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  1. Patients at the Brooklyn Navy Yard Hospital in Brooklyn, New York, 1900
  2. Louis Armstrong in the dressing room at Aquarium in New York City, 1946
  3. Jazz clubs and nightclubs on 52nd Street in New York City, 1948
  4. Jazz clubs and nightclubs on 52nd Street in New York City, 1948
  5. A produce market on Washington Street in Manhattan, New York City, 1952
  6. A Jewish family making garters in their tenement home in New York City, 1912
  7. Thelonious Monk at Minton's Playhouse in New York City, 1947
  8. Jazz clubs and nightclubs on 52nd Street in New York City, 1948
  9. Huddie Ledbetter performing with Bunk Johnson at the Stuyvesant Casino in New York City
  10. Count Basie performing at the Aquarium in New York City, 1947
  11. Cab Calloway, American jazz singer and bandleader
  12. Cab Calloway, American jazz singer and bandleader
  13. Artie Shaw (1910-2004)
  14. New Yorkers playing tennis at the Seventh Regiment Armory, 1881
  15. The Journey, 1903
  16. Life was made for love and cheer, 1904
  17. Save the products of the land - Eat more fish, 1917
  18. Visit the Zoo - Penguins, 1936
  19. Couples dancing in a nightclub, 1921
  20. The Eagle Fruit Store and Capital Hotel in Lincoln, Nebraska, 1942
  21. Isolde, 1899
  22. Virginia Lively, a wartime gas station attendant in Louisville, Kentucky, 1942
  23. Two baseball players of the Chicago White Stockings baseball team, 1876
  24. The Statue Of Liberty under construction in Paris, 1884
  25. The Flatiron Building, 1912
  26. The Barnum and Bailey Greatest Show on Earth, 1903
  27. Steelworker atop the Empire State Building, New York City, during its construction, 1931
  28. Model T assembly line at the Ford automobile plant in Highland Park, Michigan, 1913
  29. Ivory-billed woodpeckers
  30. Hippodrome Theatre on Sixth Avenue between 43rd and 44th Street in New York City, 1910
  31. Eiffel Tower, 1900
  32. Dwight D. Eisenhower in a Rauch-Lang electric car while in Denver, Colorado, 1938
  33. Boys collecting scrap metal for the war effort in San Juan Bautista, California, 1942
  34. Bonds Help Dreams Come True! Buy Bonds the G.I. Way, 1942
  35. American soldiers playing baseball in Europe during World War I, 1917
  36. Alexander the Great contemplates the Talking Tree during the end of his travels
  37. Aerial view of Shea Stadium in Queens, New York, 1970
  38. A hot air balloon suspended above the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France, 1890
  39. 'Life' magazine cover, 1923
  40. The Trylon and Perisphere at the New York World's Fair, 1939
  41. Refugees from the Oklahoma drought camping by the roadside, 1935
  42. President Wilson throwing out the ceremonial first ball on opening day, 1916
  43. Patrick Joseph Moran while playing with the Chicago Cubs, 1908
  44. New York Giants' against the Chicago White Stockings
  45. Marilyn Monroe in Some Like It Hot - Publicity Still
  46. Keep Us Flying! Buy War Bonds, 1943
  47. Jim Thorpe playing baseball for the New York Giants at the Polo Grounds, 1913
  48. Jim Thorpe playing baseball for the New York Giants at the Polo Grounds, 1913