Field Portrait

Field portrait of a Landsturmmann from Landsturm Infanterie Bataillon

'Friedberg' (XVIII 10), 301st Infanterie Division. 1917-18

German War Posters

Red Cross 1914

Poster Art by Ludwig Hohlwein

People's Charity

for German Prisonsers of War ca.1918

Poster Art by Ludwig Hohlwein

Battle of the Somme

Soldiers with the British Machine Gun Corps

wearing gas masks in 1916 during World War I's

first Battle of the Somme.

China Clipper

China Clipper

First Day Issue 1935

Arrival of the Boulogne Ferry

Arrival of the Boulogne Ferry, Folkestone, England ca.1895

Photochrom Print

(Library of Congress)

Coachman

C. P. Lundström, Coachman, 1930

Gävle, Gästrikland, Sweden

Photo: Einar Erici

Peasant Woman

Peasant Woman Bending Over, 1885

by Vincent van Gogh

Black pencil on paper

Alfred Stieglitz

Agnes Stieglitz Engelhard by the Lake ca.1912

Photo: Alfred Stieglitz

Autochrome

Mrs. Strindberg

Harriet Bosse, 1904

Photo: Otto Johansson

A Swedish–Norwegian actress, August Strindberg's third wife.

Wm. Randolph Steele

Hon. Wm. Randolph Steele

Delegate from the Territory of Wyoming ca.1873

(Library of Congress)

Katherine Stinson

Katherine Stinson and her Curtiss aeroplane, ca.1910

Photo Bain News Service

(Library of Congress)

Abstract x 2

No.9 - 1957

by Tibor Pataky

Charcoal and graphite on paper

Girl Born without a Mother, ca.1917

by Francis Picabia

Gouache and metallic paint on printed paper

"Smile"

"Smile"

1920s or early 1930s

From the 'Amersham and Kent House, SE London Series'
 England

Le Crotoy

La rue Eudel, Le Crotoy, France

Postcard mailed in 1925

Gauguin

 

Manao tupapau (The Spirit of the Dead Keep Watch) 1892

by Paul Gauguin

Oil on canvas

Japan

Japanese Art Exhibition Poster

Germany 1909

Mark Twain

Mark Twain, New York ca.1890

Photo: Napoleon Sarony

Tet Offensive

Don McCullin with Delta Company, 1/5th US Marines

during the Battle for Hue, Tet Offensive, Vietnam 1968.

This photograph was taken by Nik Wheeler using Don McCullin's camera.

Young Sheep Girl

A young girl with her prize sheep, ca.1900

(Powerhouse Museum Sydney, Australia)

Under A Trellace

Young woman under a trellace, 1888

Photo: A. Flegeltaub

(Powerhouse Museum Sydney, Australia)

Gay Protest

A demonstrator holds up a poster with a picture of Russia's President Vladimir Putin during a protest against Russia's new anti-gay propaganda law, outside Downing Street in central London August 10, 2013.

Photo: Luke MacGregor REUTERS

Jules Verne

Jules Verne ca.1878

Photograph: Nadar

Three Magazine Covers

Popular Science, 1933

Cover Art: Edgar Franklin Wittmack

Popular Science, 1949

Science and Mechanics, 1930s

Round Flight

via Graf Zeppelin, 1930

Gas Station

Gas Station

Mexico ca.1950

Photo: Paul Outerbridge

Crash

Theory of Catastrophe, 2004

by Malcolm Morley

  Oil on linen

Raging Bull

Robert De Niro

Scene from Raging Bull, 1980

Directed by Martin Scorsese

 (Studio still)

Bonneville 69

Bonneville - August 1969

Sioux Falls, South Dakota, US

Scanned from Kodachrome slide

Nice

Promenade des Anglais, Nice

Postcard mailed 1938

Josephine Baker

Josephine Baker in Banana Skirt

From the Folies Bergère production "Un Vent de Folie" 1928

Photo: Walery Studio

Gelatin silver print

Arrest

Lenny Bruce arrested, 1961

(Examiner Press photo)

Lenny Bruce was an American stand-up comedian,

social critic and satirist.