The most memorable 'queuing' images in world history

Queue to vote in South Africa. Pictured are voters queuing up during the historic general election on April 27, 1994 in South Africa. This was the first election in which people of all races were allowed to participate. A total of 19,726,579 votes were counted.

In November 1963, fans of The Beatles, consisting of 11,000 people, lined up to buy tickets before the Fab Four's Christmas concert at the Empire Theater in Liverpool (UK). The line of people is up to 1.6km long.

Part of Hamburg's 1,400,000 food-starved people queuing for food in 1945, after the end of World War II.

A long line of people line up in Bedford Square, London (UK) to see an exhibition of artifacts from the Tutankhamen tomb of the British Museum. During the period from March 29 to December 31, 1972, the exhibition attracted 1.6 million visitors.

British soldiers line up at a field hospital after being blinded by mustard gas during World War I.

Waiting in line for vaccinations. Thousands of New Yorkers wait in line outside Morrisania Hospital in the Bronx in 1947 to get vaccinated against smallpox after an outbreak killed two people and infected several others.

From January 9 to February 3, 1963, 518,525 people queued for up to two hours to see Leonardo da Vinci's portrait of Mona Lisa at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC, USA.

People wait in long queues to wait for their turn to shop outside a store in Watford, England, in the context of officials issuing warnings about social distancing during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Immigrants on Ellis Island in New York City patiently queued at the admissions center to check in before starting a new life in the United States. Between 1892 and 1954, about 12 million immigrants passed through this checkpoint.

Children from disadvantaged families, many of them orphans, line up to receive food served by volunteers during the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic.

Between 1991 and 2002, during the civil war in Sierra Leone, more than 1,270 primary schools were destroyed, leaving many children unable to attend school. Pictured are Sierra Leone children today in uniform waiting in line to enter class.

Passengers line up to board an open-top bus in London (UK) during the holiday season 1921.