This photograph shows former Miss America, Margaret Gorman, c 1920-1930.

This photograph shows future scientist, little Mary McDowell, a 9 year old student of the Grant School, exhibiting a boa constrictor and a garter snake, 1927.

This photograph shows Cecil Beaton kneeling on mantle of fireplace to take a photograph of Lilyan Tashman, movie actress, who is reclining on chaise in Hollywood, California, 1930.

This photograph shows a street with decorative arch at entrance to Baghdad, Iraq, 1932.

This photograph shows New York City, looking north from Empire State Building. Ironically, the photograph was taken on September 11, 1933. The photographer was Samnuel Herman.

This Photograph shows a Jew in Yemen sitting beside a radio, 1934.

This photograph shows the waterfront in New Orleans. French market sidewalk scene. Louisiana. Dec, 1935. Photograph by Walker Evans.

This photograph shows sharecropper Bud Fields and his family at home in Hale County, Alabama during the Great Depression, 1935. Photograph by Evans, Walker.

This photograph is one in a series of images from our Dorothea Lange Collection. Lange was a documentary photographer that created stark and poignant images of poverty and migrant farm labor in America during the Great Depression.

This photograph shows Ernest M. Hemingway, 41, noted author, and his 28-year-old bride, the former Martha Gellhorn, writer and member of a prominent St. Louis family, starting their honeymoon trip from Cheyenne, Wyo., Nov. 22 for New York City.

This photograph shows Frank Lloyd Wright, half-length portrait, seated, facing slightly left, pointing to his design for Crystal Heights, 1940.

This photograph shows Harlow H. Curtice, president of General Motors, and other employees of General Motors at ceremonies at the Chevrolet plant in Flint, Michigan, to commemorate the production of General Motors' 25,000,000th car. 1940.

This photograph shows Main street in Globe, Arizona, 1941. Photograph shows Broad Street including movie theater at left (with marquee for "Melvyn Douglas in Our Wife" released in 1941) and the Gila County Courthouse and Hotel Globe on the right.

This photograph shows aircraft on the flight deck of H.M.S. Ark Royal, 1939-1945.

This photograph shows a street jammed with moving trucks and cars with Japanese Americans leaving for internement camps during World War II. Here is the archival record for the photograph: "Los Angeles (Calif.) Evacuation -- Caravan of evacuees leaving Mariposa Street Control Station for Santa Anita Assembly Center, April 28, 1942 Japanese Americans wait in traffic in packed cars to leave Mariposa Street following evacuation orders."

This photograph shows: "A carpenter at the TVA's new Douglas dam on the French Broad River, Tenn. This dam will be 161 feet high and 1,682 feet ong, with a 31,600-acre reservoir area extending 43 miles upstream. With a useful storage capacity of approximately 1,330,000 acre-feet, this reservoir will make possible the addition of nearly 100,000 kw. of continuous power to the TVA system in dry years and almost 170,000 kw. in the average year." June, 1942. Photograph by Alfred Palmer.

This photograph shows the 1940 Philadelphia Athletics team.

This photograph shows Rita Hayworth and Glen Ford from the movie "Gilda," 1946.

This photograph shows an ice hockey game, with players' uniforms marked Washington and Pennsylvania, 1947.

This photograph shows Dr. Albert Schweitzer, Aspen, Colorado, 1949.