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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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Footprints cross a snowy suburban yard past a bare tree toward a neighbouring pale green house, United States, circa 1965 home movie.

The pan begins on the neighbour's house, a spruce and a trail of footprints in the snow, circa 1965.

1965 · United States

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Mid-pan view of a covered porch and stone wall with a double window on a snowy day, United States, circa 1965 home movie.

The camera moves right past the covered porch to the stone front and its double window.

1965 · United States

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Stone-front cottage with steep gable and pale green clapboard wing in fresh snow under a blue sky, United States, circa 1965 home movie.

The stone-front cottage in full view, with snow on the porch roof and shrubs along the foundation, circa 1965.

1965 · United States

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End of the pan on a stone gable front with curtained window and snow-dusted shrubs, United States, circa 1965 home movie.

The shot comes to rest on the stone gable, with strong shadows from low winter sun.

1965 · United States

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Circa 1965 home movie frame, likely United States: snow-covered stone cottage with a bare yard tree and a figure in the porch shadow.

The wide opening view: a stone-front cottage under fresh snow, with someone already at work on the porch.

1965 · United States

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Circa 1965 winter home movie, likely United States: the camera zooms toward a porch where a person in a dark coat stands by the steps.

Mid-zoom: the porch and the person in a dark coat come into view behind the bare yard tree.

1965 · United States

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Person sweeping snow from the porch steps of a stone cottage with a broom, circa 1965 home movie footage, likely United States.

The sweeper bends to the steps with a long-handled broom between snow-laden shrubs.

1965 · United States

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Closest view of a person in a dark coat and hat with a broom on a green-trimmed stone porch after snowfall, circa 1965, likely United States.

The tightest framing of the shot: the sweeper on the porch beneath the green-trimmed roof and scroll trellis.

1965 · United States

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Wind-driven whitecaps and a wave breaking on a granite point, framed by dark leaves, on a lake probably in Ontario, circa 1966.

The shot opens on rough water and a wave breaking against a low granite point, probably in Ontario, circa 1966.

1966 · Ontario, Canada

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Spray on the rocks of a windy lake, probably in Ontario circa 1966, as the bow of a white cruiser enters the frame at lower right.

As the camera pans right, the bow of a moored white cruiser edges into the corner of the frame.

1966 · Ontario, Canada

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White cabin cruiser moored under trees on a wave-washed granite shore, likely Ontario cottage country, circa 1966.

The pan settles on a white cabin cruiser riding at its mooring while surf washes the rocks behind it.

1966 · Ontario, Canada

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Circa 1966 view through birch-like trunks to a moored cabin cruiser, whitecaps and rock islets on a lake probably in Ontario.

The cruiser's cabin and windscreen show between the tree trunks at the end of the shot, with the lake still running white.

1966 · Ontario, Canada

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Storm-damaged red barn with roof torn away on a farm, likely Illinois, circa 1958, with people and debris at its base

A red barn stands roofless after a storm, its gable end split open, as people gather by the wall below.

1958 · Illinois, United States

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Debris piled across a farmyard beside a roofless red barn after a storm, likely rural Illinois, circa 1958

As the camera pans, piles of broken lumber and debris come into view across the farmyard.

1958 · Illinois, United States

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Farm scene after a storm, likely Illinois, circa 1958: wrecked red barn, standing figures and a white house edge

A bare tree crosses the frame as the white corner of a farmhouse appears beside the storm-wrecked barn.

1958 · Illinois, United States

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Roofless red barn and white clapboard farmhouse after a storm on flat farmland, likely Illinois, circa 1958, 8mm film

The pan ends on the white clapboard farmhouse, with the damaged barn and debris beyond.

1958 · Illinois, United States

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1959 8mm home-movie frame looking over choppy Atlantic water through shipboard metal framework and dark vertical framing.

Churning ocean water is viewed from behind shipboard metal structure.

1959

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Open Atlantic water appears under a hazy sky, framed by dark shipboard verticals in a faded 8mm home-movie view.

Whitecaps break across a dark open-ocean surface beyond the ship framing.

1959

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Foam and rough sea pass below diagonal ship rigging, with soft focus and faded color from the 8mm scan.

Diagonal rigging crosses the view as foamy water moves below.

1959

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Dark Atlantic water and white foam patches are seen beneath diagonal ship rigging in a handheld 1959 8mm travel frame.

White foam streaks across the dark sea beneath ship rigging.

1959

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Stormy ocean swells and whitecaps appear through dark shipboard framing, with a diagonal cable or rigging line visible in the 8mm home-movie frame.

Rough sea seen through shipboard framing.

1959

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A hazy horizon and rolling blue-gray sea fill the view, partially blocked by dark boat window framing and a thin diagonal line near the right edge.

Rolling ocean under a hazy sky.

1959

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The camera looks over choppy open water from a vessel, with a dark vertical edge and diagonal cable crossing the blue-gray 8mm frame.

Choppy water from a boat viewpoint.

1959

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Rough offshore water with scattered whitecaps is seen through dark shipboard framing, with a diagonal rigging or cable line crossing the lower right of the frame.

Whitecaps beyond the vessel frame.

1959

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