Bell X-1-3 And B-50 Mothership
Chuck Yeager And Bell X-1
Texas: 1951 A Convair B-36F Peacemaker Air Force bomber. In addition to the six 3,800 hp piston engines it also was equipped with four GE J47 turbojets mounted under the wings for additional power.
EDDIE RICKENBACKER
WILLIAM D. CONEY, 1921.
Pilot Chuck Yeager
Jackie Cochran and Chuck Yeager, US aviators
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.
United States: May, 1957 Passengers boarding a DC-6B airliner owned by Trans American Airlines and bound for Chicago and Burbank.
AVIATORS, 1927.
Livonia, Michigan: 1952 Patton 48 tanks coming down the assembly line at the Livonia Ford plant.
Chanute Field, Illinois: c. 1919 Students studying the intricacies of aircraft bombs at the Air Corp Technical School.
Low Altitude Supplies
F-104 Starfighter, 1959
Oberleutnant Max Immelmann, German Air Ace Who Dropped the First Bombs & Propaganda Leaflets on Paris, France, September 1914
LOCKHEED XP-49, 1942.
Searching For Viet Cong
Archangel, Russia: March 4, 1919 Officers of the United States Expeditionary Forces at their headquarters .
Washington D.C.: June 15, 1932. Camp Bartlett is the latest addition to the Bonus Army encampments in Washington, DC.
Missionaries In Brazil
WORLD WAR I: AL WILSON.
KATHERINE STINSON
Men Loading Air Mail Bags
World War Two Doolittle Raid B-25 Bomber crew.
U.S. Navy Seebees on the march
Lockheed T-33 Jet Trainer
Viet Nam War Protesters
CHARLES A. LINDBERGH
Native American Games
California: c. 1951 Five women playing a game of pool.
California: c. 1954 A group of children picking sides for a game of baseball.
Doolittle's Raiders In China
Rocket-powered vehicle, USA
Fusing Bombs For North Vietnam
WILLIAM MITCHELL
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.
Apollo 13 astronauts
X-3 Stiletto experimental aircraft
X-4 Bantam experimental aircraft
Bell X-5 experimental aircraft
Vietnam POWs Arrive
POWs Unload Cabbages For Lunch
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.
CLYDE PANGBORN (1895-1958).
Political illustration 1852
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.
Lockheed's VTOL Aircraft
SF Gun Show Booth
WWII Student Workers
The Umpire Calls It Safe!
A Group Of 1950s Teens
369th Infantry Regiment Band
Col. William Hayward
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.
Ben Het Green Beret Air Drop
Roosevelt Field, New York
Cambridge, Massachusetts: c. 1926 Girls from the Sargent School for Physical Education making a pyramid for their upcoming show at the Boston Arena.
Iwo Jima Moument
The Original Celtics Team
1953 Auto Show
Men Playing Bocce Ball
Everybody Is At The Beach
National Guard In Berkeley
United States: c. 1940 Women working on a production line in a Heinz factory.
United States: c. 1953 A group of fishermen all get strikes at the same time.
Atomic Rocket Observors
A Successful Day Of Fishing
Nobel Winner Glenn Seaborg
Yokuts Poling Tule Boats
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.
Heavy Army Truck being driven off Army Air Forces' new C-82 in Demonstration of Equipment held by United States Army Air Forces, National Airport, Washington, D.C., USA, photograph by Pauline Ehrlich, U.S. Office of War Information, October 1944
AMELIA EARHART (1897-1937).
EXPERIMENTAL BOMBER PLANE.
HOWARD HUGHES (1905-1976).
Bombing Vietnam
Charles Lindbergh Upon his Arrival in Paris, France, After First Trans-Atlantic Flight, May 21, 1927
MAX IMMELMANN (1890-1916).
Charles Lindbergh (1902 - 1974) pilot
VIETNAM WAR: U.S. AVIATORS.
German Machine Gun Crew
F-1 rocket engine test fire
The Parachute Pup
F-84 THUNDERJET, 1948.
FIELD TELEPHONE, c1942.
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.
Washington, D.C.: May 24, 1946 Five soldiers stranded in Savannah, Georgia, arrive at Washington's National Airport after hitchhiking a ride on General Eisenhower's plane. Eisenhower was called back to Washington by the railroad strike crisis when President Truman declared the government would operate the railroads and he would use the Army as strikebreakers.
London, England: c. 1936 Workers at Handley Page's Cricklewood works engaged in the government expansion mandate to triple the size of the Royal Air Force by March 31, 1937. Here the workers are assembling the engine mountings.
Guarding Spirit Of St. Louis
Cylinder Barrels Lined up for Inspection at Buick Plant Converted for War Product Production, Melrose Park, Illinois, USA, Ann Rosener, Office of War Information, July 1942
Army Relief Society Members
French Troops Water Supply
Battle Of Verdun
First Tanks In Warfare
WWI Gurkha Rifle Battalion
Inside The Krupp Works
WWI Motorized Warfare
Turkish Army Battery
Minneapolis Truckers Strike
Bell Aircraft XP-77
Lockheed Ventura B-34
USAF Jet Going Straight Up
Nguyen Van Thieu On Base Tour
Orthodox priest in Russian military hospital
Japanese howitzer battery before Port Arthur
24th anniversary of Arab revolt, 1940
Young Children Fishing
Lake Placid Ski Race Winners
Shooting Down A MIG-17
Charles Lindbergh, Harris & Ewing, 1928
A North American XB-70 Valkyrie in flight.
X-15 aircraft ejection seat tests, 1960s
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.
Muzzle Of A 14' Gun
Bank Interior And Employees
Germany: May 24, 1931 Willi Ruge is endeavoring to take the first sky diving self portraits as he leaps from a plane with a parachute. Here they are receiving instructions for the jump.
Champion Police Shooters
U.S. Soldiers In Siberia
Anti Vietnam War Demonstration
France: c. 1916 German soldiers working in the fields in northern France.
New York, New York: April 13, 1919 A truck load of wounded soldiers arriving at Madison Square Garden for a free performance of the Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Bailey Circus. Six thousand soldiers were invited.
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.
Italian general Ferraro
Ford Trimotor To Havana
U.S. Air Force Lockheed SR-71A Blackbird.
Sf Street Con Man
Los Angeles, California: c. 1951 Women shoppers crowd a shopping sale counter at Ohrbach's department store
Catholic Nuns Flee Cuba
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.
Ottoman soldiers (Turkish Army) in Palestine, 1915
Finding projectile
Refueling trucks
Happy WWI Marines Return
Ulysses Grant After the Battle of Cold Harbor, Virginia, USA, June 1864
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.
Railroad Workers
Photograph of Theodore Roosevelt, 1898
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.
Europe: November 16, 1926 A soiree of the Cercle Sportif.
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.
Japan: c. 1948 Toddlers in an orphanage in post-war Japan.
Family Trout Fishing
German POWs With Stretchers
1953 Goliath Sports Coupe
Philadelphia Shipyard Workers
Tennis Star Althea Gibson
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.
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.
Police Thwart Jumper
Pearl Harbor Attack Headlines
Police Restraining Children
Indy 500 Race Car
Bremen Flyers Celebration
Sather Gate Confrontation
The Kitchen Debate
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.
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
Indianapolis, Indiana: c. 1955 Workers at the Allison Transmission factory.
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.
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.
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.
A Taxi Dance Benefit
Postmen Prepare For Service
WORLD WAR I: AERIAL COMBAT.
Group of Emigrants Waiting in the Detention Pen after Passing their Entrance Exam, Ellis Island, New York, USA, circa 1902
Football Teams Lined Up
Anti ERA Phyllis Schafly
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.
Champion Helen Wills Moody
A Surprised Little Girl
SF State Riots Scene
New York, New York: c. 1929 African American nurses on the steps of the Lincoln Training School for Nurses at 141st Street and Southern Boulevard in the Bronx.
Queen Mary's Dolls' House
The Dixie Melodists Band
Adults and Child Standing Next to Ford Model T, 1913
Four Fashionable Women in Feathered Hats Standing in Row with Hands Touching Waists, Portrait, circa 1915
Clifton, Arizona: c. 1890 Tourists on the train into the Shannon Mine in Arizona.
Bodega Bay, California: c. 1937 Two Sonoma County residents pose on the beach with their surf fishing net.
Women Playing Mahjong
Atherton, California: July 11, 1936 Baseball star Ty Cobb admires a grandfather clock at his home.
Los Angeles, California: May 27, 1932 California governor James Rolph with actor Wallace Beery at a Shriners gathering.
German WWII ramjet bomber in flight
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.
United States: c. 1930 The farm cats heading into the barn looking for some warm milk at milking time.
United States: c. 1950 A man fly fishing in a lake in the mountains.
Dog Up For Adoption
Scientist With Molecule Model
A Basketball Bear
Roger W. Babson
Sidney Olcott On A Dock
Wrestling Champion Joe Stecher