Signs And Symbols Collection (page 7)

Hanging Up His Boots
5th May 1978: Racehorse Liam Brady has retired and is now more likely to be seen treading the turf at Windsor. (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images)

Fog Slows Traffic
2nd January 1973: Thick fog slowing commuters on their way to work through Highgate. (Photo by Graham Wood/Evening Standard/Getty Images)

Colorado Hovercraft
14th June 1977: A hovercraft is seen from the side of a ferry. A warning sign about colorado beetles is in evidence. (Photo by Colin Davey/Evening Standard/Getty Images)

Who Did You Vote For
2nd May 1979: Two dogs, Tashy and Lucky, parked outside the Kensington polling station whilst their owner exercises his or her constitutional right. (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images)

Dog At Battersea
1980: A mongrel in an enclosure at Battersea Dogs Home, south London. This image was used in a pre-Christmas appeal to find good homes for hundreds of stray dogs

Stand At Car Show
22nd October 1931: Cars on display at the Standard Motor Company stand at Olympia exhibition centre, London. (Photo by Sasha/Getty Images)

Capitol Cinema
1927: The Capitol cinema, London, showing Hills of Kentucky starring Rin Tin Tin the famous animal film star. (Photo by Sasha/Getty Images)

Church Haven
April 1952: An elderly man enters St Georges crypt in Leeds where he will be warm, can get a meal and maybe sleep the night. The cross above the door is illuminated all through the night

Ideal For Rationing
A sign painted on the back window of a car stating: 1952 Ford. Ideal For Petrol Rationing. Buy Today - Any Trial ?170 or ?85 Deposit

Hollywood Homes
1st May 1951: Houses for ordinary families in the Hollywood district of Los Angeles, California. Original Publication: Picture Post - 5298 - We Go To Hollywood - pub

Warners Cinema
1951: The exterior of Warners Cinema with its steel tower and neon signs in the Hollywood district of Los Angeles, California. Original Publication: Picture Post - 5298 - We Go To Hollywood - pub

Which Way ?
1949: Two of the competitors in the Monte Carlo Road Race check their maps en route for Monte Carlo. Original Publication: Picture Post - 4708 - Monte Carlo Road Race - unpub

Fighter Pilot
28th June 1952: A US Airforce pilot stationed in Britain standing in a doorway with a sign above him reading Through These Portals Pass The Best Damn Fighter Pilots In The World

Public Nuisance
28th January 1939: An unusual sign in Londons Mayfair warns passers-by against making a public nuisance of themselves. Original Publication: Picture Post - 80 - Mayfair - pub

Plaza Cinema
1st October 1955: A neon sign lights up the Plaza cinema in the Scottish industrial town of Kilmarnock. Kilmarnock is home to a variety of industries

Bulls Head Hotel
The Bulls Head Hotel in Manchester, 19th November 1938. Original Publication : Picture Post - 41 - Manchester - pub. 1938 (Photo by Kurt Hutton/Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Eiffel Balloons
Favourite sport in the early days of the Eiffel Tower was releasing toy balloons from its heights and watching them float over Paris. (Photo by Three Lions/Getty Images)

Mormon Traders
circa 1869: Mormons at Salt Lake City, Utah. They are gathered under a sign advertising jewellery from London and Paris. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Bomb Damage
circa 1871: Buildings bombarded by the German occupation troops in the Paris Commune, during the Franco-Prussian War. (Photo by Henry Guttmann/Getty Images)

Paris Street Lamp
A street lamp outside the Louvre museum in Paris with a sign indicating the main entrance, circa 1960. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Parisian Grocery
A grocers shop in the Rue Bara, Paris, circa 1955. (Photo by H. Bowden/Frederic Lewis/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Street Urchins
circa 1895: A group of ragged boys, some barefoot, sit on the edge of a fountain; in the background is the pillared portico of the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool. (Photo by J)

New York Bakery; View of a retail block, which is located between 641-59 East 180th Street
circa 1935: View of a retail block, which is located between 641-59 East 180th Street, Bronx, New York City. A bakery, a lumber and heating supply store, a shoe repair, a carpenter

Broadway
1926: Advertisements and signs for the Central and the Mark Strand theaters lit up at night on Broadway in New York City. (Photo by Edwin Levick/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Abandoned Getaway Van
23rd January 1954: An abandoned getaway van used in a mailbag robbery at Walthamstow in east London. A police sign attached to the vehicle reads Not to be removed without authority

Young Gentlemen Dressed as a Future Diplomat
February 1958: Eleven year old Major Thompson, dressed as a future diplomat, explores Kensington Gardens in London with his nanny and two friends. (Photo by Russell Knight/BIPs/Getty Images)

Starting Point
13th October 1956: The house on the corner of Thistlewaite Road, Clapton, London where Harry Rael-Brook first started his crease-proof shirt business

Piccadilly Circus
26th June 1954: A crowd-free Piccadilly Circus in the centre of London, showing the tube station entrance, the statue of Eros and the Swan and Edgar building

People outside the entrance to Luna Park on Coney Island, New York. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Crowds & Traffic At Old Coney Island
Postcard view of Surf Avenue, Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York, circa 1910. The view looks east with Feltmans restaurant and resort (birthplace of the hot dog as we know it)

Kopernicus
The German built steam engine Kopernicus, fresh from the locomotive factory in Esslingen am Neckar, near Stuttgart. Factory workers stand on and around the new engine

Shaftesbury Theatre
16th September 1919: The Shaftesbury Theatre in Shaftesbury Avenue, central London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

League of Self-Supporting Women Rally, 21st May 1910
21st May 1910: Men and women attend a rally of the League of Self-Supporting Women, part of the Womens Suffrage Movement in Union Square, New York

Broken Windows of shops in The Strand at Charing Cross, after the Suffragette Demonstration
November 1911: The broken windows of shops in The Strand at Charing Cross, after the suffragette demonstration. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Suffragette Art Kensington, March 1913
7th March 1913: A suffragette adding to messages written by others on a pavement in Kensington. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Happy Times
8th May 1945: A crowded Times Square on Victory in Europe (VE) Day, New York City, New York. (Photo by A. E. French/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Air Raid Chimp
15th September 1939: Jack the chimp fixing up an air raid shelter sign at Londons Regents Park Zoo as it reopens to the public. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

London Traffic
May 1910: Horse drawn and motorised traffic near the Bank, London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

New York Stock Exchange
Scene outside the New York Stock Exchange at the corner of Broad Street and Wall Street in downtown Manhattan, New York, New York, circa 1915. (Photo by FPG/Getty Images)

Midtown Over Roosevelt Island
View of the Manhattan skyline over the Goldwater Memorial Hospital on the southern tip of Welfare (now Roosevelt) Island, New York, 1940s

Franklin Roosevelt
circa 1943: The American statesman and 32nd President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882 - 1945) addresses the nation. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

Newsagents
circa 1955: A dog takes a nap outside a newsagents shop in San Juan. (Photo by Rosskam/Three Lions/Getty Images)

Dog Wardens Van
circa 1955: A cat walking across the roof of the dog wardens van which serves the township of Cheltenham. (Photo by Evans/Three Lions/Getty Images)

Ambulance Dog
circa 1917: A Red Cross dog finds a wounded soldier. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

A Horse Bus
circa 1905: A Harrington horse-bus in use at Chessington Zoo with the conductor standing on the back step. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

The Mandrills Cage
January 1909: Mr Denman, Fellow of the Zoological Society, giving a mandrill a nibble. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Leopard
circa 1909: A Fellow of the Zoological Society in his top hat reaches out to a caged Prince of Wales leopard at the zoo. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

On The Road
1872: Australian drinkers watch a travelling party go by the Great Eastern Hotel. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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