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Historical [edit]

  • 1767
    Benjamin Franklin

  • 1785
    Thomas Rowlandson - Vaux-Hall - Dr. Johnson, Oliver Goldsmith, Mary Robinson, et al

  • 1787
    Stucco relief at the Palace, Maya ruins at Palenque.

  • 1792
    Aztec sun calendar

  • 1798
    Gravure voorstellende de kapitein J.G. Stedman TMNo. 3728-544b-1 edit

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

  • 1838
    Boulevard du Temple

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

  • ca.1850
    Unidentified woman - daguerreotype by Southworth & Hawes

  • 1850-1870
    Palais de l'Industrie - Édouard Baldus

  • 1851
    Washington Crossing the Delaware by Emanuel Leutze, MMA-NYC

  • 1854-56
    Family George V of Hanover

  • 1855
    Embarkation of sick persons at the harbor in Balaklava

  • 1855
    Cavalry at the battle of Balaklava

  • 1855-1865
    Admiral Farragut

  • ca.1860
    Samurai with sword

  • 1860
    Railroad

  • 1862
    Étienne Carjat, Portrait of Charles Baudelaire, circa 1862

  • 1864
    Democratic presidential ticket

  • 1864
    Republican presidential ticket

  • 1865
    Execution of Lincoln conspirators

  • 1865
    The burning of McPhersonville, South Carolina, February 1, 1865 (original sketch)

  • 1865
    The burning of McPhersonville, South Carolina, February 1, 1865 (as published)

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

  • 1865-1880
    William Tecumseh Sherman

  • 1867-1899
    Historical Panorama of Beirut

  • ca.1867
    La Tour St. Jacques La Boucherie à Paris ca. 1867

  • 1870
    Bill Thompson

  • 1876
    B'nai B'rith membership certificate

  • 1877
    Famine in India Natives Waiting for Relief in Bangalore

  • 1878
    Belle of Nelson Whiskey poster

  • ca. 1878
    Thomas Edison with phonograph

  • 1880
    Great presidential puzzle2

  • 1881
    Guiteau cartoon2

  • ca.1882
    Kingdavidkalakaua dust

  • 1882
    Oscar Wilde

  • 1883
    The Brooklyn Bridge in the City of New York

  • 1883
    Prang's Valentine Cards

  • 1885 - the premiére of Jules Massenet's Le Cid

  • 1880-1890
    Cane cutters in Jamaica

  • 1889
    Blind man carrying a paralysed man

  • 1889
    Sachsenhausen at the beginning of the 17th century

  • 1890
    Buffalo soldiers

  • 1895
    Train wreck at Montparnasse

  • 1897
    1897, Art Institute, Stockholm, Sweden

  • 1899
    Cajal-Restored

  • 1899
    Temple Square, Salt Lake City, 1899 retouched

  • 1890-1900
    Elderly Irish woman at a spinning wheel.

  • 1890-1900
    Dresden photochrom2

  • 1890-1900
    Royal Avenue Belfast2

  • 1890-1905
    Amsterdam Centraal Station2

  • 1891–1903
    Horse market in Lorenzkirch

  • 1895-1900
    McKinley Prosperity

  • 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
    Eastman Kodak HQ 1900

  • 1900
    Three Piegan (Blackfeet) chiefs

  • 1900
    Saami Family 1900

  • 1902
    Lightning striking the Eiffel Tower

  • 1903
    Wright brothers' first flight.

  • ca.1905
    COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM 'Het verslepen van de steen 'Darodaro' voor de gestorven Saoenigeho van Bawamataloea Nias TMnr 1000095b

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

  • 1905
    The native mode of grinding coffee, Palestine.

  • 1905
    Schiller edit1

  • 1906
    San Francisco Mission District burning

  • ca.1906
    SenatorWetmoreInAutomobile retouched

  • 1908
    A child laborer

  • 1909
    Manhattan Bridge Construction

  • ca.1909
    Cheyenne dance4

  • 1910
    A Brouhot car in Paris, 1910

  • 1911
    Monroe Street Bridge

  • ca. 1911
    Aviator Hélène Dutrieu seated in her airplane.

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

  • ca. 1910
    Mignon Nevada as "Ophelia".

  • before 1913
    Dresden-Fuerstenzug4

  • 1914
    Vanity Fair June

  • 1909-1915
    Early color photograph from Russia

  • 1910-20
    Józef Piłsudski.

  • 1916
    Cheshire Regiment trench Somme

  • 1917
    World War I era poster in Yiddish to encourage food conservation.

  • 1918
    Egyptian camel transport3

  • 1918
    Find the range of your patriotism2

  • 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

  • 1927
    Solvay conference 1927

  • 1929
    COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM Portert van twee jonge Balinese danseressen TMnr 10004678b

  • 1931
    Science and Mechanics Nov 1931 cover

  • 1936
    Dorothea Lange

  • 1937
    Metropolitan Opera House, a concert by pianist Josef Hofmann - NARA 541890 - Edit

  • ca.1940
    Card puncher - NARA - 513295

  • ca.1942
    Steeplechase2

  • 1942
    Infantryman with M1 Garand, Fort Knox, KY

  • 1942
    A package for Hitler 196462 edit

  • 1942
    M3 tank

  • 1942
    INF3-126 War Effort In Germany... someone is doing the same job as you - Beat him! edit

  • 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

  • Unknown, before 1943
    Sergei Rachmaninoff LOC 30160 cropped

  • 1943
    EnterpriseBurningHellcat

  • 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
    1944 NormandyLST

  • 1944
    Into the Jaws of Death 23-0455M edit

  • 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
    Buchenwald concentration camp

  • 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

  • 1963
    Robert Kennedy CORE rally speech2

  • 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)

  • 1989
    Juggling on the Berlin Wall 1

  • 2001
    September 11 World Trade Center attacks, New York

  • 2001
    Debris on surrounding roofs at the site of the World Trade Center on September 28.

  • 2008
    Riots after the murder of Alexandros Grigoropoulos, Sina Street - Faculty of law, Athens, Greece.

  • 2012
    2012 inauguration of the French President-IMG 1631

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  • Joseph Ferdinand Keppler - The Pirate Publisher - Puck Magazine - Restoration by Adam Cuerden

  • Dust bowl, Texas Panhandle, TX fsa.8b27276 edit

  • Thure de Thulstrup - L. Prang and Co. - Battle of Gettysburg - Restoration by Adam Cuerden

  • Louis Désiré Blanquart-Evrard 1869 photograph BNF Gallica

  • Berlioz Petit BNF Gallica

  • Inupiat Family from Noatak, Alaska, 1929, Edward S. Curtis (restored)

  • Detroit Publishing Company - Shakespeare's Memorial Theatre, Stratford-on-Avon, England

  • President Rutherford Hayes 1870 - 1880 Restored

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