Charile Parker and Miles Davis, New York, 1949 by William Gottlieb.

 

 

Charile Parker and Miles Davis, New York, 1949 by William Gottlieb.

 

A puppy takes a nap between some Russian soldiers, 1945.

 

Color photograph of French Anti-Aircraft Crew during World War One (Western Front; ca.1916-1918)

 

Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell leaving their handprints at Grauman’s Chinese Theater in Hollywood, 1953.

 1954 Marilyn Monroe married her second husband, baseball star Joe DiMaggio

 

 

Martin Luther King escorts a group of school children to their newly desegregated school (Mississippi, 1966)

Bruce Lee and his teacher, Chinese martial artist Ip Man

Bruce Lee winning his best title ever- the Hong Crown Colony Cha-Cha Championship, 1958

 

The Nazi airship Hindenburg (yes, that Hindenburg) doing a flyby of Manhattan in 1937

 

Frédéric Chopin, 1849

 

Miss Nuclear Bomb, Nevada,1940

 

Thubten Gyatso, the 13th Dalai lama (1876-1933)

Subway 1980, NYC

 

Venus the bulldog mascot of the British destroyer HMS Vansittart, circa 1941.

 ''My course is set for an uncharted sea.'' #Dante

 

1955, model Dovima poses with elephants

Construction workers resting on a steel beam above Manhattan, 1932

 

Pistol Packin Mama nose art. B-17 WASP ferry pilots at Lockbourne AAF, Ohio. 1943.

21-year-old Second Lieutenant Winston Churchill of the 4th Queen's Own Hussars, 1895.

 

John Lennon and Yoko Ono in New York City, 1972.

 

Louis Armstrong plays for his wife in front of the Sphinx by the pyramids in Giza, 1961

 

Woman on a motorcycle, 1917

 

View of Midtown Manhattan 1939 by Alfred Eisenstaedt.

 

Parachute pioneer Franz Reichelt just before his fatal jump from the Eiffel tower - 1912

Two African men walk past a sign common in apartheid South Africa, Johannesburg, circa 1956

Madge Bellamy, 1920s

 

Moulin-Rouge. Place Blanche. Montmartre, ca.1900

 

Marilyn Monroe photographed by George Barris 1962.

 

Mark Twain