ZUM4900046: Dec. 12, 1953 - Exhibition of Fine Art in London Portrait of Admiral Lord Cunningham.: Many well known personalities were to be seen attending the preview of the” Courier” Exhibition of Fine Art - held at the Royal Society of Painters in water Colours, Condult Street, London, this morning / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4894670: Nov. 11, 1953 - Press reception for Screen stars returning from location in Africa.: A reception was held this afternoon at Stratford Court, Oxford Street for screen stars John Calvert and his wife Ann Cornell who have just returned to this country after filming 'Africa's Strange Horizons' in Africa during which they trekked over 800 miles to find the right rentals / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4894916: Nov. 11, 1953 - Miners Dig No Coal British coal miners do a shift which lasts only 30 minutes, in a coal mine which contains no coal. They are patients at the Northumberland Miners' Rehabilitation Center, at Hartford Hall, England, which in addition to the usual treatments and recreations, offers patients a model mine. Here the men are put to a final test by moving around piles of stones which substitute for the coal they will have to lift when they are back on the job. Pictures shows: - TOP: A group of patients on their way back from a shift at the model mine. Bottom: At work in the mine the men move stones into pit tubs which are trundled to another part of the mine. There the stones are unloaded and packed ready for the next shift. / Bridgeman Images
BTI4895278: Everyday life: evolution of sanitary systems and hygiene: board representing toilets, toilets, cabinet, water evacuation system from antiquity to modern times, from left to right, a hole where was cut from the earth, in the middle of the toilets in the Middle Ages, on the left, the toilets of the nobility of the 17th or 18th century (Versailles under the kings) Louis XIV and Louis XV), right-hand modern toilet model called “Turkish”., Albertini, Giorgio / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4899515: Apr. 04, 1973 - Project To Save The Philae Temples at Aswan (Upper Egypt): UNESCO Director General Rene Maheu (1905-1975) - meeting the executive committee concerning the obstacles and difficulties facing the project and request expediency in the work to recover past delay / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4899430: Dec. 12, 1953 - The Siamese twins' surgeon goes out professor Ian Aird and the Chaplin s: Professor Ian Aird the surgeon who separated the Siamese Twins ten days ago and Charlie Chaplin with their wives were guests last evening at the London Ball held at the Cafe De Paris in aid of British and Empire Cancer Campaign / Bridgeman Images