History in Photos
Martin Luther King Jr. addresses a crowd from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial where he delivered his famous, “I Have a Dream,” speech during the Aug. 28, 1963
Three old friends. The President TR, Bishop Vincent and Jacob Riis taken at Chautauqua NY, August 11th 1905
Ingrid Bergman at age 20, photographed in Sweden in 1935
Dublin, c1958
Temporary Indian camp. Note, Indian woman spinning wool. Also balls of yarn prepared for blanket weaving in foreground. Southern Navajo Agency, 1933
Lincoln Reward
Clemenceau, probably in Washington DC, 1922
Ladies' toboggan race, Australia, C1900
late 1800s, the great Comanche chief Quanah Parker.
UN Poster, 1945
Eleanor Roosevelt examines The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948
Captain Robert Falcon Scott, at the S. Pole, 1912
Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford at White House, June 1920
President Nguyen Van Thieu of South Vietnam and President Lyndon B. Johnson, 1968
President John F. Kennedy with Robert F. Kennedy and J. Edgar Hoover, 1961
Romania's dictator Nicolae Ceausescu (left) at a parade welcoming Soviet forces in August 1944
John Wayne in Vietnam, 1966
Robert Cornelius' Self-Portrait The First Ever Selfie (1839)
A German soldier jumping from his observation balloon, WWI c1916
Bob Dylan and Joan Baez at 1963 March on Washington
Walter Cronkite in Vietnam with CBS News, February 1968
Princess Margaret meets Cliff Richard at the 59 Club, 1962.
Naval Academy, Vera Cruz, Mexico after bombardment. April 1914
Jesse Jackson at March for Jobs and Justice, 1975
Buffalo Soldiers serving at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, NY, c1910s
two tepees reflected in water of pond, with four Piegan Indians seated in front of one tepee, Montana, c1910
Deborah Kerr & Frank Sinatra (1955)
Female workers in a rubber factory in Lancashire, UK September 1918
Houses of Laborers, La Clementina, Ecuador by Underwood, ca. 1907
The Kennedy family in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, with JFK at top left in the white shirt, 1931
701 Bourbon St., corner St. Peters St., New Orleans, Orleans, 1930s
Azapkapisi and Galata seen from the Sultan Selim by Ali Riza Bey, ca. 1880-1893
Julian Bond, member of the Georgia House of Representatives, 1966
Gay Rights Demonstration in New York City by Warren K. Leffler, 1976
Eleanor Roosevelt, Gene Kelly, Charles Bickford, Veroinca Lake, Joe E. Brown, Jane Wyman, Myrna Loy, George Murphy, and Margaret O'Brien, 1945
Yuma Indian mother and baby at the window of their dwelling, ca.1900
Eleanor Roosevelt and Shah of Iran in Teheran, Iran, 1959
Abraham Lincoln, seated, with his left hand on his face, 1863
Navajo women weaving one of the very large rugs for which Southern Navajo (Ganado district) Indians are famous, 1933
US Sharpshooters have good view of enemy from shelter behind old brick wall. 28th Infantry, Bonvillers, France, 1918
Mack Sennett's bathing beauties posed on automobile, c1920s
Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara Briefing, Vietnam, 1965
Panama - San Blas--Native Indians at beach market, c1900
Dick Nixon Rally
Mick
Crowds of onlookers read news of the Allied invasion of Normandy on an electric marguee in Times Square on D-Day June 6, 1944
Seventh Avenue and West 28th Street, New York. 1936
Carding wool to be used in Navajo Indian rug weaving, 1933