Washington, D.C.: June 24, 1946 Thousands watch as Fred Vinson takes oath on the south portico of the White House to become the 13th Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
Washington, D.C.: June 21, 1935 Vice President John Garner administers the oath for Rush Holt to take his seat in the Senate. Although Holt was elected in West Virginia last November, he had to wait until June 19th when he turned the required age of 30 to be able to take his seat in the Senate. Senator M.M. Neeley of West Virginia stands by at the left.
William Howard Taft (1857-1930), 27th President of the United States 1909-1913, 10th Chief Justice of the United States 1921-1930, Full-Length Portrait Standing on Lawn during U.S. Presidential Campaign, 1908
Chief Justice Fred Vinson
Reno, Nevada: July 4, 1931 Referee and former heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey awards the decision to Paulino Uzcudun after he fought a grueling 20 round battle against Max Baer in the Nevada sun. Dempsey is between the two fighters with Baer facing the camera.
Indy 500 Crowd
Japan: c. 1924 Japanese sumo wrestlers competing in a match while other wrestlers and spectators watch.
Indy 500 Race Car
New York, New York: c. 1915 The quarterback at the far right watches his pass get tipped by a member of the opposing team's offensive line during a game in Yankee Stadium.
New York, New York: c. 1915 The quarterback at the far left is getting swarmed by defenders as he attempts to pass the football during a game in Yankee Stadium.
Dover, England: September 6. 1926 Mrs. Clemington (Amelia) Corson being carried on the shoulders of her supporters after becoming the second woman to successfully swim across the English Channel.
Boston, Massachusetts: November 21, 1925 Yale attempting a foward pass during the game against Harvard at Soldiers Field. The game ended in a scoreless tie.
Seaford, England: December 27, 1929 The four masted schooner, 'Morgan-Koch', laden with timber from Sweden for Spain, was drivien onto the rocks at Seaford. The crew of 10 was rescued.
WILLIS VAN DEVANTER
Washington, D.C.: February 18, 1938 President Roosevelt congratulates Joseph P. Kennedy after he took the oath from Associate Justice Stanley Reed as the new U.S. envoy to Great Britain.
New York, New York: October 11, 1930 New York University's McNamara throws a pass to N.Y.U. end Neemick for a 20 yard gain aginst Villanova at Yankee Stadium. NYU defeated Villanova by a score of 20 to 6.
Maryland Motorcycle Club
Bremen Flyers Celebration
SIOUX GRASS DANCE, c1913.
Giants Baseball Opening Day
Philadelphia Shipyard Workers
Dancing to the music
Chateau le Chenay, France: April, 1919 Harry Truman (second row, third from right) posed with his fellow soldiers of the 129th Field Arilllery unit during WWI.
New Orleans, Louisiana: June 1, 1961 William 'Baba' Ridgley, one of the last of the oldtime jazz musicians, is laid to rest in New Orleans to the accompaniment of a slow-shuffling jazz band of his former fellow players in the Eureka Jazz Band.
Central Park Zoo Chimp
New York, New York: August 25, 1962 New York Mets first baseman Gil Hodges tantalizes youg fans with the promise of an autographed baseball as they lean over the dugout on Gil Hodges Night in a game against the Los Angeles Dodgers.
San Francisco, California: 1947 The crowds of tourists at the gift shop at the Cliff House.
Beijing, China: August 22, 1923 Members of the army of General Wu Pei-fu, China's greatest militarist and strategist, going through their training. They are the real power behind Beijing. Here they are loading up their weapons.
New York, New York: c. 1928 Boy Scouts celebrate Washington's birthday at the Sub Treasury Building on Wall Street.
Vladivostok, Siberia: October 24, 1918 U.S. troops on parade through the streets of Vladivostok during a celebration held in their honor.
Yokohama, Japan: c. 1910 People on the docks where the Pacific Mail steamer, the SS China has arrived.
Washington, D.C.: March 10, 1937 Newspaper columnist and radio commentator Drew Pearson with co-author Bob Allen present members of the House of Representatives with autographed copies of their new satire on the Supreme Court, 'The Nine Old Men'.
New York, New York: c. 1926 A New York City Department of Health Inspector takes a lactometer reading on the distribution platform of a pasteurizing plant. It measure the specific gravity and therefore the richness of the milk.
Baroda, India: January 11, 1926. A group photograph of the 50th anniversary of the reign of His Highness, The Gaikwar of Baroda. He is seated in the center, surrounded by his mInisters of States.
HARLAN F. STONE (1872-1946).
Chief Justice Earl Warren administering the oath of office to Richard M. Nixon on the east portico of the U.S. Capitol, Washington DC, USA, photograph by Thomas J. O'Halloran, January 20, 1969
OWEN ROBERTS (1875-1955).
WILLIAM HOWARD TAF
WILLIAM J. BRENNAN
JOHN JAY (1745-1829).
OLVIER ELLSWORTH
The opening of the brazilian supreme court.
Thousands at Coney Island
People's Park Bail Funds
Super Bowl IV Entertainment
Opera Star Tito Schipa
BLACKFOOT CEREMONY, c1900.
UC Police Don Riot Gear
Earl Warren, swearing Dwight Eisenhower into office as President.
Jefferson City, Missouri: November 20, 1953 Jefferson City Correctional Center Wardon Ralph Eidson poses with his hand on the gas chamber lever he will push to put Carl Austin Hall and Bonnie Brown Heady to death for the kidnapping and murder of six year
Westchester County, New York: March, 1916 Boxer Frank Moran training for his upcomiong heavyweight championship bout with Jess Willard. Here he is seen wrestling with boxer Frank Kendall at Dal Hawkins Roadhouse training camp.
Indy 500 Firestone Tires
CZECH RECEPTION, 1919.
Football Teams Lined Up
Wimbledon Championship Play
India: c. 1970 A man strains to pull a truck with his hair.
SF Gun Show Booth
Cardinal Bourne's Hand Kissed
Utica, Mississippi: c. 1920 A group of African-Americans gathered in a small general store.
Los Angeles, California: c. 1951 Women shoppers crowd a shopping sale counter at Ohrbach's department store
FRANK LEROY CHANCE (1877-1924). American baseball player. Playing for the Chicago Cubs, c1910.
New Haven, Connecticut: October 25, 1930 Yale's Albie Booth is carried off the field on a stretcher after being injured after intercepting a pass from the Army football team.
United States: c. 1948 Babe Didrikson driving off the tee in a golf tournament.
PIERCE BUTLER (1866-1939).
The Kitchen Debate
Everybody Is At The Beach
New Haven, Connecticut: c. 1913 The Yale football team at practice. The quarterback is preparing to throw the ball.
Cleveland, Ohio: c. 1932 A view of the workers in the screw machine department of the Addressograph-Multigraph Corporation.
Hollywood, California: 1946 Actor Cary Grant as the charming knight in a scene from the film, 'The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer'.
The Prince Of Wales In India
Tokyo, Japan: May 18, 1933 Japanese Reservists at Hibiya Park in Tokyo witness the reading of the Imperial Rescript on the Japanese withdrawal from the League of Nations.
Shanghai, China: February 14, 1932. Some of the Japanese troops of the Kanazawa Division that has arrived in Shanghai under the command of Lieut.-General Uyeda. He has issued a warning that the Chinese must withdraw from the vicinity of Shanghai, or else the Japanese authorities would be forced to take extreme measures, including the destroying of all Chinese in the neighborhood of Shanghai.
Chicago, Illinois: January, 1943 The Union Station waiting room with sunlight streaming in the clerestory windows.
Soroka, Russia: September 1919 The last Americans to leave northern Russia. Much of the population of Soroka on the White Sea came to see them off.
Europe: November 16, 1926 A soiree of the Cercle Sportif.
Chanute Field, Illinois: c. 1919 Students studying the intricacies of aircraft bombs at the Air Corp Technical School.
Washington D.C.: June 15, 1932. Camp Bartlett is the latest addition to the Bonus Army encampments in Washington, DC.
Japan: c. 1926 Japanese Navy sailors taking part in the annual 20 mile swim form the Naval base at Yokosuka to the Shinagawa ward in Tokyo. It is one of Japan's most popular sporting events.
Englewood, Colorado: August 13, 1953 President Eisenhower complains about the roll in the practice green at Cherry Hills Country Club in Englewood, Colorado, after missing a putt that rolled away from the cup.
Dawson City, Yukon Territory, Canada: c. 1898 The interior of the Monte Carlo Saloon in Dawson City with its numerous men and two women.
New York, New York: December 22, 1927 People lined up at the parcel post window at the General Post Office in N.Y. to mail their Christmas packages.
Annapolis, Maryland: August 21, 1930 Naval Academy freshmen football practice started to day. Here are some of the275 recruits working out on the tackling dummy.
Cambridge, Massachusetts: c. 1926 Girls from the Sargent School for Physical Education making a pyramid for their upcoming show at the Boston Arena.
Japan: c. 1904 Lines of men and women passing baskets of coal up ladders to fuel the Pacific Mail Steamship Company's, the S.S. Siberia.
Worcester, Massachusetts: October 2, 1959 People watching a total eclipse of the sun that reached totality at sunrise in the Boston area.
Troy, New York: c. 1933 The collar turning department in the clothing factory of Cluett Peabody & Co., manufacturer of Arrow brand shirts.
New York, New York: May 1, 1963 The enclosed loading platform at the Port Authority Bus Terminal being used by passengers boarding a bus for Maplewood.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT
Sao Paulo, Brazil: c. 1928 The Praca da Se area in central Sao Paulo.
France: c. 1916 German soldiers working in the fields in northern France.
Archangel, Russia: March 4, 1919 Officers of the United States Expeditionary Forces at their headquarters .
New York, New York: c. 1938. A crowd on the streets in Manhattan.
Detroit, Michigan: June 24, 1943 Blacks under arrest being booked into jail by a white police officer in the aftermath of the three days of riots over wartime housing.
Hong Kong, China: April 8, 1927 British Bluejackets marching through the Chinese quarter of Hong Kong in a show of strength as they try to quell the unrest there.
Salinas, California: September 17, 1936. News reporters and cameramen covering the Salinas lettuce workers' strike have equipped themselvers with gas masks after suffering the affects of tear gas on previous days.
Calumet, Michigan: 1913 A parade of striking copper miners passing the offfices of the Calumet and Hecla Mining Company while National Guard troops stand by in case of trouble.
New York, New York: 1962 New Yorkers eager for news of the Cuban crisis line up to buy newspapers.
United States: c. 1926 A group of women standing at the 'Savings' teller windows in a bank.
New York, New York: September 3, 1972 A woman stands with her luggage at the Port Authority Bus Terminal.
Princeton, New Jersey: October 16, 1926 Baruch of the Navy football team after throwing a forward pass against Princeton at Palmer Stadium.
Maginot Line, France: March 27, 1940 French and British soldiers assigned to duty in the Maginot Line attend Holy Mass during World War 2.
New York, New York: August 7, 1919 The 2nd Division is welcomed home with a rose strewn parade in NYC.
London, England: c. 1943 Civil Defense rescue workers searching the ruins for victims and survivors after a German V-1 flying bomb hit London's Balham district.
New York, New York: c. 1938. A family roller skates through Central Park heading towards 59th Street and the Essex House in New York City.
Lake Tahoe, California: March 29, 1934 Heavyweight contender Max Baer (with mailbag on shoulder) and friends on the dock at Globins Hotel on Lake Tahoe where he is training for his upcoming fight with champion Primo Carnera. The mail is delivered semiweekly.
Tuskegee, Alabama: 1906 The Tuskegee Institute faculty with Andrew Carnegie. L-R, seated in front row: R.C. Ogden; Mrs. Booker T. Washington; Booker T. Washington; Andrew Carnegie; and an unidentified person.
New York, New York: 1964 The fatal shooting of Harlem resident James Powell by NYPD Lieutenant Gilligan stirred Negro rioters to race through Harlem streets carrying pictures of Lt. Gilligan.
St. Helena, California: August 24, 1934 Three cheerful members of the St. Helena Wine Festival pageant are celebrating their wine grape crop for the first time in thirteen years. L-R are Jean Speare, Robert Camgros and Ethyl Byers.
The Illusionist Nicola
Babelsberg, Germany: c. 1924 The 65 cm. refractor telescope installed at the Berlin University Observatory.
New York, New Yrok: April, 1938. Four visitors look across the nave toward the unfinished sanctuary and choir at the Cathedral of St. John The Divine. Bishop Manning has launched a million dollar fund drive to complete the cathedral before the opening of the 1939 World's Fair.
New York, New York: c. 1935 Looking at the lower Manhattan skyline over the New York Central pier #4.
Washington, D.C.: February 28, 1931. Col. Ijams, Director of the Veterans Bureau, watches the Disbursement Officer sign checks for veterans after the passage of the Bonus Law yesterday. The multiple signing machine signs 15 checks at a time, and has a capacity of 15,000 checks per day.
London, England: c. 1936 Workers at Handley Page's Cricklewood works are engaged in the government expansion mandate to triple the size of the Royal Air Force by March 31, 1937. Here are workers in the milling section of the main machine shop.
Rochester, New York: April 16, 1956 Men shown with the Eastman Kodak camera that took the largest photograph ever of a golf scene at the Oak Hill Country Club, scene of the forthcoming 56th U.S.G.A Open Championship. The photograph is 60 feet long and 18
United States: October, 1944 The doorman whose job it is to give the 'Breath Test' to ban drinkers from entering a WWII era dance club.
Palos Verdes, California: c. 1927 A young boy studies archeology with the use of a fossilized prehistoric vertebrae found in the nearby hills.
Los Angeles, California: c. 1926 The world's largest parachute at 85 feet in diameter being inspected in its container by its inventor Heard (Herd) McClellan. He will stall his airplane and then deploy the chute which is attached to the plane and float back to earth while still in the cockpit.
New York, New York: c. 1937 The Lower Manhattan and financial districts skyline
New York, New York: c. 1929 A 57 foot Elco motor boat is being loaded onto a truck for transport through the streets to the forthcoming Motor Boat Show.
Palos Verde, California: c. 1966 The observatory at Northrop Nortronics Research Park where star and sun tracking experiments are being conducted for stellar guidance systems.
New York, New York: c. 1917 Three suffragists casting votes in New York City. The original caption read: 'Calm about it. At Fifty-sixth and Lexington Avenue, the women voters showed no ignorance or trepidation, but cast their ballots in a businesslike way that bespoke study of suffrage.'
Moscow, Russia: March 31, 1947 Soviet Marshall Koniev (L), and General Mark Clark(R), toast each other at a party given by Foreign Minister Molotov for the delegates to the Big Four Foreign Ministers Conference. Soviet Deputy Foreign MInister Andre Gusiev watches.
Johnson City, Texas: July 16, 1961 Vice President Lyndon Johnson presents a hand- tooled cowboy saddle to President Ayub Khan of Pakistan at a barbecue at the LBJ Ranch in Texas.
Maywood, Illinois: July 20, 1925 Army pilots check their maps during their transcontinental flight between Selfridge Airfiled in Harrison, Michigan and San Francisco, California. Behind them is one of the 5 Curtis P-! Hawks open cockpit biplane fighter aircrafts that they are flying.
Hollywood, California: 1927 Actress Claire Windsor takes aim with a bow and arrow at the MGM lot.
Chief Justice Warren E. Burger administering the oath of office to Ronald Reagan on the east portico of the U.S. Capitol, Washington DC, USA, Architect of the Capitol, January 20, 1981
Chief Justice Earl Warren administering the oath of office to Richard M. Nixon on the east portico of the U.S. Capitol, Washington DC, USA, Architect of the Capitol, January 20, 1969
Chicago, Illinois: October 28, 1930 The Lindbergh Beacon caretaker in the world's smallest elevator which he takes to the top of the Palmolive Building. The canister contains the nights supply of carbons for the beacon. He will add aviator goggles and w
Chief Justice Takes Oath
Prison Sit-Down Strike
Lost in the music and light
Large Group of People Pledging an Oath of Allegiance
Pontoon Bridge Over The Rhine
Hollywood, California: 1941 The first steam engine rolls into Abilene, Kansas in 1867 in this scene from the Columbia movie, 'Texas'. The engine was actually made by Baldwin Locomotive in 1861.
San Francisco, California: c. 1915 A portrait of members of the San Francisco Seals baseball team.
San Francisco, California: c. 1917 A portrait of the San Francisco Seals baseball team.
Russia: c. 1916 German soldiers with the peasants in whose home they are are billetted in Russia.
Spectators
U.S. Chief Justice Earl Warren administering Oath of Office to Dwight D. Eisenhower, East Portico, U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C., USA, Architect of the Capitol, January 21, 1957
Woman dressed as lady justice peeking at scales
MORRISON R. WAITE
Justice between the Archangels Michael and Gabriel
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, JR
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, JR.
United States: c. 1922 A farmer prepares to get a turkey ready for the holiday dinner.
U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower and King Paul of Greece Standing in Convertible Car, Athens, Greece, 1959
Sermon of St Mark in Alexandria
WILMA RUDOLPH (1940-1994).
CINCINNATI: PARADE, 1938.
MARIE ANTOINETTE (1755-1793).
Columns of the Supreme Court
Black Panther Funeral
New Thompson Restaurant Site
Official Opening of Tel Aviv Port, 1938
The Wild Bunch, 1901, gang of American outlaws, bank and train robbers, led by Butch Cassidy, seated right
WAYNE BIDWELL WHEELER
The Assumption and Crowning of the Virgin Mary
St Teresa Receiving the Eucharist
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., Full-Length Portrait, Bain News Service, late 1910's
St Jerome and the Angel of the Judgement (St Jerome and Angels vision)
SF Mayor James Rolph, Jr.
The funeral of St Francis, by copy from Guido di Pietro (Piero) detto Beato Angelico
Stories of St James Episode no. 8 Baptism of Queen Lupa and Consecration of the Sanctuary
Baseball Opening Day
JACK DEMPSEY (1895-1983).
SAMUEL LANGHORNE CLEMENS
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
JOSH GIBSON (1911-1947).
Cinema usher checking ticket with flashlight
WALTER O'MALLEY (1903-1979).
CHINA: PUNISHMENT, c1900.
WORLD SERIES, 1948.
ELEPHANT TRICK, 1928.
BUDDHIST CRISIS, 1963.
American POWs Released
POWS To Leave Hanoi
Ben Hogan Hits Grapefruits
USC Football Exercise
French Colonial Troops
Hidenburg Statue Unveiling
Navy Victory Fleet Parade
Minneapolis Truckers Strike
New York, New York: May, 1938 WPA pickets gathered at Columbus Circle after marching along Columbus Avenue protesting Work Progress Administration policies.
United States: May, 1957 Passengers boarding a DC-6B airliner owned by Trans American Airlines and bound for Chicago and Burbank.
New York Stock Exchange Floor
WWII Student Workers
Tennis Star Althea Gibson
Russian Sharpshooters
Race Car Driver Ray Keech
United States: c. 1928 Bobby Jones giving a golf demonstration to an interested group of followers.
Unemployed workers queuing up at soup kitchen