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Silver gelatin print by Camera Press/L'Europeo. Printed Caption on verso reads: "U.S. Film Stars: ELIZABETH TAYLOR. Reports that scenes of Elizabeth Taylor in the nude were shot for the film 'Cleopatra' brought criticism from some quarters. This picture shows that such shots were made".

Elizabeth Taylor nude shot for "Cleopatra"

1963

Charlie Chaplin as a young man in Hollywood

circa 1916

Photograph of actress Hedy Lamarr in the 1933 film 'Ecstasy'

1933

A gypsy woman cooking a hedgehog

1933

Professor Einstein with Commander Locker-Lampson

1933-09-11

Photograph of Hedy Lamarr and her mother Gertrude Kiesler

unknown

A wire photograph, taken by an unknown photographer for United Press International, 1963. The two photographs were released by Jim Garrison of New Orleans in support of his theory that a shot was fired from a sewer during the Kennedy assassination. One photograph shows the sewer opening on Elm Street, Dallas. The second was taken from the opening as a car passed by.

Two Photographs supporting theory that a Shot came from a Sewer during Kennedy Assassination

1963

Train driver, Jack Mills, with his grandchild, Stephen

1963-08-11

Two sacks of money recovered from the Great Train Robbery

1963-08-11

Ernest Marples opens the M1 motorway

02 November 1959

Aneurin Bevan Visits the First NHS Patient

05 July 1948

The first orangutan to be born at London Zoo

1961

African American soldiers court martialled at Paignton

15 october 1943

Little boy carrying a lamb

1932-02-19

Daily Herald Photograph; Trussing Initiation at Truman's Brewery

1935-05-24

A photographic print of Police, Murders, London, Georgina Hoffman, Dover St

School children being evacuated from London

1938-09-28

Photograph of Whitehall cleaners on protest in London, 1st February 1949

1949-02-01

Behind the scenes photograph from filming of 'A Matter of Life and Death'

1934-03-13

Photograph of actress Hedy Lamarr and husband John Loder

1953

Collecting aluminium pots and pans to make aeroplanes

1940

Elizabeth Taylor leaves the London Clinic

1963-01-23

Gresford mining disaster: rescue team leaving the air lock

1935-03-04

Photograph of actress Hedy Lamarr in the 1933 film 'Ecstasy'

1933

Clacton disturbances

1964-03-30

Ice skating on the Serpentine

1940-01-23

Tom Jones and his dogs

1939-03-27

Fountain George Page, 'Shrimp'

10 May 1956

Marie Curie and her two daughters; Marie and Pierre Curie

1904-1908

Daily Herald Photograph; Smith's Watch and Clock Factory

1946

Goodbye Mr Jiggs the amiable ape. Mr Jiggs

1961

An Anderson Shelter

circa 1939

Alfred Hitchcock at the doors of Coronation Street's Rovers Return

1964-06-16

Detectives and police from Scotland Yard search the back garden of 10 Rillington Place

1953-03-25

Moving day for the orangutans at the London Zoo. The London Zoo's orangutans 'Mr Jiggs'

1953

Malcolm Patton outside a cinema showing 'A Kind of Loving'

1962-05-13

Letters Pour in for Photos of Canine Star

1964

Interior of Battersea Power Station

17 January 1934

Associated Press photograph titled 'Vivien Leigh flies home'. Image shows actress Vivien Leigh (right) with her daughter Suzanne Farrington, and grandson Neville Farrington, at London Aiport. Leigh had just returned from New York.

Vivien Leigh with daughter and grandson

26 May 1962

Photograph of a pygmy hippo at Whipsnade Zoo

1964-02-20

Photograph showing Indian actor Sabu riding an elephant at Coventry Zoo

1937-05-05

A stonemason working on a detail of the Anglican Cathedral, Liverpool

1934

Jack London

1944-09-15

Streamlined car on display at a motor exhibition, Olympia

1935-10-17

Photograph of four wolves inside a London Zoo enclosure

1936-12-21

Diana Dors

1958-07-07

Frank Richard and George Philip Wells

circa 1905

Marie Curie in her laboratory, 1912; Marie Curie and Pierre Curie

1908-1912

The Manufacture of Triumph Cars at Triumph Works, Coventry

1933-09-23

Women sewing flags

1945-04-03