Long Beach, CA: Balloon dancers, trained by Miss Ethel Hunt, find the hard sand an ideal place to practice to the music of the ocean breakers at Long...
Born into slavery, American writer and abolitionist Frederick Douglass bought his freedom with income earned from lecturing abroad after the...
Women lined up on a beach hold giant masks in front of their faces which will be featured in the annual Venice Mardi Gras celebration.
National Guard troops block off Beale Street as Civil Rights marchers wearing placards reading, "I AM A MAN" pass by on March 29, 1968. It was the...
In this Pulitzer Prize winning photo, A Vietnamese mother and her children wade across a river, fleeing a bombing raid on Qui Nhon by United States...
Chicago, Illinois: Waiting in vain at Union Station here 9/1 Ellen Schmitz of St. Louis typifies plight of many travelers in Chicago and other cities...
New York:Manhattan's bright lights reflect on the East River below the Queensboro Bridge. It was a year ago, Nov. 9, when this scene was darkened by...
Josephine Baker, a young dancer from New York City's Harlem neighborhood, was the star attraction in the 1920s at the Folies Bergeres in Paris. One...
Beijing demonstrator blocks the path of a tank convoy along the Avenue of Eternal Peace near Tiananmen Square. For weeks, people have been protesting...
YOU'VE HEARD ABOUT--AND HERE IT IS ...THE OFTEN SPOKEN ANCIENT INDIAN PROVERB, 'HEAR NO EVIL, SEE NO EVIL AND SPEAK NO EVIL' IS SHOWN HERE IN THE...
China:. This section of the Burma road, taken by U.S. Army Signal Corps photographer in the China-Burma-India Theater, contains 24 switchbacks. June,...
Picture shows the Mexican Expedition of 1916. US soldiers riding on the cowcatcher of an American locomotive.
At London's Regent's Park Zoo, Missie the polar bear opens wide in annoyance at a small horsefly near her eye. | Location: Regent's Park Zoo, London,...
Vienna, Austria: Exodus--1956. A refugee mother cries into the shoulder of her child after reaching safety in Austria. The woman knew nothing of her...
Sun Valley, ID- The great winter sport has opened its summer season at Sun Valley, where you see Alf Engen, co-coach of the U.S. Olympic ski team, in...
Samuel J. Dixon of Toronto walks across the Niagara River Gorge on a 7/8-inch rope above the Whirlpool Rapids on September 6, 1890. Dixon crossed...
Malibu, CA- Elsie Larson and June Vlasek in playful mood at malibu. June Vlasek is graduating from Beverly Hills High School and Mis. Larson, until a...
Louis Zamperini, University of Southern California track star, runs with old Father Time as an opponent during workout at South Field, Columbia...
St. Petersburg, Florida: These daughters of the Old South try out an old southern custom. When summer comes they pack up their bathingsuits and head...
Demonstration on Palace Roof, 57th Street and 7th Avenue, showing the shellproof steel jacket. Leo Krause wearing the jacket, which weighs 12 pounds....
Springfield High School cheerleaders jump and cheer while performing on a sports field. Delaware County, Pennsylvania, March 5, 1941.
Nine-year-old Rosemary Muller of Roslyn Heights, Long Island, recovering from a heart operation, watches a similar operation being performed on...
Glare from the sun and reflection from the water, not to mention salt spray, are tough on the eyes. The modern, knowing Miss takes full precautions...
Canal Zone,Panama:War in Europe has resulted in a general tightening of the defenses of the Panama Canal,vital lifeline of the U.S. In the event the...
Photo shows Willie McFarlane the world open Golf Champ, driving off the roof of the Hotel McAlpin, with the club which was made for him by a crippled...
Otis Barton, inventor of the Barton tank, is shown here in the tank. The tank is to be used by William Beebe in his deep sea exploration expedition...
Helen Sasak, 12 years old, blows a giant bubble until it crashes on her face, to win a bubble gum blowing contest in Chicago.
New York, NY: "Romance"-The crisp, waddly walk of the pieon is felt in sharp contrast to the sluggish bulk of the two hippos in this $100. Winner by...
