Miss America 1924
Proving to the public that London’s double-decker buses are not a tipping hazard in 1933
An x-ray of Hitler’s skull
Vikki “The Back” Dougan, 1957. She was the inspiration for the cartoon femme fatale, Jessica Rabbit
For the 50th anniversary of the Golden Gate Bridge in 1985, 300,000 people crossed it on foot. The weight caused the bridge to sag by five feet
The blood-stained gloves that Lincoln was wearing when he was assassinated at Ford’s Theater
Helen Keller meets Charlie Chaplin.
The first aerial photograph of Lower Manhattan taken in 1924.
A Plexiglas “ghost” car in 1940
Amy Johnson was one of the first women to gain a pilot’s license and won fame when she flew solo from Britain to Australia in 1930. Later she flew solo to India and Japan and became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic East to West. Johnson volunteered to fly for The Women’s Auxiliary Air Force in World War II, but her plane was shot down over the River Thames and she was killed
Victorian sideshow performers
Jessie Tarbox, a photojournalist in the 1900’s
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