Human Role Collection (#25)

Pasteurs Lab
circa 1880: French chemist Dr Louis Pasteur (1822 - 1895), the father of modern bacteriology, pursues his studies in his laboratory at the Ecole Normale in Paris

French Commuters
circa 1940: Commuters crowd the platforms of the Place d Italie metro station in Paris. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Election In Front Of State House, PA, 1815
Illustration depicting an election in front of the State House, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1815. (Kean Collection/Getty Images)

Illustration of Republican National Convention, Chicago, IL, 1884
Illustration of delegates celebrating the nomination of James G. Blaine as presidential candidate during the Republican National Convention, Chicago, Illinois, June 1884

Lord Byron
George Byron (1786 - 1824), 6th Baron Byron, British poet. Original Artwork: Engraving by E Finden after Sanders. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

William Morris
English poet, artist and craftsman William Morris (1834 - 1896). Original Artwork: Woodbury Type (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

Charlie Boy
A gentleman pushing over a watchmans hut to the delight of passers by. Entitled, Getting the Better of a Charlie. Original Artwork

Bow Street Runner
John Townsend, a Bow Street Runner. The Runners were forerunners of the modern police force and policed the streets in conjunction with nightwatchman but were more efficient

Welsh Quarry
A black marble quarry near Red Wharf Bay in Anglesea. Original Artwork: Aquatint by William Daniell (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Press Repression
Gendarmes arrive to seize printing presses in an attempt to limit freedom of expression during the July Revolution which deposed Charles X

Classroom Chaos
A view of French education before the Guizot reforms of 1833 - a classroom rife with indiscipline and disorder. Original Artwork

Charles Darwin
British naturalist Charles Darwin (1809 - 1882). Original Artwork: Woodbury type by Lock & Whitfield. (Photo by Henry Guttmann/Getty Images)

Shopping Under Siege
Under siege by the Prussian army, Parisians are reduced to buying cat, dog and rat meat at a butchers stall during the Franco-Prussian war

Anne Bronte
circa 1845: Anne (Annie) Bronte (1820-1849). Original Artwork: Drawing - Charlotte Bronte Womens Illustrated (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Lord Byron
circa 1879: A skectch of a statue of poet, George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron (1788 - 1824). The bronze statue by Richard Belt, unveiled on 24th May 1880, is in Hyde Park, London

Going To Church
circa 1812: A parson greets members of his congregation outside the church. Original Artwork: Engraving by Is Agar after a drawing by R Westall. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The Sermon
1812: A family sit gravely listening to a church sermon. Original Artwork: Engraving after a drawing by R Westall. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Peelers
31st January 1837: Policemen assembling at Bow Street, London. Original Artwork: Engraving from the Penny Magazine (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Student Party
1824: Oxford undergraduates on a latenight drinking escapade. The original caption reads Oxford Transports or Albanians doing Penance for Past Offences

Stand And Deliver
1851: A Victorian highwayman takes two travellers on horseback by surprise, from The life of the late John Mylton (1608 - 1674) by Charles Apperley or Nimrod

Japanese Hostess
circa 1875: A Japanese woodblock print of a geisha girl serving a cup of tea. Original Artwork: Drawn by Gillot (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

William Wordsworth
circa 1819: William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850) English poet, made Poet Laureate in 1843. Original Artwork: Engraved from the painting by R Carruthers, published 1819

Bundle Of Truths
September 1811: A street trader selling his wares in this cartoon entitled Bundle of Truths. Original Artist: By George Cruikshank (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Under Siege
1st December 1811: Cannon and bowman lay siege to the town walls. Original Artwork: Aquatint - pub. 1812 (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Battle Charge
18th June 1815: Curassiers charging the Highlanders at the Battle of Waterloo, Belgium, during the Napoleonic Wars. Original Artwork: Painting by Francois Fleming. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

Lewis Carroll
circa 1875: English nonsense writer and versifier, author of Alice in Wonderland and Alice Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll ( 1832 - 1998)

William Blake
circa 1800: English painter, illustrator and poet William Blake (1757 - 1827), known for the mystical themes of his art and writings. Original Artwork: Painting by T Phillips

Busy Fleet Street
1894: A policeman directs traffic and pedestrians on Londons Fleet Street, on a rainy day. A paperboy crosses the road selling copies of the Globe. Original Artist: By Marcus, from Modern Art

Japanese Medicine
circa 1869: A Japanese doctor practises his art on a patient. He is entitled to wear two swords, and needs no diploma, only the desire to heal. (Photo by Felice Beato/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Cargo Ship on the Fulton Street Dock
circa 1918: Workers unload crates and barrels on the Fulton Street dock while men in straw boaters inspect a ship, New York City. (Photo by Edwin Levick/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

A crowd on a sidewalk observes street peddlers selling toys
1901: A crowd on a sidewalk observes street peddlers selling toys, near Grand Central Station in midtown Manhattan, New York City. (Photo by Edwin Levick/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Brooklyn
circa 1910: Congested traffic on a main thoroughfare in Brooklyn, New York City, looking west toward Manhattan Bridge over the East River. (Photo by Edwin Levick/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Above The Traffic
circa 1958: Workmen from the Office of Works perch 70 feet above the ground to clean the horses heads of the quadriga statue on the Wellington Memorial at Londons Hyde Park Corner

City Commuters
5th October 1954: City workers crossing London Bridge on their way to work on the third day of a bus strike. (Photo by Derek Berwin/Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Members of the British army driving through Aden. Original Publication: Picture Post - 9105 - RAF And Cameron Highlanders In Aden - unpub. (Photo by Bert Hardy/Getty Images)

Marching To Front
September 1950: British infantrymen marching to the front-line in Taegu during the Korean War. Original Publication: Picture Post - 5086 - Korean War Series - We Follow The Road to Hell - pub

Rear View
Firmly clutching some chickens under their arms three land army girls turn their backs on the camera. (Photo by A J O Brien/Getty Images)

Airship Ascends
24th September 1852: The ascent of French engineer and inventor Henri Giffauds first steam airship. Collection of the Musee de l Aeromautique (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

In Chopiniana
Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova (1885 - 1931) perfroming in a production of Chopiniana in New Zealand. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Police Cordon
21st May 1914: The police protect Buckingham Palace after the suffragettes attack. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

1940 Firemen signallers Clearing UP
1940: Firemen signallers at work amongst the rubble after a daylight bombing raid in London. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Eruption
April 1958: Naturalist photographer, Charles Lagus filming for the BBC from the crater lip of Bromo, Javas most spectacular volcano as a cloud of volcano ash and smoke fill the sky

Building Aquitania
21st December 1911: The Cunard luxury liner Aquitania under construction at John Brown & Companys shipyard at Clydebank near Glasgow

Riveting Work during the construction of the Cunard luxury liner Aquitania
circa 1911: Construction workers using hydraulic riveting machinery during the construction of the Cunard luxury liner Aquitania at the Clydebank shipyard owned by John Brown & Company

Roosevelt
circa 1940: American statesman Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), the 32nd President of the United States of America. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Franklin Roosevelt
circa 1943: The American statesman and 32nd President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882 - 1945) addresses the nation. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

The Feelings Neutral
circa 1936: President Franklin D Roosevelt (1882 - 1945) takes part in a neutrality discussion. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

11 O Clock
circa 1924: The gun firing at 11 o clock on Armistice Day in Hyde Park. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

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