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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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1969 Kenya home-movie frame showing open ground, distant low-rise buildings, palm trees, and small figures near the horizon.

Open urban ground with distant buildings and palms.

1969 · Kenya

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1969 Kenya street view with a pale tower-like building, palms, roadside structures, and small people near the lower edge.

Street-facing building with tower and palms.

1969 · Kenya

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1969 Kenya home-movie view of a street corner with a concrete building, palm trees, fencing, and partially readable signs.

Street corner with palms, fence, and signs.

1969 · Kenya

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1969 Kenya frame with motion-softened commercial frontage and a readable Union Bank sign near the lower right.

Commercial frontage with a bank sign in motion-softened view.

1969 · Kenya

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1969 India 8mm frame showing a busy outdoor laundry area with people, cloth bundles, long wooden beams, and a large tiled roof.

People work along rows of wooden washing beams in a crowded outdoor laundry area.

1969 · India

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Elevated 1969 India home-movie view of a dense outdoor washing area beside a long tiled-roof building.

The elevated camera looks over rows of washing stations and people gathered beside the roofed structure.

1969 · India

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Closer 8mm view of people washing or sorting cloth in a busy outdoor laundry setting in India, based on supplied metadata.

People bend over rows of beams and fabric piles in the laundry yard.

1969 · India

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Distant waterfront view in India with a sign-topped building, domed roofline, tower, and open water in the foreground.

A waterfront building with a large sign appears across the water in the final frame.

1969 · India

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1969 India 8mm frame showing people bending over concrete wash troughs with tubs and laundry bundles around them.

Workers wash and sort clothes around long concrete troughs in a crowded outdoor laundry area.

1969 · India

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Motion-blurred 1969 India 8mm view of people washing or carrying laundry beside concrete troughs and basins.

A handheld elevated view follows people moving through the laundry area with wash basins and cloth bundles.

1969 · India

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1969 India 8mm frame showing corrugated roofs, people, tubs, and laundry bundles near outdoor wash troughs.

Corrugated roofs and dense walkways frame the laundry activity below.

1969 · India

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1969 India 8mm frame looking across a corrugated roof toward a busy outdoor laundry facility and surrounding structures.

The view looks across the roofline toward a dense laundry work area with basins and people.

1969 · India

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Overhead 1970 India 8mm view of people working among concrete laundry cubicles, tubs, wet basins, and piles of fabric.

Workers wash and handle clothing in a busy outdoor laundry area with rows of concrete basins.

1970 · India

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1970 India home-movie frame showing a man in light clothing beside concrete wash cubicles and bundled garments under bright sun.

A worker stands by stepped concrete wash bays with sorted clothing and cloth bundles around him.

1970 · India

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Overhead 1970 India frame of workers near concrete laundry bays, with stacked garments and a person in a colorful head covering visible.

Workers handle garments among concrete wash compartments, with clothing piled along the edges.

1970 · India

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1970 India 8mm still of an outdoor laundry area with a worker, concrete wash bays, draped textiles, and strong sunlight.

A worker stands near empty and occupied wash bays as garments lie draped and bundled around the area.

1970 · India

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1970 India 8mm frame showing calm lake water, a low shore with laundry, small distant figures, and palm trees beyond.

Laundry lies along the lakeside bank as the camera looks across the water toward palm trees.

1970 · India

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1970 India home-movie frame with reflective lake water, laundry spread near the shore, distant people, and palm trees on the horizon.

The pan continues across water toward a shore where laundry and distant figures are visible.

1970 · India

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1970 India 8mm frame showing a lakeside bank with laundry, small figures near the water, and palm trees reflected in the lake.

Laundry and small figures remain visible along the bank, with palm trees rising behind them.

1970 · India

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1970 India home-movie frame looking across open lake water to a low bank with laundry, distant people, grasses, and palms.

A wider part of the shoreline shows open water, laundry on the bank, and palms across the horizon.

1970 · India

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Wide view of a river ghat, Calcutta, India, 1962 — washers in traditional dress work at the waterline with white fabrics on stone steps and terraced buildings above.

Washermen at the ghat, Calcutta, 1962.

1962 · Calcutta, India

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Mid-distance view of washers at a Calcutta river ghat, 1962 — figures in white and colored dress work at the waterline with cloth laid flat on the steps and terraced buildings visible above.

Washers at the ghat waterline, Calcutta, 1962.

1962 · Calcutta, India

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Closer view of washers at the ghat bank, Calcutta, 1962 — figures stoop at the waterline while white fabrics dry on the steps and birds pass overhead.

Washing at the waterline, ghat steps, Calcutta, 1962.

1962 · Calcutta, India

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Close view of washers at the ghat bank, Calcutta, 1962 — three or four figures bent over stones scrubbing laundry, with white cloths on steps and one person in a pink garment visible.

Washers bent at the river's edge, Calcutta ghat, 1962.

1962 · Calcutta, India

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