California: c. 1947 A portrait of astronomer Edwin Hubble.
Paris, France: c. 1925 MIss France, Mlle. Raymonde Allaine, models the latest bathing suit by Jenny, a white creation trimmed with beads of gold.
United States: c. 1947 A pensive portrait of astronomer Edwin Hubble.
Bakersfield, California: November, 1936 This 80 year old woman is originally from Oklahoma, she's a grandmother of 22 children, and is now living in a camp outside of Bakersfield.
Washington, D.C.: c. 1934 The United States ambassador to Japan, Joseph Clark Grew.
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.
Philosopher Edmund Burke
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.
Memphis, Tennessee: 1955 The 1955 Maid of Cotton, DeLois Faulkner, seated within a huge cotton flower, rides her float during the 'King Cotton's Vacation' Parade of the Memphis Cotton Carnival.
Man At HIs Desk
Washington, D.C.: June 17, 1908 A portrait of African-American educator, author and orator Booker T. Washington.
Hollywood, California: 1930 Edmund Lowe and Leila Hyams in the comedy film, 'Part Time Wife'.
Country Music Star Carl Smith
Thomas Simonton, US astronomer
Seth Chandler, US astronomer
Lewis Boss, US astronomer
California: 1936 Actors Ned Sparks, Jack Oakie and Lynne Overman tryig to hitch a ride during the filming of Paramount's movie, 'Collegiate'.
Martin Harwit, Czech-American astronomer
Washington, D.C.: February 23, 1931 Assistant Attorney General John Lord O'Brian at his desk.
Father Of Civil Engineering
War On Radio Pirates
Baiting The Hook For Fishing
Birth Control Advocate Sanger
Babelsberg, Germany: c. 1924 The 65 cm. refractor telescope installed at the Berlin University Observatory.
Chicago Factory Worker
Alexander von Humboldt
Naturalist Sir Joseph Banks
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.
United States: c. 1920 A portrait of Joseph Kennedy working at his desk.
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.
Nat King Cole, Half-Length Portrait playing Piano, photograph by William P. Gottlieb, June 1947
High Angle View of Nat King Cole, Half-Length Portrait playing Piano, photograph by William P. Gottlieb, June 1947
Maria Mitchell, US astronomer
Boston, Massachusetts: 1912 Women working at beaming and yarn inspecting machines at the American Woolen Company.
United States: c. 1961 A woman riding her Honda 160 motorcycle.
Washington, D.C., 1926. A nurse at the Children's Hospital measures the height of a wiggling child with this device.
Newspaper Truck
A Nurse For The Courts
United States: c. 1926 Reflections on a summer day of a young woman sitting on a rock in a pond with a canoe beside her.
Man Driving A Daniels Car
Princely Motorcycle Ride
United States: c. 1957 An Air Force pilot sits at the controls of a Lockheed C-130 Hercules transport aircraft.
San Francisco, California c. 1954 A young man on his motorcycle in a parking lot.
Grand Lake Stream, Maine: c. 1917 Two men in a canoe shooting the rapids on Grand Lake Stream.
New York, New York: c. 1932 A closeup of the cab on a fire truck heading out on a call.
A Lonely Diehard Fan
Baltimore, Maryland: May 1, 1925 Dr. Francis Nicholas, Dean of the Maryland Academy of Sciences, assembling bones of a prehistoric animal found in the state of Maryland.
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.
William Coblentz, US physicist
Berlin, Germany: July 25, 1923.A portrait of Danish scholar, critic, and philosopher, George Brandes at his desk.
Woman Writing At Her Desk
Mary Brian In Airplane Cockpit
Portrait Of John Dollond
Philosopher John Locke
Rosalind Russell, Melvyn Douglas, on-set of the Film, "The Guilt of Janet Ames", 1947
United States: April 9, 1923 A portrait of Egyptian scholar, writer and lecturer Bishara Nahas who believes the curse of King Tut Ankh Amen killed Lord Carnarvon, the discover of King Tut's tomb.
Persian Dolls On Display
Actress On A Mechanical Horse
Woman With Catch Of The Day
Collecting Eggs For Soldiers
Two Boys And A Radio Flyer Wagon
Sending Western Union Quotes
Actress Beverly Garland
Mosaic Floor In Madaba
United States: c. 1935 A man working at dismantling railroad tracks by cutting them with a torch.
Jungfraujoch, Switzerland: c. 1927 Astronomers at work at the outdoor observatory at 11,500 above sea level in the Bernese Oberland in the Swiss Alps.
Samuel Milner, British physicist
Wolfgang Kohler, German psychologist
Ehrenfest and Burgers, physicists
William Thayer, US physician
Hilda Hempl Heller, US bacteriologist
Joyce Jacobson Kaufman, American chemist
John N Stockwell, American astronomer
A 1949 Delahaye Coupe
Surprise In The Police Gazette
Author Truman Capote
Torquay, England: c. 1933.A young woman enjoying a beverage in beach chair with an umbrella.
Mathematician Isaac Barrow
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.
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.
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.
David Hale Fanning
Newsroom Copy Readers
Young British Woman Judge
Sheriffs Arraigned For Murder
Industrialist Andrew Carnegie
Willam Taft And Charles Hughes
High Rise Photographer
New York, New York: c. 1917 Crowds attending the Liberty Loan Committee Midnight Program.
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.
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.
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.
Nieuwpoort, Belgium: c. 1917 Two French soldiers sit on the bell of a church that was shelled by the Germans.
Scotland: c. 1800 An engraving of noted pioneering Scottish surgeon John Hunter.
Washington, D.C.: 1953 Portrait of President Dwight D. Eisenhower
Tokyo Rose
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.
Portrait Of Mother Jones
Edwin Chadwick
Isadora Duncan
Fashion Model wearing Tennis Outfit, Full-Length Portrait sitting on Wall with Mountains in Background, photo by Toni Frissell, February 1947
Champion Speed Typist
An Iraqi Silversmith At Work
New Holland Tunnel Engineer
Lady Astronomer and Time
Malcolm X
California: c. 1955 A man in a jockey outfit riding an ostrich.
Cartoonist Bill Mauldin
Donald Duck Lime Cola
Woman Holding A Rifle
Barbara Hutton Set To Sail
Grand Duchess Is Crossword Fan
Using A Radio In The Classroom
Woman Sitting In A Chair
Sing Sing Prison Cell
Actress Riding A Scooter
British Nurses On Motorcycles
New York, New York: 1947 Women taking the qualifying exam for the New York City police force.
Renato Dulbecco, Italian virologist
Helen Lois Koch, American psychologist
Helen Redfield, American geneticist
Kathleen Mary Drew-Baker, British phycologist
Anna Julia Cooper, US scholar and civil rights activist
History of Medicine conference, 1967
Charles Walcott, US palaeontologist
Mary Pennington, US bacteriologist
Clara Ludlow, US entomologist
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.
Tomales Bay, California: 1952 Archeologists working at a site.
United States: 1947 Passengers on General Motor's new experimental train, the 'Train of Tomorrow' now have access to 'ship to shore' telephones. A young girl is shown talking on the phone while her mother waits.
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.
Cartoonist Jules Feiffer
Judge Monaghan At Thaw Trial
Gypsy Cap Headwear
Junior League Fashion Show
Boys Eating Ice Cream Cones
Japan: c. 1948 Infants and toddlers in an orphanage in post-war Japan.
Berlin, Germany: c. 1932 Children learning their ABC's in a classroom.
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.
Inventor Watching His 3' TV
Woman Using Rotary Calculator
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.
Chauffeurs Relax To Radio
Marconi Wireless School
Women Laughing On Coffee Break
Baseball Fans At Polo Grounds
The Kerner Commission
Passengers On A Train
Passengers Dining On Train
Poetry Reading
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.
Crowley, Louisiana: October, 1938 Men sitting on the steps of a bank during the National Rice Festival.
New York, New York: May, 1949 The World-Telegram newspaper editorial staff at the city desk.
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.
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
Flora, Indiana: 1917 Two college students are prepared for a cold ride in an open car.
Colorado: 1920 Touring cars of the Rocky Mountain Parks Transportation Co. parked in front of their buildings.
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.
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.
Police Thwart Jumper
People Playing Roulette
Tent Revival Meeting
Women Spectators
SF State Riots Scene
Family Ready For Auto Ride
Rocky Mountain Touring Cars
Anti Vietnam War Demonstration
Dodge City Buffalo Hides
Davisson and Germer, US physicists
Mountain Climber With A View
Yokut Medicine Man
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.
Margaret Cavendish, British philosopher
SS California Crew On Strike
Harlow Shapley, American astronomer
Worker Portrait
Iron MIne Workers
The Dixie Melodists Band
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.
Hollywood, California: 1934 Actress Pert Kelton lays it down to James Gleason in the RKO film, 'The Meanest Gal In Town'.
Long Beach, California: October 24, 1927. Elmer Peck, 'celebrated surfboard expert,' trains for competition. Peck aims to establish a world record for non-stop aquaplaning, hoping he'll survive 24 hours on his board, with food provided at mealtimes by a convoy boat.
Explorer David Livingstone, Engraving from Painting, 1857
Jane Addams, American social reformer and feminist
Palm Beach, Florida: c. 1929.An attractive young woman wearing a headscarf sitting by the side of a pool.
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
Young Patricia Mountbatten
Patients In A Dentist's Office
Fishing On Great Slave Lake
Working Family Women Agency
Prisoners In Stocks
One Armed Race Car Driver
Entrance To North Palace
Two Women Seated on Table, "Where Did you get Those Girls?"' Hand-Colored Postcard, circa 1916
Couple With Stearn Automobile, USA, 1911
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
Seated Older Woman in Long Dress and Hat Sitting Next to Young Girl Holding Lute, Cabinet Card, circa 1911