Howlin' Wolf

Howlin' Wolf

Newport Folk Festival, RI, 1966

Photograph: David Gahr

State Ballet School

State Ballet School, Leningrad, USSR, 1965

Photo: Inge Morath - Magnum Photos

Slayer of Monsters

Secret Agent X Detective Mysteries

Vol 5, No 3 (Jun 1938)

Artwork by Norm Saunders

Perseus Cycle 7: The Doom Fulfilled, 1888

by Edward Burne-Jones

Oil on canvas

Imperial County

Brawley, Imperial County, California. "In Farm Security Administration migratory labor camp. Family of mother, father and eleven children, originally from near Mangrum, Oklahoma, where he had been tenant farmer. Came to California in 1936 after the drought. Since then has been traveling from crop to crop in California, following the harvest. Six of the eleven children attend school wherever the family stops long enough. Five older children work along with the father and mother. February 23, two of the family have been lucky and 'got a place' (a day's work) in peas on the Sinclair ranch. Father had earned about $1.73 for ten-hour day. Oldest daughter had earned $1.25. From these earnings they had to provide their transportation to the fields 20 miles away. Mother wants to return to Oklahoma, father unwilling." February 1939. Photo by Dorothea Lange for the Farm Security Administration. (Shorpy)

Jacques Garnerin's Parachute

The first parachute by Jacques Garnerin, tested by himself in the park of Mousseaux, 22 October 1797. Three technical illustrations show "Calotte du parachute" (crown of parachute); "Parachute ployé, à l'instant du départe" (folded parachute, moment of release from ascending balloon); and "Parachute déployé, à l'instant de la séparation d'avec le ballon" (unfolded parachute, moment of separation). Etching with aquatint, hand-colored. 1798 or 1799 (Year 7 of the French revolutionary calendar)

Dancing Mothers

Publicity shot for the film Dancing Mothers

with Clara Bow and Conway Tearle, 1926

Photo: Famous-Laskey Productions

Lobby card for the 1926 film Dancing Mothers

(Paramount Pictures)

Caesars Palace

Caesars Palace Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, 1982

Photo: Harry Gruyaert - Magnum Photos

Amazing Stories

Amazing Stories Quarterly, Spring 1930

Artwork by Leo Morey

Amazing Stories Quarterly, Summer 1930

Artwork by Leo Morey

Creature from the Black Lagoon

Julie Adams in 'Creature from the Black Lagoon'

Directed by Jack Arnold, 1954

(Black Lagoon Trailer)

Girl in Curlers

Girl in Curlers, Los Angeles, 1949

Photographer: Ida Wyman

Dumbarton High Street

Dumbarton High Street, Scotland, ca.1895

Photochrom Colour Print

(Library of Congress)

Dublin

Untitled - From the series 'Dublin', 1991

Photographer: Krass Clement

Bamboo Pith

Bamboo Pith (Phallus indusiatus) from

Kerala, India, 24 August 2009

Photo: Ajaykuyiloor

Claude Cahun

Claude Cahun, Self-portrait, 1927

Gelatin silver print

International Football School

International Football School, 2014

Pyongyang, North Korea

Photo: Wang Guofeng

Ruhr Region

Duisburg-Bruckhausen, Ruhr Region, Germany, 1999

Photo: Bernd Becher & Hilla Becher

Gelatin silver print

"Damn the Defiant!"

Arrest of a demonstrator

Birmingham, Alabama, 1963

Photographer: Bruce Davidson - Magnum Photos

If Art is a Crime

Howard the Duck, 1988

by George Lee Quiñones

Oil on canvas

Edward Lear

English artist, illustrator & author, Edward Lear

Photo: McLean, Melhuish & Haes - 1862

Albumen print, carte-de-visite

(National Portrait Gallery, London)

Macrocercus ararauna Blue & Yellow Maccaw

"Illustrations of the Family of Psittacidae, or Parrots"

(1832) by Edward Lear

International Day of the Girl - (Oct. 11)

Hyde Park, Boston, Massachusetts

Photograph: Nicholas Nixon, 1979

Courtesy of Wilson Centre for Photography

(theGuardian)

(Freedom - International Day of the Girl)

Sunbather

Yalta, Ukraine, 1995

Photo: Martin Parr - Magnum Photos

Matisse Still Life

Fruit and Coffeepot, 1898

by Henri-Émile-Benoît Matisse

Oil on canvas

Matisse & Family

Matisse with Wife & Daughter in

his studio in Collioure, 1907

Unidentified Photographer

Poor Old Mrs Constitution

Burking Poor Old Mrs Constitution, Aged 141 (1829), a satirical cartoon by the British artist William Heath. It depicts the Duke of Wellington and Robert Peel in the roles of the body-snatchers Burke and Hare, suffocating Mrs Docherty for sale to Dr. Knox. This cartoon represents Wellington's and Peel's perceived extinguishing of the Constitution of 1688 through the Catholic Emancipation, particularly the Roman Catholic Relief Act of 1829.

Magazine Cover Art

Thrilling Wonder Stories, June 1950

Artwork by Earle Bergey

Thrilling Wonder Stories, Summer 1944

Artwork by Earle Bergey

Thrilling Wonder Stories, Spring 1946

Artwork by Earle Bergey

Esther Eggers

Esther Eggers, aged 22. Criminal record number 465LB, 16 December 1919.

State Reformatory for Women, Long Bay, NSW

Crime: Malicious injury to property and wounding with intent

to do grievous bodily harm. When a police officer arrived to

arrest Esther Eggers for malicious damage she attacked him,

causing serious injury. Eggers was sentenced to 12 months prison.

Part of an archive of forensic photography created by the NSW Police

between 1912 and 1964. New South Wales. Dept. of  Prisons.

(b&w Glass plate negative)

(Sydney Living Museums)

The Red Baron

Manfred von Richthofen (The Red Baron)

Photo: Nicola Perscheid - 1917/1918

(Sanke postcard #533)

(Pluto's Bladed Terrain)

Jean Genet

Jean Genet & Hans Koechler

Dr. Hans Koechler, President of the I.P.O., right,

receiving French author Jean Genet at the Imperial

Hotel in Vienna (19 December 1983) in connection with a

lecture organized by the International Progress Organization.

Photograph: I.P.O.

Early Eggleston

American photographer William Eggleston

(Self-portrait) 1970

Dye transfer print

Lorina & Alice

Lorina and Alice Liddell in Chinese Dress

Photo: Lewis Carroll - 1860

Albumen print

Oswego, New York

Light house and Fort Ontario, Oswego, N.Y.

8 x 10 in. glass negative - ca.1900

(Detroit Publishing Co.)