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Background imageArchive Photo Collection: Giving Thanks

Giving Thanks
circa 1850: A Thanksgiving Day Greetings postcard depicts pilgrims landing in America. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageArchive Photo Collection: Wall Street Aftermath

Wall Street Aftermath
16th September 1920: Traffic and a crowd of men in the street on Wall Street after the Wall Street explosion, New York City

Background imageArchive Photo Collection: Canal Construction

Canal Construction
circa 1909: Construction of the Panama Canal. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageArchive Photo Collection: Panama Traffic

Panama Traffic
2nd February 1915: A pair of tugboats pull the SS Kroonland through the Cucaracha slide, heading south along Culebra Cut on the Panama Canal. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageArchive Photo Collection: Spanish Flu

Spanish Flu
1918: Nurses care for victims of a Spanish influenza epidemic outdoors amidst canvas tents during an outdoor fresh air cure, Lawrence, Massachusetts. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageArchive Photo Collection: Russian Wrecks

Russian Wrecks
1904: Three men sit on the shore before the Russian ships Pallada (L) and Pobida, which were sunk in Port Arthur below Golden Hill during the Russo-Japanese War, Manchuria, China

Background imageArchive Photo Collection: St Louis World Fair

St Louis World Fair
1904: Participants in the New York to St. Louis automobile parade, part of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in 1904 (St. Louis Worlds Fair), St. Louis, Missouri

Background imageArchive Photo Collection: Crazy Flappers

Crazy Flappers
22nd January 1926: Female flappers kicking, dancing, and having fun while musicians perform during a Charleston dance contest at the Parody Club. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageArchive Photo Collection: Millard Fillmore

Millard Fillmore
circa 1850: Millard Fillmore (1800 - 1874), the 13th president of the United States as leader of the Whig Party. (Photo by Mathew Brady/MPI/Getty Images)

Background imageArchive Photo Collection: Andrew Johnson

Andrew Johnson
circa 1855: Andrew Johnson (1808 - 1875), Governor of Tennessee and later the 16th vice-president and 17th president of the United States

Background imageArchive Photo Collection: The Last Lincoln

The Last Lincoln
6th March 1865: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), the sixteenth President of the United States, in the year of his assassination. (Photo by Henry F. Warren/MPI/Getty Images)

Background imageArchive Photo Collection: Visiting Nurse

Visiting Nurse
1920: A visiting nurse climbing over the roof of a tenement building in New Yorks lower east side. (Photo by MPI/Getty Images)

Background imageArchive Photo Collection: Biograph Company

Biograph Company
circa 1908: The exterior of the American Biograph Company studio at number 11 East 14th Street, New York City. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageArchive Photo Collection: Astoria Studio

Astoria Studio
circa 1920: The exterior of the W.R. Hearst Astoria Film Studio, located in Astoria, Queens, New York. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageArchive Photo Collection: New York Skyline

New York Skyline
circa 1955: An aerial view of the southern tip of downtown Manhattan, including Battery Park, Fort Clinton, New York Harbor and the East River and its bridges in the distance, New York City

Background imageArchive Photo Collection: Downtown Manhattan

Downtown Manhattan
circa 1945: An aerial view of midtown Manhattan, with skyscrapers including the Chrysler building, New York City. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageArchive Photo Collection: Hindenburg Landing

Hindenburg Landing
May 1936: Ground crew help pull the German-made dirigible Hindenburg to the ground at the Lakehurst Naval Air Station, New Jersey

Background imageArchive Photo Collection: Tethered Zeppelin

Tethered Zeppelin
circa 1935: Full-length image of the German-made zeppelin, Hindenburg sitting on an airfield, possibly in Lakehurst, New Jersey. Its tail is decorated with a Nazi swastika

Background imageArchive Photo Collection: Nantucket Harbour

Nantucket Harbour
circa 1965: A view of the harbor, with a small sailboat floating close to shore, Nantucket Island, Massachusetts. Rope netting is draped on a boat in the foreground

Background imageArchive Photo Collection: Ox Power

Ox Power
circa 1901: A single hot air balloon being pulled by a line of oxen as British commander Lord Robert and his army advance on Johannesburg, South Africa, Boer War

Background imageArchive Photo Collection: Hula Hound

Hula Hound
circa 1965: Eric, a fifteen-month-old German shepherd, barks while wearing a hula hoop over his body near the waters edge in central park, New York City. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageArchive Photo Collection: Panning For Gold

Panning For Gold
circa 1855: Chinese workers panning for gold in California. A man in a coolie hat digs as another man kneels and sifts. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageArchive Photo Collection: Essex House Hotel

Essex House Hotel
Exterior view of the Essex House hotel in New York City, 1958. (Photo by Frederic Lewis/ Getty Images)

Background imageArchive Photo Collection: Illustration Of Old New York City Hall

Illustration Of Old New York City Hall
Illustration of City Hall, New York City, 1826. Aquatint by John Hill after a watercolor by W. C. Wall. (Authenticated News/Getty Images)

Background imageArchive Photo Collection: Illustration Of Crystal Palace On 42nd St

Illustration Of Crystal Palace On 42nd St
Illustration of the Crystal Palace building and horsedrawn carriages on 42nd Street, New York City, circa 1853. The building burned down in 1858. (Photo by Authenticated News/Getty Images)

Background imageArchive Photo Collection: Public Library

Public Library
Exterior view of the main branch of the New York Public Library at the intersection of 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. Automobiles and pedestrians crowd the streets

Background imageArchive Photo Collection: Strawberry Manor

Strawberry Manor
High-angle view of two rows of tract houses in the Strawberry Manor subdivision situated in the hills of California. (Photo by Henry Bowden/Getty Images)

Background imageArchive Photo Collection: Law Department

Law Department
Exterior view of the Staats Zeitung building, on Park Row, New York City, built for the German language daily newspaper and later housing the New York City Law Department

Background imageArchive Photo Collection: General Post Office

General Post Office
Exterior view of the main branch of the New York City Post Office, taking up an entire city block between 33rd and 34th Streets and Eight and Ninth Avenues, New York City

Background imageArchive Photo Collection: New Jersey Beach

New Jersey Beach
Bathers, beach umbrellas, and tents crowd the beach at Ocean City, New Jersey. The boardwalk is visible in the background. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageArchive Photo Collection: Bicycle Race

Bicycle Race
Society ladies ride bicycles around the fountain at City Hall while reenacting an old-style bicycle race in San Francisco, California

Background imageArchive Photo Collection: Formation Bombers

Formation Bombers
Nine biplanes fly in formation, early 20th Century. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageArchive Photo Collection: Flight Crew

Flight Crew
The all-male flight crew of an Eastern Airlines Silversleeper airplane poses on the boarding stairwell of the plane, waiting to shake hands with a flight commander, circa 1935

Background imageArchive Photo Collection: Ticket Queue

Ticket Queue
Commuters wait in line at a railroad station to buy train tickets, including one young boy wearing knickers and fedora. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageArchive Photo Collection: Log Cabin

Log Cabin
Women and children outside a log cabin. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageArchive Photo Collection: Central Station

Central Station

Background imageArchive Photo Collection: Gold Rush

Gold Rush
Full-length image of three men and a woman standing and crouching around a riverbed while panning for gold during the Klondike gold rush, Alaska. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageArchive Photo Collection: Lunch At Sea

Lunch At Sea
Passengers aboard a yacht sit in the shade under an awning and eat lunch. (Photo by Edwin Levick/Getty Images)

Background imageArchive Photo Collection: First Steam Boat

First Steam Boat
Illustration of engineer Robert Fultons first steamboat, the Clermont, traveling between Albany, New York and New York City. Smoke rises from the steamers stacks as it travels down the Hudson River

Background imageArchive Photo Collection: Broadway Local

Broadway Local

Background imageArchive Photo Collection: Subway Passengers

Subway Passengers
Interior of a subway car with female passengers and a uniformed male conductor. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageArchive Photo Collection: Fifth Avenue

Fifth Avenue
View of the West side of Fifth Avenue, North from 51st street, showing residences of Elliott F. Shepard, brother in law of William K. Vanderbilt, whose home is next to it. Further North is St

Background imageArchive Photo Collection: Club Car

Club Car
A group of passengers lounge in a trains cone-shaped club car appointed with easy chairs, lamps, and standing ashtrays. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageArchive Photo Collection: Early Switchboard

Early Switchboard
Full-length image of telephone operators sitting in front of a long switchboard at the Cortlandt Exchange in New York City. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageArchive Photo Collection: Shirt Factory

Shirt Factory
Female workers starch shirt collars and use presses while sitting around tables inside a garment factory. They wear white smocks. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageArchive Photo Collection: Music Maker

Music Maker
Still life of a portable record player and receiver. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageArchive Photo Collection: Chinatown

Chinatown
View of a lightly trafficked street in the Chinatown district of San Francisco, California. One restaurant advertises chop suey. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageArchive Photo Collection: Rush Hour

Rush Hour
View of a traffic jam at dusk?on a freeway in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by William M Graham/Getty Images)



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