Man At HIs Desk
New Holland Tunnel Engineer
Author Truman Capote
Birth Control Advocate Sanger
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.
United States: c. 1920 A portrait of Joseph Kennedy working at his desk.
Woman Writing At Her Desk
California: c. 1947 A portrait of astronomer Edwin Hubble.
Aleppo, Syria: 1915 U. S. Consul Jesse Jackson at his office in the Consulate. He is credited with saving the lives of thousands of Christian Armenians from the Turks.
Country Music Star Carl Smith
Washington, D.C.: June 17, 1908 A portrait of African-American educator, author and orator Booker T. Washington.
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.
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.
Industrialist Andrew Carnegie
Crowley, Louisiana: October, 1938 Men sitting on the steps of a bank during the National Rice Festival.
Portrait of President Woodrow Wilson, 1912
Philosopher Edmund Burke
Cats Composing
Chauffeurs Relax To Radio
New York, New York: c. 1932 A closeup of the cab on a fire truck heading out on a call.
Cartoonist Jules Feiffer
Newsroom Copy Readers
NYPD Radio Station, WLAW
United States: c. 1957 An Air Force pilot sits at the controls of a Lockheed C-130 Hercules transport aircraft.
A 1949 Delahaye Coupe
Benet Wins Pulitzer For Poetry
Surprise In The Police Gazette
Inventor Watching His 3' TV
Berlin, Germany: July 25, 1923.A portrait of Danish scholar, critic, and philosopher, George Brandes at his desk.
Alexander von Humboldt
Portrait Of John Dollond
Naturalist Sir Joseph Banks
1931 TV Performer
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
Dr. James Watson And DNA Helix
Champion Speed Typist
U.S. Attorney General Robert H. Jackson, Portrait sitting at Desk, Washington, D.C., USA, Harris & Ewing, between 1938 and 1941
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.
Young British Woman Judge
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.
Baseball Fans At Polo Grounds
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.
Police Thwart Jumper
New York, New York: 1947 Women taking the qualifying exam for the New York City police force.
Willam Taft And Charles Hughes
Blindfold Bridge
Wolfgang Kohler, German psychologist
William Thayer, US physician
A Lonely Diehard Fan
Philosopher John Locke
Secretary of Labor Goldberg
California: 1936 Actors Ned Sparks, Jack Oakie and Lynne Overman tryig to hitch a ride during the filming of Paramount's movie, 'Collegiate'.
Bolshevik Revolutionary Grigory Zinoviev, 1935
SS California Crew On Strike
Washington, D.C.: February 23, 1931 Assistant Attorney General John Lord O'Brian at his desk.
Photograph of Langston Hughes, 1940
President Abraham Lincoln
Bedridden Executive
Hollywood, California: 1930 Edmund Lowe and Leila Hyams in the comedy film, 'Part Time Wife'.
Junior League Fashion Show
Father Of Civil Engineering
Tent Revival Meeting
Boy With Tinker Toys
1936 Maritime Strike
Stan Laurel (1890-1965) English Comic Actor and Oliver Hardy (1892-1957), American Comic Actor, seated Portrait, Harry Warnecke, 1938
Dennis O'Keefe, Publicity Portrait for the Film, "Hold That Kiss", MGM, 1938
Washington, D.C.: c. 1934 The United States ambassador to Japan, Joseph Clark Grew.
An Iraqi Silversmith At Work
Washington, D.C.: June, 1936.A worker at the National Archives making a photographic copy of a historical document with a Recordak so that the original will not need to be disturbed for future reference.
Mrs. Marguerite Lehand, Personal Secretary to President Franklin Roosevelt, Seated Portrait at Desk, Washington DC, USA, Harris & Ewing, 1938
No Soldiers For Vietnam
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.
Close-up of architect working on plan in office
Women In A Large Office
Fort Hamilton Polo Team
Poetry Reading
Marconi Wireless School
New York, New York: c. 1917 Crowds attending the Liberty Loan Committee Midnight Program.
SF State Riots Scene
Family Ready For Auto Ride
Judge Monaghan At Thaw Trial
Workers Making Money
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.
Businessman with paper and pencil sitting at desk
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.
David Hale Fanning
Sheriffs Arraigned For Murder
Anna Julia Cooper, US scholar and civil rights activist
President Lyndon Johnson Signing Civil Rights Bill, 1964
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.
Korean President Syngman Rhee
Newspaper Editorial Staff
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.
One Armed Race Car Driver
The Dixie Melodists Band
Daytona Beach, Florida: February 13, 1935 British racer Captain Malcolm Campbell tries out a policeman's Harley Davidson, but he won't get near the 300 mph he hopes to reach in his Bluebird race car on the beach.
Young Girl Writing at Desk, Albumen Stereo Photograph, circa 1898
Woman in Bustle Dress Sitting at Desk, circa 1878
John Jacob Astor
UC Graduates Russian Scientist
Earl Browder, former Communist Party General Secretary in the U.S., starting new job as Representative for Soviet Publishers, which has become an Object of Interest by the U.S. State Department, Portrait on Telephone in his Office, New York City, New York
Dodge City Buffalo Hides
Mathematician Isaac Barrow
Davisson and Germer, US physicists
Architect Morris Lapidus, portrait sitting at his office desk, New York City, New York, USA, Gottscho-Schleisner Collection, December 1946
Three Men at Table, Studio Portrait, Dunkirk, New York, USA, circa 1893
Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919), 26th President of the United States 1901-09, Half-Length Portrait Seated at Desk, 1905
Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919), 26th President of the United States 1901-09, Seated Portrait at Desk, 1905
U.S. Attorney General Robert H. Jackson, Portrait sitting at Desk, Washington, D.C., USA, Harris & Ewing, July 1940
New York, New York: November 20, 1925.Stage actors Marie Saxon and Harry Puck, (standing) go over thier roles to help raise money for the American Guardian Associations fund for permanent assistance to American-Philipino children
Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919), 26th President of the United States 1901-09, Seated Portrait at Desk, Photograph by Barnett McFee Clinedinst, 1904
U.S. President Lyndon Johnson working at Desk in Oval Office in White House, Washington, D.C., USA, photograph by Thomas J. O'Halloran, February 1964
U.S. President Gerald Ford working at his Desk, smoking a Pipe, White House, Washington, D.C., USA, photograph by Marion S. Trikosko, February 6, 1975
Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) 28th President of the United States 1913-1921, Three-Quarter Length Portrait seated at desk in White House Oval Office, Washington, D.C., USA, Photograph by Harris & Ewing, 1913-1917
Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) 28th President of the United States 1913-1921, Half-Length Portrait seated at desk in White House Oval Office, Washington, D.C., USA, Photograph by Harris & Ewing, 1913-1917
Paris, France: c. 1925 MIss France, Mlle. Raymonde Allaine, models the latest bathing suit by Jenny, a white creation trimmed with beads of gold.
Abraham Lincoln, Proclamation of Freedom, 1863
Waiting for Relief Commodities, Urbana, Ohio, USA, Ben Shahn, U.S. Resettlement Administration, August 1938
Miner waiting for ride home, Capels, West Virginia, USA, Marion Post Wolcott, U.S. Farm Security Administration, September 1938
Primate Discipline
Women Spectators
Isadora Duncan
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.
A man working in an office at a desk using a computer mouse. Focusing on a task.
United States: c. 1928 A man wearing a Davy Crockett outfit with a coonskin cap and a musket.
Washington, D.C.: May 8, 1945 U.S. Acting Secretary of State Joseph Clark Grew stresses 'unfinished business' in the Pacific during a V-E Day broadcast from the U.S. State Department.
Margaret Sanger (1879-1966), American Birth Control Activist, Sex Educator and Nurse, Seated Portrait, Harris & Ewing, 1932
Torquay, England: c. 1933.A young woman enjoying a beverage in beach chair with an umbrella.
Patients In A Dentist's Office
Buster Crabbe As Buck Rodgers
Office life. A man sitting at a desk using a computer, looking intently at the screen.
War On Radio Pirates
Self portrait
Woman Listening to Radio, 1930
Wallace Beery, Marie Dressler, on-set of the Film, "Min and Bill", 1930
Mayor James 'Sunny Jim' Rolph
Tennis Star Althea Gibson
Women Laughing On Coffee Break
Group of Men Sitting on Park Benches, Bryant Park, New York City, New York, USA, July 1961
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.
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.
Boys Eating Ice Cream Cones
Emigrant Mother and Daughter, Ellis Island, New York, USA, circa 1902
New York, New York: January 6, 1946 Ziegfeld dancer and actress Susanne Remos keeps in limber by stretching
Admiring A Tiny Trophy
Stressed man breaking pencil,
Cleveland, Ohio: January, 1951 Workers operating data punch card machines at the Erie Railroad offices.
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.
Doctor Checking Pulse Rate
The Kerner Commission
Passengers On A Train
Rocky Mountain Touring Cars
Immigrants at Ellis Island
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.
School Nurse Checks Child
Mme. Costes With Globe
Jane Addams, American social reformer and feminist
Old And New Telephones
Passengers Dining On Train
History of Medicine conference, 1967
Joyce Jacobson Kaufman, American chemist
Nude Woman Lounging on Setee, 1913
Grand Lake Stream, Maine: c. 1917 Two men in a canoe shooting the rapids on Grand Lake Stream.
High Rise Photographer
Samuel Milner, British physicist
New York, New York: August 20, 1945 Applicants waiting to register for jobs and state fund assistance.
IMMIGRATION, c1920.
New York Police Band
Birth Control Pioneer Sanger
Landshut City Police
Photograph of President Roosevelt, 1941
Japanese Fortune Teller Writing Calligraphy, Shinto Temple of Inari, Kyoto, Japan, 1904
Young Patricia Mountbatten
Soumitra Chatterjee, Madhabi Mukherjee, on-set of the Film, "Charulata", 1964
Jewel Carmen, Douglas Fairbanks, on-set of the Silent Film, "Flirting with Fate", 1916
Native American Couple, Luck, Wisconsin, USA, circa 1905
Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910), with John Lewis Sitting on Porch Steps, Elmira, New York, USA, circa 1903
Jitka Novakova, Karel Novak, on-set of the Film "Fruit of Paradise" (aka Ovoce Stromu Rajskych Jime), 1969
William Howard Taft, 27th President of the United States (1909-1913), Portrait, 1908
Couple With Stearn Automobile, USA, 1911
Jason Robards, Publicity Portrait for the Film, "A Thousand Clowns", United Artists, 1965
New York, New York: c. 1958 A newsman being filmed at the NBC television studio.
Early Silent Film Still
Mark Twain, US author
Grand Duchess Is Crossword Fan
Businessman using telephone headset
VENICE: TAX LAWYER.
United States: c. 1890 A family sitting outside for a portrait with their croquet mallets and balls.
Ehrenfest and Burgers, physicists
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
Director and Actor Woody Allen, seated Portrait at Home, New York City, New York, USA, Bernard Gotfryd, April 1978