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Most prominent among the passengers arriving on the SS Majestic were Sir Herbert Samuel, center, Viscount Bearsted, left, and Simon Marks, right, Jan....

The first lesson in riding the king's horses: recruits of the Queen's own Hussars learning balance on wooden mounts at the cavalry barracks at Hounslo...

From the Mid-Week Pictorial of the New York Times: The searchlights of warships created a spectacle of light to celebrate the return of United States...

From the Mid-Week Pictorial of the New York Times: Marian Holmes knelt inside the glass of a 100,000-watt incandescent bulb to be exhibited by the Wes...

April 10, 1934: James J. Jeffries, a former world heavyweight boxing champion, put on the gloves to face a steer in preparation for a rodeo event that...

Feb. 3, 1934: "Automotive Transportation Reduced to a Minimum." This specimen boasts three-quarter horsepower and dinner-plate-size wheels. "It is sai...

At the New York Times studios on 43rd Street, Maj. John W. Hession of New Haven brought his target from a Wimbledon match of the Far Southwest Rifle,...

A perfect score: Major John W. Hession of New Haven, Conn., with his target from Wimbledon match of the Far Southwest Rifle, Pistol and Shotgun matche...

Sir Herbert Samuel, left, the British Home Secretary, and Premier Edouard Herriot of France, as they met at St. Helier, Island of Jersey, Sept. 1932,...

American actress Mary Astor with her baby Marilyn after her birth in Honolulu, on June 15, 1932. The baby's name is a compound of her mother and fathe...

The "Zeppelin on wheels" goes into railway service May 30, 1931. The New type of motor coach, propelled by a huge propeller in the rear, arrived at th...

From the Mid-Week Pictorial of the New York Times: "San Francisco Sees a War in the Air" read the caption for this image of bombers performing maneuve...

Sports parade on Red Square.

From the Mid-Week Pictorial, a display of the Army's new flying fort. Maj. Gen. Mason M. Patrick, chief of the Army Air Service, right, inspected the...

Feb. 11, 1926: From the New York Times' Mid-Week pictorial, Sally O'Neil, who "Makes an Appealing Offering for Feb. 14," was an actress from the silen...

Albertina Rasch, back from Europe, rehearses the members of her ballet, who will appear in "The Phantom of the Opera." on the top of the new Steinway...

Camouflage that failed: Schooner Nantisco at the Army Base, Brooklyn, after capture by revenue agents, who discovered 3,000 cases of liquor concealed...

Polish prisoners of Bolsheviki towed to a concentration camp. Undated photo. (AP Photo)

Refugees are turned out of Poland because they elected to remain Germans, arriving at Schneidemuhl in Germany with neither homes or work, 1925 photo....

The Washington Senators and New York Giants teams join before the final game of the World Series championship in Washington, Oct. 10, 1924, handout ph...

Sir Douglas Alexander, president of the Singer Sewing Machine Company, May 1924. (AP Photo)

Helen Ford in "Dearest Enemy," a musical romance of the American Revolution, at the Knickerbocker Theatre, 10/11/1925. (The New York Times)

Sept. 16, 1917: Jubilation at the draft ? draftees arrived at the new Camp Dix (now Fort Dix) near Trenton, dancing as they waited to be assigned to t...

Gen. Rafael Trujillo of the Dominican Republic on July 1, 1959. (Tad Szulc/The New York Times)

Robbins Trailer City, a concentration of 1,200 trailers parked 20 feet apart, in outskirts of Aiken, S.C., designed to house construction workers with...

Rome, 1972 - Josip Broz (best known as Tito), President of Yugoslavia, with his wife Jovanka during an official visit in Italy

Milan, april 1988 - Licio Gelli (masonic Worshipful Master of the Italian lodge Propaganda Due-P2) with his lawyer Alessandro Pellegrini at "La Madonn...