Bombings in Ireland and across the Irish Sea. First IRA ceasefire. If you click on any one of these images which present themselves on your lightbox you will see not only the photograph enlarged on the screen but also all the associated text, keywords and other information. The text description will have been based on the original caption. The date is usually given, and you will be able to see the keywording which allows editors at Getty Images and picture researchers to search for and to retrieve images.
Some photographs are relatively anonymous.
Others have become icons of their time, for example Kurt Hutton's photograph for Picture Post of an unemployed man leaning against a wall in Wigan, taken in 1939. If you enter as search terms Hutton and Wigan you will see five images, including the famous unemployed man and also a variant photograph. Because we were using the production database of the commercial company, which meant that we were keying in codes to produce batches of appropriate images, we can provide some short cuts to large sets of selected images. As many of the images in the Getty collection are from press sources there are groups of images within the main categories which you may find interesting in themselves. Often they have come into existence because of a combination of press interest and of the ability to get hold of striking photographs.