The “lost� Planet News Archive
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The “lost” Planet News Archive Available for the first time at TopFoto.co.uk the reunited original glass plate negatives from Planet News dating back 90 years. Planet News opened its London office in late 1927. Located at 8 Bouverie Street, just off Fleet Street, the agency supplied its many subscribers in the United States, Britain and the Empire with a stream of news and photographs throughout the 1920s, ‘30s, ‘40s and ‘50s. In 1958 the American rival to Associated Press, United Press Association, merged with Planet News and Hearst’s International News Photos (INP) to form UPI London. Planet News retained some brand independence within UPI for many PAST28999 - The Planet News building, years but UPI closed its London operation in 1970 and TopFoto bought the picture library, with all rights contained within.
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Part of Planet News was left behind as it was badly damaged. Decades later the abandoned negative collection reappeared at auction and was bought by a syndicate of press photographers called PastPix. They meticulously restored and digitised over 11,000 original glass plate negatives. TopFoto has now reunited the “lost” Planet News collection with the remaining surviving Planet News negatives at TopFoto.
PAST29099 - War correspondent outside the Planet News office, WWII Front cover: PAST23341 - A.T.S. spotters, wearing sunglasses, watch for any sign of hostile aircraft at a London anti-aircraft battery. In front of them is a rangefinder. United Kingdom 1941
IPU425140 - The Planet News picture desk after the merger with UPI. 21 November 1961 Back cover: PAST29099 - A Russian aero sleigh in Moscow. Russia 1929
PAST27584 Taking refreshments at the Hampstead Tennis Tournament, 1933 PAST30907 War-worker headscarf, 1942
PAST31359 Actress, Bebe Daniels, USA, 1928
PAST21610 Enid Ralph, former Olympic diver, takes a plunge from Red Cross duties,UK 1942
PAST21341 No connection at a bombed telephone box in Lewisham Road, London, 1940
PAST22176 Mannequins blown onto the pavement after a bombing raid on London. 1940 PAST20126 Victoria Station, London, 1940
PAST21342 St Paul’s Cathedral, London 1941
PAST28516 Workmen repair Brooklands motor racing track after the season’s damage, 1928 PAST26301 Bowling Championships, UK, 1938
PAST26290 Wrestling in San Francisco, 1937
PAST29773 Capt.George Eyston in his new MG at Brooklands, Weybridge, Surrey, 1934
PAST31202 New rubber bumper tested at 25mph into a dummy tree at White City, London. 1928 PAST27245 Victoria Station, London, 1934
PAST25251 New cream bus Fleet Street, 1929
PAST23299 The R-100 safely arrived from her maiden voyage to Cardington from Howden, 1929
PAST20508 U.S. P.38 Lightning fighter, 1942
PAST20508 RAF dives on a German V1, 1944
PAST21007 Liberator bombers of U.S. Bomber Command fly from Southern England, 1943
PAST20262 A lady mechanic works on a plane engine as part of the war effort, 1940.
PAST28129 A fireman receiving orders from an instructor during training. 1940 PAST24210 Children in a gas mask drill in the playground at a school near Windsor, 1941
PAST20770 Settling down for the night in a centre for bombed out families. 1940 PAST20427 U.S. Army in large scale exercises in North Carolina, USA, 1941
PAST20154 Aged 83, she has been picking hops in Kent since she was five years old, 1940 PAST29366 Samarkhand. Uzbekistan 1928
PAST21545 Actress Dolores del Rio USA 1928
PAST27727 A woman taking cocaine. United Kingdom 1931
PAST21106 Police Middleweight Cumberland and Westmorland wrestling championship, 1929 PAST28565 P.C. W.J.Goyder, 1928
PAST27620 George Redhead, London, 1933
PAST20839 Primo Carnera, the world’s tallest boxer from Italy, with Paul Noak, the German featherweight champion. Berlin, Germany, 1929
PAST27607 The Duchess of York playing bowls in the cellar of All Hallows Church. 1932 PAST26911 N.Krupskaya, Lenin’s widow, 1928
PAST26911 Winston Churchill at No.10, 1942
PAST24389 Mahatma Gandhi in prayer. India, 1932.
PAST23115 Crazy golf at the International Exhibition of Inventions, London 1930 PAST26213 The new ‘Baltimore’ dance 1928
PAST20769 Boys play in the East End, 1940
PAST26755 ‘Ironfighters’ at work on a new skyscraper high above London. 1928
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