Paris Opens its New Airport at Le Bourget: The main hall of the aerodrome. Air companies represented by offices here include France, Great Britain, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Holland, Belgium, both airmail and passenger services.

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Paris Opens its New Airport at Le Bourget: The main hall of the aerodrome. Air companies represented by offices here include France, Great Britain, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Holland, Belgium, both airmail and passenger services.
Paris Opens its New Airport at Le Bourget: The main hall of the aerodrome. Air companies represented by offices here include France, Great Britain, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Holland, Belgium, both airmail and passenger services.
Date1937
MediumVintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
DimensionsSheet: 7 7/8 × 8 1/4 in. (20.1 × 21 cm) Image: 7 7/8 × 8 1/4 in. (20.1 × 21 cm)
Credit LineGift of Thomas J. Wilson and Jill M. Garling, P2016
Object number2025.30.209
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Markings Verso, upper middle (taped typewritten paper): "SCHALL/r1035da/7 * PARIS OPENS ITS NEW AIRPORT AT LE BOURGET. The main hall of the aerodrome. Air companies represented (include covered by 'xxxxxxx') by offices here includeFrance, Great Britain, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Holland, Belgium, both airmail and passenger services."
Verso, middle (blue ink stamp): "PHOTO BY: PIX PUBLISHING INC, 250 PARK AVENUE NEW YORK CITY TEL. ELDORADO 5-4021 / PLEASE CREDIT PHOTO SCHALL-PIX / THIS PICTURE IS SOLD TO YOU FOR YOUR PUBLICATION ONLY AND MUST NOT BE LOANED, SYNDICATED OR USED FOR AD-VERTISING PURPOSES WITHOUT WRITTEN PERMISSION FROM US."
Verso, lower middle (green ink stamp): "Westport Public Library Westport, Conn."
Inscribed Verso, top left (pencil): "RS-272 1250"
Verso, top left (pencil): "19 / 1085 DA"
Verso, middle left (pencil): "#6"
Verso, bottom left (pencil): "6-6"
Guatemala - Rural health: The villager meets 20th Century: San Jorge (Guatemala) with its 800 inhabitants is a village like 10,000 others in Latin America (65% of the population is rural in Central America, 58% in South America). From the health point of view, rural populations present a complex problem and in most countries rural health services are only now taking root, San Jorge.
Guatemala - Rural health: The villager meets 20th Century: San Jorge (Guatemala) with its 800 inhabitants is a village like 10,000 others in Latin America (65% of the population is rural in Central America, 58% in South America). From the health point of view, rural populations present a complex problem and in most countries rural health services are only now taking root, San Jorge.
Paul Almásy
Date: 1960-1969
Medium: Vintage gelatin silver print
Object number: 2022.15.168
Ordered to Leave England: "Yippie" leader Jerry Rubin makes clenched fist salute as he's taken in police car, escorted by a Special Branch detective, here November 13th, Rubin and a companion, Stewart Albert, have been advised they will be deported unless they leave Britain voluntarily.
Ordered to Leave England: "Yippie" leader Jerry Rubin makes clenched fist salute as he's taken in police car, escorted by a Special Branch detective, here November 13th, Rubin and a companion, Stewart Albert, have been advised they will be deported unless they leave Britain voluntarily.
Unknown artist, American
Date: November 13, 1970
Medium: Vintage United Press International telephoto
Object number: 2024.21.247
Empty offices at night
Empty offices at night
Jacques Lowe
Date: c. 1955
Medium: Vintage gelatin silver print
Object number: 2022.15.57
Yippie Leader: Jerry Rubin (right), wearing a RE-ELECT NIXON button, expresses himself to a TV newsman about the upcoming Democratic convention on the lawn of Conventional Hall. With Rubin was Stew Albert. Both are leaders of the Youth International Party. They said they were sent to Miami Beach by the Yippies to survey the convention site. Rubin predicted that 10,000 nudes would march down Washington Avenue in front of convention hall when the Democrats convene in July.
Yippie Leader: Jerry Rubin (right), wearing a RE-ELECT NIXON button, expresses himself to a TV newsman about the upcoming Democratic convention on the lawn of Conventional Hall. With Rubin was Stew Albert. Both are leaders of the Youth International Party. They said they were sent to Miami Beach by the Yippies to survey the convention site. Rubin predicted that 10,000 nudes would march down Washington Avenue in front of convention hall when the Democrats convene in July.
Joe Sebo
Date: February 16, 1972
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2024.21.163
Photo by John Bentham.
U.S. Post Office Tailoring Company
Thomas Nast
Date: 1889
Medium: Lithograph
Object number: 1944.1.74
Proconsuls of France: Wide areas of France's African empire are governed practically single-handed by highly capable and experience officers, who are military commanders, administrators, judges and advisors -- all in one. A district so administered is Tinerhir, southeast of Marrakesh, French Morocco. / Here is Captain Deal, one of the most capable and experienced officers in the French colonial service. He has served in Morocco for twenty years, has taken part in practically every campaign and is a thorough expert in native problems, Tinerhir, Morocco
Proconsuls of France: Wide areas of France's African empire are governed practically single-handed by highly capable and experience officers, who are military commanders, administrators, judges and advisors -- all in one. A district so administered is Tinerhir, southeast of Marrakesh, French Morocco. / Here is Captain Deal, one of the most capable and experienced officers in the French colonial service. He has served in Morocco for twenty years, has taken part in practically every campaign and is a thorough expert in native problems, Tinerhir, Morocco
Date: c. 1935-1939
Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2025.30.222
Photo from inside ante-room of Mayor Richard J. Daley's office shows entrance of Congress of Racial Equality demonstrators being barred by police. Garrick Madison (white shirt) 18, spokesman for the group, talks with Col. Jack Reilly (white hair), the mayor's director of special events, who eventually allowed Madison and four other representatives of CORE to enter the suite for an interview with Daley. Daley later told reporters: "They asked for my co-operation with regarding the Board of Education, and I told them it is not my policy to interfere with the Board of Education." Reporters and city hall workers are amidst CORE group outside office, Chicago.
Photo from inside ante-room of Mayor Richard J. Daley's office shows entrance of Congress of Racial Equality demonstrators being barred by police. Garrick Madison (white shirt) 18, spokesman for the group, talks with Col. Jack Reilly (white hair), the mayor's director of special events, who eventually allowed Madison and four other representatives of CORE to enter the suite for an interview with Daley. Daley later told reporters: "They asked for my co-operation with regarding the Board of Education, and I told them it is not my policy to interfere with the Board of Education." Reporters and city hall workers are amidst CORE group outside office, Chicago.
Date: July 22, 1963
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2022.15.282
Christening of the Heiress to Holland's Throne (Beatrix Armgard): The loyal subjects of the Royal House of Orange, aristocrats and commoners, rich and poor, old and young, whole-heartedly took part in the joyful celebrations on the occasion of the christening of Princess Beatrix, infant daughter of Princess Juliana and Prince Bernard. With touching affection and devotion, the whole county rejoiced in the happiness of its beloved Royal family. A brilliant pageant was staged to honor the heiress presumptive to the Dutch throne. All the notables and dignitaries of the country, Royal guests from abroad, including King Leopold of the Belgians joined the splendid procession to the great church of the Hague where the religious ceremony took place. The infant princess' godparents were King Leopold of the Belgians, Duke Adolph Frederick of Mecklen
Christening of the Heiress to Holland's Throne (Beatrix Armgard): The loyal subjects of the Royal House of Orange, aristocrats and commoners, rich and poor, old and young, whole-heartedly took part in the joyful celebrations on the occasion of the christening of Princess Beatrix, infant daughter of Princess Juliana and Prince Bernard. With touching affection and devotion, the whole county rejoiced in the happiness of its beloved Royal family. A brilliant pageant was staged to honor the heiress presumptive to the Dutch throne. All the notables and dignitaries of the country, Royal guests from abroad, including King Leopold of the Belgians joined the splendid procession to the great church of the Hague where the religious ceremony took place. The infant princess' godparents were King Leopold of the Belgians, Duke Adolph Frederick of Mecklen
Date: May 12, 1938
Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2025.30.217
Christening of the Heiress to Holland's Throne (Beatrix Armgard): The loyal subjects of the Royal House of Orange, aristocrats and commoners, rich and poor, old and young, whole-heartedly took part in the joyful celebrations on the occasion of the christening of Princess Beatrix, infant daughter of Princess Juliana and Prince Bernard. With touching affection and devotion, the whole county rejoiced in the happiness of its beloved Royal family. A brilliant pageant was staged to honor the heiress presumptive to the Dutch throne. All the notables and dignitaries of the country, Royal guests from abroad, including King Leopold of the Belgians joined the splendid procession to the great church of the Hague where the religious ceremony took place. The infant princess' godparents were King Leopold of the Belgians, Duke Adolph Frederick of Mecklen
Christening of the Heiress to Holland's Throne (Beatrix Armgard): The loyal subjects of the Royal House of Orange, aristocrats and commoners, rich and poor, old and young, whole-heartedly took part in the joyful celebrations on the occasion of the christening of Princess Beatrix, infant daughter of Princess Juliana and Prince Bernard. With touching affection and devotion, the whole county rejoiced in the happiness of its beloved Royal family. A brilliant pageant was staged to honor the heiress presumptive to the Dutch throne. All the notables and dignitaries of the country, Royal guests from abroad, including King Leopold of the Belgians joined the splendid procession to the great church of the Hague where the religious ceremony took place. The infant princess' godparents were King Leopold of the Belgians, Duke Adolph Frederick of Mecklen
Date: May 12, 1938
Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2025.30.218
Christening of the Heiress to Holland's Throne (Beatrix Armgard): The loyal subjects of the Royal House of Orange, aristocrats and commoners, rich and poor, old and young, whole-heartedly took part in the joyful celebrations on the occasion of the christening of Princess Beatrix, infant daughter of Princess Juliana and Prince Bernard. With touching affection and devotion, the whole county rejoiced in the happiness of its beloved Royal family. A brilliant pageant was staged to honor the heiress presumptive to the Dutch throne. All the notables and dignitaries of the country, Royal guests from abroad, including King Leopold of the Belgians joined the splendid procession to the great church of the Hague where the religious ceremony took place. The infant princess' godparents were King Leopold of the Belgians, Duke Adolph Frederick of Mecklen
Christening of the Heiress to Holland's Throne (Beatrix Armgard): The loyal subjects of the Royal House of Orange, aristocrats and commoners, rich and poor, old and young, whole-heartedly took part in the joyful celebrations on the occasion of the christening of Princess Beatrix, infant daughter of Princess Juliana and Prince Bernard. With touching affection and devotion, the whole county rejoiced in the happiness of its beloved Royal family. A brilliant pageant was staged to honor the heiress presumptive to the Dutch throne. All the notables and dignitaries of the country, Royal guests from abroad, including King Leopold of the Belgians joined the splendid procession to the great church of the Hague where the religious ceremony took place. The infant princess' godparents were King Leopold of the Belgians, Duke Adolph Frederick of Mecklen
Date: May 12, 1938
Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2025.30.219
At the Livermore Air Show we sit around doing nothing. Everybody coming by wants to talk about stunt flying. Livermore Air Show, Livermore, California, from the series "Leisure"
At the Livermore Air Show we sit around doing nothing. Everybody coming by wants to talk about stunt flying. Livermore Air Show, Livermore, California, from the series "Leisure"
Bill Owens
Date: 1977 (printed later)
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2019.18.64
A group of clergymen from the Washington area join hands to sing "We Shall Overcome" at Washington National Airport before flying to Alabama to take part in a scheduled march on March 9 for Negro voting rights. The group flew to Montgomery where they planned to take a bus to Selma for the demonstration. Among them are Rabbi Richard A. Hirsch, left, of Washington; Bishop John Wesley Lord, third from left; Methodist Bishop of Washington; and the Rt. Reverend George L. Gringas, second from right, of the Roman Catholic Church.
A group of clergymen from the Washington area join hands to sing "We Shall Overcome" at Washington National Airport before flying to Alabama to take part in a scheduled march on March 9 for Negro voting rights. The group flew to Montgomery where they planned to take a bus to Selma for the demonstration. Among them are Rabbi Richard A. Hirsch, left, of Washington; Bishop John Wesley Lord, third from left; Methodist Bishop of Washington; and the Rt. Reverend George L. Gringas, second from right, of the Roman Catholic Church.
Date: March 8, 1965
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2022.15.275