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Equestrian Portrait of Cornelis (1639–1680) and Michiel Pompe van Meerdervoort (1638–1653) with Their Tutor and Coachman ("Starting for the Hunt") MET DP146442
1615 The Siege of Osaka Castle
1625 Justino de Nassau rindió la ciudad de Breda
1649-1653 Battle at Lanka, between the armies of Rama and the King of Lanka.
1665 Trade lodge of the VOC in Hooghly, Bengal
1692 Nicolas de Fer, map of
Trier and surroundings
Battle of Scheveningen (Slag bij Ter Heijde)(Jan Abrahamsz. Beerstraten)
L'execution de Maximilien de Robespierre a la guillotine
1785 Thomas Rowlandson - Vaux-Hall - Dr. Johnson, Oliver Goldsmith, Mary Robinson, et al
1787 Stucco relief at the Palace, Maya ruins at Palenque.
1787 Constitution of the United States, page 1
14 juillet 1790 Fête de la Fédération au Champ de Mars
20 septembre 1792 Bataille de Valmy
1798 Gravure voorstellende de kapitein J.G. Stedman TMNo. 3728-544b-1 edit
Btv1b69449573 Defaites des Anglois à l'Ance de St Caste restored
The Naval Battle Near Ecnomus (256 BC)
L'Exécution de la Punition de Fouet et Negres ao Tronco by Jean-Baptiste Debret
1812 Jacques-Louis David - The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries
30-31 October 1813 Bataille de Hanau
1818 Declaration of Independence (Trumbull)
1822 Pedro Américo – Independência ou Morte (Independence of Brazil)
1826 View from the Window at Le Gras, Joseph Nicéphore Niépce
1839 Neuhauser Straße, Munich by Franz von Kobell and Carl August von Steinheil
1840 The Anti-Slavery Society Convention by Benjamin Robert Haydon
1840 Watercolor portrait of Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (Ada Lovelace) Science & Society Picture Library By Alfred Edward Chalon
1850-1870 Palais de l'Industrie - Édouard Baldus
El Tres de Mayo, by Francisco de Goya, from Prado thin black margin
Korean art-Donggwoldo-Changdeokgung and Changgyeonggung-Dong-A University-01
Francisco de Goya - Escena de Inquisición - Google Art Project
Franeker. Stadhuis. 03-08-2021. (actm) 02
The Burning of the USS Missouri in Gibraltar
Edward Duncan - The Explosion of the United States Steam Frigate Missouri
Untitled (point de vue), Niépce 1827 — HRC 2020 (cropped)
Reconnaissance de la Terre Adelie, le 20 Janvier 1840
Cincinnati Panorama of 1848 (definitive)
Hughes & Mullins after Cundall & Howlett - Heroes of the Crimean War - Joseph Numa, John Potter, and James Deal of the Coldstream Guards
1851 San Francisco during the Gold Rush
1854 Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1854-56 Family George V of Hanover
1855 Embarkation of sick persons at the harbor in Balaklava
1855 Cavalry at the battle of Balaklava
December 16th, 1856 The visit of her majesty Queen Victoria to the Arctic ship Resolute
1856 Gustave Le Gray, Brig upon the Water
1857 Ancien pont Saint-Michel, Paris, France
1859 Nouveau pont Saint-Michel, Paris, France
1859 Gustave Le Gray, Pavillon Mollien
ca.1860 Samurai with sword
1862 Centreville, VA, Quaker Guns in the fort on the heights
1862 William McIlvaine, The Chickahominy, Sumners Upper Bridge, American Civil War
September 17th, 1862 Battle of Antietam
November 29, 1863 Battle of Fort Sanders
November 30, 1864 Battle of Franklin
1864 Democratic presidential ticket
1864 Republican presidential ticket
1864 Episode of the retreat from Dannevirke, 5 - 6 February 1864 - Battle of Sankelmark and Oeversee
1865 Lincoln assassination
ca. 1865 Charles Marville, Urinoir en ardoise à 3 stalles, Chaussée du Maine
ca. 1865 Charles Soulier, Panorama de Paris - Pris de la tour Saint Jacques
1865 Execution of Lincoln conspirators
1865 The burning of McPhersonville, South Carolina
1865 The burning of McPhersonville, South Carolina
1865 The burning of Columbia, South Carolina
1865 Prisoner of war, from Belle Isle, Richmond, at the U.S. General Hospital, Div. 1, Annapolis
1867-1899 Historical Panorama of Beirut
ca.1867 La Tour St. Jacques La Boucherie à Paris
1869 Union Pacific Railroad,
Utah
1870 W. H. Kendal as Philamir and Madge Kendal as Zeolide in W. S. Gilbert's The Palace of Truth
1871 Paris Town Hall, after the great fire of the Commune
1876 B'nai B'rith membership certificate
1877 Famine in India Natives Waiting for Relief in Bangalore
1879 Agnes Booth in W. S. Gilbert's Engaged 1879
1880 Great presidential puzzle
1880 Verdi conducting Aida in Paris 1880
1883 The Brooklyn Bridge in the City of New York
1887 Rowland Buckstone and Cissy Grahame in the revival of F. C. Burnand's The Colonel
1887 Atelier Nadar - Fly scene from Offenbach's Orphée aux enfers with Jeanne Granier as Eurydice and Eugène Vauthier as Jupiter, 1887 revival, wide-angle shot
1880-1890 Cane cutters in Jamaica
1886 Joseph Ferdinand Keppler - The Pirate Publisher - Puck Magazine
1888 Construction of the Eiffel Tower
1889 Sachsenhausen at the beginning of the 17th century
about 1890-1900 A Yeoman of the Guard (N.B. actually a Yeoman Warder), full restoration
1899 - 1901 Boxer Rebellion
1892 Martial Caillebotte - Gustave Caillebotte et Bergère sur la place du Caroussel, 1892
1893 Proclamation of the Brazilian Republic
1895 Train wreck at Montparnasse
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1897 Art Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
1887 Thure de Thulstrup - L. Prang and Co. - Battle of Gettysburg
1899 Temple Square, Salt Lake City
1890-1900 Royal Avenue, Belfast
1890-1905 Amsterdam Centraal Station
1891–1903 Horse market in Lorenzkirch
ca. 1899 Nikola Tesla, with his equipment, double exposure.
Thaddeus M. Fowler - Penn'a R.R. Car Shop's, Altoona, Pennsylvania, 1895
F.O.C. Darley and Alexander Hay Ritchie - Sherman's March to the Sea
Édouard Baldus, Pont Royal and Louvre - NYPL Digital Collections
The Grand Congratulatory Ceremony to Celebrate the Fortieth Birthday of Queen Dowager Jo
Exposition universelle - Paris, 1878 by Isidore Laurent Deroy - Gallica
Lepsius-Expedition-Cheops-Pyramide (full)
Edinburgh Castle from Grass Market
Thure de Thulstrup - Battle of Shiloh
Bandits Roost, 59 and a half Mulberry Street.jpg/2
Ruins in Charleston, South Carolina by George N. Barnard - crop
Thure de Thulstrup - The Massacre of the Chinese at Rock Springs
Wreck of the ship George Roper, Point Lonsdale (1883) by Fred Kruger
First medical X-ray by Wilhelm Röntgen of his wife Anna Bertha Ludwig's hand - 18951222
Bataille de Forbach, 6 août 1870 - Jean-Adolphe Bocquin et Jules Férat
Portland, Oregon, in 1898 - Herbert A. Hale
Zicht op de spoorbrug vanuit het verlengde van het spoor, Bestanddeelnr 657 (cropped)
Charles Marville, Rue Tirechape, de la rue de Rivoli, ca. 1853–70, edited
Carl Nebel - Genl. Scott's entrance into Mexico, Plate 45
Postkarte KG Heuschreck 1905
1900 Mulberry Street, NYC, USA
1900 Eastman Kodak HQ 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.
1906 San Francisco Mission District burning
1906 San Francisco in ruins after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire
1906 Post-and-Grant-Avenue-Look
1907 The Steerage, photograph by Alfred Stieglitz
1909 Manhattan Bridge Construction
ca. 1909 Lucy Arbell as Queen Amahelli in Massenet's Bacchus, wide view
Contorno da Torre Eiffel com o Dirigível Nº6 - 1-13651-0000-0000, Acervo do Museu Paulista da USP
Watching the Dancers by Edward S. Curtis 1906 - restored
1910 A Brouhot car in Paris
Sleeping, homeless children - Jacob Riis
Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst, Leader of the Women's Suffragette movement, is arrested outside Buckingham Palace while trying to present a petition to King George V in May 1914. Q81486
1914-1918 Message by carrier pigeon
19 July 1916 British wounded Bernafay Wood
1914 The assassination of Archduke heir of Austria and of the Duchess his wife in Sarajewo
1914 - 1918 Das Motorrad mit den Skiern von der Seite
1909-1915 Early color photograph from Russia
1915 The Camel Corps at Beersheba
1916 Cheshire Regiment trench Somme
1917 World War I era poster in Yiddish to encourage food conservation.
The White House by James Craig Annan
1921 Agence Rol, L’éclipse, gare Saint-Lazare, 1921
1921 Agence Rol, 24.4.21, concours de machines - BnF
1921 La chaleur à Paris, fillette prenant de l'eau à une borne-fontaine, 1921 - Gallica
1923 A smoky day at the Sugar Bowl, Hupa
1923 Auto wreck, Maryland, USA.
1925 Li Fu Lee at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's radio experiment station, 1925 (MIT Museum) - Restoration
Ansel-adams-monolith-the-face-of-half-dome - edit1
Flinders Street Station, Melbourne, at the intersection of Swanston Street and Flinders Street, 1927 - Glass plate
1931 Manhattan,
New York City
1935 Soba-Noodles-Deliveryman-Tokyo-1935
1936 Dust bowl, Texas Panhandle
1936 Farmer and sons walking in the face of a dust storm
1937 Metropolitan Opera House, a concert by pianist Josef Hofmann - NARA 541890 - Edit
1937 "Broke, baby sick, and car trouble!" - Dorothea Lange's photo of a Missouri family of five in the vicinity of Tracy, California
Grocery-store-widtsoe-utah-
Toward Los Angeles, California LOC 3549663710
Dust storm approaching Stratford, Texas
Dust storm, Amarillo, Texas, 8b27554a
Negro drinking at "Colored" water cooler in streetcar terminal, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma by Russell Lee
Migratory Mexican field worker's home on the edge of a frozen pea field, Imperial Valley, California, 8b38632, edit
Berlijn. Nachtopname van de Hardenbergstrasse met een toegang tot de U-bahnhalte
1940–1945 Douglas DC-3 of BOAC at Gibraltar
1940 Card puncher - NARA - 513295
1940 Soviet prisoners of war at Rovaniemi
1941 Maori Battalion performing a haka in Helwan, Egypt
1942 Infantryman with M1 Garand, Fort Knox, KY
1942 A package for Hitler 196462 edit
1942 Steam locomotives of the Chicago & Northwestern Railway in the roundhouse
1942 Chicago and Northwestern railroad locomotive shop fsac
1942 Woman worker in the Douglas Aircraft Company
1942 Turret lathe operator machining parts for transport planes at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas, USA
1942 Woman aircraft worker, Vega Aircraft Corporation, Burbank, California
1942 Assembly worker at the Long Beach, Calif., plant of Douglas Aircraft Company
1942 Assembling the North American B-25 Mitchell at Kansas City, Kansas (USA)
1942 Shasta dam under construction, California.
1943 Dr. Schreiber giving a typhoid innoculation
1943 Roundhouse wipers, 1943
1943 Japanese Family serving dinner to War Relocation Authorities at the Heart Mountain Relocation Center in Heart Mountain, Wyoming, in their barracks home at Block 7 - 21.
1943 Rosie the Riveter (Vultee) DS
1943 Burning Grumman F6F-3 Hellcat of VF-2 aboard USS Enterprise (CV-6)
1943 Chicago Union Station
1943 Farm Workers at Manzanar Relocation Center, California (by A. Adams)
1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
1943 Gary Plant Tubular Steel Corporation
1944 General Douglas MacArthur at Leyte, Philippine Islands
1944 Into the Jaws of Death 23-0455M edit
1944 Crew of a Sherman-tank
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1944 Patriots in the Champs Elysees
1944 witness of V2 damage on main intersection in Antwerp
1944 2Fi02473 Pont national US Army retouchée
1945 Raising a flag over the Reichstag
1945 National Assembly building ruins, Manila
1945 Mamoru Shigemitsu signs the Instrument of Surrender
1945 USS BUNKER HILL hit by two Kamikazes
1945 Attack on aircraft carrier USS Franklin
1945 Slave laborers in the Buchenwald concentration camp near Weimar
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
1946 Max Dupain - Adelaide
1947 Weeki Wachee spring, Florida
1948 A Bukharan dance performed by members of the Rina Nikova ballet in the citadel of Jerusalem - Restoration
1948 Surrealist artist Salvador Dalí.
R-1830 engine on C-47 at factory 1942
Handling serpents at the Pentecostal Church of God. (Kentucky) by Russell Lee. - NARA - 541335
De Havilland DH.98 Mosquito B Mk IV Series 2 (restoration)
Selection on the ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau, 1944 (Auschwitz Album) 1b
British Columbia Regiment 1940
"Photograph made from B-17 Flying Fortress of the 8th AAF Bomber Command on 31 Dec. when they attacked the vital CAM bal - NARA - 535712
Harvesting at Mount Barton, Devon, England, 1942 D10334
If you talk too much, this man may die
Rhine Crossing - US Navy ferrying troops across the Rhine River at Oberwesel, Germany
Esther Bubley - An instructor of the Capitol Transit Company teaching a woman to operate a one-man streetcar
Admiral Chester Nimitz signs as Supreme Allied Commander during formal surrender ceremonies on the USS Missouri
1950 Flight of Refugees Across Wrecked Bridge in Korea (Original)
1956 Rosa Parks being fingerprinted by Deputy Sheriff D.H. Lackey after being arrested for boycotting public transportation
1957 Unmanned blimp felled by a nuclear test at the Nevada Test Site
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1957 Airliner SAS DC 7 in the air
1959 Mary Martin in The Sound of Music
1960 Joseph Kittinger's record-breaking skydive from 102,800 feet
1961 Monument to Prussian army
1961 Finnish soldiers in NBC gear, 1961
1963 Thích Quảng Đức self-immolation
1963 Robert Kennedy CORE rally speech2
1963 Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C. (Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Mathew Ahmann in a crowd.)
1965 President Lyndon B. Johnson Signing of the Immigration Act of 1965 (02) - restoration1
1967 Flickr - Government Press Office (GPO) - Soldiers Shower Near
Eilat
1968 Artistas protestam contra a Ditadura Militar - Tônia Carreiro, Eva Wilma, Odete Lara, Norma Bengell e Cacilda Becker - Restoration
1968 My Tho, Vietnam. A Viet Cong base camp being. In the foreground is Private First Class Raymond Rumpa, St Paul, Minnesota - NARA - 530621 edit
1969 Luis Alvarez with a magnetic monopole detector - Restoration
1969 A girl holds The Washington Post of Monday
1969 Margaret Hamilton standing next to the navigation software that she and her MIT team produced for the Apollo Project.
1960s or 1970s Saturn V and Wernher von Braun
US Marshals with Young Ruby Bridges on School Steps
Thuong Duc, Vietnam - A Viet Cong prisoner awaits interrogation at the A-109 Special Forces Detachment in Thuong - NARA - 531447
1970 Presley, West and Schilling meeting Nixon
1973 Legal hashish-shop, Kathmandu (Nepal)
1973 Päästetööd merel 73 (08)
1976 The Shuttle Enterprise
Firing Squad in Iran.jpg/2
1989 Juggling on the Berlin Wall 1
1994 King Hussein of Jordan lights P.M.Yitzhak Rabin's cigarette at royal residence in Akaba, shortly after signing the peace treaty at Arava border-crossing
1994 The Nobel Peace Prize laureates for 1994 (Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres, Yitzhak Rabin) in Oslo
2001 September 11 World Trade Center attacks, New York
2001 Satellite view of September 11 World Trade Center attacks, New York
2001 South tower of the
WTC ,
New York City , New York (USA, 14 Sept 2001)
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.
2009 Sydney Harbour Bridge during a red dust storm
2010 Polish newspaper headline "The President is Dead"
2011 NASA's Shuttle Carrier Aircraft 905 (front) and 911 (rear) flying in formation for the first time together.
2012 2012 inauguration of French President François Hollande.
2018 Isabella Lövin signing climate law referral.
2018 Penutupan Para Asian Games 2018.
2019 Spire of the Notre Dame Cathedral engulfed in flames.
2023 Gaza envelope after coordinated surprise offensive on Israel, October 2023
Wreckage from Key Bridge Collapse (240326-A-SE916-9511)
State visit by King Frederik X of Denmark in 2024 03
2024 Kłodzko, zespół klasztorny franciszkanów (3), powódź
2024 Most Żelazny w Kłodzku (8), powódź
Damage in Gaza Strip during the October 2023 - 29
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