History in Photos

Aftermath of the Dieppe Raid, August 19, 1942

Churchill and FDR at the Atlantic Conference, August 1941

1914 Santa Claus in Japan

Van Buren Campaign and Commemorative Items

Santa Claus with Christmas toys on a sled drawn by white turkeys

Hitler, Goering, Goebbels, Hess

Dental Surgeon E.W. Lacy on burro in China, 1927.

In time of war, American women take over the jobs left vacant by the men fighting on the war front, 1917

Lincoln c1864/5

Cartoon by JM Staniforth. The Western Mail launches its annual Christmas charity appeal, 1898

German dragoons near Reims 1914

Benjamin Harrison Campaign Items, ca. 1888-1892

Church built on top of a car, 1923

the anatomy lab, c1948

1915 advertisement for Hearne's Bronchitis Cure, Sydney

German fort in the forest of the Argonne in France 1914

Elbow Benders, Having a beer in Art's Sportsman's Tavern on a rainy day in Colchester, Connecticut. November 1940

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President Theodore Roosevelt Riding in a Carriage along Fifth Ave, in New York City, 1910

Fidel_Castro_and_Camilo_Cienfuegos, 1959

Mex. Rev. President Madero and Vice-presidente Pino Suárez were slained on February 22, 1913, at this spot

Service station on Connecticut Avenue. Washington, D.C., September 1940

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Gen Blanco and Staff, US border troops and the Mexican revolution, ca1910

Vietnam War protesters. 1967. Wichita, Kansas

Fidel Castro Washington 1959

Emily_Dickinson, between December 10, 1846 and late March 1847

cough syrup, 1888

This ten-foot alligator gar was caught and photographed at Moon Lake in Mississippi in 1910

Pilot and observer inside the cockpit of a two-man biplane, in France, during World War I, c1918

Gen. Villa, 1915

Pres. Johnson

Morenci- Arizona, 1895 saloon poker game

Texas & Pacific Railway, c1946

During World War I, Woodrow and Edith Wilson kept a flock of sheep on the White House grounds to save costs to cut the grass, c1919

Ad for Smith & Wesson's Revolvers, 1869

Mayan Burial

Wilson in the Rolls Royce, date unknown

Ferry boat on the Tyne, Newcastle, c1900

In the land of the Sioux, c1907

WWII Sign on Tarawa illustrates Marine humor and possible lack of optimism as to duration of war.

Dakota Territory stagecoach, c1870s

A cross roads store, bar, juke joint, and gas station in the cotton plantation area, Melrose, La., 1940

Orphans going to Coney Island in Autos, 1911

The Osberg ship, Viking relic, 8th century

Studio54 Disco Queen, 70s

Jesse James

Harriet, Elizabeth, Lucie, and Ruth Chrisman at their sod house in Custer County, Nebraska, 1886. Solomon D. Butcher,Library of Congress

Two women playing badminton in front of a small group of other women. Photograph taken in August 1908

Unidentified man and Eva Gabor during opening night party at Roseland for the stage production West Side Story

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