Interesting Historical Photos. Last public execution in USA, 1936 Boxing Match At Yankee Stadium, 1923 Gym aboard the Titanic, c. 1912 Princess Yvonne and Prince Alexander from Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn in Germany, 1955 An airgunner stands before his 4 bomber wearing what it took to survive at 25,000ft over Germany in 1943-45 Harriet Tubman with rescued slaves- Auburn, NY, circa 1887 A movie theater, 1921 John F Kennedy’s coffin lies in state in the Capitol Building “Dissection room at a medical school in Bordeaux, France.” A man standing atop a mountain of bison skulls that are about to be ground up into fertilizer 1870s Suburbia: move-in day 1950′s American soldier inspects German loot stored in a church at Elligen, Germany, April 24, 1945 This is what Mount Rushmore was supposed to look like if they hadn’t run out of funding in 1941 Inside the old New York City Metropolitan Opera House, 1937 82nd Airborne Division soldiers, Grenada, 1983 USCGC Spencer hits the German submarine U-175, 1943 “Football team.”
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Historic Sound Recordings The National Jukebox features over 10,000 78rpm disc sides issued by the Victor Talking Machine Co. between 1900 and 1925. Performing Arts Collections, articles and special presentations on music, theater and dance materials from the Performing Arts Encyclopedia. Prints and Photographs Catalog of about half of the Library's pictorial holdings with over 1 million digital images.
Veterans History Project Experience first-person stories of wartime service through personal artifacts, audio and video interviews. MIT Visualizing Cultures.