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Background imageArchive Photo Collection: The Queen Elizabeth

The Queen Elizabeth
The luxury liner Queen Elizabeth sails through New York Harbor and up the Hudson River to port in New York City. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageArchive Photo Collection: Transcontinental

Transcontinental
Aerial view of a TWA passenger plane flying over midtown Manhattan with a view of the Hudson River, New York City. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageArchive Photo Collection: Cotton Mills

Cotton Mills
Boys and men work within huge rows of spinning machines in the spinning room of the Olympian Cotton Mills, Columbia, South Carolina. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageArchive Photo Collection: Observation Balloon

Observation Balloon
A French observation balloon is raised above a crowd of soldiers during the Battle of the Marne, Western Front, France, World War I. A small cemetery with wooden crosses is in the foreground

Background imageArchive Photo Collection: Female Models Pose With 1928 Car

Female Models Pose With 1928 Car
A group of female models pose around a new car in a promotional photo, holding large numbers for the year 1928. Rear (L-R): Gwen Lee, Sally Eilers, Dorothy Culliver

Background imageArchive Photo Collection: Glass Service Station

Glass Service Station
Exterior of a glass block service station, designed by Arthur Brammer for the Direct Oil Service Company, lit up at night in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The color of the lights could be changed

Background imageArchive Photo Collection: Small Passengers

Small Passengers
Full-length portrait of ten midgets, four women and six men, posing aboard a ship with two men and a woman of full-height. (Photo by Jack Benton/Getty Images)

Background imageArchive Photo Collection: Centennial Wagon

Centennial Wagon
Studebaker Centennial Wagon, manufactured by the Studebaker Brothers of Indiana, sits outdoors on a brick lane, undated. The wagon won the Gold Medal

Background imageArchive Photo Collection: Elevated Railroad

Elevated Railroad
View of an elevated train traveling along its track at 110th Street in New York City. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageArchive Photo Collection: The Club

The Club
Exterior view of The Club, a private nightclub with a neon sign on its roof, near Birmingham, Alabama. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageArchive Photo Collection: Hecht Store

Hecht Store
Exterior view of a Hecht Co. department store at night with its glass bricks illuminated. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageArchive Photo Collection: Model 46 Nash

Model 46 Nash
Full-length side view of a Model 46 Nash parked outside a factory. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageArchive Photo Collection: Birthplace Of Grover Cleveland. NJ, 1930s

Birthplace Of Grover Cleveland. NJ, 1930s
Exterior of the home where Grover Cleveland, the 22nd and 24th president of the United States, was born in 1837, 207 Bloomfield Avenue, Caldwell, New Jersey, 1930s

Background imageArchive Photo Collection: Card Game In The Bronx

Card Game In The Bronx
Group of men playing cards around a barrel on a sidewalk, Bronx, New York City, circa 1930. (Photo by R. Gates/Getty Images)

Background imageArchive Photo Collection: Electronics Workers On Assembly Line

Electronics Workers On Assembly Line
Male and female workers stand along a conveyor belt, working on electronic components on a factory assembly line, 1930s. (Photo by Frederic Lewis/Getty Images)

Background imageArchive Photo Collection: Bear Mountain Bridge In New York

Bear Mountain Bridge In New York
Bear Mountain Bridge in New York, circa 1925. (Photo by Edwin Levick/Archive Photos/Getty Images)

Background imageArchive Photo Collection: Streamlined Trains

Streamlined Trains
Two Zephyr locomotives of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad sit side-by-side on adjacent tracks at a station in West Hinsdale. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageArchive Photo Collection: Bombed Church

Bombed Church
1947: View from the vestibule of a bombed church looking into a courtyard where a pile of rubble and half of a wall stand in Berlin, Germany, post -World War II. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageArchive Photo Collection: Native Americans And Their Weapons

Native Americans And Their Weapons
Illustration of various dresses of the Indians of North America and their weapons of war from A New and Complete Collection of Voyages and Travels by John Hamilton Moore in 1778

Background imageArchive Photo Collection: Native Americans Fishing Rafts

Native Americans Fishing Rafts
Illustration of the native inhabitants of California fishing from A New and Complete Collection of Voyages and Travels by John Hamilton Moore in 1778. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageArchive Photo Collection: Train Race

Train Race
1830: Trial between Peter Coopers Locomotive Tom Thumb and one of Stocktons and Stokes Horse Cars. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageArchive Photo Collection: American Civil War

American Civil War
Confederate cartoon entitled Virginia Paws-ing, depicting Abraham Lincoln as a cat, with the caption A Consoling Thought (Uncle Abe is catching Virginia as it secedes)

Background imageArchive Photo Collection: Assembly Line Production

Assembly Line Production
Factory workers assembling an engine in the body of a car, USA, circa 1930. (Photo by Archive Photos/Getty Images)

Background imageArchive Photo Collection: Eiffel Tower

Eiffel Tower
1900: The Eiffel Tower and Globe Celeste at the 1900 World Exposition, viewed from the Right Bank of the River Seine River, Paris, France. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageArchive Photo Collection: Eiffel Tower

Eiffel Tower
1900: Visitors to the World Exposition walking under the Eiffel Tower, with a view of the Chateau d Eau in the background, Paris, France. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageArchive Photo Collection: San Francisco 1906

San Francisco 1906
1906: Full-length image of a woman in an apron cooking a meal on a stove in the street after the Great Earthquake in San Francisco, California. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageArchive Photo Collection: San Francisco 1906

San Francisco 1906
1906: Full-length view of pedestrians examining frame houses, which lean to one side on the verge of collapse after the Great Earthquake in San Francisco, California

Background imageArchive Photo Collection: Eiffel Tower

Eiffel Tower
The Eiffel Tower and the Globe Celeste, seen from the Seine, at the 1900 Exposition Universelle, Paris. The Tower was built in 1889 by French engineer Gustave Eiffel to showcase the capabilities of

Background imageArchive Photo Collection: The Torys Day Of Judgement

The Torys Day Of Judgement
Engraving by E. Tisdale, with the caption The Torys Day Of Judgement, depicting colonists preparing to tar and feather a loyalist seated on the ground as another loyalist hangs from a gallows with a

Background imageArchive Photo Collection: Flogging on Ship

Flogging on Ship
Engraving of a Male being Whipped on Board a Ship viewed by Several Males with Caption A Picture For Philanthropists circa 1850. (Photo by Fotosearch/Getty Images)

Background imageArchive Photo Collection: Zora Neale Hurston

Zora Neale Hurston
Portrait of author Zora Neale Hurston, circa 1940s. Zora Hurston was a world-renowned writer and anthropologist. Hurston?s novels, short stories

Background imageArchive Photo Collection: Scientific Manuscript

Scientific Manuscript
An Illustration of a Page From a Scientific Manuscript showing a Surgeon Operating on an Eye circa 1280. (Photo by Fotosearch/Getty Images)

Background imageArchive Photo Collection: Scientific Manuscript

Scientific Manuscript
An Illustration of a Page from a Scientific Manuscript circa 1280. Illustration of Three Recumbent Figures Marked with Red Spots to Show Particular Points. One Seated with Red Spots on Ears

Background imageArchive Photo Collection: Scientific Manuscript

Scientific Manuscript
An Illustration of a Page From a Scientific Manuscript showing a Surgeon Operating on an Nose circa 1280. (Photo by Fotosearch/Getty Images)

Background imageArchive Photo Collection: Nurse

Nurse
An Illustration of a Nurse Tending to a Female Patient circa 1380. (Photo by Fotosearch/Getty Images)

Background imageArchive Photo Collection: Couple Embracing

Couple Embracing
An Illustration of a Couple Embracing circa 1480. (Photo by Fotosearch/Getty Images)

Background imageArchive Photo Collection: Striking a Female

Striking a Female
An Illustration of a Male Striking a Female circa 1480. (Photo by Fotosearch/Getty Images)

Background imageArchive Photo Collection: American Civil War

American Civil War
Illustration depicting the Battle of Cold Harbor during the American Civil War, which is remembered as one of American historys bloodiest, most lopsided battles

Background imageArchive Photo Collection: American Civil War

American Civil War
Painting by William Travis, depicting an officer rallying his men, as reinforcements move up to meet the assault of Benjamin Cheathams Rebel division at the Battle of Perryville, Kentucky, USA

Background imageArchive Photo Collection: Tranquillising Chair

Tranquillising Chair
An Illustration of a Patient sitting in a Tranquillising Chair a device developed by B. Rush circa 1810. (Photo by Fotosearch/Getty Images)

Background imageArchive Photo Collection: Baptism

Baptism
Engraving by Henry Dawkins of a baptismal ceremony beside the Schuykill river, circa 1770s. (Photo by Fotosearch/Getty Images)

Background imageArchive Photo Collection: Slave Ship

Slave Ship
An engraving of the Crew aboard a Slave Ship Firing on Slaves from behind a Barricade circa 1800 with text Representation of an Insurrection on Board a Slave Ship. (Photo by Fotosearch/Getty Images)

Background imageArchive Photo Collection: English And Dutch Fleet

English And Dutch Fleet
Drawing of the English and Dutch Fleet In Table Bay, South Africa, By Mattheus Sager circa 1752. (Photo by Fotosearch/Getty Images)

Background imageArchive Photo Collection: Kimberley Market

Kimberley Market
Morning market in Kimberley, South Africa, circa 1888. (Photo by Fotosearch/Getty Images)

Background imageArchive Photo Collection: Kimberley Diamond Miner

Kimberley Diamond Miner
Portrait of old kimberley diamond digger or miner, South Africa, circa 1885. (Photo by Fotosearch/Getty Images)

Background imageArchive Photo Collection: Africans Making Iron

Africans Making Iron
Engraving of group of Africans working iron with caption African Methods Of Iron-Working As shown in an old missionary account circa 1810. (Photo by Fotosearch/Getty Images)

Background imageArchive Photo Collection: Guinea Trading Centre

Guinea Trading Centre
Engraving of european trading centre in Guinea From Voyage Du Chevalier Des Marchais En Guinee By J. B. Labat, 1730 circa 1730. (Photo by Fotosearch/Getty Images)

Background imageArchive Photo Collection: Monrovia

Monrovia
Engraving of boats on river in Monrovia, Liberia, circa 1850. (Photo by Fotosearch/Getty Images)



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