1936: The back of the Hoover Dam, rarely seen without water.

1923: In Berlin a disabled World War I veteran begs for money.

1956: A common sign during apartheid in Johannesburg, South Africa.

1948: A young boy watches TV for the first time from a store window.

The Manhatten Bridge in New York during construction - 1903.

Charlie Chaplin on a film set of a burning circus - 1926.

French soldiers walking next to a dog disguised as a German officer, complete with binocular and pipe - 1915.

Dentistry under field conditions during the first world war - 1917.

Holiday shopping in New York - 1939.

This group of Russian women killed over 775 Nazis, more than any female fighter group in WWII - 1945.

Nagasaki - Before and After the Nuke ,1945.

The astronaut Neil Armstrong beside moon vehicles at the Edwards Air Force base in California - 1964.

A traffic warden in New York stops vehicles to let a mother cat carry her kittens to the other side - 1925.

This library used to stand in Cincinnati.
They demolished it in 1955.

Brenda Anne Spencer. The first modern day school shooter. When asked why she did it, she said; "I just don't like Mondays."

Elizabeth Eckford Harassed by Hazel Bryan, 1957, Little Rock, Arkansas

Bookmobile, 1925

Young William Harley and Arthur Davidson

Behind Big Ben, 1859

A window washer working on the Empire State Building, 1936

A drinking fountain in Central Park, New York, 1942