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Gallery Package - The Way We Were 100 Years Ago: 1909


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Andrei Tupolev flies a glider.
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Great Russian writers Leo Tolstoi, left, and Maxim Gorky.
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Germany, Berlin: women skating on roller skates, probably in the Tiergarten, date unknown, around 1909<br><br>Tiergarten, Berlin, 1909.
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Aviation, beginnings : Visit of Orville Wright to Berlin (04.-18.09.1909) Flight demonstrations at Tempehof field . Wright's flying machine <br>September 1909<br><br><br><br>
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Germany (german empire) beginning of aviation <br>Spectators on top of a building in Berlin watching a Zeppelin hovering above Berlin, pres. LZ6 Sept. 1909<br><br><br><br>
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Boot illustrations, 1908-1909. From 'Penrose's Pictorial Annual 1908-1909, An Illustrated Review of the Graphic Arts', volume 14, edited by William Gamble and published by AW Penrose (London, 1908-1909). <br>Credit: The Print Collector / HIP /TopFoto
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Under the Mistletoe', 1908-1909. From 'Penrose's Pictorial Annual 1908-1909, An Illustrated Review of the Graphic Arts', volume 14, edited by William Gamble and published by AW Penrose (London, 1908-1909). <br>Credit: The Print Collector / HIP /TopFoto
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1909<br>WRIGHT BROTHERS, 1909. Orville (1871-1948), left, and Wilbur Wright (1867-1912). American aviation pioneers. American photograph, 1909.
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The little dotard. Registrar John Bull (to bearer of venerable infant). &quotWell, what can I do for it - birth certificate or old-age pension?"<br>Lloyd George's 1909 Budget passed<br>1910
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Britain's first OAPs drawing their pensions - 1st January 1909.<br>©TopFoto
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A scene from Press Cuttings a play written by George Bernard Shaw for the London Society of Womens Suffrage, banned by the Lord Chamberlain but privately produced at the Royal Court in 1909
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Graham - Arnold - Chandler - Beachy - Moore - The world's first air force with the world's first military aircraft, 1909.<br>©TopFoto
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Matheson Lang as Hamlet Lyceum 1909
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Fred Perry - Frederick John Perry (May 18, 1909 - February 2, 1995) born in Stockport, Cheshire. was an English tennis player and three-time Wimbledon champion. He was the World No. 1 player for five years, four of them consecutive, 1934 through 1938, the first three years as an amateur. He was the last Englishman to win Wimbledon.<br>©TopFoto
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Victor Arnold as Baptista in Max Reinhardt's The Taming Of The Shrew<br>Deutsches Theatre Berlin Germany 1909
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Stephen Spender<br><br>Sir Stephen Harold Spender CBE, (February 28, 1909 – July 16, 1995) was an English poet, novelist and essayist who concentrated on themes of social injustice and the class struggle in his work.<br><br>
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Wright Military Aeroplane 1909<br>Left to right: Lieutenant Benjamin Faulis; Wilbur Wright, Lt Frank P Lahrn; and Orville Wright<br>27th July 1909
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Ooka Shohei Japanese novelist born 1909<br>
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Archie A Jackson 1909-1933
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Woman seated on bed 1909 by Spencer Gore
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Poster for England's first aviation races at Doncaster 1909
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Portrait by John Hedgecoe - Francis Bacon in 1969 - Francis Bacon (28 October 1909 - 28 April 1992) was an Anglo-Irish figurative painter. He was a collateral descendant of the Elizabethan philosopher Francis Bacon. His artwork was well-known for its bold, austere, and often grotesque or nightmarish imagery.<br>©2006 John Hedgecoe/TopFoto
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Portrait by John Hedgecoe - Sir Edwin Hardy Amies (17 July 1909 - 5 March 2003) was a English dressmaker. In 1955 he was awarded a Royal Warrant by Queen Elizabeth II as her official dressmaker which he continued to be until 1990. He was educated at Brentwood School, Essex until 1927. He was knighted in 1989. In 1946 he setup his own fashion house at 14 Savile Row. He ran this until May 2001 when he retired and sold it to the Luxury Brands Group.<br>©2006 John Hedgecoe/TopFoto
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Abdul-Hamid Empereur de Turquie - Abdülhamid II (September 21, 1842 - February 10, 1918) was the 34th sultan of the Ottoman Empire. He ruled from August 31, 1876 until he was deposed on April 27, 1909. He was known as the Ulu Hakan (Divine Khan) by his supporters and as Le Sultan Rouge (Red Sultan) by the opposition (the Young Turks and their foreign supporters). He was the last Ottoman emperor who ruled with unchallenged absolutist powers. Despite the fact that his deposition following the Young Turk Revolution was hailed by most Ottoman citizens, Abdülhamid II can be credited for delaying the unavoidable break-up of the Ottoman Empire by at least a few decades through his skill in dealing with the secessionist revolts, and his cunning diplomatic manoeuvers by using one European power against the other.<br>©2007 TopFoto
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Louis Bleriot, France, pilot, during his flight over the British Channel - 1909
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Life Magazine advertisement 21 October 1909 - The Peerless Motor Car Co. 2449 East East 93rd Street. Cleveland, O.<br>&quotAll that the name implies"<br>Catalogue Q will be sent on request.<br>©TopFoto<br>
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Life Magazine advertisement for Kodak 1909 - They all remembered the KODAK<br>©TopFoto<br>
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Walrus killed on ice floes off Siberian Coast, Bering Sea by G. Madsen, June 1909. NO KNOWN RESTRICTRIONS ON REPRODUCTION.
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Germany, Berlin, couple at horse race, about 1909 <br><br><br>
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Germany, Rügen, Binz, people swimming in Baltic Sea, about 1909
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Caran d'Ache (1858 - 26 February 1909) was the pseudonym of the 19th century French satirist and political cartoonist Emmanuel Poiré. Caran d'Ache comes from the Russian word karandash meaning pencil (of Turkic origin; &quotkara dash" meaning black stone). The Swiss art products company Caran d'Ache is named after him. While his first work glorified the Napoleonic era, he went on to create &quotstories without words" and as a contributor to newspapers like the Lundi du Figaro, he is sometimes hailed as one of the precursors of comic strips.<br>©TopFoto
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Leopold II - King of Belgium - Leopold II (Léopold Louis Philippe Marie Victor (French) or Leopold Lodewijk Filips Maria Victor (Dutch) (April 9, 1835 - December 17, 1909) was King of the Belgians. Born the second (but eldest surviving) son of Leopold I of Belgium, he succeeded his father to the Belgian throne in 1865 and remained king until his death.<br>©2007 TopFoto<br>
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Groups showing a few of the workers stringing beans in the J. S. Farrand Packing Co., Baltimore, Md. Those too small to work are held on laps of workers or stowed away in boxes. Location: Baltimore, Maryland.<br><br>
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Widow & boy rolling papers for cigarettes in a dirty N.Y. tenement. Location: New York, New York (State)
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Protest against child labor in a labor parade<br>Photograph shows half-length portrait of two girls wearing banners with slogan &quotABOLISH CH[ILD] SLAVERY!!" in English and Yiddish, one carrying American flag; spectators stand nearby. Probably taken during May 1, 1909 labor parade in New York City.
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Robert Peary at the North Pole. Robert Edwin Peary (May 6, 1856 - February 20, 1920) was an American explorer who claimed to have been the first person, on April 6, 1909, to reach the geographic North Pole -- a claim that has subsequently attracted much criticism.<br>©TopFoto
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Working for pleasure: The Roller-Skaters roundabout.<br>Rinking in its newest form: Roller-Skaters turning a &quotRoundabout".<br>We illustrate the latest development of the new craze a form of roundabout turned by energetic roller-skaters, who, it will be noticed &quotstrap-hang," and so not only turn the arrangement but are prevented from falling should their feet leave the ground. The machine is in use at the Hampstead Roller-Skating Palace.<br>18 December 1909
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One of the giant twin ships which have cost three million pounds: The &quotTitanic". Keel laid in 1909<br>10 June 1911
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China, two Chinese men on narcotics in opium den, 1909
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Dancing with a drayman at a &quotLaubenfest" (festivity in a German allotment). Picture by Haekel Brothers
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Legislation by Pyjama. There are others besides the landowners of the country who are made to 'sit up' by the Budget. (Mr. Winston Churchill was supposed to have been discovered on the Treasury Bench in pink pyjamas.)
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The uncrowned King of America: Mr W.H.Taft. Mr Roosevelt's successor in the Presidency.<br>6 March 1909
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Baroness Raymonde Delaroche, first woman to hold pilot's licence. On 3 Nov. 1909 flew Voisin biplane 1,000 yards. From postcard after photograph. Mail frank 1910.
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French military airship La Republique which made her maiden flight from Paris to Compiegne. Crashed on manoeuvres when propeller tore envelope, October 1909. From 'Le Petit Journal' 10 October, Paris, 1909
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Louis Bleriot (1872-1936), French aviator, flying over the cliffs at Dover after crossing the English Channel from Les Boraques near Calais, France, in his monoplane Bleriot XI on 25 July 1909. Illustration from French 'Le Petit Journal', Paris, 8 August
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'The Actress Margarita', 1909. From the collection of the The State Museum of Fine Arts of Georgia, Tbilisi. <br>Credit: Art Media / HIP / TopFoto
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Excavation at Avebury, Wiltshire, 1909. An excavated section through the Neolithic ditch of the henge monument at Avebury. The excavation was undertaken by Harold St George Gray in 1908. His workmen give an indication of the size of the ditch. <br>Credit: English Heritage / HIP / TopFoto
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Jiddu Krishnamurti<br>1913<br>Jiddu Krishnamurti or J. Krishnamurti (May 11, 1895- February 17, 1986), was born in Madanapalle, India and discovered, in 1909, as a teenager by C.W. Leadbeater on the private beach at the Theosophical headquarters at Adyar in Chennai, India. He was subsequently raised under the tutelage of Annie Besant and C.W. Leadbeater within the world-wide organization of the Theosophical Society, who believed him to be a vehicle for a prophesied World Teacher (see Second Coming; Maitreya Buddha). As a young man, he disavowed this destiny and also dissolved the Order established to support it, and eventually spent the rest of his life travelling the world as an individual speaker and educator on the workings of the human mind. At age 90 he addressed the United Nations on the subject of peace and awareness, and was awarded the 1984 UN Peace Medal. He gave his last talk in India a month before his death, in 1986, in Ojai, California.<br><br> -
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Jiddu Krishnamurti<br>1913<br>Jiddu Krishnamurti or J. Krishnamurti (May 11, 1895- February 17, 1986), was born in Madanapalle, India and discovered, in 1909, as a teenager by C.W. Leadbeater on the private beach at the Theosophical headquarters at Adyar in Chennai, India. He was subsequently raised under the tutelage of Annie Besant and C.W. Leadbeater within the world-wide organization of the Theosophical Society, who believed him to be a vehicle for a prophesied World Teacher (see Second Coming; Maitreya Buddha). As a young man, he disavowed this destiny and also dissolved the Order established to support it, and eventually spent the rest of his life travelling the world as an individual speaker and educator on the workings of the human mind. At age 90 he addressed the United Nations on the subject of peace and awareness, and was awarded the 1984 UN Peace Medal. He gave his last talk in India a month before his death, in 1986, in Ojai, California.<br><br> -
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Children on rocks of Rothéneuf (Ille-et-Vilaine), 1909.
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Schloss Kammer am Attersee II - painted in 1909 <br>by Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) The Austrian painter and graphic artist had much success in his early career, creating grandiose, sumptuous paintings and decorative schemes for official commissions. Drawn to the avant-garde, Klimt became influenced by Impressionism, Symbolism and Art-nouveau, and in 1897 became the first president of the Sezession group. Klimt’s paintings were often branded as pornographic and nonsensical, as they drew on allegorical themes, and, as a great womaniser, Klimt was well-known for being obsessed with the female form. Beautiful portraits of mistresses such as Emilie Flöge, also his sister-in-law, illustrate Klimt’s incredible decorative patterns and embellishments that make him one of the most easily recognisable artists today.<br>©Topfoto/UPP<br>
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The first Giro d'Italia arrives at Cascine Park
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Mrs May French Sheldon, the Lady African Traveller.<br>1909<br>
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Christmas Angel 1909
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SIR ISAIAH BERLIN - 1974<br>b. 1909<br>Philosopher and historian<br>Credit: Clive Barda / ArenaPAL
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Spirit photograph with the extra in the form of a nurse or nun. Photograph taken by Richard Boursnell, circa 1909.<br>©TopFoto / Charles Walker
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The New Jersey Devil, based on an eye-witness description 1909.<br>©TopFoto / Fortean
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Zulu royal motor-coach, 1900s. <br>Credit: Spectrum Colour Library / HIP / TopFoto
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Dispute over who was the first to reach the North Pole, 1909. American naval officer and explorer Robert E Peary (1856-1920) is generally credited with being the leader of the first successful expidition to the North Pole (1909), although another American, Dr Frederick Cook, claimed he had reached the Pole the previous year. Cartoon from 'Le Petit Journal' (Paris, 1909) showing Peary and Cook disputing the claim with fisticuffs, watched, somewhat incongruously, by penguins, which do not live in the northern hemisphere. <br>Credit: Ann Ronan Picture Library / HIP / TopFoto
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Cartoon by Bernard Partridge for PUNCH magazine, relating to airship flap of 1909. The Daily Scare <br>- - ©TopFoto / Fortean
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Baghdad (Iraq). The English consulate. 1909. BRA-50765<br>
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Baghdad (Iraq). Street life. 1909. BRA-50744BIS
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Fortune-teller. France, 1909. BRA-50108
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Dutch children. 1909. BRA-47605
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Dressed for the Grand Prix. Paris, le 27 juin 1909. BRA-46827
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William Howard Taft in 1907<br><br>(1857-1930), American statesman, president of the United States of 1909 to 1913, with his wife. BRA-45073
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Robert Edwin Peary (1856-1920), American explorer who reached the first the North pole in 1909. HRL-611134
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Carriages Sizaire and Naudin in the Winter velodrome. Paris, on 1909. RV-308102
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Saint-Louis (Missouri). Steamers in the port a day of inspection of the Committee of the Mississipi. October 25, 1909. RV-541246
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Selma Lagerlöf ( 1858-1940 ), Swedish woman of letters. Nobel prize of Literature in 1909. RV-438360
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Coronation of Albert Ier ( 1875-1934 ), king of the Belgians. The king outside Parliament. December 24, 1909. BRA-50661
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Blériot inspecting his aeroplane. Bétheny, great week of aviation, in August 22-29, 1909. BOY-2689
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Vaslav Nijinski, and Anna Pavlova in &quotLe Pavillon d'Armide". First season of the Russian ballets. Paris, 1909.
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Poster of the first presentation of Serge Diaghilev's Russian Ballets, in the Théâtre du Châtelet. Paris, May-June, 1909.
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Nijinski in &quotLe Pavillon d'Armide", Fokine's ballet created by Serge Diaghilev's Russian Ballets (1909).
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Beatification of Joan of Arc. John Dory of Rome, April 18, 1909. BRA-45333
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Louis Blériot, French airman, arrival in England, after the crossing of La Manche. Dover, July 25, 1909. RV-40593
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Robert Peary (1856-1920), American explorer who allegedly reached the North pole in april 1909, with his dogs.
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The biggest photo in the world (Panorama of Naples bay, Italy). The developing. 1909.
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The biggest photo in the world (Panorama of Naples bay, Italy). Washing. 1909.
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The trial of Francisco Ferrer Guardia (1859- shot dead on October 13, 1909), Spanish anarchist. Barcelona (Spain).
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Harry Houdini plunging from the roof of the Morgue in the Seine, hands tied Paris, April 1909. BRA-45322
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Qajar Ahmed Mirza (1898-1930), shah of Persia. His father was deposed in his favour in 1909. Ahmed was the last ruler of the Qajar dynasty of Perisa (Iran)
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The Bakhtiyaris, population of Lorestan (Iran) who contributed to the downfall of Shah Muhammad Ali during the unrest of 1909.
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Departure of the dirigible balloon " Le Léopard " during the Normandy feasts. Rouen, June 1909. ND-155786
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Game of the croquet on the beach of Trouville ( calvados), on 1909. RV-305107
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Scotland, the fishing industry<br>Packing herrings for export. c 1909
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Rowntrees Harriers, 1909. The start of a paperchase. Boys break away from the starting line towards the camera. <br>Credit: University of York / HIP / TopFoto
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Theodore 'Teddy' Roosevelt, American President, 1901-1909. Roosevelt (1858-1919) making a speech. In the foreground, reporters are making notes. He became a war hero when he led 'Roosevelt's Roughriders in a famous charge against Spanish positions at the Battle of San Juan Hill on Cuba during the Spanish-American War in 1898. Appointed Vice-President to William Mckinley in 1901, Roosevelt became the 26th President of the USA when McKinley was assassinated the same year, remaining in office until 1909. <br>Credit: Ann Ronan Picture Library / HIP / TopFoto
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&quotSuffragette Garden Party in Bow Street Police Yard" - front cover, The Daily Mirror, 1st July 1909
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The Boys Own Paper 1909
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VASLAV NIJINSKY<br>in Le Festin 1909
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Three suffragettes prepare to chain themselves to the railings, 1909. Vera Holme, the WSPU chauffeur, is on the right. Padlocking themselves to the railings of important Government buildings afforded the suffragettes the opportunity of making lengthy political speeches. The women had as long as it took the police to cut them out of their padlocks and chains. Otherwise they would have been arrested immediatley and bundled to the nearest police station. Three suffragettes prepare to chain themselves to the railings <br>Credit: Museum of London / HIP / TopFoto
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Mary Leigh, organiser, 1909. She is wearing her purple, white and green uniform as Drum Major of the Women's Band. A year earlier, she and a fellow schoolteacher friend, Edith New, became the first suffragette window-smashers. Mary served three prison sentences and was force-fed on many occasions. On 17 September 1909 she and eight other suffragettes caused pandemonium when they disrupted Prime Minister Asquith's visit to Birmingham to attend a Liberal meeting in the Bingley Hall. She and Charlotte Marsh (who often led WSPU processions on horseback, dressed as Joan of Arc) climbed onto the roof of a taller building next to the hall and hurled missiles and slates onto its roof. The two women were pelted with bricks and stones and soaked when fire hoses were turned on them. Eventually a policeman climbed on the roof and brought them down. Mary was sentenced to four months with hard labour in Winson Green Gaol, where she staged a hunger strike. After being force-fed by stomach tube, she barricaded herself into her cell to prevent the barbaric procedure from being carried out again. Mary Leigh, 1909. <br>Credit: Museum of London / HIP / TopFoto
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Emily Wilding Davison, the most famous suffragette of all, 1909. Emily Wilding Davison gave up her teaching post to become a career militant. She joined the Women's Social and Political Union in 1906. She served nine prison sentences, and endured many sessions of force-feeding, for a wide range of offences including obstruction, stone throwing, window smashing, setting fire to pillar-boxes, and assaulting a Baptist minister whom she mistook for the Liberal Cabinet Minister David Lloyd George. She also hid in the House of Commons broom cupboard on census night in 1911, and a memorial to her has been placed there. In the 1913 Derby she ran out on to the racetrack and attempted to stop the king's horse, Anmer. She received serious head injuries and died four days later at Epsom Cottage Hospital, surrounded by a suffragette guard of honour and purple, white and green flags. Emily is photographed here wearing her Holloway Badge. Emily Wilding Davison, 1909. <br>Credit: Museum of London / HIP / TopFoto
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Christabel Pankhurst with a group of suffragettes, London, 1909. The posters welcome Christabel, one of the leading figures in the campaign to get the vote for women, and advertise a meeting in the Free Trade Hall. Christabel Pankhurst with a group of suffragettes, London <br>Credit: Museum of London / HIP / TopFoto
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Selfridge's department store, 400 Oxford Street, London, 1909. Selfridge's was founded by Harry Gordon Selfridge and opened in March 1909. It is a huge Ionic structure, designed by Daniel Burnham of Chicago. Just a single motor vehicle is driving past. Selfridge's department store, 400 Oxford Street, London, 1909 Credit: Reproduced by permission of English Heritage / HIP / TopFoto
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One of the first old age pensioners in the UK<br><br>Mrs Elizabeth Shaw of Rothbury Road in Hackney Wick is celebrating her 101st birthday - Mrs Shaw is one of the first old age pensioners - her pension book is No 13 - photo shows Mrs Elizabeth Shaw and her pet cat on her 101st birthday. October 19th 1934<br>Born 1832, drew pension in 1909 aged 77
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Parents and child with Christmas presents<br>1909
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February 8, 2001. As many as 135 years ago Leon Bakst was born /1886-1924/. He was one of the most prominent artists of late 19th-early 20th centuries, known as a book designer and illustrator, portrait artist and landscape painter, and interior designer. His keen feeling of the epoch, fertile imagination and keen taste helped him create wonderful scenery. He came down in the history of arts as a distinguished theatre artist. His name is also inseparable from such significant phenomena of the national culture as &quotThe World of Art" and &quotThe Russian Seasons". He was in the thick of Russian, and later on European, artistic life of the time. L. Bakst. A sketch of the costume of the Jewish dancer in the ballet Kleopatra. 1909. Photo by RIA Novosti. DP85-4583.<br>ÿØÿà
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Eskimo pyramid formed by five of the girls on board the Roosevelt . Peary taught them how to dance and the can can before he left Cape Coloumbia . He employed the same tribe of Northern Greenland on all of his expeditions and had children with an inuit &quotwife".<br><br>Peary Polar Expedition 1908 - 1909
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Early vacuum cleaner, 1909.
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