Marilyn

Marilyn Monroe, 1952

Photo: Philippe Halsman

Gelatin silver print

(National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution)

Skipper Lee Frazier

KCOH disk jockey Skipper Lee Frazier

and go-go girls, Houston, 1965

Photo: Benny Joseph

Manhattan Skyline

Fulton Street Dock,

Manhattan Skyline, 1935

Photo: Berenice Abbott

African Figure

Reliquary guardian figure, 19th century,

Ndassa, Republic of Congo.

(Collection Pierre Amrouche)

The Seventh Seal

Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal (1957)

Young Woman

Portrait of a Young Woman, c.1857

Photo: Oliver H. Willard

Salted paper print

(Smithsonian American Art Museum)

Christmas Tree Fancy Dress

Studio portrait of unidentified young woman in Christmas tree fancy dress

with hat presents and decorations hanging from her.

Christchurch, New Zealand, ca.1905 - 1926

Photo: Adam Henry Pearson Maclay

A Merry Christmas to everyone

New York

New York City, 1949

Photo: Nina Leen

View from the Wheat Field

View from the Wheat Field, Arles, 1888

by Vincent van Gogh

Oil on canvas

Buster Keaton

Buster Keaton, 1952

Photo: Richard Avedon

Lillian Gish

Lillian Gish in the "Green Hat", 1934

Photo: Edward Steichen

Double Portrait

Portrait of two young women in 1913;

cdv by Ludvig Åberg in Säffle, Sweden.

Fidel Castro

Tiger vs. Lion, Bronx Zoo, New York.

Friday, April 24, 1959

Photo: Alberto Korda

Barstow California

Barstow, California, 1943

A view of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe yard at night.

Photo: Jack Delano

Funicular

Funicular & Notre Dame de la Garde

Marseille, France, ca.1895

Photochrom print

(Library of Congress)

Two more Lincoln Conspirators

David E. Herold, 1865

Photo: Alexander Gardner

George Atzerodt, 1865

Photo: Alexander Gardner

The Hanging of Lincoln's Conspirators

Around 1,000 people gathered in the scorching Washington heat to watch the four conspirators hanged to death; reporters and military personnel can be seen in the background.

Photographer: Alexander Gardner

Lewis Powell

Lewis Powell

One of the Lincoln assassination conspirators,

in chains, ca.1865.

Photo: Alexander Gardner

Kansas City

Portrait

Kansas City, Missouri, March 1967

Photo: Dave Heath

Gelatin silver print

Life on the Thames

From the 'Silent Highway' 1876-77

Two sailors head down the river on a barge.

Photo: John Thomson

Odd-job man

Handlanger [Odd-job man] 1928

Photo: August Sander

Gelatin silver print

Harlem

Harlem Neighborhood, 1948

Photo: Gordon Parks

Good Luck

WWII Japanese kamikaze "Hinomaru yosegaki"

good luck flag.

New York Subway

Subway

New York City, 1979

Photo: Danny Lyon

Space 2

From Space 2

Providence, Rhode Island, 1976

Photo: Francesca Woodman

Der Birnbaum

Der Birnbaum (The pear tree), 1992

Photo: Sarah Moon

Vincent van Gogh

Self-Portrait, 1887

by Vincent van Gogh

Oil on canvas

Bathing beauties

Bathing beauties, 1920s or early 1930s

From the 'Amersham and Kent House,

SE London Series' England.

Unknown photographer

Brie

Brie, France, June 1968

Photo: Henri Cartier-Bresson

Silver gelatin print

The Ladder

The Ladder, April 1844

Photo: William Henry Fox Talbot

Salted paper print

Waiters

Waiters, ca.1880

(U.S.A.?)

Unidentified Photographer