World War 1: Battle of Verdun. French soldiers crawling through their own barbed wire entanglements as they begin an attack on enemy trenches. April-June, 1916.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, President of Turkey, 1923-1938. He was a supporter of the 1908 Young Turk Revolution, a victorious General of the defense of Gallipoli in 1915, and led the Turkish National Move
National League of Women Voters hold up signs reading, 'VOTE', Sept. 17, 1924. Millions of women voted in 1920 and 1924, but in a lower proportion than men.
Wheat Field with Cypresses, by Vincent Van Gogh, 1889, Dutch Post-Impressionist, oil on canvas. This was his first version and was likely painted en plein air, when Van Gogh was able to leave the prec
THE DEATH OF SOCRATES, by Jacques Louis David, 1787, French Neoclassical painting, oil on canvas. Greek Classical philosopher Socrates about to drink poison hemlock as the price of maintaining his bel
THE BIRTH OF VENUS, by Alexandre Cabanel, 1875, French painting, oil on canvas. This is a copy of Cabanels popular work exhibited in Paris Salon of 1863, which was purchased by Napoleon III for his pe
ST. JUSTINA OF PADUA, by Bartolomeo Montagna, 1490-1524, Italian Renaissance painting, oil on wood. Justina of Padua was baptized by St. Prosdocimus, the first bishop of Padua, and then martyred for h
Water Lilies, by Claude Monet, 1919, French impressionist painting, oil on canvas. Monet left many of his late works unfinished, but this work was an exception which he signed and sold in 1919
Vetheuil in Summer, by Claude Monet, 1880, French impressionist painting, oil on canvas. This painting creates the illusion of flickering reflections of sunlight on the water
Couple dancing the jitterbug
Referee counting down knockout
Celebrating the New Year
Portrait of Louis XIV, by Hyacinthe Rigaud studio, 1701, French painting, oil on canvas. This is a contemporary copy of the original Portrait of Louis XIV of 1701
Irises, by Vincent van Gogh, 1889, Dutch Post-Impressionist painting, oil on canvas. Van Gogh painted this in the garden of the asylum in Saint-Remy, France in May 1889. The cropped composition was l
Portrait of Elizabeth I, Queen of England, by Anonymous, c. 1550-99, European painting, oil on panel. The Queen wears a dress with a lace collar and ornamented with precious stones. She has a heavily
The Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise, 1791, by Benjamin West, by Anglo-American painting, oil on canvas. Archangel Michael expels Adam and Eve, who wear coats of skins' from Eden. The serpent,
Woman with a Parasol-Madame Monet and Her Son, by Claude Monet, 1875, French impressionist painting, oil on canvas. Contrary to the conventions of traditional portraiture, Monet painted the features
The Japanese Footbridge, by Claude Monet, 1899, French impressionist painting, oil on canvas. Floating lily pads and mirrored reflections assume equal importance, merging the solid objects and moment
Green Wheat Fields, Auvers, by Vincent van Gogh, 1890, Dutch Post-Impressionist painting, oil on canvas. Painted in the last months of his life, Van Gogh's painted with broad calligraphic strokes. Th
Farmhouse in Provence, by Vincent van Gogh, 1888, Dutch Post-Impressionist painting, oil on canvas. Van Gogh's time in Arles was amazingly productive. In about 15 months just 444 days
Self-Portrait, by Vincent van Gogh, 1889, Dutch Post-Impressionist painting, oil on canvas. He painted this when in asylum at St.-Remy, where he had committed himself following a mental breakdown. Af
Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries, by Jacques-Louis David, 1812, French painting, oil on canvas. The Emperor is portrayed as having worked through the night at his desk, composing the Na
Marie-Antoinette, by Elisabeth-Louise Vigee Le Brun, 1783, French painting, oil on canvas. The tragic guillotined French Queen was played by Norma Shearer in the 1938 film, MARIE ANTOINETTE, and by K
George Washington, by Gilbert Stuart, c. 1803-05, American painting, oil on canvas. In 1796 Washington sat for Stuart who created the famous, but never finished 'Athenaeum' portrait. From that work,
The Milkmaid, by Johannes Vermeer, 1660, Dutch painting, oil on canvas. Illuminated by light from a window, a young woman pours milk into a cooking pot next to a wicker basket of bread. In lower righ
Emperor Napoleon I and his Staff on Horseback, Horace Vernet, c. 1815-50, French oil painting. In the distance is the smoke from a battle of the Napoleonic Wars
Still Life with Flowers, by Eelke Jelles Eelkema, c. 1815-39, Dutch oil painting, oil on canvas. Bouquet of roses, tulips, daffodils, irises, on a stone plinth. Among the flowers is a butterfly. A sma
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, President of Turkey, with his pet dogs, ca. 1930. As part of Kemal's modernization and Westernization of Turkey, he encouraged the acceptance of dogs, and the end to their relig
ENIAC computer was the first general-purpose electronic digital computer. 'Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer' was 150 feet wide with 20 banks of flashing lights. Ca. 1946
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Karl Marx (1818-1883)
Charles Darwin (1809-1882), circa 1870s-1980s.
Ludwig Van Beethoven, portrait by J. Stieler, 1819
Johann Gutenberg (right) in engraving from 1881
We Can Do It!' World War 2 poster boosting morale of American women contributing to the war effort. It was created by J. Howard Miller for Westinghouse Company in 1942.
Mushroom Cloud of Atom Bomb exploded over Nagasaki, Japan, on August 9, 1945. World War 2.
Wrecked framework of the Museum of Science and Industry in Hiroshima, Japan. This is how it appeared shortly after the dropping of the first atomic bomb, on August 6, 1945.
Middle aged iron worker at the Empire State Building construction site, 1930. The Chrysler Building's spire is at right. Photo By Lewis Hine.
Hitler and Mussolini in Munich, Germany, June 18, 1940. Hitler was at a high point, as his army accomplished a string of victories and was completing its conquest of continental Western Europe.
German soldiers invade Poland in armored and motorized divisions in Sept. 1939. It was the beginning of World War 2. in Europe.
Roll call at Buchenwald concentration camp, ca.1938-1941. Two prisoners in the foreground are supporting a comrade, as fainting was frequently an excuse for the guards to 'liquidate' useless inmates.
Planes from the USS Essex aircraft carrier dropping bombs on Hokadate, Japan, July 1945. World War 2, Pacific Ocean.
Bandaged British World War 1 soldiers in a battlefield trench, 1915-1918.
Apollo 11 boot print on the Moon. July 20, 1969.
First space shuttle launch on April 12, 1981. Astronauts John Young and Robert Crippen spent 54 hours in Earth orbit and return in an unpowered landing at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
Young Raoul Julien had already worked for two years in the mule-spinning room in Chace Cotton Mill, Burlington, Vermont, when Lewis Hine took this photo in 1909.
Women working at textile machines, beaming and inspecting yarn, at the American Woolen Company, Boston. The beaming process prepares the warp, the lengthwise fibers of a woven fabric. Ca. 1910.
Orville Wright 1871-1948 in flight over treetops covering a distance of approximately 1 760 feet in 40 1/5 seconds at Huffman Prairie Dayton Ohio. November 16 1904.
Thomas A. Edison (1847-1931), in Washington, D.C. in 1922 portrait by Bachrach.
Thomas A. Edison (1847-1931), in his West Orange, New Jersey, laboratory, ca. 1901.
Burning gash in the outer face of the Pentagon shortly after terrorists crashed American Airlines Flight 77 into the building on Sept. 11 2001.
Wright's airplane in Army trial flights at Fort Meyer Virginia in July 1909. In 1908 the Wright Brothers contracted with the Army to develop an a two-seater paid 25 000 600 000 is 2010 equivalent.
Adolf Hitler, giving Nazi salute. To Hitler's right is Rudolph Hess. 1939.
Marie Curie (1867-1934), Polish-French physicist who won two Nobel Prizes, in 1903 for Physics and 1911 for Chemistry.
Three women's suffragists casting votes in New York City, ca. 1917
Walter Reed Hospital flu ward during the Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918-19, in Washington DC. The pandemic killed an estimated 25,000,000 persons throughout the world.
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), Italian Renaissance painter from Florence. Engraving by Cosomo Colombini (d. 1812) after a Leonardo self portrait. Ca. 1500
Page from the notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) showing a geared device disassembled. Ca. 1500.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) seated and holding his spectacles and a pencil on Feb. 5, 1865 in portrait by Alexander Gardner.
Uncle Sam, 'I Want You' US Army recruiting poster by James Montgomery Flagg, 1917
The Great Depression Unemployed men queued outside a soup kitchen opened in Chicago by Al Capone The storefront sign reads 'Free Soup
The first Thanksgiving, 1621, Pilgrims and natives gather to share a meal, oil painting by Jean Louis Gerome Ferris, 1932.
Young boys and girls working in the spinning room of the Cornell Mill in Fall River, Massachusetts. January 1912 photo by Lewis Hine.
Machines making cotton thread by performing mechanical versions of carding drawing and roving in a mill in Lancashire England ca 1835 Engraving with modern watercolor.
Sinking of the Titanic Illustration by German artist Willy Stower (1864-1931), 1912 watercolor with digital enhancement.
Stock traders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in 1936.
Partially hatched plan
Telling the future
Future writer
Louis Pasteur (1822-1895), French chemist and microbiologist. Ca. 1870.
Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) examining the nature of light with the aid of a prism
Hoofers
East Coast Swing
Queen Victoria, Franz Xaver Winterhalter studio, 1843, German/English painting, oil on canvas. Victoria had been Queen for only five years when this portrait was painted
Bridge over a Pond of Water Lilies, by Claude Monet, 1899, French impressionist oil painting. In the summer of 1899 Monet completed 12 canvases of the wooden footbridge over the lily pond at Giverny
As infantrymen march through a German town, a shocked old woman stares at a the ruins. March-April 1945. Germany, World War 2.
Ready for adventure
Daydreaming at work
Knock out!
Customers at a Philadelphia bar after Prohibition's end, Dec. 1933.
Oscar Wilde (1864-1900), photograph by Napoleon Sarony, 1882
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), German composer, portrait by Elias Gottlieb Haussmann, circa 1746.
Woman eating meal at table with live turkey
New Years celebration
CHEF OF THE FUTURE
SWITCHBOARD
DISCRETION
Three women sitting on a rocket
Portrait of two young women with roller blades skating on the road and smiling
Couple in a restaurant looking at each other and sharing a milk shake with two straws
