The Platinum Queen: as much of the UK continues to celebrate the 70-year reign of Elizabeth II, we look back at seven decades of service in style.
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1. On the balcony of Government House, Melbourne, during HM’s tour of Australia, March 1954 | Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images
2. Boarding a plane to fly to Scotland on a tour, 19th May 1969 | Ray Bellisario/Popperfoto via Getty Images
3. During her visit to New Zealand, 1977 | Serge Lemoine/Getty Images
4. Visiting the Royal Military Police Training Centre in Chichester, Sussex, England, 28th July 1982 | David Levenson/Getty Images | @davidlevenson
5. At the Royal Windor Horse Show, 10th May 1991 | Tim Graham Photo Library via Getty Images
6. With Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, attending a reception for "A Celebration of Novia Scotia" at the Cunard Centre on 29th June 2010 in Halifax, Canada | Chris Jackson - Pool/Getty Images | @chrisjacksongetty
7. With Anna Wintour, Caroline Rush, chief executive of the British Fashion Council, and royal dressmaker Angela Kelly, as they view Richard Quinn's runway show before presenting him with the inaugural Queen Elizabeth II Award for British Design, 20th February 2018 in London | Yui Mok - Pool/Getty Images
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This is one of the first X-ray photographs taken in the UK, showing a woman's hand with a ring, bracelet, and chain with keys.
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, head of the physics institute in Wiirzburg, Bavaria, was the first to recognise that an electrical current passing through a vacuum produces invisible rays. He carried out the crucial experiments in the last three months of 1895, and on January 5, 1896, he announced the discovery of X-rays (electromagnetic radiation). Across Europe, enthusiastic amateurs experimented with Röntgen's discovery using fragile homemade apparatus to produce images such as this.
In 1901, Röntgen received the first Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery. While he accepted an honorary doctor of medicine degree from his own university, he never took out any patents on X-rays to ensure that the rest of the world could benefit from his work.
📷: Fototeca Gilardi/Getty Images | circa 1896 | #GettyImages#PreservingThePast#GettyArchive
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“Let the people see what they did to my boy.”
Mamie Till (later Till-Mobley), mother of Emmett Till.
Accused of whistling at a white woman, 14-year-old Emmett was kidnapped, tortured and killed by the cashier's husband and brother-in-law in Mississippi, 1955.
Later revealing that the local sheriff had attempted to cover up the brutality of the murder, Mamie insisted not only that she see the body for herself, but that there was a public funeral in the family's hometown of Chicago. Attended by thousands, an image of the open casket circulated around the globe, forcing the US to confront the unspeakable violence inflicted on her son.
In a new Picturing Black History article, Sierra Phillips details this extraordinary act of courage, its reach and its influence on the civil rights movement. Follow our bio link to read A Mother's Power.
An ongoing collaborative effort between @originsosu and @gettyarchive, Picturing Black History seeks to uncover untold stories and rarely seen images of the Black experience, providing new context around culturally-significant moments by bringing them into the light and into view.
📷: Bettmann/Getty Images | 1955 | #GettyImages#PreservingThePast#GettyArchive
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