal Naval College in Dartmouth, July 1939. From centre, left to right: Princess Margaret , Queen Elizabeth, King...
In Nazi Germany a new form of bicycle stands has been established, socalled park plates. Photograph. Germany. August 1939.
This photo taken between 1928 and 1930 shows Gdynia city and port, in northern Poland. The city of Gydnia launched a new internet site to search for...
Polish World War II resistance leader Ludwik Berger walks with his cousin Eugeniusz Berger in this undated photograph taken in Poland in the early...
At 8 a.m., Dec. 16 more than 1,000 people lined up outside the Bank of United States branch at 77 Delancey St. The bank had failed and depositors...
Portrait of John D. Rockefeller taken in the mid 1930's in Ormond, Florida. Born in Richford, New York in 1939 he studied in Cleveland and took a...
The AWA tower, completed in 1939, looms over Wynyard Park in Sydney on February 9, 2010. For over 20 years the AWA building with its distinctive...
Gregorio Fuentes, former captain on Ernest Hemingway�s fishing boat Pilar, at the age of 100, gestures as he sits in his living room under a painting...
Gregorio Fuentes, former captain on Ernest Hemingway�s fishing boat Pilar, smokes a cigar at the age of 100, at his home in the little fishermen...
Gregorio Fuentes, former captain on Ernest Hemingway�s fishing boat Pilar, 91 years old, holds a photo of Ernest Hemingway as he sits in a rocking...
Gregorio Fuentes, former captain on Ernest Hemingway�s fishing boat Pilar, 91 years old, talks to Cuban youth as he sits next to an American Vintage...
Fancy dress party on board the SS Dempo with Sir Julian Cahn's cricket team enjoying the occasion en route to their 9-match tour of Ceylon and...
Adolf Hitler on an advertising poster of the 'Mein Kampf' on the streets of a German town. The book that became the theoretical basis of Nazism was...
Outside the 'O Sole Mio Scungilli Bar and Seafood Restaurant' on Mulberry Street, detectives and police officers gather at the site of a murder where...
Princess Margaret, left, and Princess Elizabeth, future Queen Elizabeth II, right, at the Royal Agricultural Show in 1939. Princess Margaret,...
The crew of G-AFRL Handley Page H.P.54 Harrow of Flight Refuelling Ltd pose with Sir Alan Cobham before a demonstration of in-flight refuelling, 28th...
This aircraft was wrecked in a forced landing in Devon in 1939. The Handley Page HP42 was the most famous Imperial Airways airliner of the period. It...
Oil painting by Gilbert Daykin, showing a miner filling a tub with coal. Daykin , a miner himself, was killed in a mining accident.
Workers assembling the fuselages of Wellington bombers at the Vickers factory at Castle Bromwich, Birmingham. The Wellington bomber was designed by...
Photograph. Campbell was the holder of both land and water speed records from 1927 onwards. In 1935 he became the first man travel at over 300 mph on...
The London, Midland & Scottish Railway offered connections to boat trains to Dover. It was possible to book tickets on French railways in London by...
Pochard' steam locomotive, Class A4 engine No. 4499 hauling the down Yorkshire Pullman, Kings Cross to Bradford, Harrogate and Hull. This locomotive...
Model . This four-engined biplane was operated by Imperial Airways between 1931 and 1939, flying to Europe, the Middle East and India. When...
Model . This four-engined biplane was operated by Imperial Airways between 1931 and 1939, flying to Europe, the Middle East and India. When...
These large headlamps were a feature on a number of prestigious pre-World War II cars, including Rolls-Royce, Bentley and Alvis.
Model. This car was driven by British racing driver Richard Seaman in the 1938 Swiss Grand Prix, finishing second. The engine developed 480 brake...
Model . This four-engined biplane was operated by Imperial Airways between 1931 and 1939, flying to Europe, the Middle East and India. When...
Made with Rayon, Tested for Wear, Backed by Publicity'. An advertisement for Courtaulds Limited from 'The Story of Rayon and Other Synthetic...
The Finest Examples of Rayon Today are Courtaulds Yarns'. An advertisement for Courtaulds Limited from 'The Story of Rayon and Other Synthetic...
The Finest Examples of Rayon Today are Courtaulds Yarns'. An advertisement for Courtaulds Limited from 'The Story of Rayon and Other Synthetic...
The Royal Yacht 'Victoria and Albert' surrounded by smaller yachts at Cowes Week, Isle of Wight. Trimmed poster showing artwork only. Artwork by...
Oil painting by Gilbert Daykin, a design for a poster for the Staveley Coal and Iron Company at the time of increased coal prices. A smiling miner...
Inch cyclotron, c 1930s. This shows the cyclotron at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, Berkeley, sonn after completion in 1939. The key figures in...
?The Lake District for Holidays - Derwentwater from Keswick Hill'. Poster produced for the London, Midland & Scottish Railway , promoting rail travel...
Poster produced for London & North Eastern Railway to promote train services to Scarborough, North Yorkshire. Artwork by Fred Taylor , who was...
Poster produced for the London & North Eastern Railway to promote train services to Scarborough in North Yorkshire. The poster shows a photograph of...
Poster produced for the Great Western Railway and London Midland & Scottish Railway, promoting rail travel to Wales, showing a view of a lake in the...
Professor James Riddick Partington served in the army and conducted special researches in Applied Chemistry for the Inventions Department of the...
Professor James Riddick Partington served in the army and conducted special researches in Applied Chemistry for the Inventions Department of the...
Etching of Balthazar van der Pol . Van der Pol was interested in experimental dynamics. He built a number of electronic circuit models of the human...
Joliot became an assistant to Marie Curie in 1925. He married her daughter, Irene , her other assistant in 1926. To protect others, Joliot secured...
Indisputable cultural objects were also among others. In museums as this picture shows. Behind Franco were Italy and Germany, behind the national...
Countess Krystyna Polish Skarb said Christine Granville , spy in Poland and France during the Second World War , Here al age of 19 years, Mention...
British Shadow Home Secretary Gerald Kaufman and Home Secretary Leon Brittan attend the unveiling of a memorial to WPC Yvonne Fletcher in St James's...
Offizier, Politiker, Reichswehrminister, Reichsminister des Inneren, Deutschland *22.11.1867-+ Portrait mit der Ehefrau von Friedrich Ebert, Frau...
Schriftsteller, Deutschland *02.01.1861-+ Portrait Aufnahme: Robert Sennecke Originalaufnahme im Archiv von ullstein bild
American actor Douglas Fairbanks Sr. Reacts with joy amidst a crowd of formally dressed men in a still from director Edmund Goulding's film 'Reaching...
Outside the 'O Sole Mio Scungilli Bar and Seafood Restaurant' on Mulberry Street, detectives and police officers gather at the site of a murder where...
