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NWI4839052: Independence of the United States of America (1775-1783): Signing of the US Independence Declaration at the Independence Hall in Philadelphia on July 4, 1776 in the presence of John Adams, Roger Sherman, Benjamin Franklin, Robert Livingston and Thomas Jefferson. Engraving after John Trumbull's painting. / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4839133: Apr. 27, 1953 - 27-4-53 New Church dedicated in Edinburgh. Archbishop performs ceremony - The new St. Margaret's Church at Davidson's Maine, Edinburgh was dedicated during the weekend by the Most Rev. Gordon Joseph Grey, Archbishop of St. Andrews and Edinburgh. Keystone Photo Shows: The scene as the procession led by the Archbishop arrives at the New Church for the dedication ceremony. / Bridgeman Images
NWI4838540: The Congress of Nations in Berlin (Germany), from 13 June to 13 July 1878: Otto von Bismarck welcomes the delegates of the European powers, to revise the terms of the Treaty of San Stefano, imposed by Russia on the Ottoman Empire, following its victories in the Russo Turkish War (1877-1878). From left to right: Heinrich Karl von Haymerle and Alajos Karolyi (representatives of Austria Hungary), Eduardo de Launay (Italy), Alexandre Mikhailovich Gorchakov (Russia), William Henry Waddington (France), Benjamin Disraeli (Great Britain), Joseph Maria von Radowitz (?) , Chlodwig de Hohenlohe Schillingsfurst (Germany), Lodovico Corti (Italy), Charles Raymond de Saint-Vallier (Saint Vallier) (France), Paul d'Ubril (Russia), Gyula Andrassy (Austria Hungary), Otto von Bismarck (Germany), Pyotr Andreyevich Shuvalov (Russia), Sadullah Bey (Ottoman Empire), Odo Russell (United Kingdom), Bernhard Ernst von Bylow (Germany), Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil (Gascoyne Cecil) (1830-1903), Marquis of Salisbury (Great Britain), Karatheodori Pasha (Ottoman Empire), Mehemet Ali Pasha (Ottoman Empire) / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4838579: Apr 20, 1953 - London, England, United Kingdom - Tiaras for typists. In coronation year tiaras will not be confined to the nobility. The most budget-minded working girl is in the mind of Britain's National Jewelers Association who will display tiaras in costume jewelry at the British Industries Fair. Manufacturer D. Ackerman and Sons Ltd. have designed and produced this tiara of three clusters of a crownlike design of paste stones and matching earrings are suspended from flower-like clusters of paste stones, as well as a brooch in a loose knotted spray style. / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4844034: May 05, 1953 - Royal Garden party at Palace. Not a Bazooka - It's a camera.: Photo shows a press photographer from West Germany, seen operating a long focus camera, which reminds one of a” bazooka, It is mounted on a rifle butt and operated by the trigger. at Buckingham Palace today. / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4844054: May 05, 1953 - International Breaking-in Tests in Wiesbaden: International Breaking- in Tests, the” Grand Prix de Dressage” and the Prix ST. Georges” took part in Wiesbaden, during this weekend. Thousands of spectators had come t the Hesse capital to witness this noble sport. Picture shows a scene form the International competition. / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4844097: May 05, 1953 - The Mounties Go To Meet Their Homes.. A Tater From The Ladies: Members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police whop arrived in the country recently to take part in the Coronation Procsions - today went to the Royal Albert Docks to meet their horses which arrived aboard the G.P.R. vessel Beaverbrun. Phot Shows Two young ladies L-R: - Miss Doris Bartlett and Miss Peggy Ellis of London feed one of the Canadian horses - held by Constable Robert Camm - at the Royal Albert Dock today... The horse is known as” Billy” - who is having his first tests of English grass. / Bridgeman Images