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Historical[edit]

1600-1700[edit]

  • 1665
    Trade lodge of the VOC in Hooghly, Bengal

1700-1800[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

  • 1787
    Constitution of the United States, page 1

  • 1794
    Portrait of John Jay

1800-1850[edit]

  • 1812
    Jacques-Louis David - The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries

  • 1818
    Declaration of Independence (Trumbull)

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

  • 1838
    Boulevard du Temple

  • 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

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

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

1850-1900[edit]

  • 1854
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  • 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

  • 1856
    Gustave Le Gray, Brig upon the Water

  • 1857
    Pont Saint-Michel, Paris, France

  • 1859
    Pont Saint-Michel, Paris, France

  • 1859
    Gustave Le Gray, Pavillon Mollien

  • ca.1860
    Samurai with sword

  • 1860 - 1865
    David Dixon Porter

  • 1860s
    Jacques Offenbach by Nadar

  • 1862
    Étienne Carjat, Portrait of Charles Baudelaire

  • 1862
    Centreville, VA, Quaker Guns in the fort on the heights

  • 1862
    William McIlvaine, The Chickahominy, Sumners Upper Bridge, American Civil War

  • 1863
    Hector Berlioz

  • 1864
    Democratic presidential ticket

  • 1864
    Republican presidential ticket

  • 1864
    Sarah Bernhardt, par Nadar

  • 1864
    Episode of the retreat from Dannevirke, 5 - 6 February 1864 - Battle of Sankelmark and Oeversee

  • 1864
    George Sand

  • 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 - 1880
    John Lorimer Worden - Mathew Brady

  • 1865-1880
    William Tecumseh Sherman

  • 1867-1899
    Historical Panorama of Beirut

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

  • 1869
    Railroad

  • 1869
    Louis Désiré Blanquart-Evrard

  • 1869
    Union Pacific Railroad, Utah

  • 1870
    Bill Thompson

  • 1870 - 1880
    President Rutherford Hayes

  • 1871
    Paris Town Hall, after the great fire of the Commune

  • 1876
    B'nai B'rith membership certificate

  • 1876
    Pedro II of Brazil

  • 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 puzzle

  • 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

  • 1886
    Joseph Ferdinand Keppler - The Pirate Publisher - Puck Magazine

  • 1888
    Construction of the Eiffel Tower

  • 1889
    Blind man carrying a paralysed man

  • 1889
    Sachsenhausen at the beginning of the 17th century

  • 1890
    Buffalo soldiers

  • 1890
    Charles Gounod by Nadar

  • 1890
    Charcot Jean-Martin Gallica Nadar, French neurologist

  • between 1891 and 1914
    La Belle Otero

  • ca. 1893
    Ida B. Wells-Barnett

  • 1893
    Proclamation of the Brazilian Republic

  • ca.1894
    Ambroise Thomas

  • 1895
    Train wreck at Montparnasse

  • 1895
    Espinasse père - Fonds Trutat

  • 1897
    Art Institute, Stockholm, Sweden

  • 1887
    Thure de Thulstrup - L. Prang and Co. - Battle of Gettysburg

  • 1899
    Cajal

  • 1899
    Temple Square, Salt Lake City

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

  • 1890-1900
    Dresden

  • 1890-1900
    Royal Avenue, Belfast

  • 1890-1905
    Amsterdam Centraal Station

  • 1891–1903
    Horse market in Lorenzkirch

  • 1893
    Alphonse Bertillon

  • 1895
    Louis Pasteur

  • 1895-1900
    McKinley Prosperity

  • 1897
    Leo Tolstoy

  • ca. 1899
    Nikola Tesla, with his equipment, double exposure.

  • Andersonvillesurvivor

  • Louis-DelphinOdobeyCadet

  • Men of Color Civil War Recruitment Broadside 1863

  • Thaddeus M. Fowler - Penn'a R.R. Car Shop's, Altoona, Pennsylvania, 1895

1900-1910[edit]

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

  • 1900 - 1906
    A Southern chain gang

  • 1900-1910
    Charlie Chaplin

  • ca.1910
    Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  • 1900
    Mulberry Street, NYC, USA

  • 1900
    Eastman Kodak HQ 1900

  • 1900
    Three Piegan (Blackfeet) chiefs

  • 1900
    Saami Family 1900

  • 1901
    Voltairine de Cleyre (Age 35)

  • 1902
    Lightning striking the Eiffel Tower

  • 1903
    Wright brothers' first flight.

  • c. 1904
    C.M. Gilbert. - John Hay

  • 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

  • 1906
    San Francisco Mission District burning

  • ca.1906
    Senator Wetmore in automobile

  • 1907
    George Foster Peabody

  • 1908
    A child laborer

  • ca.1908
    Carl Nielsen

  • 1909
    Manhattan Bridge Construction

  • ca.1909
    Cheyenne dance4

  • ca.1910
    Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  • 1910
    A Brouhot car in Paris

1910-1920[edit]

  • before 1913 Dresden-Fuerstenzug4

  • British wounded Bernafay Wood 19 July 1916

  • 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".

  • 1911
    Russian Imperial Family

  • 1913
    Raymond Poincaré

  • 1914
    Vanity Fair June

  • 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

  • 1910-20
    Józef Piłsudski.

  • 1916
    Cheshire Regiment trench Somme

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

  • 1917
    Ottoman surrender of Jerusalem

  • 1918
    Egyptian camel

  • 1918
    Find the range of your patriotism

  • ca. 1918-1919
    John Meintz, punished during World War I

  • 1919
    Stalin, Lenin and Kalinin

1920-1930[edit]

  • 1920
    Working man

  • 1921
    Nguyen Aïn Nuä'C (Ho-Chi-Minh)

  • 1921
    Chaplin The Kid

  • 1923
    A smoky day at the Sugar Bowl, Hupa

  • 1923
    Auto wreck, Maryland, USA.

  • 1923
    Jean Cocteau b Meurisse

  • 1924
    Walter Johnson and Calvin Coolidge shake hands

  • 1927
    Solvay conference

  • 1929
    Portrait of two young Balinese dancers

  • 1929
    Inupiat Family from Noatak, Alaska - Edward S. Curtis

1930-1940[edit]

  • 1931
    Science and Mechanics Nov 1931 cover

  • 1936
    Dorothea Lange

  • 1936
    Dust bowl, Texas Panhandle

  • 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

1940-1950[edit]

  • Warriors of Lapland

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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, Calif.

  • 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
    Chicago and Northwestern railroad locomotive shop fsac

  • 1942
    Shasta dam under construction, California

  • 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

  • 1943
    Gary Plant Tubular Steel Corporation

  • 1944
    General Douglas MacArthur

  • 1944
    General Douglas MacArthur at Leyte, Philippine Islands

  • 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

  • 1946
    Max Dupain - Adelaide

  • 1949
    William Grant Still by Carl Van Vechten

1950-1960[edit]

  • 1957
    Nevada test Site

1960-1970[edit]

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

  • 1963
    Thích Quảng Äức 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.)

  • 1969
    A girl holds The Washington Post of Monday

  • 1960s or 1970s
    Saturn V and Wernher von Braun

1970-1980[edit]

  • 1971
    Apollo 15 expedition to Moon

  • 1973
    Legal hashish-shop, Kathmandu (Nepal)

  • Elvis Presley, Delbert Sonny West, and Jerry Schilling meeting Richard Nixon

1980-1990[edit]

  • 1982
    Stefan Heym,
    by Marcel Antonisse

  • 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

1990- Now[edit]

  • 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.

  • 2012
    2012 inauguration of the French President-IMG 1631

  • NASA's Shuttle Carrier Aircraft 905 (front) and 911 (rear).jpg/2

  • SHB-Red-Dust

  • Isabella Lövin signing climate law referral

Unsorted[edit]

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  • Blücher-Denkmal Bebelplatz 1961

  • Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima by Joe Rosenthal

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