New York, New York: 1947 Women taking the qualifying exam for the New York City police force.
Berlin, Germany: c. 1932 Children learning their ABC's in a classroom.
New York, New York: c. 1917 Crowds attending the Liberty Loan Committee Midnight Program.
Allendale, New Jersey: January 10, 1967 A student using the closed-circuit television system installed by Sylvania at the Northern HIghlands Regional HIgh School here.
Ossining, New York: c. 1929 Number 82,064 carries the football for the Sing Sing prisoners football team as they play aginst the Naval Militia team in Ossining. Sing Sing won the game, 33-0.
United States: c. 1929. An art class in a Girl Scout Sylvan Camp.
Marconi Wireless School
Tennis Star Althea Gibson
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 Police Band
Las Vegas, Nevada: 1967 The Fremont Hotel has had a new Sylvania closed-circuit television system installed in the gambling casino's money counting room.
New York, New York: August 20, 1945 Applicants waiting to register for jobs and state fund assistance.
People Playing Roulette
Passengers Dining On Train
New York, New York: July 14, 1924 Young men enjoy the opening of the world's largest indoor pool in Madison Square Garden during these sweltering days of July.
New York, New York: March 25, 1946 The first convening of the United Nations' Security Council in New York. NY Governor Thomas Dewey, US Secretary of State James Byrnes, and William O'Dwyer are seated behind them at left, all of whom addressed the Counci
New York, New York: May, 1949 The World-Telegram newspaper editorial staff at the city desk.
New York, New York: October 23, 1946. President Harry Truman makes his formal welcoming speech to the members of the UN General Assembly at its opening session in NY.
New York, New York: February 5, 1926 Henry Hummel of Maine, (R) lays claim as the son of the late millionaire lawyer Abe Hummel to his fortune. He is shown with his attorneys, Senator F. W. HInckley, Mrs. Glantzberg, Miss Phillips.
Long Island City, New York: August 20, 1945.People applying for jobs at the U.S. Employment Services office.
The Kerner Commission
Anna Julia Cooper, US scholar and civil rights activist
Paris, France: October 17, 1926.An applicant to be a motorman of a public coveyance taking one of the Psychotechnic Laboratories tests to ensure they will be a safe driver. This man's speed and distance habuts are being tested by the tachodometer.
Baseball Fans At Polo Grounds
London, England: May 4, 1938 Three hundred gallons of paraffin and four tons of wood wool were used by the London Fire Brigade when they set fire to a row of condemned houses under a slum clearance scheme in Alpha Place North, Willesden.
Tent Revival Meeting
Women Spectators
Rocky Mountain Touring Cars
Weimar, Germany: March, 1919 Newly elected at the first National Assembly of the German Republic in the Royal Theatre in Weimar is Chancelllor Scheideman, 4th from left, and his Cabinet.
Surprise In The Police Gazette
New York, New York: c. 1932 A closeup of the cab on a fire truck heading out on a call.
New York, New York: 1937. Three English bulldogs view the passerbys at the 61st annual show of the Westminster Kennel Club at Madison Square Garden.
Washington, D.C. July 3, 1958 Teamster president James Hoffa (right) with Longshoreman president William V. Bradley as they announced plans to form a conference of transportation unions with the National Maritime Union.
Chauffeurs Relax To Radio
Blindfold Bridge
Emigrant Mother and Daughter, Ellis Island, New York, USA, circa 1902
London, England: September 13, 1942 Members of the U.S. Army Air Force boat crew row out for the start of a race against the London Metropolitan Police Club over a half mile on the Thames.
New York, New York: c. 1908. Judge John W. Goff (r) of the New York Supreme Court. He was also chief counsel for the Lexow Committee in 1893 to investigate corruption in the Tammnay Hall run NY Police Department.
Berlin, Germany: c. 1929 A modern girls' school where minds and bodies are given equal development. Here some of the girls are learning how to row for crew races at the school.
New York, New York: June 28, 1924 Police working to control the immense crowd that tried to gain entrance to Madison Square Garden today.
Woman Taking Care Of Her Nails
Berlin, Germany: c. 1929.Pupils at the Dorothea School for gymnastics wash their feet before stepping into the showers after their gym workout.
Bombay, India: June 22, 1919 The loss of limb does not prevent the injured soldiers of India's forces who were disabled in World War I from becoming good carpenters at Queen Mary's Technical School. This was an exhibit of the Red Cross Institute for Crip
Baiting The Hook For Fishing
Working Family Women Agency
Typewriting Championship
London, England: c. 1962 The Shell Centre's Punch Unit in the Data Processing Centre where incoming documents are transribed on to punch cards.
Cleveland, Ohio: January, 1951 Workers operating data punch card machines at the Erie Railroad offices.
Shanghai, China: April 7, 1927 Natives of Shanghai stand amongst the ruins after the Cantonese were victorious in driving the Northerners from the city. The Nationalists are duplicating their victory in Shanghai south of the Yangtse river, where they are sweeping everything before them in their march on Peking.
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.
Colorado: 1920 Touring cars of the Rocky Mountain Parks Transportation Co. parked in front of their buildings.
Girl Scout Picnic
Anti Vietnam War Demonstration
Gabriele d'Annunzio toasting with the Officers during the Occupation of Fiume
Primate Discipline
Outdoor Lunch, New York City, New York, USA, July 1961
Police Thwart Jumper
New York, New York: January 6, 1946 Ziegfeld dancer and actress Susanne Remos keeps in limber by stretching
California: c. 1947 A portrait of astronomer Edwin Hubble.
United States: c. 1957 An Air Force pilot sits at the controls of a Lockheed C-130 Hercules transport aircraft.
Group of Men Sitting on Park Benches, Bryant Park, New York City, New York, USA, July 1961
Helen Lois Koch, American psychologist
Garment Workers Attacked
Inventor Watching His 3' TV
Admiring A Tiny Trophy
Women Laughing On Coffee Break
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.
Judge Monaghan At Thaw Trial
Young British Woman Judge
Poetry Reading
Industrialist Andrew Carnegie
Author Truman Capote
New York, New York: January 5, 1926 New York City society girls are spending one day a week as volunteer nurses as part of their service to humanity. Miss Betty Nixon is seeing reading to a young boy at the Tonsil Hospital in Manhattan.
Torquay, England: c. 1933.A young woman enjoying a beverage in beach chair with an umbrella.
School Nurse Checks Child
Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910), with John Lewis Sitting on Porch Steps, Elmira, New York, USA, circa 1903
John Jacob Astor
New York, New York: c. 1930.A woman practioneer is about to administer a treatment of the new Frigidine Photoletic process of skin peeling to a client. It is administered 20 minutes a day for 5 days at which time six hours after the last treatment the ol
Three Men at Table, Studio Portrait, Dunkirk, New York, USA, circa 1893
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.
Nepal: January 29, 1922 The Prince of Wales (left) perched atop an elephant leading a tiger hunting expedition during his royal tour of India.
Russia: c. 1915 A wagon train of Russian ammunition caissons on their way to the front. Many of the cases are marked 'Use Freely', signifying that there thousands of shells in reserve.
United States: c. 1928 Bobby Jones giving a golf demonstration to an interested group of followers.
No Soldiers For Vietnam
Shindana Kimmie Doll.
Journalists Working
World Series Planners
Peoria, Illinois: May, 1922.Nurses doing paperwork at a desk in a hospital.
Woman Writing At Her Desk
Harry Bridges Deportation
Mediterranean Sea: February 25, 1937 Seamen of the British Navy lay on the oars as they go through a drill in a cutter of the H.M.S. Royal Sovereign seen in the background.
WWII German Boy Smoking Cigar
American Common School, C.S. Reinhart in Harper's Weekly, Engraving, circa 1872
Jackson, Tennessee: 1952 A high school basketball player misses a pass and has the ball for a head.
British Marines Playing Cards
Unhappy Football Team
Baghdad, Iraq: October 6, 1932 Religius leaders at the Royal Palace in Baghdad during the celebration of Iraq becoming a member of the League of Nations,
Hollywood, California: 1924 Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford's dog, Zorro takes a curious look at a typewriter.
United States: c. 1947.A group of young women college students pose in their living room.
Harvard Beats Yale In 1930
Paris, France: c. 1929.The opening of the International Congress of Women Doctors in Paris. A vote by raised hands is taking place on a proposed ammendment by Mme Thuiller-Landry.
Women With Dolls
Women In A Large Office
Feeding German Children
WWI Motorized Warfare
POW Catholic Church
Worker Portrait
Iron MIne Workers
1936 Maritime Strike
Chicago Street Car Strike
Immigrants at Ellis Island
Myrt And Marge Film
Susan Bruce (1850-66), Student and Protege of Emily Howland, Full-Length Standing Portrait by Sylvanus .J. Fowler, Auburn, New York, USA, 1860's
Rutger's 1891 Football Team
Jack Rabbit Roundup
Clay Street Cable Car
Pope Leo X
Stockholm, Sweden: c. 1930.Princess Ingrid of Sweden (left in foreground) learning how to apply a compress to a patient as part of her course in nursing. She is the only daughter of Crown Prince Gustavus Aldolphus, son of KIng Gustav.
Landshut City Police
New York, New York: c. 1958 A newsman being filmed at the NBC television studio.
Studying New Bonus Bond Design
Chicago, Illinois: October 14, 1930 The Chicago harbor master and other officials use a diver to investigate the sinking of the Rotarian, a sidewheeler excursion steamboat moored at the city pier where it was used as a dance hall and restaurant.
Old And New Telephones
Port Jervis, New York: c. 1931 The Port Jervis Police Department football team which will take on the Sing Sing Prison team in a game to be played at the prison yard before the public and inmates at Ossining, N.Y.
New Holland Tunnel Engineer
Seth Chandler, US astronomer
Architect Morris Lapidus, portrait sitting at his office desk, New York City, New York, USA, Gottscho-Schleisner Collection, December 1946
Director and Actor Woody Allen, seated Portrait at Home, New York City, New York, USA, Bernard Gotfryd, April 1978
Washington, D.C.: June 17, 1908 A portrait of African-American educator, author and orator Booker T. Washington.
Official Photograph Of Jackie
Grand Lake Stream, Maine: c. 1917 Two men in a canoe shooting the rapids on Grand Lake Stream.
Japan: c. 1948 Infants and toddlers in an orphanage in post-war Japan.
Fort Worth, Texas: June, 1944 Two aviation cadets from Brooks Field wearing oxygen masks and winter flying suits as they pilot a B-25 bomber on a routine high altitude training mission.
San Francisco, California c. 1954 A young man on his motorcycle in a parking lot.
California: 1936 Actors Ned Sparks, Jack Oakie and Lynne Overman tryig to hitch a ride during the filming of Paramount's movie, 'Collegiate'.
Cartoonist Jules Feiffer
Doctor Checking Pulse Rate
David Hale Fanning
Newsroom Copy Readers
Sheriffs Arraigned For Murder
Passengers On A Train
Donald Duck Lime Cola
Roosevelt And Stalin
Women Playing Mahjong
A 1949 Delahaye Coupe
Willam Taft And Charles Hughes
Crowley, Louisiana: October, 1938 Men sitting on the steps of a bank during the National Rice Festival.
Washington, D.C.: August 22, 1946 United Nations ambassador, Herschel Johnson, left, talks with Secretary of State Dean Acheson about the 48 hour ultimatum given Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia.
Flora, Indiana: 1917 Two college students are prepared for a cold ride in an open car.
The Last Sitting Of The High Court Of Justice
Man At HIs Desk
High Rise Photographer
Gypsy Cap Headwear
Junior League Fashion Show
Boys Eating Ice Cream Cones
Cats Composing
SF State Riots Scene
Family Ready For Auto Ride
South Pacific: c. 1944 A U.S, Marine Corps sargeant and a Red Cross Staff member pick out 78 rpm records to play in the game room of an American Red Cross Service Club.
Helen M. Wallace, American paediatrician
Helen Redfield, American geneticist
Katharine J. Scott Bishop, American physician
Workers Making Money
History of Medicine conference, 1967
Ehrenfest and Burgers, physicists
Woman With Her Bicycle Skates
Artist Caroline Mytinger
Washington, D.C. December 14, 1976 Barbara Walters interviews President and Mrs, Gerald Ford at the White House.
New York, New York: January, 1956 Dinah Shore waves from the driver's seat of a 1956 Corvette at the General Motors Motorama Show. Chevrolet was the sponser of her TV show.
Jane Addams, American social reformer and feminist
W.C. Fields Playing Poker
Margaret Sanger (1879-1966), American Birth Control Activist, Sex Educator and Nurse, Seated Portrait, New York City, New York, USA, Bain News Service, 1916
Cuban Leader Fidel Castro, Full-Length Portrait, waiting to speak before General Assembly, United Nations, New York City, New York, USA, October 13, 1979
U.S. President Jimmy Carter, full-length seated Portrait, United Nations, New York City, New York, USA, Bernard Gotfryd, October 4, 1977
Couple in Horse-Drawn Buggy, Amenia, New York, USA, 1880
Rockcliffe, Ontario, Canada: May 17, 1961 Mrs. John Kennedy reviews troops of the Royal Canadian Police in the company of the Commisioner Harvision.
Isadora Duncan
Newspaper Editorial Staff
Margaret Sanger Clinic
Washington, D.C.: c. 1926.Emily Clarke at her desk. She is in charge of the Estimates and Reports at the U.S. Bureau of Agricultural Economics.
Seamstresses on Lunch Break, Holding Keep Smiling Signs, circa 1914
Two Women Seated on Table, "Where Did you get Those Girls?"' Hand-Colored Postcard, circa 1916
Berlin, Germany: July 25, 1923.A portrait of Danish scholar, critic, and philosopher, George Brandes at his desk.
Birth Control Advocate Sanger
Mother and Children Wearing Union Suits, Advertisement for Munsing Wear, 1917
Nude Woman Lounging on Setee, 1913
Clara Barton (1821-1912), American Humanitarian, Founder of American Red Cross, Portrait, 1902
Patients In A Dentist's Office
Philosopher John Locke
Washington, D.C.: February 18, 1938 President Roosevelt looks on as Joseph P. Kennedy takes the oath from Supreme Court Associate Justice Stanley Reed as the new U.S. envoy to Great Britain.
Abraham Halikman, seated outdoors in a chair, with 2 placards, in protest against Lincoln Square development plan, New York City, New York, USA, photograph by John Bottega, September 11, 1957
Duchess of Windsor, Wallis Simpson and Duke of Windsor, formerly King Edward III of United Kingdom and Dominions of British Empire, seated Portrait, Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York City, New York, USA, Toni Frissell Collection, May 1966
Betty Compson, George Bancroft, on-set of the Silent Film, "The Docks of New York", 1928
Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919), 26th President of the United States 1901-09, Full-Length Seated Portrait as New York Governor, August 1900
Mr. Joseph Soltisek, Polish Farmer, reading Newspaper, near Townsend, New York, USA, Jack Delano, U.S. Farm Security Administration, September 1940
Birth Control activist Margaret Sanger (1879-1966) with Fania Mindell inside Birth Control Clinic, Brownsville, Brooklyn, New York, USA, Bain News Service, 1916
Albany, New York: c. 1835 An engraving by E. Prudhomme of American physician Theodric Romeyn Beck who specialized in medical jurisprudence and wrote the first significant book on forensic medicine.
New York, New York: c. 1928 The communications chief for Pan-American Airways demonstrates the two-way high frequency wireless device they have perfected for communication between pilots and ground stations.
Ragged School dinner