Historical Social Movements

Images depicting significant historical events and social movements, including wartime efforts and civil rights protests, from the late 1930s to 1960s.

Empty seats of the Mississippi delegation at the 1964 Democratic National Convention. Led by Fannie Lou Hamer, the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party challenged the credentials of the all-White and anti-civil rights delegation. Aug. 24, 1964.

Martial Law proclaimed in Eger, Czech. September 27, 1938.

Londoners' Meals Service- Canteen at Fishmongers' Hall, London Bridge, London, 1942 A group of female city workers climb enter Fishmongers' Hall to visit the canteen, run by the Londoners' Meals Service, which is held in the large banqueting hall on the first floor of the building. A sign by the door states that dinners are served daily except Sunday and suppers are served Monday to Friday, between 5:45pm and 7:30pm. The blackboard beside the entrance states the date, and that hot and cold lunches are available at a minimum of 1/ (for two courses). Three courses cost 1/ 3, bread can be bought for 1/2d, tea for 1 1/2d and coffee for 2d.

With imagination and determination, mainly younger opponents of the NPD fought the appearance and election appearances of the radical right-wing party in the Ruhr area, Germany in 1969 during the election campaign for the Bundestag

Women at work on the Home Front during the First World War A young woman stands on a ladder to paste a recruiting poster onto a wall in Thetford, Norfolk. She is carrying on her father's appointment as official bill poster and town crier while he is away at the Front. The words 'Men of Thetford', 'Men are urgently wanted' and 'Do it now!' can be clearly seen on the poster. Various other posters are also plastered on the wall.

Empty seats of the Mississippi delegation at the 1964 Democratic National Convention. Led by Fannie Lou Hamer, the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party challenged the credentials of the all-White and anti-civil rights delegation. Aug. 24, 1964.

Anefo photo collection. Protestie of artists against failing art and culture policy artists stick wall newspapers at Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, in foreground Ernst. June 7, 1969. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Warsaw Uprising: Insurgent posters presented by Roman Rozmiowski 'Zawada', from 'Koszta' Company, in front of print-shop 'Stoeczna' at Moniuszki 11 Street ca. August 1944.

Anefo photo collection. No riots in Cafe-Dancing Casablanca. December 10, 1952

Miss Louise Hall with brush and Susan Fitzgerald assisting bill posting in Cincinnati

Anefo photo collection. A large number of plates with texts around the nomads tent on the Waterlooplein. August 11, 1980. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Anefo photo collection. Control rat plague in Amsterdam, distribution of scillagers at the GG and GD. November 2, 1959. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Soup kitchen in the USA 1930s during the Great Depression.

Anefo photo collection. Municipal elections in Madrid. November 16, 1948. Madrid

Ministry of Information Second World War Official Collection Members of the British public reads the western desert news.

Smashed windows in Holhains fruit shop, East Sydney and King St. June 13, 1940. (Photo by Martin/Fairfax Media).

ECA Agricultural Exhibit - Malesherbes. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

King Edward and Mrs. Simpson Become Front - Page News. Picture Shows:- A News vendor with his contents bills for the latest editions of the evening papers seen in a London Street this Morning.London, December 3- The Crisis Between the King and his cabinet concerning his reported wish to marry his American - Born friend, Mrs. Ernset Simpson, became front page news this morning, following Mr. Baldwin's visit to Buckingham places last Night. December 03, 1936. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

Anefo photo collection. Posters to all Amsterdam churches, from young people from different churches. January 24, 1967. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

ECA Takes Part at the "Foire de Paris". Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Drawing A Sweep worth over £1,000,000. Tickets being emptied into the from for the great Irish sweep on the Grand National, which was drawn at the Mansion House, Dublin, on March 24. April 25, 1931. (Photo by Air Mail).

Anefo photo collection. Protest meeting by police officers against wage politics in the government in The Hague, protesting agents in the building of OK & W in The Hague. October 21, 1960. The Hague, South Holland

Anefo photo collection. Teach-in Koopmansbeurs. Red booklet sale during Teach-in. October 15, 1967

Anefo photo collection. Strikes in Wallonie, in addition to the announcements, the pamphlets of the strikers. January 5, 1961

African Americans and Whites at a Communist meeting before a protest demonstration. Ca. 1919-1920. Signs displayed read: Fight Police Brutality; We Demand Work or Wages; Workers Join the Party of Your Class, The Communist Party. They were meeting prior to a protest in Washington D.C. (BSLOC_2015_16_147)

Anefo photo collection. Prinsjesdag 1970. Minister of Finance Witteveen with the Budget Memorandum at the Lower House in The Hague. September 15, 1970. The Hague, South Holland

Anefo photo collection. Tudderen again german. Customs plate. July 31, 1963. Germany, Tüdderen

Anti-Jewish boycott of German Jews by Nazis shortly after the Hitler Government took office: 1933-1934.

Ministry of Information Second World War Press Agency Print Collection

An ingenious device for getting a lift: a girl clerk in South London obtains a motor-cyclist cavalier. A girl holding a sign saying 'Please take me' waits for a lift into London during the General Strike. In support of a strike by coal miners over the issue of threatened wage cuts, the Trades Union Congress called a General Strike in early May 1926. The strike only involved certain key industrial sectors (docks, electricity, gas, railways) but, in the face of well-organised government emer

Anefo photo collection. Dukla Prague against Ajax 2-1, pressed for radio and TV stores. March 8, 1967. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

British and Indian Troops Learn Civilian Trades in Burma Potential students look at a poster advertising enrolment at the Services Arts and Technical Organisation (SATO) Open Polytechnic in Rangoon.

Picketers with signs: 'Help the Southern Tenant Farmers Union,' Where is Mrs. Myers Report' 'Sharecroppers are Denied Civil Liberties,' etc. ca. 1935.

Tramway men receiving then has for the lost week of work. October 28, 1946.

Anefo photo collection. Tudderen again german. Mailboxes replaced by German. July 31, 1963. Germany, Tüdderen

Protesters with signs: 'Johnson unfair to labor,' 'Reinstate Donovan,' June 1934.

Town crier, newspaper vendor, 19 May 1947, Genoa, Italy, 20th century.

Paris Plastered with Political Posters. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Image of Brother Alarm from the Committee of the Association Stadszending during the market preaching at Vredenburg in Utrecht.n.b. In 1926 the name was changed to Dutch reformed city shipment.

Miss Louise Hall with brush and Miss i.e. Mrs. Susan Fitzgerald assisting bill posting in Cincinnati

Anefo photo collection. Cleaning the old rai through Harry Pot. January 31, 1961

Contraband - War File. March 10, 1948. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

Red Cross Window, N.Y.

Protesters with signs: 'Johnson unfair to labor,' 'Reinstate Donovan,' June 1934.

Picket line of the Newspaper Guild of New York in 1950. The journalist's union shut down the Scripps Howard's 'New York World-Telegram and the Sun' for 71 days. The crafts unions supported their strike, a factor critical in the strike's success. (BSLOC_2014_13_240)

Anefo photo collection. School competitions canceled. April 11, 1950

Anefo photo collection. Street name signs with names of resistance members from Amsterdam by fa. Lancat in Bussum. September 19, 1952. Bussum

Old black and white photograph of the thirties, Berlin, Germany, Europe

Newspaper bills proclaiming the abdication crisis of the Prince of Wales. Date: 1936

Housewives demonstrate at a meat market in New York City to protest the high cost of meat. At 10th St. and 1st Ave. on Aug. 11, 1948. They advocate a week long boycott of meat purchases. WW2 and Postwar inflation raised prices in USA, but this also reduced the WW2 Nation Debt and set the stage for the economic growth of the 1950s. (BSLOC_2014_13_187)

Marriage bureau

Anefo photo collection. Students block Zijdingang Maagdenhuis to prevent the Executive Board meeting; Students in Maagdenhuis. November 29, 1978

Bologna, Bologna, Italy.Eva Braun's Photo Albums, ca. 1913 - ca. 1944. These albums are attributed to Eva Braun (four are claimed by her friend Herta Schneider, nee Ostermeyer) and document her life from ca. 1913 to 1944. There are many photographs of Eva, her sisters and their children, Herta Schneider and her children, as well as photographs of Eva's vacations, family members and friends. Included also are photographs taken by and of Eva Braun at Hitler's chalet Berghof (or Kehlstein), photographs of Hitler and his entourage, visitors to Berghof and the scenery around Berchtesgaden, and some studio portraits of Eva and members of her family.

Another stately homes candidate, Lord Bath, in shirtsleeves, sells visitors to Longleat Manor autographed booklets --- written by Lady Bath --- for 2/6 each. August 27, 1952.

Singer John Barnes Wells with Milk Can and Sign promoting Committee for Free Milk for France which raised money to send powdered milk to France during World War I, Bain News Service, 1918

Airport in Warsaw. Foreign station - passport and clearance check -in (customs officers during luggage control); Photography from the series to the photojournalism "Please open!" (from the work of the Customs Office at the Foreign Station of the Airport in Warsaw), "Świat" 1959, No. 7; Prażuch, Wiesław (1925-1992); 1959 (1959-00-00-1959-00-00);

12/19/1936. The communist radio station in Madrid has set up a booth to collect donations for the soldiers fighting on the bridge, taking advantage of the confessional of a church. Stalls of this type have appeared on many streets in Madrid during the Red Christmas.

Youth And The Election Problem -- Even the youngsters of today seem to find interest in the Election problems. Here, these boys think over the slogans put forward by Socialist propaganda posters, which are being displayed in opposition to Conservative Party posters all over the country. Never has a General Election been the subject of so much discussion, never has one been greeted with so much enthusiasm, from all classes and parties, as the General Election which is to take place here on February 23rd. All over the country, meeting halls are filled to capacity when candidates are speaking there. February 08, 1950.

Anefo photo collection. Europacup Lyn against DWS 1-3 in Oslo, DWS supporters with banners. November 18, 1964. Oslo

The peace movement, here on 9. 6. 1965 in Duisburg, demonstrated against the emergency laws and nuclear weapons, Germany, Europe

Post Office, Southington, Connecticut, USA, Fenno Jacobs, U.S. Office of War Information, May 1942

Anefo photo collection. Waterlooplein Koopman tries to make his trade in a current manner. April 27, 1964. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

12/31/1949. In the hall of the Hon. Town Hall Fair Posters Have Been Placed. View of one of the Exhibition Sectors.

Anefo photo collection. Anyway on the railroad path due to flooding, the changes are written down on the board for the counters. December 10, 1965

12/31/1931. Bilbao. So that the public does not lack meat, the city council sells it. Photo: Cecilio -Approximate date.

12/11/1918. In the model school in Madrid - distribution of Clothes among the Poor Children of Public Schools for the School Protection presided over by the Marchioness of Quintana.

'Alert America' Convoy , Exhibitions, Civil defense. Records of the Office of Civil Defense and Defense Mobilization

Editor of the newspaper at Marked Tree, Arkansas, where the sharecroppers' union originated. 1935. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

Anefo photo collection. Nebato trade fair in the RAI, a bread from 7.27 meters weighs 66 kilos. June 5, 1967

Shop in Berlin selling Nazi memorabilia is closed by order of President Paul Von Hindenburg 1932

viaggiatori in partenza, 1953

Reading war news aboard streetcar. San Francisco, California. 1941. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

Anefo photo collection. Strike Ommelanden. Reading proclamation. January 13, 1953

10/14/1938. Menagerie in Retiro.

Photo collection Government information service. The weekly exhibition in Middle Lake .. undated. Middle Lake

'COME TO THE WHITE HOUSE SUNDAY AT 3' read the signs of American suffragettes in 1917. Beginning in January of 1917 and lasting for over two years, National Women's Party, organized successive demonstrations at the White House gates (BSLOC_2018_2_59)

Newsstand, Los Angeles, California, USA, Russell Lee, U.S. Office of War Information/U.S. Farm Security Administration, April 1942

World War II. Announcing state of war with Germany, a British Newspaper man holding stack of newspapers and sign stating 'Special late news: War - Official,' in Whitehall, London on September 7, 1939.

SAAR Story - Miscellaneous - Markets, Statues, Newspaper Stand. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

1952 Republican Convention in Chicago. Crowds outside of Chicago's International Amphitheater, site of the 1952 Republican National Convention.

Paris Scenes and Monuments. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Vintage photograph. Putting letter into US Mail box

Demonstration of the unemployed. Columbus, Kansas 1936. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

Fulbright Students Arrive in Paris. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Anefo photo collection. Marriage Roozenburg (World Champion Checks) Right Keller. October 6, 1951

Food Administration sign in downtown Cleveland, Ohio ca. between 1917 and 1919.

Hayward, California. As Bataan fell, as recorded in these newspapers of April 9, 1942, evacuation of residents of Japanese ancestry was already under way in California. This newsstand was pictured at a corner drugstore in a neighborhood in which such residents lived 4/9/1942.

Anefo photo collection. Strike Flemish students in Leuven. January 18, 1968. Leuven

Australian Labor Party How-to-Vote board outside the Town Hall. Sydney, Australia, September 17, 1934. Photo Credit: Sam Hood/

Baker - Miscellaneous. January 1, 1952.

Mail man with a basket full of parcel post packages circa 1914.

Mrs. G.W. Lopp & cigarettes sent to France

A ration book and clothing coupon book as issued to British civilians during the Second World War. A ration book and clothing coupon book. Both food and clothing were rationed during the Second World War, as the government tried to conserve the limited supplies of food and raw materials available.

San Francisco, California 1906A U.S. Army food relief station for earthquake refugees.

Newspaper seller adjusting his headline posters during the Edward VIII abidcation crisis of 1937.

Anefo photo collection. Last preparation Return residents Oostzaan, hanging instructions. January 28, 1960. Oostzaan

Sloganed car in support of King Edward VIII during the Abdication crisis of December 1936. The king's desire to marry the American divorcee Wallis Simpson split the government. Eventually, Edward chose to abdicate the throne in favour of his younger brother, Albert (George VI) and married Wallis the following June. Date: 10th December 1936

Drive to build large hotel, Lancaster, Ohio. 1938. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

Receiving and paying for eggs 1919.

Nurses as "sandwichmen," Placards displayed ***** in city today by Nurse Valma Mighell (left) and ***** Pamela Swift. June 6, 1946.

'Alert America' Convoy , Exhibitions, Civil defense. Records of the Office of Civil Defense and Defense Mobilization

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