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Historical Central Press Art Prints Collection (page 3)

Take a step back in time with these unique, amazing, historical black and white art prints. Choose ones you love and transform them into perfect wall art for any space.

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Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: Earhart Arrives

Earhart Arrives
American aviator Amelia Earhart (1898 - 1937) in her Fokker seaplane Friendship at Southampton after arriving on her trans-atlantic flight, July 1928 - the first such flight by a woman

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: Past Pupils

Past Pupils
February 1971: Inscriptions on the wall of the north east corner of the fourth form room at Harrow School, England. The names Temple (Lord Palmerston)

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: The Big Smoke

The Big Smoke
2nd February 1971: Seagulls drift above the waters of the Thames while in the background, the billowing chimneys of Battersea Power Station fill the sky. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: Dining Aloft

Dining Aloft
November 1929: Passengers in the dining room of the R100 airship. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: Craigavon

Craigavon
circa 1914: Headquarters of the Protestant Ulster Volunteers, the Ulster Unionist paramilitary force, at Craigavon, County Armagh. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: Volunteer Attacked

Volunteer Attacked
1926: Strikers attacking a volunteer worker at Kings Cross during the General Strike. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: Flip Ship

Flip Ship
circa 1960: A US Navy research ship designed to flip from a horizontal to a vertical position at sea in order to study marine biology

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: Nice And Bright

Nice And Bright
1929: A female station master cleaning the light on a railway platform. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: The Bank Of England

The Bank Of England
27th June 1965: An aerial view of the Bank of England in the City of London. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: Nuclear Research

Nuclear Research
3rd January 1919: An aerial view of Europes first nuclear research station at Meyrin, Switzerland. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: Two Day Old Rhino

Two Day Old Rhino
22nd September 1978: Kes a two day old black rhinoceros and his mother June on show to the press at their home at London Zoo. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: Aden

Aden
16th March 1967: A general view of terraces in Aden, Yemen. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: Full Metal Jacket

Full Metal Jacket
circa 1917: A suit of heavy body armour used by the Americans in France. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: Winnie Wilts

Winnie Wilts
28th June 1961: Tied to a parking meter in Londons west end is Winnie Wilts, a pampered pedigree Jersey cow who is the mascot and leading lady of Wilts United Dairies

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: Hunger March

Hunger March
circa 1930: A huge rally to mark the end of a Hunger March on London by unemployed workers at Trafalgar Square. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: Suez Blockade

Suez Blockade
11th November 1956: The Suez Canal with the entrance blocked by ships sunk deliberately under Nassers orders. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: Epsom Derby

Epsom Derby
1929: Romany caravans parked on the Downs at Epsom during Derby Week. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: The Malvern Hills

The Malvern Hills
circa 1960: The Malvern Hills in Worcestershire. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: Victoria Station

Victoria Station

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: McAlpines Number 10

McAlpines Number 10
7th May 1955: A close-up of Kenneth McAlpines Connaught, at the start of the International Trophy race at Silverstone. (Photo by Les Lee/Central Press/Getty Images)

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: First Cygnet Emerges

First Cygnet Emerges
2nd June 1971: A cygnet, the first of the brood, emerges from under its mothers wing. The nest is on the banks of the Kennett and Avon Canal. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: Flooded Camp

Flooded Camp
circa 1916: A flooded British Army transport camp above Basra. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: Couple Of Swans

Couple Of Swans
2nd June 1971: Swans on the Kennett and Avon canal. The female swan sits on the nest; the male swan swims in the foreground. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: Political Cinema

Political Cinema
8th June 1925: The Conservative and Unionist Central Offices begin a tour of the country with a portable cinema on wheels. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: Cable Car

Cable Car
23rd June 1965: A cabin glides along a section of the worlds longest cable railway, in Murren, Switzerland, affording heart-stopping views of the Alps. (Photo by S. Kuhn/Central Press/Getty Images)

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: Strikers Game

Strikers Game
May 1926: A group of miners passing the time with a game of cards outside Prestonpans Colliery, East Lothian, during industrial action at the time of the General Strike

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: Unemployment Rally

Unemployment Rally
1921: Workers marching through Deptford during the Unemployed Conference. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: Volta Bridge

Volta Bridge
5th February 1957: The newly constructed bridge over the River Volta at Adomi in Ghana, West Africa. Whereas before travellers had to journey across the river by ferry

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: Protected Bus

Protected Bus
1926: A London bus protected against attack during the General Strike with wire mesh over the windscreen and boarded up side windows. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: Cotton Mill

Cotton Mill
circa 1930: Workers operating the spinning machinery in a Lancashire cotton mill. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: Portable Radio

Portable Radio
1930: A woman demonstrating a portable radio set, as supplied to King George V, at a wireless radio exhibition. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: Hauling In The Catch

Hauling In The Catch
1927: Old women in Devon haul in the days catch of fish with a stout rope. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: Volcanic Eruption

Volcanic Eruption
21st October 1955: On a small island in the Gulf of Kagoshima, the volcano Sakurajima erupts. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: Discovery Ship

Discovery Ship
19th September 1929: The exploration ship Discovery, on the way to Capetown to pick up Australian scientists, before sailing to the Antarctic. (Photo by Frank Hurley/Central Press/Getty Images)

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: Pompeys Pillar

Pompeys Pillar
20th January 1936: Two British sailors admiring the Sphinx and Pompeys Pillar which is the largest known monolith in the world. The pillar in the ruins of Old Alexandria was erected in AD 297

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: Control Tunnel

Control Tunnel
11th October 1966: One of the control tunnels of the Grande Dixence Dam near Zermatt in Switzerland. (Photo by Ring/Central Press/Getty Images)

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: Beach Girls

Beach Girls
July 1926: Bathers pose on the beach at Shanklin, Isle of Wight. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: QE1 Luxury

QE1 Luxury
1953: The main hall of the P&O liner the QE1. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: Burning Stubble

Burning Stubble
26th September 1962: Farmers at Tydd St Giles on the Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire, set fire to the stubble left after harvesting the wheat, in order to return the nutrients into the soil

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: Marching Out

Marching Out
circa 1929: British troops of the 2nd Leicestershire Regiment leaving their barracks during the occupation of the Rhine. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: Military Lesson

Military Lesson
circa 1930: Maps showing the movements of armies during the First World War being used during a lesson on military strategy and history. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: Strikers March

Strikers March
1926: Strikers on a march during the General Strike which was organized by the Trade Union Congress in support of the miners strike to resist wage cuts. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: Dardanelles Camp

Dardanelles Camp
circa 1915: A British army camp on the Dardanelles Strait, Turkey, during the Gallipoli Campaign of the First World War. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: Beach Landing

Beach Landing
1st April 1915: Allied troops landing on the beach at Gallipoli from the ship River Clyde. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: Cricket

Cricket
6th March 1926: Young boys playing cricket in a London street. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: Postman

Postman
1928: A postman on the Isle of Skye in north western Scotland. Skye, which is no more than 6 miles from mainland Scotland, is a mountainous island dominated by the Cuillin Hills

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: Hometime

Hometime
1st August 1926: Miners from the colliery at Crown Farm near Mansfield, Nottingham on their way home from work. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Background imageHistorical Central Press Art Prints Collection: New Delhi

New Delhi
circa 1930: An aerial view of the Government buildings of New Delhi, India showing expanses of open space and gardens surrounding the buildings. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)



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