Commons:Featured pictures/Historical

1826
View from the Window at Le Gras, Joseph Nicéphore Niépce

1838
Boulevard du Temple

1840
The Anti-Slavery Society Convention, 1840 by Benjamin Robert Haydon

1855-1865
Admiral Farragut

1860
Railroad 1860

1864
Democratic presidential ticket

1864
Republican presidential ticket

1865-1880
William Tecumseh Sherman

1870
Bill Thompson

1876
B'nai B'rith membership certificate 1876

ca. 1878
Thomas Edison with phonograph

1882
Oscar Wilde

1883
The Brooklyn Bridge in the City of New York

1885 - the premiére of Jules Massenet's Le Cid (Seen here: Act 2, Scene 3, in the original production)

1880-1890
Cane cutters in Jamaica

1890
Buffalo soldiers

1895
Train wreck at Montparnasse 1895

1890-1900
Elderly Irish woman at a spinning wheel.

1900s
"The Barnum & Bailey greatest show on earth Wonderful performing geese, roosters and musical donkey"

1900-1910
Charlie Chaplin

1900
Mulberry Street, NYC, USA

1900
Three Piegan (Blackfeet) chiefs

1902
Lightning striking the Eiffel Tower

1905
Night in Luna Park, Coney Island, N.Y.

1905
The native mode of grinding coffee, Palestine.

1906
San Francisco Mission District burning

1908
A child laborer

1909
Manhattan Bridge Construction

1911
Monroe Street Bridge

1898-1914
Costumes and characters, etc. Girls of Ramallah

1909-1915
Early color photograph from Russia

1916
Cheshire Regiment trench Somme 1916

1919
Stalin, Lenin and Kalinin

1920
Working man

1923
A smoky day at the Sugar Bowl, Hupa

1923
Auto wreck, Maryland, USA.

1924 Walter Johnson and Calvin Coolidge shake hands

1936
Dorothea Lange

1942
Steam locomotives of the Chicago & Northwestern Railway in the roundhouse

1942
Chicago and Northwestern railroad locomotive shops

1942
Woman worker in the Douglas Aircraft Company

1943
Chicago Union Station

1943
Farm Workers at Manzanar Relocation Center, California (by A. Adams)

1943
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

1944
General Douglas Macarthur

1944
General Douglas MacArthur at Leyte, Philippine Islands

1944
Crew of a Sherman-tank

1944
Patriots in the Champs Elysees

1944
witness of V2 damage on main intersection in Antwerp

1945
USS BUNKER HILL hit by two Kamikazes

1945
Attack on aircraft carrier USS Franklin

1945
Nagasaki before and after the atomic bombing

1945
Nagasaki temple destroyed

1945
Warning sign in Cologne

1945
Infantrymen move down a street in Waldenburg

1946
Operation Crossroads, Baker explosion, Micronesia

1957
Nevada test Site

1960
Joseph Kittinger's record-breaking skydive from 102,800 feet

1969
A girl holds The Washington Post of Monday

1960s or 1970s
Saturn V and Wernher von Braun

1971
Apollo 15 expedition to Moon

1973
Legal hashish-shop, Kathmandu (Nepal)

2001
September 11 World Trade Center attacks, New York

Dutrieuc

FEMA - 5399 - Photograph by Andrea Booher taken on 09-28-2001 in New York

Blind man carrying a paralysed man

Mignon Nevada Ophelia2

Prang's Valentine Cards2

PalenqueAc

Horse market in Lorenzkirch

Pilsudski 1910 1920 LOC hec 14263 restored

The burning of Columbia, South Carolina, February 17, 1865

Buchenwald-bei-Weimar-am-24-April-1945