(Old Ironsides) ready for launching after repairs on dry dock railway, U. S. Navy yard, Portsmouth, N. H.

as a part of early running research

as The Wicked Witch of the West.

Managed the Phillies for 50 years;

Seaman Leroy Kellam, weighed down with belts of 20 millimeter cannon ammunition, hustles up the flight deck of USS Essex to load a waiting Banshee fighter. Off the coast of North Korea.

pioneer of modern nursing in Finland and President of the International Council of Nurses, Finland

An American-German Bund rally hosted by Fritz Julius Kuhn, a German national, at Madison Square Garden, New York City, USA, in February of

14-inch shells on deck of the U.S. Navy battleship. while the battleship was replenishing her ammunition supply prior to the invasion of Guam

USAF, broke the sound barrier in level flight

last ruling monarchs of Ethiopia. Photograph by Robert Moore

showing how much information a CD-rom could hold in paper

at Bar Harbor, Maine

Officer of the Brazilian Imperial Army. Veteran Of The Paraguayan War, son of freed Africans, and grandson of the King of the Oyo Empire.

enters Alexandria harbour after striking a mine off the Dodecanese Islands

ex-French Passenger Liner Normandie, in right center under salvage at New York City's Pier 88

and Muhammad Ali (then known as Cassius Clay ) Sr.

surfacing at a 48 degree up angle, from a depth of 150 feet, during tests off the coast of Oahu, Hawaii,

in her Lockheed Electra

receiving the first mid-air refueling from a plane flown by 1st Lt. Virgil Hine and 1st Lt. Frank W. Seifert

Altamont Speedway Free Festival

The First Dr Who

was the leading French flying ace in WW1 with 54 victories, and a national hero at the time of his death at age 22.

fishing village

in his last season

underway during Operation Deep Freeze

poses for a mugshot on his arrival at the Federal Penitentiary at Alcatraz in San Francisco

record-breaking electric car "Jamais Contente" ("Never satisfied"), the first car to reach 100kph,

takes a mirror selfie with husband Paul and daughter Mary; London

on her wedding day Detroit Lions’ Dick “Night Train” Lane was her seventh husband.

dapper in London

posing with Models in his futuristic vision of nursing uniforms in Paris, France

went electric, Newport Folk Festival

Creator of the Plastic Lawn Flamingos

Actress Jayne Mansfield playing violin for her dogs.

Women's skiing pioneer

Soviet Sergeant Fyodor Konoplyov and his crew firing a DShK anti-aircraft gun, Leningrad, Russia

Smoke rings coming off the guns of USS Miami (CL-89) during the Battle of Peleliu

A column of smoke 500 feet wide rises from the burning oiler USS Mississinewa (AO-59) after being struck by the first Japanese Kaiten manned torpedo deployed. Ulithi Atoll, 20 Nov 1944. The ship sank with a loss of 63 crew. The light carrier USS Langley (CVL-27) is in the foreground.

visits Alcatraz as a member of the University of San Francisco Basketball Team

and Charles During a Visit to Egypt

P5M Marlin seaplane entering the well deck of the dock landing ship

Balloon release after the christening of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70), Newport News, March

in the Mercedes-Benz W125 Rekordwagen, setting the record for the highest speed ever timed on a public road (428.5km/h)

Eruption of Mt. Saint Helens as viewed by climbers on nearby Mt. Adams

shortly after conversion to a command ship, underway off the southern California coast

It was the only significant volcanic eruption to occur in the contiguous 48 U.S. states since the 1915 eruption of Lassen Peak in California. However, it has often been declared as the most disastrous volcanic eruption in U.S. history.

set at Woodstock

US Navy A-7E attacking the Hai Duong bridge in North Vietnam during Operation Linebacker

his former slave, 44th Mississippi Infantry, Confederate States Army. Silas saved Andrew's life at the Battle of Chickamauga. Andrew later gave Silas land to build a church for his community.

in Topeka following their buffalo hunt

near his P40 Kittyhawk - he crashed in the Egyptian desert

Princess Margaret enjoy a quarterdeck chat aboard the Royal Yacht, HMS Vanguard

Aerial view of with mountains in the background, Peru. Martín Chambi

“Voila le roi des indiscrets”: French prime minister A spots photographer Erich Salomon

Smithsonian Observatory scientists plotting orbit of Sputnik I on globe at MIT.

American economist, social theorist, political philosopher, and author

during a photo shoot for the album “Lodger”

Silent era leading man. He was one of the first male sex symbols in Hollywood

posing by his MP4 F1 car

and her Ruxton Sedan

and Mylène Demongeot

by Lynn Goldsmith

backstage at Madison Square Garden during a Rolling Stones show that Stevie opened.

journalist Earl Leaf, Marshal Zhu De, and an interpreter in Yan’an, Shaanxi province

Inauguration of the Art Deco statue of Jesus Christ in Rio de Janeiro

A truck rolls down the bow ramp of USS Frederick (LST-1184) during Exercise Team Spirit

Submariners playing cards on board

and Friends at a London Parade

with Che Guevara's daughter Aleida, Cuba

cellhouse shelled by mortars during the "Battle of Alcatraz"