Historical Urban Life

Black and white images of urban settings from the mid-20th century, illustrating street life, shops, and air raid precautions.

Italy. rome. via vittorio veneto with the tables of bar rosati. 1958

Anefo photo collection. Lottery for the benefit of R.K. orphans. December 9, 1948

Posters St. Jacques 8-5-17 5th. Rue Saint-Jacques, poster wall, 5th arrondissement, Paris. Rue Saint-Jacques, wall of posters. Paris (Fifth arr.). Photograph of Charles Lansiaux (1855-1939). Gélatino Bromide Draw, 1917.

10/19/1961 - Heidelberstrasse, Neukoelln Berlin

Atget, Eugène (Jean Eugène Auguste Atget, dit) (N.1857-02-12-D.1927-08-04), rue des Chantres (title registered (letter)), 1923. Draw on albumin paper. Carnavalet museum, history of Paris.

Hyperinflation in Weimar Germany 1923. Boxes of banknotes are transported to pay for groceries in Berlin as the value of the German Reichsmark spirals out of control and becomes worthless

Madrid, 5/9/1974.- Example that must spread. New plaques have been installed on several corners of Serrano Street, as can be seen in the image. The example should spread and do the same in many other streets, where frequently, after the construction of new buildings, the signs with the names have disappeared from the corners.

Operation 'Alert' - Boston Regional Office - 1954 , Streets, Civil defense. Records of the Office of Civil Defense and Defense Mobilization

Anefo photo collection. Willy Quentenmeyer. October 3, 1947

Ministry of Information First World War Official Collection A girl who carries on her father's appointment of official bill poster and town crier, Thetford.

Anefo photo collection. Invoiced in Nijkerk. Recording state. March 21, 1947. Nijkerk

International Club. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Elsevier photo collection. Messages Israeli Arabic consultation read street Amsterdam. June 5, 1967. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Confiscated communist propaganda material in the courtyard of the Karl Liebknecht House. Hoffmann Photographs 1933 Adolf Hitler's official photographer, and a Nazi politician and publisher, who was a member of Hitler's intimate circle.

Photograph, Government Exhibit No. 68, DJ 48, 1949 - 1950. National Archives at College Park - Archives II (College Park, MD). Paper. Class 146-1 (Communism) Case File Enclosures Relating to U.S. v. Judith Coplon (146-1-317)

02/07/1979. Pasting of Posters.

Anefo photo collection. Election boards i.v.m. Municipal elections (Amsterdam). May 25, 1978. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Photograph, Government Exhibit No. 60J, DJ 52I, 1949 - 1950. National Archives at College Park - Archives II (College Park, MD). Paper. Class 146-1 (Communism) Case File Enclosures Relating to U.S. v. Judith Coplon (146-1-317)

Anefo photo collection. Offering free coupons for gramophone records. November 6, 1959

Ticket expedition at Pålsboda station.

Anefo photo collection. Sieto Hoving, Jos Brink, Frank Sanders and Marijke Hoving Paste posters at Tingel Tangel in Amsterdam. August 11, 1977. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Deportees - (See Also: People Chilean, Illegal Migrant). October 15, 1945.

05/31/1922. Madrid. On the Rosales walk. Discovery of the tombstone that gives the name of the famous Madrid painter to the beautiful promenade in the Argüelles neighborhood.

Anefo photo collection. Passers-by view a poster with the text "The Peace Jeep is coming". December 12, 1945

In line for food, Associated Press Berliner Büro, 1939 photograph. news photograph Drive on the street to get a bread, January 29, 1939. Hunger in Barcelona after the conquest of the city by the nationalist troops of Franco during the Spanish Civil War. On the back two stamps and leaf with press text in German. Berlinbarcela name Amsterdam photographic support gelatin silver print Barcelona

Anefo photo collection. Sales Juvenile newspaper for the Bate of Hungary on Dam Dam in Amsterdam. November 10, 1956. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

The German Peace Union (DFU), founded in 1960, fought its election campaign, here in Hanover in 1964, with the campaign against the emergency laws, Germany, Europe

Anefo photo collection. Stem sets buy first Prinsenkalender on Dam. November 16, 1951

Inside The Glasshouse - How the Food is Issued.Outside the kitchen, the cooks stand guard over the bread ration. The food is whole-some but monotonous. April 12, 1951. (Photo by Paul Popper).

Warsaw. Official event in front of the house at the address Elektoralna 3, where the poet Antoni Malczewski resided in the years 1825-1826. Unveiling of the commemorative plaque.. unknown, photographer

Stabilization of French Franc Brings New Hope. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Anefo photo collection. Action committee against prospective census on Keizersgrac at Leidsestraat, Amsterdam: Exterior. February 1, 1971. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Daily Mail Home Exhibition - An exhibit promoting the wines of Australia Date: circa 1930s

Anefo photo collection. Club house for the "black hand" in the Kerkstraat. July 24, 1964

Anefo photo collection. Assignment De Gruyter and Zn .. May 18, 1965

Anefo photo collection. Exhibition "Three columns" in Utrecht. May 8, 1950. Utrecht

Trade union activities in the years 1965 to 1971 on the subject of co-determination and Montanmitbestimmung in the Ruhr area, Germany, Europe

J.W. Toplis Chemists, Cnr of Liverpool and Elizabeth Streets Hobart (c1900) -- Mandatory Photo Credit: TAHO

San Francisco, California. On a brick wall beside air raid shelter poster, exclusion orders were posted at First and Front Streets directing removal of persons of Japanese ancestry from first San Francisco section to be affected by evacuation. The order was issued April 1, 1942, by Lieutenant General J.L. DeWitt, and directed evacuation from this section by noon on April 7, 1942. (4/11/1942).

Anefo photo collection. PPR party agency occupied by employees from protest against dismissal of two of them (Amsterdam), exterior. November 3, 1977. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Fallout Shelter Sign Hanging, Christopher Columbus High School, Boston, Massachusetts 12/3/1962.

New York, New York: c. 1938 A newspaper stand in New York City.

Store No. 5 of the Citizens' Committee of Warsaw at ul. Jerozolimska 12; 1915 (1915-00-00-1915-00-00);

General store (by Fancher & Durkee, successors to C.S. Hall & Co.), 34 Court St., Binghamton, N.Y. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. New York (State), Binghamton (N.Y.)

DEU, Germany, Ruhr area The election campaign for the Bundestag elections on 10. 9. 1969 in the Ruhr area. Election advertising by the DKP for a party they founded called ADF (Aktion demokratischer Fortschritt), Europe

Anefo photo collection. Students protest against bill of minister Cals students with protest boards. October 18, 1960

Poster of Jose Maria Gil-Robles y Quinones de Leon (1898 - 1980) a Spanish politician, leader of the CEDA and a prominent figure in the period leading up to the Spanish Civil War. He served as Minister of War from May to December 1935.

"All the Winners" - newspaper seller providing all the racing results to confident punters... Date: 1910s

12/31/1938. The public in front of the Generalitat Savings Bank, queuing to withdraw the necessary money.

Hyperinflation in Weimar Germany 1923. Queues for groceries in Berlin as the value of the German Reichsmark spirals out of control and becomes worthless

Men reading headlines posted in street-corner of Brockton Enterprise newspaper office, Brockton, Massachusetts; USA

06/16/1977. The Streets After the Elections.

Anefo photo collection. Assignment De Gruyter and Zn. , Windows. May 17, 1965

Postal Letter Box. December 9, 1947.

12/31/1936. Pro-defense poster of Madrid.

Lyon International Trade Fair. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Elsevier photo collection. Messages Israeli Arabic consultation read street Amsterdam. June 5, 1967. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Anefo photo collection. Second parliamentary elections of 1963. Voting pressure. NZ Voorburgwal. General Handelblad. May 15, 1963

Photograph of the lists of prisoners of war being distributed in Paris , after the invasion of France in World War Two. Dated 20th Century

Anefo photo collection. Charging old paper. January 23, 1947

Lost Bomb of London Bomb removal means closing up in district Local dance-hall in Tottenham Court Road exploited presence of bomb to amuse patrons previous Saturday evening - but had stay closed and deserted by staff next day. September 26, 1949. (Photo by Pictorial Press).

Photograph of War Loan Exhibit Advertisement in Elevated Train Station.

Poster advertisements by railroad tracks , Posters, Advertisements. Wayland Free Public Library Cage Collection

Radio. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Stabilization of French Franc Brings New Hope. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

The day after the police announce that future pickets would be given limit of 6 mos. in prison, Alice Paul led picket line with banner reading The time has come to conquer or submit for there is but one choice - we have made it. She is followed by Mrs. Lawrence Lewis (Dora Lewis). This group received 6 months in prison.

Collection of the Dutch Heidematschappij. Report first stone laying new construction headquarters NHM. undated

Anefo photo collection. Opening of the "Polio Rehabilitation Center Delft and surroundings". October 29, 1957

Anefo photo collection. Strike Belgian middle class, strike announcement on the window. October 3, 1972

Uncaptioned. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Life and Everyday Life in the GDR from 1.4. to 10.4.1974. City Scenes Leipzig

Anefo photo collection. First room issue of swammerdam treated. The fire brigade when removing the signs and symbol of municipality. October 8, 1963

Because he weighs nearly 15st., Harry Beaver, 42, will jump up and down inside seven dustbins every Wednesday morning. And Mr. Lewis Palmer, who keeps a furniture shop at Scalford-road, Melton Mowbray, Leics, will pay him 10s. a week to do it. Harry's job is to cram the week's accumulation of waste paper - enough for fourteen dustbins, says Mr. Palmer - into the only seven dustbins Mr. Palmer has. And Harry will go on doing it until either Melton council allow the dustmen to empty shopkeepers' dustbins free of charge, or the shopkeepers, including Mr. Palmer, agree to pay the 6d. a dustbin levy imposed by the council since Apri 1. May 06, 1953.

A. Green, tobacconist, newsagent and stationer, 1905. Newspaper boards outside the shop proclaim headlines about peace in the Russo-Japanese war of 1904-05. The newsagent stands in the doorway. Unknown location in Britain. Date: 1905

Pawn shop, photograph, 1900s-1930s.

Anefo photo collection. Intelligence on New Guinea by Minister De Quay, Luns and Visser. February 8, 1962

Anefo photo collection. Order Orsi Weesperzijde 30 grocery store. September 28, 1955. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

ECA Agricultural Exhibit - Malesherbes. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Anefo photo collection. Election board list 5 CHU, number 10 and 11 list 7 PSP, number 12 and 13 pepper bus. January 31, 1967

Anefo photo collection. New book Evert Werkman "De Jordaan" in A'dam to press., 1st ex. To Amsterdam Organ Builder G. Perlee. November 13, 1980. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Italy. Rome. refuge for minors. 1949

Italy. Rome. Refuge For Minors. 1949

Poster on a Madrid building depicts José María Gil-Robles y a prominent Spanish politician in the period leading up to the Spanish Civil War, speaks in Parliament in 1936

Anefo photo collection. Two and Drielingen in action in the fight against cancer. September 2, 1950

Anefo photo collection. Elections in Belgium. Election boards in Brussels. March 5, 1974. Belgium, Brussels

Barcelona, 1988. La Cárcel Modelo in a report about the interior of the Catalan prison.

Air Raid Shelter Signs Go Up -- For the first time since World War II air raid shelter signs were posted in San Francisco today. This sign is posted on the Geary street entrance to an underground garage built four stories below San Francisco's historical Union square. June 06, 1951. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).

Photograph, Government Exhibit No. 67, DJ 47, 1949 - 1950. National Archives at College Park - Archives II (College Park, MD). Paper. Class 146-1 (Communism) Case File Enclosures Relating to U.S. v. Judith Coplon (146-1-317)

Photo collection prints Anefo Rousel. Series Print Anefo RVD Own Without Caption. Collection Photo collection Printing Anefo Rousel, photo number 157-0919. 1956

03/31/1965. Official visit to Ronda del Exmo. Mr. Minister of Tourism.

A Petition table at the 1982 Flag Festival.

Madrid, 1983. Sale of stamps in the Plaza Mayor.

Anefo photo collection. Book Buried in Haarlemmerhout Gardens of Belgian Michel Astere Dhondt A'dam, Dhondt shows book, Geert Lubberhuizen Graaft Gat. November 19, 1971. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

02/07/1979. Ucd militants in a traditional poster display. The Uses Have Changed, but the Streets in the Campaign Are Filled with Claims.

Astrophysics Institute, Bill Curtis, Fulbright Student. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

The window of the Victor record shop in New York City, advertised 'Talking Machines, Records & Supplies', and displayed photos of the top recording artists, including the Great Caruso. Ca. 1918.

12/31/1969. Entrance of the press palace with the poster of the Movie "The Assassination of Julius Caesar" Starring Charles Heston.

Anefo photo collection. Easter printed; Customs checks passports. April 19, 1984

Seville, 1974 (CA.). Eulogio de las Heras Religious Bookstore.

Black and white photo of the first results of the National Lottery, 7 November 1933. Photo taken in Trocadero.

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