Norman Rockwell

American artist Norman Rockwell

in his Stockbridge studio, 1960

Photograph: Bill Scovill

Universal Exhibition 1900

Universal Exhibition, Paris 1900

Photograph: Félix Thiollier

Gelatin silver print

Swedish Sailor

Sailor in Uniform, n/d

Stockholm, Sweden

Photo: Carl Sandels

Natalie Wood & Robert Wagner

Actors Natalie Wood and Robert Wagner onboard their yacht off the California coast. July 1958. 35mm Kodachrome from photos by Robert Vose for the Look magazine assignment "Natalie Wood. Beauty and Violence."  (Shorpy)

Victoria Pier

Victoria Pier, Folkestone, England, ca.1895

Photochrom Colour Print

(Library of Congress)

Classical Ballet

Swan Lake

Backstage, London, 2016

Photograph: Sasha Gusov

In the dance studio, ca.1897

by Edgar Degas

Pastel on paper

Lady Isabella

Laxey Wheel

Isle of Man, ca.1895

Photochrom Colour Print

The rear of the Great Laxey Wheel (also known as Lady Isabella) in the village of Laxey, Isle of Man. 5th September 2015. Photograph: Tk420.

Posters by Cappiello

Le Jaeger, (lithograph) 1920

Art work by Leonetto Cappiello

(Devambez, Imprimerie, Paris)

La Victoria Arduino per Caffé Espresso

Art work by Leonetto Cappiello

(lithograph) 1922

Summer Time

Two unidentified girls,

one eating watermelon, the other disrobing, ca.1960

Unidentified Photographer

Coney Island, 1951

Photograph: Lou Bernstein

Jane Birkin

Jane Birkin, 1969

Photo: David Bailey

Gelatin silver print

(The East 96th Street Moon)

The Marx Brothers

The Marx Brothers, 1946

Photo: Yousuf Karsh

Gelatin silver print

Mr. Kahlo & His Daughters

Guillermo Kahlo, Self-portrait, 1920

Gelatin-bromide silver on paper

Cristina, Matilde, Adriana, and Frida Kahlo, 1916

Photograph: Guillermo Kalho

Gelatin-bromide silver on paper

In Search of Lost Time

Promenade and Grand Salon,

Trouville, Normandy, France. ca.1895

Photochrom Colour Print

De Gracy & Dalton

Mug shot of De Gracy (sic) and Edward Dalton. Details unknown.
Central Police Station, Sydney, around 1920.

Special Photograph no. 129. A cropped print of this photograph appears in a police photo book from the 1920s, annotated in pencil "magsmen", with no further information offered.

Magsman: A confidence trickster.
A person who likes telling stories; a raconteur.

Mr and Mrs Andersson

Mr. and Mrs. Andersson, 1930s

(The verger Andersson, born in 1858)

Skederid, Uppland, Sweden

Photo: Einar Erici

Joann Crane

Joann Crane with portrait

of her father Abraham Crane, 1862

Unidentified Photographer

World War 2

A young English boy sits reading outside the ruins of a bookshop that suffered Luftwaffe bomb damage during the London Blitz.  8th October, 1940.  AP Photo

U.S. Navy Lt. Lawrence Britton on lookout duty, aboard the USS Nassau, nearly two years after the surprise strike by the Japanese in 1941. Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, USA. October 1943.

Jacob Riis' New York

Baxter Street Alley in Mulberry Bend

New York City, ca.1888

Photograph: Jacob Riis

(Library of Congress)

Mullen’s Alley, Cherry Hill

New York City, 1888

Photograph: Jacob Riis

Man with Lathe

Lathe, Maschinenfabrik Oerlikon, 1949

Photograph: Jakob Tuggener

Gelatin silver print

Duster 340

Detroit Auto Show series, ca.1975

Photograph: Bill Rauhauser