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Poster

War Bonds Advertising Poster

Date: 1949
Description: Advertising poster for International trucks promoting United States government bonds. Features a color illustration of an International K-line truck pullin...
Drawing

Plaza at Springfield

Date: 
Description: "Plaza at Springfield — Missouri — Civil War". Image shows men standing in the Plaza and one man on horseback. Buildings include the Courthouse and a hospi...
Print

Watching the Dancers

Date: 1906
Description: The original caption reads: "A group of girls on the topmost roof of Walpi, looking down into the plaza." An informal group portrait of Hopi women.
Photograph

The Perrine Hotel

Date: 1910
Description: View across square toward the Perrine Hotel. There is a large crowd of people on the square. Caption reads: "Perrine Hotel, Twin Falls, Idaho."
Photograph

Queen Elizabeth 2, Hudson River

Date: 1968
Description: A small crowd mills about a cobblestone plaza near a brick building on the wharf adjacent to the Hudson River. The Queen Elizabeth 2 cruise ship is ...
Photograph

"Battalion of Death" at Winter Palace

Date: 1917
Description: Elevated view of a procession makings its way through the grounds of the Winter Palace at Petrograd (St. Petersburg), Russia. Original caption reads: "'Bat...
Photograph

Balboa Park at the Plaza de Panama

Date: 
Description: Elevated view of a crowd in Balboa Park, located at the Plaza de Panama.
Photograph

Vietnamese Air Raid Shelters

Date: 1967
Description: Individual air raid shelters in the courtyard of the hotel where journalist David Schoenbrun was staying in Hanoi in 1967. There is a chicken coop behind t...
Photograph

Bombed Out Church

Date: 1967
Description: Destruction caused to a Catholic church in the North Vietnamese city of Phat Diem. A group of children and adults are in the plaza surrounding the building...
Photograph

Union Members Marching

Date: 
Description: Members of Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 880 march across a plaza in protest. Some are carrying signs shaped like giant pennies. Disab...
Photograph

Cranberry Cooking

Date: 02 1989
Description: Outdoor gathering of men, women and children cooking cranberries in a large kettle, perhaps at a winter festival.
Photograph

Berlin Reporter

Date: 1940
Description: Associated Press journalist Alvin Steinkopf, formerly of Milwaukee, photographed on the streets of Berlin. Steinkopf was in Berlin until after Pearl Harbor...
Photograph

Warsaw Street Scene

Date: 1940
Description: Vendor selling balloons near the central railroad station in Warsaw, Poland, about one year after the German invasion.
Photograph

Ghetto Street Scene

Date: 1940
Description: Street scene in the Jewish ghetto in Szydlowiec, Poland, photographed by American journalist Alvin Steinkopf, about one year after the German invasion.
Photograph

Nazi Surveillance

Date: 10 1940
Description: Street scene of people in the Jewish ghetto in Szydlowiec, Poland, being addressed by two German soldiers. The scene was witnessed by American journalist A...
Photograph

Krakow

Date: 1940
Description: The Market Hall and Square in Krakow, Poland, about a year after the German invasion.
Photograph

Sarajevo Street Scene

Date: 1940
Description: A street scene with Sarajevo.
Postcard

Monument Square

Date: 1975
Description: Photographic postcard view of Monument Square looking south. In the bottom right corner, a man sits on a bench looking at the fountain. The Civil War Soldi...
Photograph

Daley Plaza Sculpture

Date: 06 1983
Description: "This modern sculpture is in Chicago." The photograph features an untitled sculpture by Pablo Picasso, completed in 1967 and located in Daley Plaza.
Photograph

Henry Clay Monument

Date: 
Description: View of the Henry Clay Monument with a statue of Clay inside. In front stand two young girls wearing dresses. Each girl is holding a pet rabbit. On the rig...

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