
A London Transport inspector holding a flare leads a number 25 bus out of the terminus at Aldgate East as dense fog blanketed London, causing widespread traffic chaos, Dec. 1952
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A London Transport inspector holding a flare leads a number 25 bus out of the terminus at Aldgate East as dense fog blanketed London, causing widespread traffic chaos, Dec. 1952

A police officer directing traffic in London’s fog with the help of an “apparatus connected with the gas main, November 1935. Caption for the photo explains that the “device can be folded up and put in a metal box sunk
in the street.” | src New York Times

Anonymous photographer :: 7th Avenue and 34th Street, NYC, 1955. Vintage silver print. / via

Francesc Català-Roca
:: Plaça Cinc d’Oros, Barcelona, 1950′s / src: Satoshi Hirose
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René Burri
:: Place de la Madeleine, Paris, 1962 / src: Satoshi Hirose
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Martin Munkácsi :: Heated Race, Madrid, 1930. Gelatin silver print. / src: howard-greenberg
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Foot Patrol. “S.S. Banks,
Washington DC, March 20, 1923.” We suspect this has something to do with traffic safety. National Photo Company glass negative
/ src: shorpy