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| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | Actor and singer Bing Crosby getting out of a drizzling rain and into an International Scout 4x4 pickup during his 23rd Annual Pro-Amateur Golf Championshi... |
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| Description: | Edward R. Murrow stands with his fishing pole while smoking a cigarette on the shore of a lake in northern Wisconsin. |
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| Description: | Edward R. Murrow sits in a boat smoking a cigarette, having just caught a Walleyed Pike while fishing in a lake in northern Wisconsin. His unidentified com... |
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| Description: | Martin Luther King, Jr., with two leaders of the United Packinghouse Workers of America, Russell Lasley, and President Ralph Helstein. Probably at a UPWA c... |
| Date: | 03 24 1933 |
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| Description: | Radio stars Jack Pearl and Cliff Hal posing with a mechanical cow and milker in the International Harvester exhibit at the "A Century of Progress" world's ... |
| Date: | 07 1971 |
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| Description: | Cover of "Dallas News," an underground newspaper, featuring a photograph of Groucho Marx and a woman, with the headline, "Groucho calls for Nixon's Assassi... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Cy Young was widely regarded as the greatest baseball pitcher of all times. Cy Young, 80 years old, who resided in Newcomerstown, Ohio was invited to speak... |
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| Description: | Robert Bloch (wearing eyeglasses), the author of Psycho, sitting at a table with Janet Leigh. His wife Marion Bloch stands behind him. The man in the bow t... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Production still during the filming of "Citizen Kane." Orson Wells smokes a pipe and directs Dorothy Comingore (playing Susan Alexander Kane) from a wheel... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Cesar Chavez, the leader of United Farm Workers, is standing at the center of the photograph surrounded by members of the press. Behind him is a photograph... |
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| Description: | Publicity still of actor Edward Everett Horton, posing with a cigarette. |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Lobby card for the Paramount film "Double Indemnity," featuring a tinted scene from the movie, with leads Barbara Stanwyck (as Phyllis Dietrichson), Fred M... |
| Date: | 07 14 1964 |
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| Description: | Pete Seeger walking outdoors through a crowd carrying two instrument cases. The concert took place during Freedom Summer near Hattiesburg. "Pete Seeger san... |
| Date: | 04 19 1970 |
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| Description: | Lynn Fontanne, Sir Noel Coward, and Alfred Lunt seated at a table in the Pyrenees Restaurant after the Tony Awards presentations at which Lunt and Fontanne... |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Alfred Lunt, Noel Coward, and Lynn Fontanne walking together on the Ten Chimneys property. |
| Date: | 04 14 1964 |
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| Description: | An informal portrait of Morris Rubin sitting at his desk, decked with a glass ashtray, pack of cigarette and matchbook, rotary-dial telephone and papers. S... |
| Date: | 07 23 1964 |
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| Description: | Betty Friedan, author of the best-seller, "The Feminine Mystique," spoke on "The Crisis in Women's Identity-A Challenge to Education" in the Great Hall of ... |
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| Description: | Quarter-length portrait of Arthur Miller smoking a pipe while at a rehearsal for the play "After the Fall." |
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| Description: | Faye Emerson sitting next to Eleanor Roosevelt. The two are both wearing nice, but casual dresses. Faye was married to Eleanor's son Elliott from 1944-1950... |
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