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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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Woman in a skirted purple swimsuit looks aside on a crowded US beach, circa 1960, with red-doored cabanas behind

A woman in a patterned purple swimsuit stands hands on hips, glancing away, on a crowded beach, circa 1960.

1960 · United States

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Bather in a 1950s-style purple swimsuit poses among a seated crowd beside a large umbrella, United States, circa 1960

Seated bathers and a striped lawn chair surround the posing woman as she keeps her gaze to the side.

1960 · United States

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Woman in purple one-piece swimsuit turns toward the camera on a sunny US beach, circa 1960, 8mm home movie frame

The woman begins to turn toward the camera, still holding her hands-on-hips pose.

1960 · United States

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Woman in a skirted purple swimsuit faces the lens on a crowded American beach, circa 1960, cabanas and umbrella behind

Facing the lens, the woman holds her pose before red-doored changing cabanas, circa 1960.

1960 · United States

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Guards band with bass drum marching past spectators at the railings of Buckingham Palace, London, circa 1963

A Guards band, bass drum among them, marches past the crowd at the Buckingham Palace railings, circa 1963.

1963 · Buckingham Palace, England, United Kingdom

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Foot Guards marching with a flag on a staff past a summer crowd before Buckingham Palace, circa 1963

Spaced guardsmen march past onlookers in summer clothes, a flag carried among them.

1963 · Buckingham Palace, England, United Kingdom

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Column of Foot Guards in scarlet and bearskins marching past the Buckingham Palace railings, London, circa 1963

The column of Foot Guards continues past the palace railings, with the arched facade behind.

1963 · Buckingham Palace, England, United Kingdom

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Rider on a grey horse with Foot Guards beside the white gate piers of Buckingham Palace, circa 1963 8mm film

The camera pans to a rider on a grey horse near the palace gate piers as onlookers watch.

1963 · Buckingham Palace, England, United Kingdom

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Guards band in red tunics and bearskins marching before a crowd at the Buckingham Palace gates, London, circa 1963

A Guards band marches past spectators at the gates of Buckingham Palace, London, circa 1963.

1963 · London, England, United Kingdom

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Front ranks of a Foot Guards band with brass instruments at Buckingham Palace, crowd in pale coats behind, circa 1963

Brass instruments show in the front ranks as the band passes the crowd at the palace railings.

1963 · London, England, United Kingdom

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Wide view of guardsmen marching before crowds and the stone facade of Buckingham Palace, London, 8mm film, circa 1963

The marching ranks, the crowd and the palace facade in one steady wide view, circa 1963.

1963 · London, England, United Kingdom

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Guards band marching at the Changing the Guard, Buckingham Palace, seen over onlookers' heads, London, circa 1963

Seen from among the public: onlookers' heads frame the Guards band at the Changing the Guard.

1963 · London, England, United Kingdom

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Household Cavalry column passes a red van and sculpted gate pier near Buckingham Palace, London, circa 1963, as a pale car crosses the foreground

Mounted Household Cavalry troopers ride past a red van and a sculpted gate pier near Buckingham Palace, London, circa 1963.

1963 · London, England, United Kingdom

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Plumed Household Cavalry riders on black horses alongside a red van by the sculpted pier near Buckingham Palace, circa 1963

The cavalry column and a red van move together past onlookers by the stone gate pier, circa 1963.

1963 · London, England, United Kingdom

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Pan following the Household Cavalry and a red van past the sculpted gate pier near Buckingham Palace, London, circa 1963

The camera pans right to keep pace with the mounted column near Buckingham Palace, circa 1963.

1963 · London, England, United Kingdom

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Household Cavalry lead riders near a lamp standard, balustrade and flower-edged lawn by Buckingham Palace, London, circa 1963

The front of the column reaches a lamp standard and a flower-edged lawn near the palace, circa 1963.

1963 · London, England, United Kingdom

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Foot Guards in bearskins marching past onlookers by an ivy-clad brick building in London, circa 1963, 8mm home movie

Spectators, including a woman in a white hat and boys in dark jackets, watch as the column of Guards marches by, London, circa 1963.

1963 · London, England, United Kingdom

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Close view of London Foot Guards with white rank chevrons and shouldered rifles in front of a pale building, circa 1963

A guardsman with white chevrons on his sleeve leads the frame as the ranks pass a building with stone steps.

1963 · London, England, United Kingdom

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Marching line of Guards in bearskins and scarlet tunics during a London guard ceremony, circa 1963, on 8mm colour film

Guards in bearskins and scarlet tunics march in step past a pale building, circa 1963.

1963 · London, England, United Kingdom

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Dense ranks of Foot Guards in red tunics and black bearskins marching with rifles in London, circa 1963, home movie

Further ranks of Guards fill the frame as the column continues past the camera.

1963 · London, England, United Kingdom

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Joy poster and curtained windows beneath the Lunchroom Oud Marken board in Marken, North Holland, circa 1963 home movie

A Joy advertising poster hangs between curtained windows below the café's name board.

1963 · Marken, North Holland, Netherlands

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Boys riding a hanging bench on a park swing ride in the United States, circa 1955, on 8mm home movie film.

Two boys share a front bench as the swing ride turns, circa 1955.

1955 · United States

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Mother figure and small girl in a blue dress on a park swing ride, United States, circa 1955 home movie.

A woman and a small girl in blue ride a swinging bench, circa 1955.

1955 · United States

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Harnessed mule turning a park swing ride with a wooden sweep pole, United States, circa 1955, 8mm film.

The mule that powers the ride walks its circle, circa 1955.

1955 · United States

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