Cheapside, with the Church of Saint Mary le Bow in the background and open top motor buses on the road, London, 1909.
Short Sunderland V of 201 Squadron RAF moored at Tower Bridge, London, 16 September 1956.
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Chalmers Butterfield, Piccadilly Circus looking up Shaftesbury Avenue, London, ca. 1949.
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A suffragist (possibly Emmeline Pankhurst) on a hunger strike, being forcibly fed with a nasal tube at HM Prison Holloway, Islington, London, ca. 1911.
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East front of Addiscombe Place, the main building of Addiscombe Seminary, Surrey, London, ca. 1859. Cadets pose in the foreground.
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Alvin Langdon Coburn, Wyndham Lewis, London, 25 February 1916.
Source: New York Public Library
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Rupert Potter, The entrance facade and gates of Devonshire House, London, 17 March 1906.
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Holloway Prison, Islington, London, ca. 1896.
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King George II of Greece and his wife, Elisabeth of Romania, in exile, London, 1931.
Source: Deutsches Bundesarchiv (German Federal Archive)
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Allan Aynesworth, Evelyn Millard, Irene Vanbrugh and George Alexander in “The Importance of Being Earnest,” London, 1895.
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