Delivering ice in Manhattan in 1918. Protesters arrested during the 1992 LA Riots. Girls pose by a jail that recalls the witch trials of 1692 in Salem, Massachusetts. Photo was taken in 1945. Shoe shine boys listen to Civil War veteran tell his war stories, 1920s. Christmas decorations at Jordan Marsh Co. in Boston in 1954 (Leslie Jones, photographer) Dorothy Counts – The First Black Girl To Attend An All-White School In The United States – Being Teased And Taunted By Her White Male Peers At Charlotte’s Harry Harding High School, 1957. The vet, Washington DC 1932. The New York Central Railroad streamliner Mercury pauses at Syracuse City Hall on its way to Chicago, June 1936. Luna Park at night - Coney Island, New York - 1905. Manhattan, 1931. Early photo of the Oval office during William Taft's presidency-1910s.
Early photo of the Oval office during William Taft's presidency-1910s. Construction of the Lincoln Memorial 1916. The model for, and painting of, Norman Rockwell's 'Tired Salesgirl on Christmas Eve', 1947. 42nd Street, New York City, c. June 1950. Katherine Stinson, preparing her Wright Flyer Model B for take off, circa 1913. Photographer unknown. Stinson was the fourth woman in the Unites States to obtain a pilot's certificate and set flying records for aerobatic maneuvers, distance, and endurance.
Some of history’s most prolific writers photographed in their youth. Hal Chase (who would introduce Kerouac to Neal Cassidy), Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and William S Burroughs. Winter 1944/45. 1923: a 75 year old Wyatt Earp, retired in Los Angeles. The lift-off of Gemini-Titan 11 (GT-11) on Complex 19, 12 September 1966. Fidel Castro laughing at a newspaper headline while visiting New York in 1959. New York City in the 1890's, back before cities started burying telephone lines and other infrastructure. One helluva coincidence. A young Edwin Hubble at Mount Wilson's 100-inch telescope circa 1922, ready to make history.
Rosie the Riveter (1942) Bill Watterson, Creator Of Comic Strip "Calvin And Hobbes" (1986) These women are voting in America for the 1st time in 1920. Al Capone’s soup kitchen feeding the poor during the Great Depression in the 1930s. New York City. 1970. "Hard-Hats" demonstrate in favour of the Vietnam War. Walt Disney opening day of Disneyland, July 17, 1955. Astronauts Fred Haise and Jim Lovell during EVA Training for Apollo 13. (1970) Duesenberg Coupe Simone Midnight Ghost. The car was made by the American Car designer Emmet-Armand. 1939. NY Tunnel Police in 1950s. Robin Williams on the set of Good Morning Vietnam - 1987. Grandmother working at Hewlett Packard in early 1950s. American troops of the 2nd Ranger Battalion march through Weymouth, a southern English coastal town, on their way to the docks where they will be loaded into landing craft for the big assault on D-Day.
JFK doing a speech in downtown Grand Rapids, MI in 1960. Dunno If true but nice! San Francisco, 1940s. 1970: Protestor at Weinstein Hall demonstration for the rights of gay people on campus. (Photographer Diana Davies) The one time Martin Luther King met Malcolm X, 1964. DJ spinnin’ the vinyl 1950s. Fight climate change poor person, gtfo on the bus! Leave the skies to us, the rich elite! Sammy Davis Jr and Marilyn Monroe - 1953. In 1982 Agnes Denes cultivated, grew, and harvested a two-acre wheatfield in downtown Manhattan. Mickey Mouse making his Thanksgiving Day Parade debut in 1934. Queensboro Bridge, New York, 1964. Unique, Splitting shot of New York City. San Francisco. 1964. Al Capone's free soup kitchen, Chicago, 1931. Piles of Christmas packages meant for American servicemen who died or went missing before the packages arrived are awaiting "Return to sender" stamps (1944) Marilyn Monroe on stage in front of thousands of troops Korea, February 1954. John F. Kennedy in Florida - 1960s.
15-year-old Lewis Cousins stands alone as the only African American student in a newly desegregated high school in Norfolk, VA (1959) Cleaning the streets in New York, 1906. Mark Twain and his cat in early 1900s. American teenagers passing notes in class (1944) Little Rock Nine integrates public high school (1957) Demonstration of a cell phone call in 1985. Grand Canyon. 1914. Mountain of confiscated barrels of Moonshine during prohibition 1927. President Jimmy Carter teaching his boys the value of hard work, 1960.
Marine Sgt. Frank Praytor feeding a two-week old kitten he named 'Miss Hap' using a medicine dropper after its mother was killed by a mortar barrage near Bunker Hill. Korea, 18th of October 1952. A Colourized Farewell To Departing Troops At New York’s Penn Station, April 1943. JFK playing with his children in their Halloween costumes a few weeks before his assassination, 1963. The School Bus in 1930 Northern Maine. Civil rights activists get drenched in condiments while sitting in at a segregated lunch counter in Jackson, Mississippi. 1963. Al Capone with his young son at a baseball game; Comiskey Park, Chicago, Illinois, USA; 1931-Sept-9th; Albert H. Luke (center), an instructor at the Sheil School, advises a student as she operates the controls of a preflight trainer called the "penguin" in Chicago, Illinois, on July 25, 1945.
9/11 by Matt Weber. Sculpting begins on the face of Lincoln, Mount Rushmore, Black Hills National Forest, SD, 1927 (5159 x 6778) "Jobless Men Lined up for the First Time in California to File Claims for Unemployment Compensation" 1934, by Dorothea Lange, Opening of The Golden State Bridge, 1937. Couple In Penn Station Sharing Farewell Kiss Before He Ships Off To War, 1943. Working on an A-31 Vengeance bomber, Nashville, Tennessee (1943) In the 1950s, doctors recommended smoking and patients could buy cigarettes by hospital bedside.
1871 NYC. Soldiers and casualties on the beach, Normandy, June 1944. Judy Sullivan, NASA’s first woman engineer in Spacecraft Operations, monitoring the astronauts biomedical sensors during the Apollo 11 mission 1969. Jackie and John F Kennedy (1959) 1951 Nevada atomic bomb test, code name Buster Dog. Soldiers waiting to conduct maneuvers in the area. Sightseers park to watch a Boeing 377 Stratocruiser taxi over the road in Queens, New York, 1951. Land auction upon founding of Las Vegas (May, 1905) Carving Mount Rushmore - 1930s. Italian immigrant mother and daughter, Ellis Island, 1905. Line to see ‘The Wizard of Oz’ on opening night at Loew’s Theater 1939. This is a comment area. Heading off for vacation, 1960s. Chicago Kids - 1941. Old School Cooling, Upper West Side, New York, around 1945. A New York Subway car in the 1940s. JFK Jr. salutes JFK at his funeral. Washington, November 1963.
The back side of the Hoover dam. Thomas Edison next to a 1914 Detroit Electric car. The Grable test with the Atomic Annie artillery piece firing the first atomic artillery shell, 1953. Color photograph of a B-25 assembly plant. WW2. Color photograph of a B-25 assembly plant. WW2. JFK and John Jr, 1961. If the Moon landing was a failure! General Henry Graham ordering Alabama Governor George Wallace to step aside to allow Black students to enter the University of Alabama, June 11, 1963. General Henry Graham ordering Alabama Governor George Wallace to step aside to allow Black students to enter the University of Alabama, June 11, 1963.