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Historic street scenes, family life, travel and everyday details captured on film. Explore individual frames, check the source footage and license the image you need for $49. Each still page lists its download size and permitted uses.

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Café terrace with yellow chairs, orange umbrellas and roses on a Dutch waterfront, circa 1963

A waterside café terrace with orange umbrellas, yellow chairs and roses, likely North Holland, Netherlands, circa 1963.

1963 · North Holland, Netherlands

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Roses and an umbrella frame a tree-lined Dutch riverbank with townhouses, circa 1963

The pan turns from the terrace to the river and its tree-lined far bank.

1963 · North Holland, Netherlands

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White poles and roses in the foreground of a wide river in the Netherlands, circa 1963

White poles cross the frame as the view opens onto the blue river.

1963 · North Holland, Netherlands

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Distant multi-arched bridge across a wide Dutch river seen from a café, circa 1963

The pan ends on a distant arched bridge across the river, likely North Holland, circa 1963.

1963 · North Holland, Netherlands

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Red-liveried footmen on a horse-drawn coach passing a shopping street, likely South Holland, Netherlands, circa 1963.

Footmen in red coats ride a coach behind white horses past parked cars, circa 1963.

1963 · South Holland, Netherlands

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Passing car blurs past a team of brown horses on a Dutch shopping street, circa 1963 8mm home movie.

Motor traffic cuts in front of a horse-drawn team on the street, circa 1963.

1963 · South Holland, Netherlands

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Red-bodied horse-drawn coach and orange van on a shopping street, probably South Holland, circa 1963.

A red-bodied coach shares the road with a passing van, circa 1963.

1963 · South Holland, Netherlands

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Coachman drives brown horses and a red coach past parked cars on a Dutch street, circa 1963 travel film.

A coachman drives a red and black coach past parked cars and shop awnings, circa 1963.

1963 · South Holland, Netherlands

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Miniature park streamliner and engineer in the middle distance by striped signal posts, United States, circa 1955

A miniature streamliner comes into view along the park track, circa 1955.

1955 · United States

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Motion-blurred miniature streamlined engine and white-shirted engineer passing a sign board in a US park, circa 1955

The engine blurs as it moves past the white sign board on posts.

1955 · United States

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White-capped engineer drives a teal-striped miniature streamliner toward the camera in a US park, circa 1955

The engineer and riders draw nearer, with signal posts and bare trees behind.

1955 · United States

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Miniature park streamliner nears the camera with engineer and riders aboard, United States, circa 1955 home movie

The miniature locomotive nears the fence at the end of its pass.

1955 · United States

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Boy throws a football to a man by a clipped hedge on an autumn suburban street in the United States, circa 1961

A boy throws a football down a leaf-strewn street to a man waiting by a hedge, circa 1961.

1961 · United States

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Man in a short-sleeved shirt and light trousers runs across fallen leaves after a catch, US suburban street circa 1961

The man turns and runs after catching the ball, motion-blurred on 8mm film.

1961 · United States

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Man jogs toward the camera along a leaf-covered American residential street, circa 1961 8mm home movie

The man jogs toward the camera along the leafy roadside.

1961 · United States

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Man runs past a dark early-1950s sedan parked on a US suburban street, circa 1961 autumn home movie

He passes a dark early-1950s sedan as the camera pans right.

1961 · United States

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Woman and child leave an arched stucco doorway on a sunny winter day, probably Minnesota, circa 1937, black-and-white home movie

A woman and a child come out of the arched front door onto the steps, circa 1937.

1937 · Minnesota, United States

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Children gather on stucco house steps beside a parked mid-1930s fastback sedan, probably Minnesota, circa 1937

Children gather on the steps as a parked 1930s fastback sedan comes into view at left.

1937 · Minnesota, United States

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Child in a patterned sweater by a stucco house doorway with two 1930s cars parked nearby, circa 1937 winter home movie

A child in a patterned sweater waits by the steps while two dark 1930s cars sit on the drive.

1937 · Minnesota, United States

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Woman in a fur coat and two children at an arched stucco doorway beside a parked 1930s sedan, probably Minnesota, circa 1937

A woman in a fur coat stands in the doorway with two children as the parked sedans fill the left of the frame.

1937 · Minnesota, United States

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Tourists on wrought-iron plaza benches in a likely colonial Mexican town, circa 1974, with 1970s sedans parked behind

Tourists rest on plaza benches while a woman searches her handbag, likely in Mexico, circa 1974.

1974 · Mexico

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Uniformed officer behind parked cars as tourists sit on plaza benches, likely in Mexico, circa 1974, Super 8 home movie

A uniformed officer in a peaked cap stands behind the parked cars as the tourists sort through their bags.

1974 · Mexico

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Woman in sunglasses searching her bag on a plaza bench in a likely Mexican colonial town, circa 1974, with sedans behind

A woman in sunglasses digs through her bag beside two companions on a shaded plaza bench.

1974 · Mexico

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1970s tourists seated on wrought-iron benches beside parked sedans in a likely Mexican town, circa 1974, on blue-cast Super 8

The group stays seated as the shot ends, the dark sedan and whitewashed walls behind them.

1974 · Mexico

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