World Famous Pictures
World Famous Pictures
 Charlie Chaplin, 1914. |
 Lady Diana and Mother Teresa of Calcutta, 1997. |
First Photograph by Joseph Niepce, 1826.
Daguerreotype, ca. 1838.
Edgar Allan Poe, 1848.
Abraham Lincoln, ca. 1860.
Thomas Edison and phonograph, 1877.
Claude Monet ca. 1890.
The Duryea, the first gasoline powered car in America, 1893.
Tsar Nicholas II, 1898.
R.M.S. Titanic, 1912.
Treaty of Versailles, 1918.
Albert Einstein and leaders of the World Zionist Organization, 1921.
Charles Lindbergh with the Spirit of St. Louis, 1927.
Ford T coupe, 1927.
Mohandas Gandhi, 1935.
Yalta conference, 1945.
World War II ends in Europe, 1945.
Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima, 1945.
First Atomic bomb, 1945.
Babe Ruth with George H. W. Bush, 1948.
Jackie Robinson in Dodgers uniform, 1954.
Marilyn Monroe, "The Seven Year Itch", 1954.
Sputnik 1, 1957.
Gamal Abdel Nasser, Jawaharlal Nehru and Josip Broz Tito in Brioni, 1961.
The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962.
Civil rights movement, 1963.
John F. Kennedy, 1963.
The Beatles, Abbey Road, 1969.
Neil Armstrong, the first man to set foot on the moon, 1969.
Buzz Aldrin's bootprint, (Apollo 11), 1969.
Leonard Bernstein, 1971.
Children - Vietnam, 1972.
Mikhail Gorbachev, Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush, 1988.
Fall of the Berlin Wall, 1989.
Nelson Mandela, c. 1990.
Pope John Paul II, Denver 1993.
Yitzhak Rabin, Bill Clinton and Yasser Arafat, 1993.
Saddam Hussein, 1998.
Palestinian boy martyr, 2000.
George W. Bush visiting the Great Wall of China, 2002.
Hugo Chávez on USS Yorktown, 2002.
Satellite view of Hurricane Katrina, 2005.
The Three Tenors, 2007.
Beijing, Olympics Closing Ceremony, 2008.
Phosphorus bombs in Gaza, 2009.
American plane in the Hudson river, 2009.
War victims, Afghan children, 2009.
See also
Atomic bombing of Nagasaki on August 9, 1945.
Victory over Japan Day, Times Square Kiss, 1945, by Lt Victor Jorgenson.
March on Washington, 1963.
External links
- Famous Photos
- Prints & Photographs Division The Library of Congress.
Lincoln at Gettysburg.