Babe Ruth touches home plate after hitting the first home run at Yankee Stadium on the day of its inauguration, April 18, 1923
President Gerald Ford signs into law an extension on the Voting Rights Act, formally banning literacy tests and providing language assistance for minorities. USA, 1975
Three German saboteurs are prepared for their executions by firing squad after being captured while wearing U.S. Army uniforms (Belgium, 1944)
Mao Zedong & former U.S. President Richard Nixon during their less famous second & final meeting, 1976. Mao was in extremely poor health and died later that year
The ruins of the Cathedral of St. Michael, destroyed during the German bombing of Coventry by the Luftwaffe on November 14, 1940.
Japan’s surrender delegation boards the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay to end World War II.
The five “Marshals of the Soviet Union,” (L-R) Konstantin Vershinin, Georgy Zhukov, Kliment Voroshilov, Matvey Zakharov & Konstantin Rokossovsky, 1965. They held the 2nd highest military rank in the USSR, behind only “Generalissimo,” a rank specifically created for & used only by Stalin
An aerial photo of the four of the five sides of the Pentagon coming into shape during its construction, April 18, 1942
Segregated drinking fountain, Mobile, Alabama 1956.[900×902]
The Totenehrung, or “Honoring of the Dead”, at the 1934 Nuremberg Rally. Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler, and SA leader Viktor Lutze stand in front of the Ehrenhalle, or “Hall of Honor” [2609×3495]
Chairs facing the empty bed of Chinese communist dictator Mao Zedong, 1970’s. As Mao aged he increasingly grew fond of holding court with his advisors from the comfort of his bed, often even in his pajamas
Mexican federal soldier says goodbye to his daughter before going to war, Mexico, (1915)
Woman kissin returning soldier, WWI, circa (1919)
Ansel Adams – Hands weaving magnetic-core memory, IBM (1956)
The Brewster Body Shield was 40 pounds of experimental WWI armor that could withstand Lewis machinegun bullets at 2,700 ft/s
The Statue of Liberty being unboxed, 1885
Ferdinand I of Austria was an emperor known for his comically large forehead, the result of generations of inbreeding
Pre-fame Marilyn Monroe in (1944)
The Last Photo taken of 25th U.S. President William McKinley, on September 6, 1901, he died 8 days later
The booking photo of Ernesto Miranda. Miranda was charged with kidnapping and rape of 18-year-old Patricia Weir. He was the subject of Miranda v. Arizona, which required suspects to be informed of their rights against self-incrimination and to consult with an attorney (Arizona, 1963)
Winston Churchill, invited by Eleanore Roosevelt to visit the grave of Franklin Roosevelt at his Hyde Park residence, taken on March 12, 1946.
