A Basketball Bear
Harlem Globetrotters Player
Men Playing Bocce Ball
Dog Up For Adoption
POLAR BEAR CUB.
London, England: 1929 For the first time in history, the Rugby League Challenge Cup Final was held at Wembley Stadium between Wigan and Dewsbury. Here a Dewsbury player passes to a teammate just as he is tackled.
The Umpire Calls It Safe!
United States: c. 1930 The farm cats heading into the barn looking for some warm milk at milking time.
Football Teams Lined Up
Washington, D.C.: 1913 Walter Johnson, star pitcher for the Washington Senators.
Champion Helen Wills Moody
Babe Ruth In Red Sox Uniform
Track & Field Starter Man
St. Moritz, Switzerland: c. 1928 Two smiling chimney sweeps pause for a portrait with their tools of the trade.
Berlin, Germany: c. 1915 Newly arrived horses are inspected behind the Reichstag by military authorities before they leave for the front.
Hollywood Javelin Thrower
Scientist With Molecule Model
Hollywood, California: 1942. Robert Young and Laraine Day in a still for the movie, ' Journey For Margaret'.
Terracotta statuette of a bear holding an oil lamp
California: c. 1954 A group of children picking sides for a game of baseball.
The Parachute Pup
Basketball Team Portrait
Kaiser Wilhelm II and His Six Sons-In-Law
Kaiser Wilhelm II Marching with His Six Sons-In-Law
Washington Champion Fencer
Woman Olympic Discus Toss
Wrestling Champion Joe Stecher
California: c. 1951 Five women playing a game of pool.
Europe: November 16, 1926 A soiree of the Cercle Sportif.
Cambridge, Massachusetts: c. 1926 Girls from the Sargent School for Physical Education making a pyramid for their upcoming show at the Boston Arena.
Roosevelt Field, New York
Helen Fairweather As Athena
A Successful Day Of Fishing
Family Trout Fishing
St. Patrick's Day Attire
The Original Celtics Team
1953 Auto Show
1953 Goliath Sports Coupe
Pullman Coach Sleeper Car
Philadelphia Shipyard Workers
Jivaro Headhunter And HIs Wife
Woman Demonstrates Duplicator
Nobel Winner Glenn Seaborg
U.S. Navy Seebees on the march
Portrait Of Djemal Pasha
Native American Games
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.
Doughboys Eating Pies Again
A Group Of 1950s Teens
Bremen Flyers Celebration
Indianapolis, Indiana: May 30, 1970 Al Unser, driving car #2, speeds across the finish line and receives the checkered flag signal for victory at the annual Formula 1 Indianapolis 500 race.
CARE Package Brings Smile
Champion Police Shooters
United States: c. 1927 Passengers trap shooting on a passenger ship while crossing the Atlantic Ocean.
The Impeachment
ARCHERY, c1915.
HIRAM PERCY MAXIM
Young Children Fishing
Football Coach Alonzo Stagg
Berlin, Germany: c. 1932 Photographer and photojournalist Willie Ruge has endeavored to take the first underwater photographs outside of a diving bell. Here the diving suit is inflated afterwards to prevent cracking in the surface of the suit.
Quagga: Extinct South African mammal of horse family.
Worker Portrait
Surveyor Team
Palm Beach, Florida: January 1, 1927 Two Pennsylvania society members enjoy a round of golf on New Year's Day. They are wintering at the Everglades Hotel.
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.
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.
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.
Mongolia: July 30, 1935 Two Mongolians engage in their ancient tradition of wrestling.
Madrid, Spain: January 14, 1930 Two of the wrestlers competing for Spain's championship demonstrate the 'Full Nelson' hold.
Horse Race Betting
United States: January, 1944 A U.S. Navy nurse on duty with the U.S. Marine Corps Women's Reserve checking the pulse on a patient.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: March, 1938 A nurse at the Pennsylvania Hospital tending to a patient.
United States: c. 1950 A man fly fishing in a lake in the mountains.
San Francisco, California: January 30, 1940 A crew member of the scuttled German liner Columbus passes his time fishing while the crew is interned at the Angel Island Immigration Station. They are awaiting transportation back to Germany.
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.
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 Haven, Connecticut: February 14, 1943 Yale swimming star Alan Ford is congratulated by American backstroke champion Gloria Callen after Ford broke his own world record last night in the 100 meter freestyle at the swim meet held in the Payne Whitney Gymnasium at Yale.
Livonia, Michigan: 1952 Patton 48 tanks coming down the assembly line at the Livonia Ford plant.
Japan: c. 1948 Toddlers in an orphanage in post-war Japan.
Hollywood, California: March 16, 1926 Actress Anna Q. Nilsson and Australlian athlete Snowy Baker test each others mettle with bush clubs.
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.
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.
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.'
United States: May, 1957 Passengers boarding a DC-6B airliner owned by Trans American Airlines and bound for Chicago and Burbank.
SF Gun Show Booth
Iwo Jima Moument
WWII Student Workers
German POWs With Stretchers
Opera Star Grace Moore Sings
Dinah Shore With A Corvette
Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
WWI Cemetery In France
Actresses On Roller Skates
Tennis Star Althea Gibson
Bell X-1-3 And B-50 Mothership
Yokuts Poling Tule Boats
France: April 3, 1920 Municipalities in France are selling bread at the rate of one franc per kilo to keep prices down. Bakeries which refuse to conform to this price were closed.
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.
The Illusionist Nicola
Roger W. Babson
Dr. Christiaan Barnard
Police Thwart Jumper
Pearl Harbor Attack Headlines
Bathing Suit Winner
Everybody Is At The Beach
Sidney Olcott On A Dock
Amish Men Protest PWA Grant
Pro Wrestler Mister M
Police Restraining Children
A Surprised Little Girl
New Gamewell Arrestolarm Unit
Men Loading Air Mail Bags
Segregated Drinking Cooler
SF State Riots Scene
1950s Ford Thunderbird
Indy 500 Race Car
National Guard In Berkeley
People's Park Bail Funds
Sather Gate Confrontation
The Kitchen Debate
Mildred 'Babe' Didrikson
New York, New York: April 7, 1927 Actresses from the Boadway musicals 'Queen High' and 'Desert Song' get a kick on the rigging of the SS La France as she is at anchor in the New York City Harbor.
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.
Berlin, Germany: c. 1932 Photographer and photojournalist Willie Ruge has endeavored to take the first underwater photographs outside of a diving bell. Here is attempting to get out of the diving suit after a dive. The suit with the helmet and the 36 po
Chanute Field, Illinois: c. 1919 Students studying the intricacies of aircraft bombs at the Air Corp Technical School.
Indianapolis, Indiana: c. 1955 Workers at the Allison Transmission factory.
United States: c. 1940 Women working on a production line in a Heinz factory.
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: c. 1953 A group of fishermen all get strikes at the same time.
Archangel, Russia: March 4, 1919 Officers of the United States Expeditionary Forces at their headquarters .
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.
Hollywood, California: c. 1917 A scene from an early silent film.
New York, New York: c. 1938. A crowd on the streets in Manhattan.
Washington D.C.: June 15, 1932. Camp Bartlett is the latest addition to the Bonus Army encampments in Washington, DC.
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.
New York, New York: September 3, 1972 A woman stands with her luggage at the Port Authority Bus Terminal.
Shanghai, China: c. 1926 Sailors lowering the Admiral's car off of the flagship of the Asiatic Fleet, 'Pittsburgh'. The car is carried on deck to be used for official calls on foreign dignitaries by the Admiral.
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.
Unemployed workers queuing up at soup kitchen
Ottoman soldiers (Turkish Army) in Palestine, 1915
Finding projectile
Refueling trucks
Quarterback Y. A. Tittle
SF Mayor James Rolph, Jr.
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.
Associated Press Officials
Immigrant Family, Ellis Island, New York, USA, circa 1905
Group of Emigrants Waiting in the Detention Pen after Passing their Entrance Exam, Ellis Island, New York, USA, circa 1902
Oberleutnant Max Immelmann, German Air Ace Who Dropped the First Bombs & Propaganda Leaflets on Paris, France, September 1914
Man Standing Behind Counter in Grocery Store, Chicago, Illinois, USA, 1914
French Lingerie Model Standing Next to Bed, 1915
Four Fashionable Women in Feathered Hats Standing in Row with Hands Touching Waists, Portrait, circa 1915
Prince Emmanuel (1872-1931), Duke of Vendome, Portrait, 1915
Two Women With Bicycles, 1910
House Lately Standing At Providence
Sketches From Japan: Custom House Officer
Sexy and Glamorous Woman, Pin-Up Postcard, 1940's
Man with High Wheel Bicycle, Albumen Photograph, circa 1898
Family Of Lawyers
Texan Ford Auto Dealers
SILENT FILM STILL: SPORTS
YALE BASKETBALL TEAM, 1901.
Chicago, Illinois: c. 1928 A portrait of Kathy Miller, captain and guard for the Tri-Chi-Girls basketball team and AAU champions for the past two years.
Girl Scout With Bow And Arrow
New Fad Archery Golf
FEMALE BASEBALL PLAYER.
Robot playing golf
Man playing golf
Silhouette,Golf,
Lake Placid Ski Race Winners
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.
Denver, Colorado: c. 1903 The Cherrelyn Horse Car Line is the only gravity car line in the world. The horse pulls the car up to the shopping community of Cherrelyn and then the horse rides the car back down.
Woman With A 1927 Lincoln
Group of Women in Bathing Suits and Buck Beer, Portrait, circa 1915
Simia Lar, Great Gibbon
Patsy Ruth Miller Playing Golf, 1932
Daytona Beach, Florida: c. 1948 Members of a bowling team pose for a portrait.
Artists And Writers Tournament
Japanese Golfers In America
Bodega Bay, California: c. 1937 Two Sonoma County residents pose on the beach with their surf fishing net.
Paris, France: c. 1929 MMe Coste, wife of Dieudonne Coste, noted French aviator, with her entry in the recent International Auto Show in Paris.
Mosaic Floor In Madaba
Weight Watcher Lab Rat
JIM THORPE (1888-1953).
MORDECAI BROWN (1876-1948).
FRED SNODGRASS (1887-1974).
Training For Aviation Corps
Railroad Worker Golfer
Fourteen Men With Shovels