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Archival still images

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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1937 Sacramento 8mm frame showing dark wooden scaffold framing against a pale sky, with no worker clearly visible in this still.

Scaffold timbers and braces stand against the sky at the construction site.

1937 · Sacramento, California, United States

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1937 Sacramento 8mm frame showing a worker climbing along the side of a tall wooden scaffold structure.

A worker ascends the scaffold framework during construction activity.

1937 · Sacramento, California, United States

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A worker climbs through wooden scaffolding in a grainy 1937 Sacramento home-movie frame, partly hidden by the structure and film edge.

The worker moves through the scaffold, partly obscured by framing and film shadow.

1937 · Sacramento, California, United States

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1937 Sacramento frame showing a worker on the side of wooden scaffolding, with brush near the base and pale sky behind.

The worker remains on the scaffold as the structure fills the right side of the frame.

1937 · Sacramento, California, United States

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1953 Japan 8mm frame showing distant farmers harvesting and bundling grain across a broad rural field.

Farm workers bend over cut rows and gathered bundles in a wide field.

1953 · Japan

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Distant workers in a 1953 Japan field gather harvested stalks, with open farmland and a low horizon behind them.

Harvest workers continue gathering stalks across the field rows.

1953 · Japan

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A soft 8mm view of rural Japan shows workers near grain piles, with hazy industrial structures in the distance.

Figures stand and work near larger bundles with a hazy built horizon beyond.

1953 · Japan

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The final 1953 Japan frame shows field workers and bundled grain against a hazy distant industrial skyline.

Field workers and grain bundles sit below a hazy industrial-looking horizon.

1953 · Japan

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Blurred green rural landscape in 1963 Russia footage, likely filmed from a moving position with dark film-frame borders.

A soft, motion-blurred view across green fields opens the rural sequence.

1963 · Russia

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Two women in a rural Russian crop field, one bent over working and one standing nearby, in soft 8mm color footage from 1963.

Two women tend crops in an open field bordered by trees.

1963 · Russia

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Rural field scene in 1963 Russia showing two women among crops, one bending toward the plants while another stands nearby.

The crop-field view continues with the women positioned across the rows.

1963 · Russia

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Horse-drawn wagon on a rural road in 1963 Russia, with two men seated behind a brown horse in soft home-movie footage.

Two men ride in a small wagon pulled by a brown horse along a dirt road.

1963 · Russia

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1939 New York home-movie frame showing a high-angle view over a densely packed lot of parked automobiles.

Crowded urban parking lot seen from above, with rows of late-1930s cars.

1939 · New York, United States

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High-angle 1939 New York frame with rows of vintage automobiles packed closely between city structures.

Rows of parked cars fill a dense city lot viewed through the film gate.

1939 · New York, United States

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1939 New York street view showing parked vintage cars, sidewalks, pedestrians, and a vertical building sign or facade detail.

Elevated street view with cars lining the curb and small pedestrian figures on the sidewalks.

1939 · New York, United States

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1939 New York home-movie frame looking down a city thoroughfare with vintage cars, sidewalks, and distant pedestrians.

A city street recedes between building fronts, with parked cars and small pedestrian figures visible.

1939 · New York, United States

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1946 Colombo 8mm frame showing a seafront promenade, stone seawall, waves, an open road, and distant pedestrians near low buildings.

Seafront road and stone promenade beside the surf in Colombo.

1946 · Colombo, Sri Lanka

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1946 Colombo coastal street view with a stone promenade, ocean waves, pedestrians, a vintage car, and distant seafront buildings.

Vintage car and pedestrians along the Colombo seafront road.

1946 · Colombo, Sri Lanka

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1946 Colombo street frame showing a man with a hand-pulled rickshaw, classic cars, and colonial-era buildings with columns and arched windows.

Rickshaw puller and classic cars outside columned buildings in Colombo.

1946 · Colombo, Sri Lanka

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1946 Colombo street scene with a rickshaw puller, hand-pulled rickshaw, passing vintage car, and colonial building under a bright sky.

Rickshaw and vintage car pass before a colonial-era facade.

1946 · Colombo, Sri Lanka

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1967 Brazil home-movie frame showing Portuguese-language printed covers on a tabletop before the work yard sequence.

Printed covers and papers appear in the opening frame, with Portuguese text visible but not fully legible.

1967 · Brazil

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1967 Brazil footage shows workers carrying large wooden pieces in a lumber or boatyard with boats and rigging behind them.

Workers carry long timbers through a cluttered yard near small boats and rigging.

1967 · Brazil

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A worker in light clothing carries a long wooden piece across a Brazilian lumber or boatyard, with stacked planks and boats visible.

A worker carries a long beam across the frame, passing stacks of timber in the yard.

1967 · Brazil

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Workers continue moving heavy wooden pieces in the 1967 Brazil yard, with timber stacks, boat parts, and rigging filling the background.

Several workers handle long wood pieces near stacked planks and small boats at the end of the clip.

1967 · Brazil

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