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Washington traffic policewoman, 1917
Photo Credit: National Archives Mrs. L. O. King, a policewoman, directing traffic in Washington during World War I.
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Park visitor shows off her park stickers, 1922
Photo Credit: National Park Service Park Visitor showing off her park stickers at Yellowstone National Park in 1922. The stickers represent all the other National Parks she has visited.
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Passengers transported by dogsled, 1920
Photo Credit: University of Washington Libraries Passengers being transported over ice to shore by dogsled from steamship in Nome on June 14, 1920.
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Union Pacific employees in Utah, 1869
Photo Credit: Utah State Historical Society The arrival of the paymaster’s car was the occasion that gathered a large group of Union Pacific employees together at Blue Creek just below the present...
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Morning truck check-up at CCC camp
Photo Credit: Oregon State University Line-up of trucks and truck drivers for morning truck check-up at Cut Foot Sioux Civilian Conservation Corps camp in the Chippewa National Forest, Minnesota.
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Elizabeth Rogers at the suffrage van, 1915
Photo Credit: Library of Congress Photograph shows civic leader and suffragist Elizabeth Selden White Rogers (1868-1950) at the suffrage van, a mobile speaker’s platform and shop promoting women’s...
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Women repairing bicycle, 1895
Photo Credit: Montana State University Sepia tone photograph of a young woman repairing parts of a bicycle while three others watch and help her, ca. 1895.
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Henry Ford with Harvey Firestone and Children, 1918
Photo Credit: The Henry Ford Henry Ford with Harvey Firestone and Children at the Firestone Farm in August 1918. Henry Ford and Harvey Firestone went on several camping trips as “vagabonds,” a group...
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Amelia Earhart christening the “City of New York”, 1929
Photo Credit: The Henry Ford Amelia Earhart christening the “City of New York” before its first transcontinental air transport flight in New York City, 1929. Amelia Earhart, already famous for the...
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Jonathan D. Maxwell driving on rough terrain, 1901
Photo Credit: The Henry Ford Jonathan D. Maxwell driving a curved-dash Oldsmobile on rough terrain, c. 1901. With its one-cylinder engine and horseless carriage looks, the Oldsmobile Curved Dash...
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Top-notch mechanic rebuilding airplane engine, 1942
Photo Credit: National Archives A top-notch mechanic, Mary Josephine Farley expertly rebuilds airplane engines. Although she is only twenty years old she has a private pilot’s license and has made...
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Seabees clearing route of buried mines, 1970
Photo Credit: National Archives US Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 62 personnel (Seabees) lay explosive line changes to clear route LTL-4 of buried mines to permit Detail Buford to proceed with...
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Changing a tire at Benning race track, 1916
Photo Credit: Library of Congress Woman changing tire of Stutz Weightman Special no. 26 at Benning race track near Washington, D.C. in 1916.
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Waiting to board a New York streetcar, 1890s
Photo Credit: Joseph Byron/Getty’s Open Content Program People waiting to board a New York City streetcar, headed towards 23rd Street and Broadway, ca. 1890s.
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Testing out the Army’s new truck, 1941
Photo Credit: National Archives The following caption was given to this ‘high flying’ photograph taken on March 29, 1941: “These soldiers go up in the air to prove that the Army’s new quarter ton...
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Clara Bow and Moon Car, 1926
Photo Credit: Missouri History Museum Actress Clara Bow straddling the hood of 1919 Moon in a baseball uniform in 1926.
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D-Day in Pictures: Part VI
D-Day in Pictures: Part I D-Day in Pictures: Part II D-Day in Pictures: Part III D-Day in Pictures: Part IV D-Day in Pictures: Part V “We got on the beach and they have all these people laying down on...
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San Diego police officers, ca. 1912
Photo Credit: San Diego Historical Society Group of seven San Diego police officers, four on motorcycles, three standing around 1912.
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A group of penny-farthing enthusiasts in Piedmont
Photo Credit: California Historical Society A group of bicyclists (with penny-farthings) in front of Isaac L. Requa’s residence on Highland Avenue and Hazel Lane in Piedmont, California.
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Transporting dogs to the Alamo Heights Veterinary Clinic, 1946
Photo Credit: The University of Texas at San Antonio Libraries Ruben Donovan in a three-wheeled scooter used to transport dogs to the Alamo Heights Veterinary Clinic on Broadway in San Antonio, 1946.
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