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Child labor in the USA: " Coal Breakers ", Pittston, Pennsylvania (also called " Tipple-Boys ") . Photo, January 1911 (Lewis W. Hine); digitally colorized ©akg-images / The Image Works
EAKG0926116 		History / WWI / Economy during the War: Women replacing men at the Great Northern Railway company in Great Falls, Montana (USA): Maintenance work on a locomotive. Photo (Great Falls Commercial Club), ca 1918; digitally colorized. ©akg-images / The Image Works
EAKG0916911 		Military: Gas masks. Soldiers and mule wearing gas masks during WWI on the Western Front. Photo, 1917, digitally colorized ©akg-images / The Image Works
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Immigration into the USA: A woman with her children. She lost part of her luggage. She's in the central control station on Ellis Island, New York . Photo (Lewis W. Hine), 1905; digitally colorized ©akg-images / The Image Works
EAKG0916857 		Wilbur Wright, American aviation pioneer (brother and co-worker of Orville Wright); 1867-1912. Wilbur Wright attempting to fly a double decker sailplane at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, USA. Photo, 1901 (Orville Wright); digitally colorized ©akg-images / The Image Works
EAKG0863021 		Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) and adoring fans. 1932-33. Colorized photo. ©Roger-Viollet / The Image Works
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Kennedy, John Fitzgerald 35th President of the USA. 1917-1963. Kennedy visiting Berlin on June 26, 1963; the 'Ich bin ein Berliner' speech in front of Schöneberg Town Hall. Photo; digital colourisation. ©akg-images / The Image Works
EAKG0344236 		Society: Travelling people/musicians: Two street musicians that lost their sight in the war in Berlin. They travelled by foot from Breslau to Berlin, Cologne, and Amsterdam to Hamburg (H. Hartmann und W. Jüschke). Photo, after 1920; digitally colorized ©akg-images / The Image Works
EAKG0916987 		WWI/ Western front. Battle on the Aisne: Wounded German soldiers. Photo, undated (part of a stereoscopic image) Handwritten note : &quotAisne: blessés allemands". Undated, digitally colorized ©akg-images / The Image Works
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Sigmund Freud, psychiatrist, founded the psychoanalitical school of psychology. 1856-1939. Freud at his desk, Hampstead, Maresfield Gardens. Photo, ca 1938/39; digitally colorized ©akg-images / The Image Works
EAKG0891908 		Ethnology / Russian Empire: Caucasus. Couple from Dagestan. Photo, undated (c.1905/15), original monochrome plates digitally combined. ©akg-images / The Image Works
EAKG0336889 		History / USA / African-Americans: Segregation: Young man at a drinking water fountain for colored people in the waiting room of a streetcar station in Oklahoma City. Photo, July 1939 (Russell Lee), digitally colorized. ©akg-images / The Image Works
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Leo Tolstoy. Russian writer, 1828-1910. Tolstoy with his granddaughter Tatiana in Yasnaya Polyana. Photo, 1909, by Vladimir Grigoryevitch Tchertkov (1854-1936); digitally colorized ©akg-images / The Image Works
EAKG0874543 		History of the USA, Pioneers in the Wild West. Settler family in front of their covered wagon in Loup Valley, Nebraska, Poto, 1886; digitally colorized ©akg-images / The Image Works
EAKG0916968 		Portrait of unidentified female child with Christmas tree. December 1914. Color plate, assembly process. This color image was made with an early experimental 2-color Kodachrome process. (H.B. Wills - American). ©George Eastman House / The Image Works
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Bomb damage to a London street, ca 1943.Dufaycolor photograph. ©NMPFT/ Royal Photographic Society Collection / SSPL / The Image Works
ESSP0459498 		Unemployment during the Great Depression: Unemployed man holding a sign on which he wrote that he is looking for work Photo, undated, digitally colorized ©akg-images / The Image Works
EAKG0916888 		Crowd of people in Germany. Photo, 1910 (Otto Haeckel); digitally colorized ©akg-images / The Image Works
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Child labor in the USA: &quotTipple Boys" or &quotBreaker Boys" and foremen at Laura Mine (coal mine) Red Star, West Virginia. Photo, September 1908 (Lewis W. Hine); digitally colorized ©akg-images / The Image Works
EAKG0926064 		Girls with Campbell Kid dolls in a doll's pram (New York City, USA). Photo, March 1912 (Lewis W. Hine); digitally colorized ©akg-images / The Image Works
EAKG0926082 		Food and delicacies: Tea. Russian Empire: Group of female Greek field workers harvesting tea leaves on a tea plantation in Chakva, Caucasus (Georgia). Photo, undated (ca 1905/15), original monochrome plates digitally combined. ©akg-images / The Image Works
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'Clark Gable', ca 1943. A photograph of Clark Gable (1901-1960) taken on a visit to the Kodak factory at Harrow, Middlesex, by J.C.A. Redhead (1886-1954), in about 1943. This portrait of the American film star, sometimes referred to as the 'King of Hollywood', shows Gable in United States Air Force uniform. This photograph is a Kodachrome transparency. Kodachrome is regarded as the first 'modern' colour process. It was announced by Kodak in 1935. Kodachrome film was imported from the USA and was in very short supply during World War Two. ©NMPFT/ Kodak Collection / SSPL / The Image Works
ESSP0428839 		&quotTowards Los Angeles". California, March 1937. ©TopFoto / The Image Works
ETPM0284309 		Sarah Bernhardt, French actress, 1844-1923. Portrait photo, 1884 (Nadar, Paris); digitally colorized ©akg-images / The Image Works
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Technology / Mining / Iron Ore. Iron ore mining at the iron mines in the Bakaly hills (Ural Mountains, Russia). Photo, 1910, original monochrome plates digitally combined. ©akg-images / The Image Works
EAKG0336878 		Passenger on the Champlain transatlantic liner. France, 1934. Colorized photo. ©Lipnitzki / Roger-Viollet / The Image Works
ERVL1757502 		History / World War I 1914-18 / Prisoners of War. Austrian prisoners of war and prison guards at a Russian prison camp in Karelia. Photo, 1915, original monochrome plates digitally combined. ©akg-images / The Image Works
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Child labor in the USA: Richard Green (with hat), a 5-year-old " Newsie " (newspaper boy), who says he's 8 years old, in Richmond, Virginia. Photo, June 1911 (Lewis W. Hine); digitally colorized ©akg-images / The Image Works
EAKG0926054 		Child & Youth: Boys: 1950s ©TopFoto / The Image Works
ETPM1168154 		Child labor int he United States: Girls in the packing brooms in the S.W. Brown Mfg. Co broom and brush factory in Evansville, Indiana. Photo, October 1908 (Lewis W. Hine); digitally colorized. ©akg-images / The Image Works
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Mulberry Street, New York City. Photochrome, ca. 1900. ©The Image Works Archive
EIWA0265495 		England: General Eisenhower, ca 1943. A Kodachrome colour photograph of General Dwight D. Eisenhower [1890-1969] taken by J.C.A. Redhead [1886-1954] during World War Two. Eisenhower had served in the United States Army since graduating from West Point military academy in 1915. This photograph is a Kodachrome transparency. Kodachrome is regarded as the first 'modern' colour process. It was announced by Kodak in 1935. Kodachrome film was imported from the USA and was in very short supply during World War Two. ©NMPFT/ Kodak Collection / SSPL / The Image Works
ESSP0428840 		Weymouth, the Beach. Date: 1955 England ©Frith / Mary Evans / The Image Works
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Portrait of a young boy. USA. Autochrome, ca 1907 - 1932 ©George Eastman House / Charles Zoller / The Image Works
EGEH0239331_2 		King George V as a Yachtsman. At the helm of his racing cutter 'Britannia'. Hand-tinted photograph in Illustrated London News Silver Jubilee. 1910-1935. Bottom inset of the King as a young cadet aboard 'The Bacchante'. With elaborated maritime borders. Plate V © Lebrecht / The Image Works
ELEB0065938 		Knaresborough, Market Day. Date: 1921 England ©Frith / Mary Evans / The Image Works
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Mark Twain, 1908. Photograph by Alvin Langdon Coburn. By 1917, Coburn was a precursor of the Modernist movement in photography, having mastered, and improved, practically every form of photography available. For the first 10 years of the 20th century, he travelled between England and the USA, photographing notables such as Mark Twain, Yeats, Shaw and Matisse as well as New York, London, Paris, Edinburgh and Yosemite. United States ©NMPFT/ Royal Photographic Society Collection / SSPL / The Image Works
ESSP0461135 		A family group, ca 1845. Tinted daguerreotype taken by Antoine Claudet (1797-1867). Daguerreotypes were images produced as direct positives on sensitised metal plates. The process involved long exposure times and produced only one image. ©NMPFT/SSPL / The Image Works
ESSP0154628 		'Spitfire Pilot', 1939. Kodachrome color photograph of a Spitfire pilot standing beside his plane, taken by an unknown photographer in 1939. This is one of a series of photographs taken for exhibition at the World's Fair, held in New York, United States, between 1939 and 1940. This photograph is a Kodachrome transparency. Introduced by Kodak in 1935, Kodachrome is regarded as the first 'modern' colour photographic process. England ©NMPFT/ Kodak Collection / SSPL / The Image Works
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Children of hop pickers watch the Battle of Britain rage overhead, Kent 1940. Digitally colorized photograph ©TopFoto / The Image Works
ETPM0279342 		Coco Chanel, French couturier. Paris, 1936. Colourized photo. ©Roger-Viollet / Topham / The Image Works
ERVL0169250 		Paris, France: World War II. Esplanade of the Palais de Chaillot. 1940s. Photograph by Andre Zucca (1897-1973). ©Andre Zucca / BHVP / Roger-Viollet / The Image Works
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The flags have been out in the Martin home at Kilburn, north west London, since the second week in December when Mrs Flo Martin received a letter from her son, saying that he would soon be home from Burma. Private Bill Martin, of the Royal Army Medical Corps has just arrived to hear that his four sisters spent many hours at Euston waiting for leave trains so that they would be the first to greet him on his return to London. Photo shows a family greeting for Private Bill Martin, with his Mother, four sisters and young relations joining in the welcome home from Burma ca 1942-1945 ©TopFoto / The Image Works
ETPM0296818 		Paris, France: War 1939-1945. Soldiers mobilized in the Gare de l'Est train Station. Couple saying their farewells. August 25, 1939. ©Collection Roger-Viollet / The Image Works
ERVL1759002 		Chester, Eastgate. Date: 1900 England ©Frith / Mary Evans / The Image Works
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The Dryad, ca 1910. Photograph by John Cimon Warburg. Dryads are tree nymphs who are thought to die when their host tree dies. Autochrome, UK ©NMPFT / RPS / SSPL / The Image Works
ESSP0453153 		Man and woman leaving for their honeymoon, carrying suitcases. USA. Autochrome, ca 1907 - 1932 ©George Eastman House / Charles Zoller / The Image Works
EGEH0239891 		Paris, France: World War II. Fashion at the Luxembourg gardens. May 1942. Photograph by Andre Zucca (1897-1973). ©Andre Zucca / BHVP / Roger-Viollet / The Image Works
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Leon Gimpel (1873-1948), photographed August 28, 1909. Betheny, aviation. Preparations for the departure of the Zodiac III balloon. Autochrome, France ©Photo12 / French Photographic Society / The Image Works
EPHD1005423 		Paris, France: Woman poses for a figure study in the Paris studio by French photographers Louis Amedee Mante and Edmond Goldschmidt. Autochrome, ca 1910. Orientalist in style, most of Mante and Goldschmidt's autochromes display an affinity toward elaborate painted backdrops and exotic props though nearly all their photographs were taken in the studio of Goldschmidt's home. ©Mark Jacobs Archive /The Image Works
EMJA0020138 		El Mirador Hotel, Palm Springs, California. Autochrome ca 1930. This autochrome is remarkable for its perceived spontaneity though, in all likelihood, Clatworthy posed each of the individuals. Photo by Fred Payne Clatworthy (American), 1875-1953. ©Mark Jacobs Archive / The Image Works
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Leon Gimpel (1873-1948), photographed September 19, 1915, Paris. Children and war. A German has been spotted. A 75 piece is put in the battery while the aviator Pépété prepares to hunt him down. Autochrome, France ©Photo12 / French Photographic Society / The Image Works
EPHD1005547 		Roundabout. France, about 1940. Colorized photo. 1935 ©LAPI / Roger-Viollet / The Image Works
ERVL1777804 		Young footballers. France, 1950. Colorized photo. ©Roger-Viollet / The Image Works
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