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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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White wooden covered bridge portal at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, circa 1962, framed against summer trees on 8mm film

The white clapboard portal of a covered bridge at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, circa 1962.

1962 · Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, United States

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ONE LANE BRIDGE warning sign and gross weight limit notice at a covered bridge, Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, circa 1962

A yellow ONE LANE BRIDGE sign and a posted gross weight limit notice at the bridge entrance, circa 1962.

1962 · Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, United States

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Wider view of the one-lane covered bridge entrance and its warning signs at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, circa 1962

The handheld camera holds on the covered bridge entrance and its warning signs, Valley Forge, circa 1962.

1962 · Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, United States

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Closing view of the ONE LANE BRIDGE sign at a white covered bridge, Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, circa 1962, 8mm home movie

After the delivery truck drives out, the camera returns to the ONE LANE BRIDGE sign, circa 1962.

1962 · Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, United States

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St Margaret's Church tower, Westminster, with Big Ben's clock face behind, framed by summer trees, circa 1962 8mm film

St Margaret's Church, Westminster, with the clock face of Big Ben rising behind its tower, circa 1962.

1962 · London, England, United Kingdom

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Big Ben's clock half hidden by trees beside St Margaret's Church tower in Westminster, London, early 1960s home movie

Trees partly screen Big Ben's clock beside St Margaret's tower as the shot holds on the church, circa 1962.

1962 · London, England, United Kingdom

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Camera tilts down St Margaret's Church, Westminster, to railings and a black London taxi roof, red bus at left, circa 1962

The tilt reaches the west window and railings as a black taxi passes and a red bus shows at left, circa 1962.

1962 · London, England, United Kingdom

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Black London taxis pass St Margaret's Church, Westminster, on an overcast summer day, circa 1962 8mm home movie

Black London taxis pass the railings of St Margaret's Church, Westminster, circa 1962.

1962 · 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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Green lorry and dark van passing a kerbside chain barrier in London, circa 1963, on 8mm home movie film

A green lorry with gold lettering passes behind the kerbside chain barrier.

1963 · London, England, United Kingdom

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Red double-decker bus crossing a London street behind a chain barrier, circa 1963, 8mm travel film

A red double-decker bus crosses the far side of the road beside a striped bollard.

1963 · London, England, United Kingdom

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Red saloon car and dark vehicle in London traffic beyond a chain barrier, circa 1963 home movie

A red saloon car and a dark vehicle move past the roadside signs.

1963 · London, England, United Kingdom

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Red London bus with open rear platform passing close to the camera, circa 1963, 8mm film

A red double-decker bus passes close, showing its open rear platform and advertising panel.

1963 · London, England, United Kingdom

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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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Old sedan in the middle of a rainy shopping street in Nara, Japan, circa 1953, with two women under a white umbrella

A dark sedan heads down a wet, banner-lined street as two women share an umbrella, Nara, Japan, circa 1953.

1953 · Nara, Nara Prefecture, Japan

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Car receding along a Japanese town street in the rain circa 1953, likely Nara, with pedestrians and shop signs

The sedan moves away between low shopfronts while the women keep to the left side of the road.

1953 · Nara, Nara Prefecture, Japan

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Women in summer dresses beneath an umbrella on a Nara shopping street, circa 1953 8mm home movie

Two women in light dresses walk beneath one umbrella as traffic thins out down the wet street.

1953 · Nara, Nara Prefecture, Japan

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Rainy shopping street receding into the distance in Japan circa 1953, probably Nara, with an old sedan and pedestrians

Near the end of the shot the sedan is small in the distance, framed by shopfronts, poles and wires.

1953 · Nara, Nara Prefecture, Japan

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