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CIVIL WAR--Illustration of Fort Sumter in the harbor of Charleston, SC under Confederate attack on April 12 and 13, 1861.





The Royal Coach leaving Buckingham Palace at the start of rehearsal of the Coronation, May 3, 1937, CSU Archives/Courtesy Eve...
The Royal Coach leaving Buckingham Palace at the start of rehearsal of the Coronation, May 3, 1937, CSU Archives/Courtesy Everett Collection





King George VI, Queen Elizabeth, at the Parliament Building, Ottawa, Canada, May 19, 1939, CSU Archives/Courtesy Everett Coll...
King George VI, Queen Elizabeth, at the Parliament Building, Ottawa, Canada, May 19, 1939, CSU Archives/Courtesy Everett Collection





Marcus Garvey, the Negro Moses, rides through the streets of Harlem, New York City, amid delegates resplendent in plummage an...
Marcus Garvey, the Negro Moses, rides through the streets of Harlem, New York City, amid delegates resplendent in plummage and golden braid. August 1922.





The first passengers to cross the Atlantic leave Pan American's Dixie Clipper airplane in Lisbon, Portugal. The plane took of...
The first passengers to cross the Atlantic leave Pan American's Dixie Clipper airplane in Lisbon, Portugal. The plane took off from Port Washington, New York, 1939





Sen. Howard Baker, Sen. Sam Ervin, listening to former Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman during the Senate Watergate Committee Hea...
Sen. Howard Baker, Sen. Sam Ervin, listening to former Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman during the Senate Watergate Committee Hearings, July 30, 1970





ARRIVING FOR CORONATION A general view taken from the Big Ben Tower of the houses of parliament showing the royal coach arriv...
ARRIVING FOR CORONATION A general view taken from the Big Ben Tower of the houses of parliament showing the royal coach arriving at Westminster Abbey for the coronation ceremony. 5/18/37.





United Airline's stewardesses model thirty years of uniforms. Joyce Strang, 1930; Joan Kennedy, 1936; Marian Kopie, 1933; Sha...
United Airline's stewardesses model thirty years of uniforms. Joyce Strang, 1930; Joan Kennedy, 1936; Marian Kopie, 1933; Sharon Ditter, 1937; Colleen Hallett, 1939; Sheri Moore, 1941; Lois Ambruson, 1951; Dorothy Scafard, 1960. 1960





New York's observance of George Washington's bicentennial: a re-enactment of Washington's first Presidential inauguration. Br...
New York's observance of George Washington's bicentennial: a re-enactment of Washington's first Presidential inauguration. Bryant Park, New York City, April 30, 1932





mosquito infested abandoned rail line is cleaned. The abandoned rail line known as the Bronx Swamp is seen in the Mott Haven ...
mosquito infested abandoned rail line is cleaned. The abandoned rail line known as the Bronx Swamp is seen in the Mott Haven neighborhood of the Bronx in New York on Monday, August 17, 2009. The one and one-half mile rail line runs from Port Morris to the Melrose station and was formerly abandoned by CSX in 2004 and there is no clear ownership of the tracks and the right of way. The NYC Dept. of Environmental Protection has begun draining the below grade tracks which has collected water and debr





Marine detatchment that ran up the first American flag in the Philippines during the Spanish-American War, Cavite, May 3, 189...
Marine detatchment that ran up the first American flag in the Philippines during the Spanish-American War, Cavite, May 3, 1898





George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron. Engraved by H. Meyer, from an original drawing by G.H. Harlow.





Pro-Choice Action Committee of Cleveland picket in front of the Hallenden House, site of Right to Life Society convention.. 1...
Pro-Choice Action Committee of Cleveland picket in front of the Hallenden House, site of Right to Life Society convention.. 1979





DuPONT COMPANY LABORATORY--Woman starting a pair of used nylons through a process developed at the laboratory which chemicall...
DuPONT COMPANY LABORATORY--Woman starting a pair of used nylons through a process developed at the laboratory which chemically unravels the stockings all the way back to their original complex components.(1940's)





NEW YORK CITY, an immigrant and his baby on the streets of the Lower East Side in 1907. Photograph is called, 'Fresh Air For ...
NEW YORK CITY, an immigrant and his baby on the streets of the Lower East Side in 1907. Photograph is called, 'Fresh Air For the Baby, New York Eastside.' taken by Lewis W. Hine.





Thousands of people crowd Times Square awaiting the New Year, South from Duffy Square, New York City, December 31, 1945





Gloria Pickett, Jane Greer (then Bette Jane Greer), and Inga Rundvold, modeling the uniforms to be worn by the Women's Auxili...
Gloria Pickett, Jane Greer (then Bette Jane Greer), and Inga Rundvold, modeling the uniforms to be worn by the Women's Auxiliary Corps, August 1942, Fort Des Moines, Iowa





Anti-abortion demonstrators march outside the Federal courts Building in downtown St. Louis, early 1970s





Tuskeegee, Alabama: The U.S. Army's first all-Black air unit, the 99th Pursuit Squadron, instructed be Lt. Donald B. McPheres...
Tuskeegee, Alabama: The U.S. Army's first all-Black air unit, the 99th Pursuit Squadron, instructed be Lt. Donald B. McPhereson. From left: Leeuel R. Custis, Mac Ross, Charles, DeBow, Frederick H. Moore, C.H. Flowers, Jr., George Levi Knox, Lee Rayford, Sherman W. White, Jr., George S. Roberts, and James B. Knighten, 1/23/42.





The summer home of President John F. Kennedy in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts on Cape Cod. The house was owned by industrialist...
The summer home of President John F. Kennedy in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts on Cape Cod. The house was owned by industrialist Louis R. Thun. April 5, 1963





Roscoe 'Red' Jackson (behind priest) walks up the steps before he is hanged. He was convicted of killing a travelling salesma...
Roscoe 'Red' Jackson (behind priest) walks up the steps before he is hanged. He was convicted of killing a travelling salesman who gave him a ride. Galena, Missouri, 1937





Enrico Caruso and his wife, Dorothy Park Benjamin, take a walk on Fifth Avenue in New York, 1918





HERO OF EMPIRE STATE BUILDING DISASTER NEW YORK--First aid kit in one hand, Don Molony, 17-year-old Coast Guardsman, helps an...
HERO OF EMPIRE STATE BUILDING DISASTER NEW YORK--First aid kit in one hand, Don Molony, 17-year-old Coast Guardsman, helps an unjured woman down stairs in the stricken Empire State Building on the morning of July 28. 7/28/45.





Patricia Kennedy Lawford, Jean Kennedy, Ethel Kennedy, in Leningrad, during a visit to the USSR. September 15, 1955. Photogra...
Patricia Kennedy Lawford, Jean Kennedy, Ethel Kennedy, in Leningrad, during a visit to the USSR. September 15, 1955. Photograph by Robert F. Kennedy





Eleanor Roosevelt gives singer Marian Anderson the Springarn Medal, an NAACP award for outstanding achievement by a black Ame...
Eleanor Roosevelt gives singer Marian Anderson the Springarn Medal, an NAACP award for outstanding achievement by a black American, 1939





An amateur art troupe of the Hsiangyang Commune in China's Kiangsu Province perform a 'ballad' to criticize Confucius, 1974





American R&B group The Miracles, L-R: Pete Moore, Bobby Rogers, Smokey Robinson, Ronald White, 1967.





FRANCE--Defenders of a pillbox guarding a street in Cherbourg, German soldiers surrender, waving a white flag, after being kn...
FRANCE--Defenders of a pillbox guarding a street in Cherbourg, German soldiers surrender, waving a white flag, after being knocked out of their position by allied tank fire. Soldiers in doorway of building at right keep guns on the ready on the lookout for any escape moves. Nazis carry their own wounded as they move defectedly in defeat with their





A McDonalds restaurant, featuring a ten item menu built around a 15 cent hamburger, c. 1950s





Fans cheer a Brooklyn Dodgers Pennant Victory in a bar on Withers Street. New York City, September 25, 1941





Chief counsel to the Senate Labor Rackets Committee Robert Kennedy, Teamster lawyer George Fitzgerald, Teamster President Jam...
Chief counsel to the Senate Labor Rackets Committee Robert Kennedy, Teamster lawyer George Fitzgerald, Teamster President James R. Hoffa, August 21, 1957.





Some of the first stewardesses for United Airlines, known as 'skygirls', standing next to a Boeing tri-motored plane, 1930





Men in the fight for Civil Rights participate in a memorial trek from Chatanooga, Tennesse to Jackson, Mississipi. They were ...
Men in the fight for Civil Rights participate in a memorial trek from Chatanooga, Tennesse to Jackson, Mississipi. They were honoring William Moore, was was killed in a similar walk, 1963





MAHARISHI MAHESH YOGI, head of the spiritual regeneration movement, accepts flowers from his followers, greeting his arrival ...
MAHARISHI MAHESH YOGI, head of the spiritual regeneration movement, accepts flowers from his followers, greeting his arrival at a NY airport, January 18, 1968





Leon D. Cuddeback of United Airlines takes off in his Swallow airplane from Boise, Idaho with 202 pounds of mail in the first...
Leon D. Cuddeback of United Airlines takes off in his Swallow airplane from Boise, Idaho with 202 pounds of mail in the first scheduled airline flight in history, April 6, 1926





Governor Orval Faubus (D) appears on TV program here late 9/26/58 urging voters to declare themselves ooposed to school integ...
Governor Orval Faubus (D) appears on TV program here late 9/26/58 urging voters to declare themselves ooposed to school integration in the 9/27/58 election that will decide the fate of Little Rock and Arkansas state schools, 9/27/58.





George Washington says farewell to his troops at Fraunces Tavern, New York, 1783. Painting by Hintermeister





Prisoners who were too sick to flee with the Nazis when the Allies arrived at the concentration camp in Gotha, Germany were e...
Prisoners who were too sick to flee with the Nazis when the Allies arrived at the concentration camp in Gotha, Germany were executed, 1945





JAMES R. HOFFA- The union leader during a press conference announcing wage-benefit demands on the trucking industry. 11/6/63





12-2-64 BERKELEY, CALIf.: Folk singer Joan Baez strums her guitar and sings freedom songs during a sit-in at the University o...
12-2-64 BERKELEY, CALIf.: Folk singer Joan Baez strums her guitar and sings freedom songs during a sit-in at the University of California at Berkeley.





Tuskegee, Alabama: The 99th Pursuit Squadron. Major James A. Ellison returns the laute of Mac Ross, 1/23/42.





BRIARCLIFF, NY--Miss Amelia Earhart, the well-known pilot, tested out for the first time the Avro-Avian biplane which she bou...
BRIARCLIFF, NY--Miss Amelia Earhart, the well-known pilot, tested out for the first time the Avro-Avian biplane which she bought from Lady Heath of England. It is the plane in which Lady Heath made her memorable trip over Africa recently. 1928.





JAPANESE CLIMB CHINESE WALL Photo, taken in Manchuria, shows Japanese infantry swarming up the steps of the main entrance to ...
JAPANESE CLIMB CHINESE WALL Photo, taken in Manchuria, shows Japanese infantry swarming up the steps of the main entrance to Chinchow, occupied by the Japanese. 1-19-32.





Man manipulating gadgets behind the scoreboard for the World Series, Yankee Stadium, New York City, October 4, 1939.





A view from the air of the huge crowds gathered at the Croyden Airdrome to greet Captain Charles A. Lindbergh when he flew th...
A view from the air of the huge crowds gathered at the Croyden Airdrome to greet Captain Charles A. Lindbergh when he flew the Spirit of St. Louis across the English Channel from Paris to England in 1927





Wounded U.S. and British soldiers being taken away from the capture of Cherbourg, June 28, 1944





Founder of The Flying Wallendas, Karl Wallenda, (1905-1978), tightrope walking across the Tallulah Gorge in Georgia, July 18,...
Founder of The Flying Wallendas, Karl Wallenda, (1905-1978), tightrope walking across the Tallulah Gorge in Georgia, July 18, 1970.





Returning U.S. troops marching up Fifth Avenue after the armistice and their return from France, New York, c. 1910's.





A poster entered in the National War Poster Competition held at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, 1942. The poster reads ...
A poster entered in the National War Poster Competition held at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, 1942. The poster reads 'Someone Talked!'





Visitors flock to the new High Line Park in the New York neighborhood of Chelsea on Sunday, June 14, 2009. The park, utilizin...
Visitors flock to the new High Line Park in the New York neighborhood of Chelsea on Sunday, June 14, 2009. The park, utilizing the railbed of the former High Line which ceased operation in 1980, has finished the first phase of its transformation into a 1.5 mile park running north from the trendy Meatpacking District. The original High Line, opened in 1934, traveled from West 35th, connecting with the railyards, down to Houston Street, traveling through the center of buildings where goods could





Arab-Israeli War, Royalist soldiers inspecting the burned hulk of a Commando vehichle outside guerrilla headquarters, Amman, ...
Arab-Israeli War, Royalist soldiers inspecting the burned hulk of a Commando vehichle outside guerrilla headquarters, Amman, Jordan, 09/26/70





Yankee Stadium, fans arrive to watch the game between the New York Giants and the St. Louis Cardinals, New York, November 24,...
Yankee Stadium, fans arrive to watch the game between the New York Giants and the St. Louis Cardinals, New York, November 24, 1963





Merce Cunningham on the set of the production RAINFOREST in the 1970s (decor by Andy Warhol)





President Calvin Coolidge and First Lady Grace Coolidge at his father's farm house in Plymouth, Vermont, 1923





Secretary of State Dean Rusk welcomes Pakistani Foreign Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto to the U.N. headquarters in New York, 19...
Secretary of State Dean Rusk welcomes Pakistani Foreign Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto to the U.N. headquarters in New York, 1965





4/28/45: At Nazi concentration camp in Belsen, Germany, SS women remove bodies of victims, under British 2nd Army troopers' g...
4/28/45: At Nazi concentration camp in Belsen, Germany, SS women remove bodies of victims, under British 2nd Army troopers' guard, from trucks before burial in communal grave.





Polo Grounds, during the 1937 World Series between the New York Yankees and the New York Giants





MARCUS GARVEY IS DEPORTED FROM U.S.A. Five hundred negroes of New Orleans, La., stood in the rain for hours to bid farewell t...
MARCUS GARVEY IS DEPORTED FROM U.S.A. Five hundred negroes of New Orleans, La., stood in the rain for hours to bid farewell to MArcus Garvey, as the deported negro leader boarded the S.S. Saramacca enroute to Jamaica. Mid 1920s.





Hell Gate Bridge Connecting Astoria Queens with Wards Island over the Hell Gate section of the East River, New York City, New...
Hell Gate Bridge Connecting Astoria Queens with Wards Island over the Hell Gate section of the East River, New York City, New York, United States of America, North America





Arab-Israeli War, Israeli Army strikes against Egyptian installations, Inshas, Egypt, February 8, 1970





The opening stock quotations on the left--how the quotations read after the collapse, on right. March 1929





JAMES R. HOFFA-With his wife ,daughter and granddaughter at the 19th Convention of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters...
JAMES R. HOFFA-With his wife ,daughter and granddaughter at the 19th Convention of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Miami Beach, FL. 7/4/66





The crew of the first manned Apollo space flight, in training for the Apollo Saturn AS-204 mission (renamed Apollo 1 in their...
The crew of the first manned Apollo space flight, in training for the Apollo Saturn AS-204 mission (renamed Apollo 1 in their honor). All three were killed in a fire at Cape Canaveral. L-R: Virgil I. Grissom, Roger B. Chaffee, Edward H. White II, 1966.





New Yorkers celebrating VJ Day and the prospect of an end to World War II, Times Square. The newspaper headline reads: 'Japs ...
New Yorkers celebrating VJ Day and the prospect of an end to World War II, Times Square. The newspaper headline reads: 'Japs Will Yield If Emperor Stays', August 1945.





John Adams (1735-1826), American President (1797-1801). Portrait painted by Gilbert Stuart in 1798





THE RUINS OF SHANHAIKWAN Two views of Shanhaikwan, important railroad center of Northern China, after the city had been bomba...
THE RUINS OF SHANHAIKWAN Two views of Shanhaikwan, important railroad center of Northern China, after the city had been bombarded by cannon and plane, and captured by the Japanese in the renewal of Oriental hostilities. 1/27/33.





Hermosillo, Mexico: Mexican Army paratroopers patrol the campus of the University of Sonora as it reopens for classes after a...
Hermosillo, Mexico: Mexican Army paratroopers patrol the campus of the University of Sonora as it reopens for classes after a two-month student strike that led to rioting and resulted in an army takeover. May 22, 1967.





Spanish fleet sunk bay the U.S. naval squadron commanded by George Dewey in Manila Bay, Philippines during the Spanish-Americ...
Spanish fleet sunk bay the U.S. naval squadron commanded by George Dewey in Manila Bay, Philippines during the Spanish-American War, 1898





Passengers on a stalled subway train during a power failure, New York City, November 9, 1965





Arab-Israeli War, Israel Army during maneuvers in the desert, Jebel Libnei, Israel, March 8, 1972





NORMANDY, from Army Signal Corps film, an unidentified American GI stands guard over four Nazis in the streets of Ste. Mere E...
NORMANDY, from Army Signal Corps film, an unidentified American GI stands guard over four Nazis in the streets of Ste. Mere Eglise





JAMES R. HOFFA-With his wife after being elected as General President of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters Union,Mia...
JAMES R. HOFFA-With his wife after being elected as General President of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters Union,Miami Beach, FL. 7/7/66





Jacqueline Kennedy (in her first public appearance since the death of her husband President John F. Kennedy), Ambassador Aver...
Jacqueline Kennedy (in her first public appearance since the death of her husband President John F. Kennedy), Ambassador Averell Harriman, arriving at the Plaza Hotel in New York, December 10, 1967.





Two Chinese-Americans celebrating the announcement of the end of World War II, New York, 1945.





New York City, 1940. A hippo balloon floats over Times Square during the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.





SIKESTON, MO--Evicted from their home, a sharecropper and his three little children sit amonst their meager possessions on th...
SIKESTON, MO--Evicted from their home, a sharecropper and his three little children sit amonst their meager possessions on the edge of a state highway and wait, along with a thousand other evicted croppers, for aid from the government. January 11, 1939.





4/8/67 WASHINGTON: A group of Anti-Vietnam War pickets, calling itself Spring Mobilization for Peace demonstrate in front of ...
4/8/67 WASHINGTON: A group of Anti-Vietnam War pickets, calling itself Spring Mobilization for Peace demonstrate in front of the White House.





New York City, workmen in the tunnels, during the construction of the New York City Subway. August 12, 1925





A typewriter designed to conserve the metal needed for the war effort during World War II, c. 1940s.





JOHN F. KENNEDY-Viewing the Berlin Wall from a platform at the Brandenburg Gate, Berlin. 6/27/63





CIVIL RIGHTS, Social Circle, Georgia, State troopers arrest demonstrators blocking the path of a school bus protesting school...
CIVIL RIGHTS, Social Circle, Georgia, State troopers arrest demonstrators blocking the path of a school bus protesting school conditions. February 15, 1968





mosquito infested abandoned rail line is cleaned. The abandoned rail line known as the Bronx Swamp is seen in the Mott Haven ...
mosquito infested abandoned rail line is cleaned. The abandoned rail line known as the Bronx Swamp is seen in the Mott Haven neighborhood of the Bronx in New York on Wednesday, December 16, 2009. The one and one-half mile rail line runs from Port Morris to the Melrose station and was formerly abandoned by CSX in 2004 and there is no clear ownership of the tracks and the right of way. The NYC Dept. of Environmental Protection has drained the below grade tracks which collected water and debris and





STREET SCENE IN TAIYUAN Splintered ruins line this street in Taiyuan, principal city in North China, after Japanese bombing. ...
STREET SCENE IN TAIYUAN Splintered ruins line this street in Taiyuan, principal city in North China, after Japanese bombing. A child stands in a shell-hole in the background. Note the bicycles behind him. 12/16/37.





Joan Baez relaxes between songs during her special public television concert AN HOUR WITH JOAN BAEZ (TV, 1974)





Demonstrators picket at Oak Woods Cemetery in Chicago. The cemetery refused to cremate a black woman's body, 1963





Mexico City: Students stream along Mexico City's Reforma Blvd en route to the Presidential Palace, carrying a banner bearing ...
Mexico City: Students stream along Mexico City's Reforma Blvd en route to the Presidential Palace, carrying a banner bearing Che Guevara's portrait. August 13, 1968.





NEW YORK: Black Panther Party march along 42nd Street en route to a scheduled news conference at United Nations Plaza. The co...
NEW YORK: Black Panther Party march along 42nd Street en route to a scheduled news conference at United Nations Plaza. The conference was called to protest the murder trial of Black Panther defense minister Huey Newton in Oakland, Calif. 7/22/68.





7/8/50--SUWON, KOREA: A tea shop in Suwon put up a large sign to welcome US troops during the war.





A Super DC-8 airplane (bottom) sits at the United Airlines terminal at the San Francisco International Airport, 1967





Anna Anderson kisses her daughter, singer Marian Anderson, after a performance of Verdi's 'The Masked Ball' at the Metropolit...
Anna Anderson kisses her daughter, singer Marian Anderson, after a performance of Verdi's 'The Masked Ball' at the Metropolitan Opera, 1955





Stanley Kubrick on the set of his first film, FEAR AND DESIRE (1954). He was the writer, director and technical crew for this...
Stanley Kubrick on the set of his first film, FEAR AND DESIRE (1954). He was the writer, director and technical crew for this production.





Armistice Day observance at the Eternal Light shrine, symbolic of those who lost their lives in France during World War I. Ma...
Armistice Day observance at the Eternal Light shrine, symbolic of those who lost their lives in France during World War I. Madison Square Garden, New York city, November 11, 1931

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