1957 Gallery

Monaco Grand Prix Poster - 1957
Monaco Grand Prix Poster - 19th May 1957. The race was won by Juan Manuel Fangio in a Maserati. 1957

RIVERA, Diego (1886-1957). Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in Alameda Park, detail of mural, 1947-1948. MEXICO. Mexico City. Diego Rivera Web Museum. Central detail. Fresco on portable pannels

1957 Morris Minor 1000

SUGAR RAY ROBINSON (1921-1989). Robinson (right) during the seventh round of a fight
SUGAR RAY ROBINSON (1921-1989). Walker Smith, Jr. Robinson (right) during the seventh round of a fight against Carmen Basilio, 1957

RMS Queen Mary, Cunard Line cruise ship. Date: 1957

Old English Proverbs and Sayings by Pauline Baynes
A staggering 149 sayings illustrated on one page by Pauline Baynes, all played out by a huge cast of medieval characters

CITROEN ID.19, 1957
The classic Citroen DS car launched in 1955, at this time known as the Citroen ID.19

Konrad Adenauer Campaign Poster
Campaign poster for poster German statesman, Konrad Adenauer and his Christian Democratic Union (CDU Christlich Demokratische Union Deutschlands) party during the 1957 elections

Mercury Monterey 4-door Sedan, 1957, Red, & black
Mercury Monterey 4-door Sedan 1957 Red & black

RIVERA, Diego. Man, Controller of
RIVERA, Diego (1886-1957). Man, Controller of the Universe. 1934. Right detail. Mexican Mural Painting. Fresco. MEXICO. FEDERAL DISTRICT. Mexico City. Fine Arts Palace

Tank Battle on the Somme British MkIV & German A7V tanks in
Tank Battle on the Somme. British MkIV & German A7V tanks in action. Date: circa 1918

Marilyn Monroe Football Kick, 1957
American actress Marilyn Monroe kicks a football during the match Israels Hapoel club against the All-Stars US team at the Ebbets Field stadium of Brooklyn, 16 May 1957, in New-York

Volkswagen VW Classic Beetle 1957 Blue light

Volkswagen VW Beetle

Gardener at Pensax Court, Worcestershire. Photograph by Norman Synge Waller Budd

A long run from Tarland, Aberdeenshire, necessitates a thorough clean-up for this 1925 Tasker traction engine, so its owner Mr William McConachie, an Aberdeen farmer

Bestwood Colliery, near Bestwood Village, Nottinghamshire
View of Bestwood Colliery, near Bestwood Village, Nottinghamshire. The colliery closed in 1967, but the surviving headstock and winding house, and vertical steam engine of 1873

Dennis Brain / Photo
DENNIS BRAIN Musician: legendary French horn player

West Indies Cricket Team - 1957 Tour - Signatures
The West Indies Cricket Team - Tour of England 1957. Featured are the brilliant (Sir) Garfield (Gary) Sobers, Frank Worrell, Everton Weekes, (Sir) Wesley Winfield Hall and Sonny Ramadhin

LCC-LFB Leyland Metz 100 foot turntable ladder
Lambeths (D61) turntable ladder at its base station, displayed in the Brigade headquarters drill yard. The hose line, when the TL is used as a water tower

Grassmoor colliery and training centre, Mining
Grassmoor, North Derbyshire Area Training Centre for miners was opened in 1957. A group of trainees in shorts run across a field, the colliery sits on the hillside above

Christian Dior sketching a fashion design, 1948
In 1947 Christian Dior (1905-1957) created a sensational collection labelled the New Look. His designs centred around gowns with an 18 inch waist, which focused attention on the bust and hips

Hawker Sea Hawks parked adjoining the angled deck area on board HMS Ark Royal during operations in the Mediterranean. March 1957. Date: 1957

Jaguar D type Ecurie Ecosse 1957 Le Mans winner, Flockhart-Bueb

VW Volkswagen Beetle Classic Beetle 1957 black beige

FORD CARS: EDSEL, 1957. This Is the Edsel. Advertisement for the Ford Companys ill-fated automobile line, 1957

CHEVROLET AD, 1957. Chevrolet automobile advertisement from an American magazine, 1957

Orbit of Sputnik 1, Soviet 1957 diagram
Orbit of Sputnik 1. Diagram showing the Earth orbits possible for different spacecrafts. Sputnik 1, the first spacecraft ever to reach Earth orbit, was launched on 4 October 1957 by the Soviet Union

NEW YORK: POLO GROUNDS. Crowd of baseball fans pouring onto the field at the Polo Grounds in New York City after attending the New York Giants final game, a 9-1 loss to the Pittsburgh Pirates

Fiat 500 Nuova Italy

Jaguar XK140 British

Flying testbed B2 Canberra WK163 fitted with a NSc D1-2 Double Scorpion rechargeable booster rocket Date: 1957

Petrol station, Old Brompton Road, London SW7
Brew Brothers petrol station in Old Brompton Road, London SW7, where a fire and explosion occurred in a basement store, 20 July 1957

1957 nuclear test: Fall-out
Fallout: The sinister and prolonged after-effect of nuclear explosions: a drawing illustrating some characteristics of this haunting phenomenon.An illustration by special Illustrated London News

Eric Coates / K Collins Ph
ERIC COATES English composer

Erich Wolfgang Korngold
ERICH WOLFGANG KORNGOLD American composer and conductor, born in Austria (now Czech.)

The Flying Saucer Conspiracy, book cover
THE FLYING SAUCER CONSPIRACY, a book by Donald E Keyhoe. The cover shows two airline pilots sighting a flying saucer through their cockpit window

Jean Sibelius
JEAN SIBELIUS Finnish musician in 1921

TED WILLIAMS (1918-2002). Theodore Samuel Williams. American baseball player. Batting against the New York Yankees as a member of the Boston Red Sox during a spring training exhibition game in St

To the Public Danger
Humorous scene by Lawson Wood (1878-1957) showing policemen chasing a gentleman in a futuristic flying machine along a main road. Satire on flying which was in infancy

Southern Locomotive, Lydford, at Okehampton Station, 1957
A Southern Railway locomotive, no.34106 (named Lydford and part of the Battle of Britain class) sits at Okehampton Station in June 1957

Designer Ray Stits Kneeling by and Test-Pilot Bob ( Robe?
Designer Ray Stits Kneeling by and Test-Pilot Bob ( Robert ) Starr the Stits SA-2A Sky Baby Worlds Smallest Aircraft World-Record Record-Breaker Experimental Homebuilt Unusual-Design in 1952 Date

Poster, Map of Royal Britain. 1957

RIVERA, Diego (1886-1957). Zapotec Civilization. 1947. Mural Pre-Hispanic Mexico and Colony in the corridor of the north wall. Detail

RIVERA, Diego (1886-1957). History of Mexico: from the Conquest to 1930. 1929 - 1931. Detail of the central wall with scenes

Nato Headquarters, Izmir, Turkey - now the Allied Air Component Command Headquarters Date: 1957

Martha of Norway
MARTHA, CROWN PRINCESS OF NORWAY Daughter of Princess Charles of Sweden, she married Crown Prince Olav of Norway in 1929. She died 3 years before Olav became King of Norway in 1957. Date: 1901 - 1954

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