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(Staged shot of a) Cabbie waiting for fares, Los Angeles, USA, 1926

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Pinsetters working in a bowling alley, Brooklyn, NYC, USA, 1910

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Photograph of a photographer, USA, 1950s

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Steam Tank, Boston, USA, WW1, 1918

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Lined up for the movie theatre, Chicago, USA, 1941

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Experimental NASA VR headset, USA, 1989?

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British rock legend Robert Plant of the band Led Zeppelin holding a dove on stage, San Francisco, USA, 1973

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Cold February day in Chicago, Illinois, USA, 1942

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Man begging his wife for forgiveness outside of a divorce court, Chicago, USA, 1948

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Soviet soldier showing his submachinegun to an American, Germany, 1945

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American and Soviet troops sharing a meal after victory in Europe, WW2, 1945

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American and Soviet troops arm-in-arm after crushing the Nazi regime, Germany, 1945

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An American and Soviet lieutenant meet in Germany, WW2, 1945

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Male cheerleaders for an American Football game, USA, 1939

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Women's basketball team, Smith College, USA, 1902

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"Glamour Bonnet", USA, 1941

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King & Carter Jazzing Orchestra, Houston, Texas, USA, 1921

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Homesteaders in Nebraska, USA, 1886

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Volunteer "Doughnut Girls" preparing treats for the troops in the trenches, Western Front, WW1, 1917 or 1918

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Italian immigrants living in slums, NYC, USA, 1897

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San Juan, Puerto Rico, ~1940

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Former slaves at Edisto Island, South Carolina, US Civil War, 1862

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First American oil field in Titusville, Pennsylvania, USA, 1859

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Leaders of the March For Jobs And Freedom, an anti-segregation march that helped spur the Civil Rights Act, before the Lincoln Memorial, USA 1963

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Women delivering ice, traditionally a man's job, USA, WW1, 1918

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Some of the first women inducted into the US Marine Corps, WW1, 1918

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Computer scientist Margaret Hamilton with the extensive amount of code she and her team wrote to guide the NASA mission to the Moon, USA, 1969

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Suffragist Mary Winsor protesting the treatment of imprisoned suffragists, USA, 1917

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Frank Matsura, Japanese-American immigrant, son of a samurai family, and American Frontier photographer, USA, ~1901

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American troops indulging our legendary sweet tooth during some down-time from the trenches, Western Front, WW1, 1918

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Native Pawnee family in Loup, Nebraska, USA, 1871

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Woman protesting essential economic injustice of American capitalism, USA, 1930s

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Cattle grazing in Washington DC, US Civil War, 1865

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Crew of the B-17 'Pistol Packin' Mama' during training, Ohio, USA, WW2, 1944

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Japanese Suffragist Komako Kimura during a visit to the USA, 1917

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Man pretending to fire a 'quaker gun', a decoy cannon made out of a log, US Civil War, 1862

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Maud Wagner, first known female tattoo artist in the US, ~1907

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Ukrainian diaspora protest against the Soviet Union, Washington DC, USA, 1984

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Jeanne Manford in a Pride March in support of her son, Morty Manford, a gay rights activist, New York City, USA, 1972

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American nurses on the beaches of Normandy, France, WW2, 1944

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American soldiers riding atop French-made Renault FT tanks, Western Front, WW1, 1918

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One of the First Gay Pride Marches, USA, 1970

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A game of American Football, New York City, USA, 1937

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Sail wagon in Brooklyn, New York City, USA, ~1910

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New York shipyard building an ironclad for the Italian Navy, USA, sometime between 1861-1864

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US soldier on a Harley-Davidson motorcycle, WW1, 1918

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The Hindenburg passing over New Jersey the day of the disaster, USA, 1937

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Vought-Sikorsky VS-300 helicopter in tethered flight, USA, 1939

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Photos of the Williams X-Jet in flight, US, 1982

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American soldiers displaying a German Panzerschreck and the small (but deadly) penetration hole resulting, France, WW2, 1944

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Women in a pie-eating contest at Tidal Basin Bathing Beach, Washington DC, USA, 1921

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Women being arrested for 'indecent' bathing suits, Chicago, USA, 1922

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Fidel Castro laying a wreath at the Lincoln Memorial, USA, 1959

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Ukrainian restaurant offering free borsht in celebration of Stalin's death, Washington DC, USA, 1953

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A man and his dog, USA, 1920s

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Mixed race child slaves, New Orleans, US Civil War, 1863

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African-American inventor Eugene Burkins and his machine gun, USA, sometime around or after 1900

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US baseball player Pete Whisenant posing with Cuban Revolutionary fans, Havana, Cuba, 1959

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Joan Trumpauer Mulholland, arrested for anti-segregation protests, Mississippi, USA, 1961

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"Neither snow nor rain" - US mailman delivering Christmas packages, Chicago, 1929. Merry Christmas!

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127th Ohio Infantry, the first African-American regiment raised in Ohio, US Civil War, 1863

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Ad hoc school for freedmen in Edisto Island, South Carolina, US Civil War, ~1865?

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Drexel Institute Girls’ Rifle Team. Philadelphia, USA, 1925

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Engineer wiring an IBM computer, USA, 1948

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Jerry Lawson, father of the video game cartridge, USA, 1982

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Legendary abolitionist Harriet Tubman (left) with her family, New York, USA, 1887

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Two US soldiers in an embrace in the snow, Austrian Alps, WW2, 1945

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Two men sharing an informal wedding ceremony, USA, ~1900

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Grocery store in Harlem, New York, USA, 1940

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15 year-old Dorothy Counts, the only Black student in her newly desegregated school, is harassed by white students. Family friend Dr. Edwin Tompkins accompanies her. North Carolina, USA, 1957

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US submarine crew plays ball at the North Pole, 1960

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Men of the Harlem Hellfighters decorated with the Croix de guerre by France in WW1 for valor in battle, photo taken postwar, 1919

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Daguerrotype of American troops invading Mexico, Mexican-American War, 1847

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Phyllis Stalnaker, "weedhead, tramp", USA, 1944

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'Exodusters', African-American migrants, waiting for a steamboat to take them west, USA, 1879?

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