Historical Transportation Moments

Black and white historical photographs depicting transport vehicles and scenes from the mid-20th century, showcasing cultural contexts.

District Commissioner Makes His Monthly Tour -- The D.C. is ready to depart. His station wagon is piled high with kit. Everything must be taken taken along in his truck. His bed, mosquito netting, his tin bath, food, water,. (which has to be boiled and put through a purifier before drinking) all plates and cutlery and above all petrol. Little or nothing can be bought on trek, although sometimes a chief will make a Mash" (gift) of a chicken and some eggs. In addition to his kit five other people and their belongings are piled into the small station wagons- two clerks, his cook, his "boy" and the armed policeman who is to guard the money he carries to pay road menders, soldiers wives etc. September 21, 1951. (Photo by British Official Photograph).
District Commissioner Makes His Monthly Tour -- The D.C. is ready to depart. His station wagon is piled high with kit. Everything must be taken taken along in his truck. His bed, mosquito netting, his tin bath, food, water,. (which has to be boiled and put through a purifier before drinking) all plates and cutlery and above all petrol. Little or nothing can be bought on trek, although sometimes a chief will make a Mash" (gift) of a chicken and some eggs. In addition to his kit five other people and their belongings are piled into the small station wagons- two clerks, his cook, his "boy" and the armed policeman who is to guard the money he carries to pay road menders, soldiers wives etc. September 21, 1951. (Photo by British Official Photograph).
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Road Safety & Lectures & Demonstration To Children Etc. - Traffic. March 29, 1949.
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GDR, Feldberg, 15.09.1989, Street scene in Feldberg, Donkey and Trabant
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A Soviet armored car moves along Route 7 in Northern Laos. Country: Laos (LAO)
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Madrid, 1954. Two men with cattle cross Atocha, on the way to the slaughterhouse.
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Rowing boat, bocca di magra, ameglia, liguria, italy 1910-20.
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Germany, Berlin, 12.8.1992, installations by British scrap artists in the Spreebogen, two MIG 21s, border tower, watchtower, motorcycle racing
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90 foot Blue whale, 1923, Southern Ocean, by Captain George Samuel Hooper.
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Playing children in front of tourist bus at Tyresta. State Railways, SJ Bus 2373.
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Toy train of Darjeeling Himalayan railway West Bengal India Asia 2011 Copyright: xJagdishxAgarwal/DinodiaxPhotox
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Anefo photo collection. Arrival of international youth four days Rotterdam. August 4, 1961. Rotterdam, South Holland
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Baghdad, Iraq: 1932Street scene near the Katah Bridge in Baghdad.
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Bellingen. May 29, 1952.
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Djurtransport.
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Anefo photo collection. Hostage of the train at the point; Departure negotiators Ms Soumoukil and Dr. Tan. June 9, 1977
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Photo collection Government information service. Slide parks. undated
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Anefo photo collection. First Dutch restaurant along a motorway Arnhem-Utrecht (A12) at Bunnik. Plates are placed. April 2, 1959. Bunnik
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Anefo photo collection. Car train accident Hemweg Amsterdam. November 16, 1959. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland
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1960S Daredevil On Motorcycle Approaching Wall Of Fire
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State Funeral of President Kennedy: President Kennedys body returns to the White House. A hearse carrying the body of President John F. Kennedy arrives in a procession of cars at the North Portico of the White House. Washington, D.C.
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Anefo photo collection. Hostage of the train at the point; Hairer is in front of the train. June 9, 1977
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Anefo photo collection. Flower parade lisse decorated cars. April 25, 1953. Lisse
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Poll photo collection. Netherlands Antilles and Suriname at the time of the royal visit of Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard in 1955. Face from a press bus on Curaçao. October 1955. Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles
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Anefo photo collection. Metro-Caisson painted on Waterlooplein in Amsterdam (especially slogans against American warfare in Vietnam. October 23, 1972. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland
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Elephants carrying sandwich boards to advertise the exhibition of the $20,000 'Killer Car' ('Direct from New York') of American Gangster and Bootlegger Jack 'Legs' Diamond (1897-1931) opposite Derry's Clock, 16 George Street, Plymouth, Devon. According to the exhibit flyer, New York Police credited the car with 137 killings! On the run in 1930, Diamond has actually stopped off in Plymouth in 1930 en route to The Netherlands. Date: circa mid 1930s