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  1. Boys collecting scrap metal for the war effort in San Juan Bautista, California, 1942
  2. Bonds Help Dreams Come True! Buy Bonds the G.I. Way, 1942
  3. American soldiers playing baseball in Europe during World War I, 1917
  4. Alexander the Great contemplates the Talking Tree during the end of his travels
  5. Aerial view of Shea Stadium in Queens, New York, 1970
  6. A hot air balloon suspended above the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France, 1890
  7. 'Life' magazine cover, 1923
  8. The Trylon and Perisphere at the New York World's Fair, 1939
  9. Refugees from the Oklahoma drought camping by the roadside, 1935
  10. President Wilson throwing out the ceremonial first ball on opening day, 1916
  11. Patrick Joseph Moran while playing with the Chicago Cubs, 1908
  12. New York Giants' against the Chicago White Stockings
  13. Marilyn Monroe in Some Like It Hot - Publicity Still
  14. Keep Us Flying! Buy War Bonds, 1943
  15. Jim Thorpe playing baseball for the New York Giants at the Polo Grounds, 1913
  16. Jim Thorpe playing baseball for the New York Giants at the Polo Grounds, 1913
  17. Jim Thorpe (1888-1953) playing baseball for the New York Giants, 1918
  18. Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts, 1912
  19. A worker at a tube cutting machine in a factory in Louisville, Kentucky, 1945
  20. A construction worker gripping a rope at work on the Empire State Building, 1931
  21. World War II: V-J Day, 1945
  22. World War II: V-E Day, 1945
  23. World War II: Pearl Harbor, 1941
  24. World War II: Pearl Harbor, 1941
  25. World War II: London Blitz
  26. Ty Cobb and 'Shoeless' Joe Jackson, American baseball players
  27. Trucks hauling 80 tons of scrap rubber for the war effort in Stevens Point, Wisconsin
  28. Shoeless Joe Jackson (1889-1991)
  29. Men working on machine guns at the General Motors plant in Detroit, Michigan
  30. Men and women working on tanks at the Ford Motor Company plant in Richmond, California
  31. Mechanics working on M-4 tanks at a Ford Motor Company munitions plant, 1942
  32. Japanese representatives at the surrender ceremonies on the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay
  33. Four P-51 Mustang fighter planes flying in formation over Ramitelli, Italy, 1945
  34. Berlin in ruins after Allied air strikes at the end of World War II, 1945
  35. B-17 Flying Fortresses of the U.S. Air Force flying over Schweinfurt, Germany, 1944
  36. American troops on patrol through the ruins of Cologne, Germany, 1945
  37. American troops marching on the Avenue des Champs-Elysees in Paris, France, 1944
  38. American Red Cross workers operating out of a railroad car in Poland during World War I
  39. A Woman Spraying Paint On Electrical Control Equipment In A Factory, 1942
  40. A woman calling for more books during a New York Public Library book drive for soldiers
  41. 'The Great War.' French poster, c1915
  42. Wall Street Crash, Black Thursday, 1929
  43. USS Reno after being torpedoed, photographed alongside the USS Zuni, 1944
  44. Trapeze artists performing at a circus, 1890
  45. The USS California damaged during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor, 1941
  46. The circus at Luna Park in Cleveland, Ohio, 1905
  47. The Adam Forepaugh and Sells Brothers, America's Greatest Shows, 1898
  48. Steelworkers on girders of the Empire State Building, New York City, 1931