People shopping and socializing on the main street of Pittsboro, North Carolina photographed by Dorothea Lange on a Saturday afternoon in July 1939.
Train conductor G. Reynolds checking his waybills in the caboose of a train on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway between Argentine and Emporia, Kansas. Photograph taken by Jack Delano in March 1943.
Soldiers of the Australian 4th Division photographed walking on a duckboard track passing through Chateau Wood, near Hooge in the Ypres salient, Belgium, on the 29 October 1917.
The Statue of Liberty in Paris, France, before it was transported to the United States. Photo taken in 1884.
Unpacking the famous painting the Mona Lisa following its return to the Louvre Museum after the end of World War II.
French soldiers from several regiments gathered at Château de Méricourt in France to receive British military decorations. Photograph taken on the 12 November 1916.
A newsstand vendor in Paris, France, sweeps the pavement outside her kiosk after a heavy rain shower on the 9 June 1955.
Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II) (right) and Princess Margaret (left) photographed together in the Music Room of Buckingham Palace on the 20 December 1938.
Civilians enter a bomb shelter in Helsinki, Finland as air-raid sirens start, with Soviet bombers inbound. Photograph taken on the 30 November 1939.
Queen Victoria and Prince Albert photographed by Roger Fenton on the 30 June 1854.
Photograph of the oldest house in Hamburg, Germany taken in 1898. It was built in 1524 and, despite protests from locals, was demolished on 8 December 1910.
US Marines dig in on a forward position, facing entrenched Japanese troops on the slopes of Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima, on the 22 February 1945.
People watching television at Waterloo Station in London in 1936.
The battle flag of the 8th Pennsylvania Reserve Regiment of the Union Army, which served in the American Civil War between 1861 and 1864.
Alexandra, Princess of Wales (later Queen consort of the United Kingdom) and her daughters Maud (front left), Louise (back left), and Victoria (right), photographed on the 23 July 1885.
A chest x-ray in progress at Dr. Maxime Menard’s radiology department at the Cochin Hospital in Paris, France, photographed c. 1914.
Norwegian farmers wearing Setesdalsbunad, folk costume traditionally worn in Bykle, Valle, and Bygland. Photograph taken in the c. 1880s.
British Army soldiers of the Royal Horse Artillery photographed in a German 5.9-inch howitzer emplacement on the Arras-Cambrai road during the Battle of the Scarpe in April 1917.
Colonel Donald J. M. Blakeslee gives a daily briefing to pilots of the 4th Fighter Group, photographed in England c. 1944.
Yatsou Kousirô, 31, from Hokkaido, 2nd class officer and censor at the Japanese embassy in Paris, photographed in 1864.
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