Three young women preparing a guy. They are sitting him on a keg labelled [gun powder]. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images). 1929...
A man irrigating a rice paddy field using a traditional method. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images). Japan, circa 1938...
Rosie the elephants proves to be heavier than her companion and tips the park bench when she tries to sit down. (Photo by Mike Lloyd/Getty Images). 1977...
Members of the Communist New Fourth Army on parade. Note how the modern equipment contrasts with the shoeless soldiers in the foreground. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images). 6th July 1946...
Two men using an electric power saw to fell a tree circa 1940's. (Photo by Keystone View/FPG/Getty Images)...
Young Ian Archibald ponders the consequences of a complex critical study of beauty contestants during the Miss TV Times finals in London. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images). 30 July 1971...
A high-kicking Parisian can-can dancer. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images). 1895...
Film technicians at Pinewood Studios set up a miniature air crash sequence for the Jack Gold film [The Medusa Touch], using scale models of a Boeing 747 and a skyscraper. (Photo by Alan F. Davis/Keystone/Getty Images). 9th August 1977...
Lucie Clayton instructs pupils in the art of correct posture by balancing a glass and book on their heads at her finishing school in Old Cavendish Street, London. (Photo by William Vanderson/Fox Photos/Getty Images). 25th November 1936...
Arsenal football supporters cheering from the train carriage window as they leave Euston Station, London, on their way to Birmingham for their teams match against Aston Villa which they lost 3-5. (Photo by Douglas Miller/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images). 19th November 1932...