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Portrait of McCullers taken by Carl Van Vechten in 1959. Carson McCullers (February 19, 1917 - September 29, 1967) was an American writer. She wrote n...

Portrait of McCullers taken by Carl Van Vechten in 1959. Carson McCullers (February 19, 1917 - September 29, 1967) was an American writer. She wrote n...

Margaret Mead (1901-1978), an American cultural anthropologist. She received her undergraduate degree from Barnard University in 1923, where she studi...

Gaspard Monge, Comte de Peluse (May 9, 1746 - July 28, 1818) was a French mathematician and the inventor of descriptive geometry. While still a studen...

Engraving entitled: "New York City. The Morse celebration at the Academy of Music, June 10th, 1871. Professor Morse manipulating his signature to the...

Engraving entitled: "New York City. The Morse celebration at the Academy of Music, June 10th, 1871. Professor Morse manipulating his signature to the...

Engraving entitled: "Morse apparatus and alphabet. Print shows apparatus for sending and receiving coded telegraph messages, with the alphabet and num...

Samuel Finley Breese Morse (April 27, 1791 - April 2, 1872) was an American contributor to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system based on Eu...

Hugo Munsterberg (June 1, 1863 - December 19, 1916) was a German-American psychologist. He was one of the pioneers in applied psychology, extending hi...

Fridtjof Wedel-Jarlsberg Nansen (October 10,1861 - May 13, 1930) was a Norwegian explorer, scientist, diplomat, and humanitarian. In his youth a champ...

Barack Hussein Obama II (August 4, 1961) is the 44th President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. Born in Hawa...

Gabriel James Rains (June 4, 1803 - September 6, 1881) was a career United States Army officer and a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army...

Wilhelm Konrad Roentgen (1845-1923), German experimental physicist and discoverer of X-rays. While using a discharge tube (in which an electric discha...

Margaret Louise Higgins Sanger (1879-1966) was an American social reformer and birth control advocate. When Sanger's mother died at age fifty, Sanger...

Margaret Louise Higgins Sanger (1879-1966) was an American social reformer and birth control advocate. When Sanger's mother died at age fifty, Sanger...

Margaret Louise Higgins Sanger (1879-1966) was an American social reformer and birth control advocate. When Sanger's mother died at age fifty, Sanger...

Robert Falcon Scott (June 6, 1868 - March 29, 1912) was a Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions: the Discov...

Robert Falcon Scott (June 6, 1868 - March 29, 1912) was a Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions: the Discov...

Robert Falcon Scott (June 6, 1868 - March 29, 1912) was a Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions: the Discov...

Robert Falcon Scott (June 6, 1868 - March 29, 1912) was a Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions: the Discov...

Ernest Henry Shackleton (1874-1922), in 1914, Irish explorer of the Antarctic. Shackleton was born in County Kildare, Ireland, and served as a junior...

Ernest Henry Shackleton (1874-1922), in 1914, Irish explorer of the Antarctic. Shackleton was born in County Kildare, Ireland, and served as a junior...

Marie Carmichael Stopes (October 15, 1880 - October 2, 1958) was a Scottish author, paleobotanist, campaigner for women's rights and pioneer in the fi...

Print entitled: "Terra Nova imprisoned in the ice. 1910/1911." The Terra Nova (Latin for Newfoundland) was built in 1884 for the Dundee whaling and se...

Print entitled: Terra Nova in McMurdo Sound, between 1910 and 1912." The Terra Nova (Latin for Newfoundland) was built in 1884 for the Dundee whaling...

Print entitled: "Terra Nova icebound in the pack, 1910 or 1911." The Terra Nova (Latin for Newfoundland) was built in 1884 for the Dundee whaling and...

Print entitled: "Sled dogs on the deck of the Terra Nova, 1910." The Terra Nova (Latin for Newfoundland) was built in 1884 for the Dundee whaling and...

Print entitled and captioned: "Captain Scott's winter quarters. Shows a building on the shore of Cape Evans, during the British Antarctic Expedition....

Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 - May 6, 1862) was an American author, poet, philosopher, freemason, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, develo...

Print entitled: "Mark Twain, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left, looking out window, 1903." Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 - April...

Lithograph entitled and captioned: "Mark Twain, America's best humorist, standing on stage speaking to audience, 1885." Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Nove...

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 - April 21, 1910) better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. He is most...

Print entitled: "Mark Twain in academic cap and gown, 1907." Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 - April 21, 1910) better known by his pen nam...

Print entitled: "Mark Twain (center) George Alfred Townsend on his right, David Gray on his left, 1871." Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 -...

Rudolph Carl Virchow (1821-1902) was a German doctor, anthropologist, pathologist, prehistorian, biologist and politician, public health advocate. Ref...

Edith Wharton (Edith Newbold Jones, January 24, 1862 - August 11, 1937), was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and desig...

Print entitled: "Tennessee Williams with 'birthday' cake for the 20th anniversary of "The Glass Menagerie" opening, 1965. "Thomas Lanier "Tennessee" W...

Andy Warhol (1928-1987) was an artist and experimental filmmaker and one of the founders of the Pop Art movement. Thomas Lanier "Tennessee" Williams I...

Print entitled: "Tennessee Williams seated at typewriter, 1945." Thomas Lanier "Tennessee" Williams III (March 26, 1911 - February 25, 1983) was an A...

Carl Bronner, blind in both eyes, and with both hands blown off by a grenade, demonstrating to a General that he can still "carry on" despite his seri...

An English World War I enlistment poster from 1915. The text at the bottom reads: "Remember the Lusitania. It is your duty to take up the sword of jus...

This illustration, made for the New York Herald and the London Sphere, shows the R.M.S. Lusitania as a second torpedo hits behind a gaping hole in the...

A decorated World War I French soldier, jauntily smoking a cigarette. He is wearing a mask that was specially sculpted to his face in order to hide h...

First World War veteran requiring reconstructive nose surgery. The surgeons frequently used bone fragments and skin flaps from the patient's brow for...

First World War veteran requiring reconstructive nose surgery. The surgeons frequently used bone fragments and skin flaps from the patient's brow for...

After the First World War, American sculptor Anna Coleman Ladd (1878-1939) ran the Studio for Portrait Masks in Paris, administered by the American Re...

After the First World War, American sculptor Anna Coleman Ladd (1878-1939) ran the Studio for Portrait Masks in Paris, administered by the American Re...

After the First World War, American sculptor Anna Coleman Ladd (1878-1939) ran the Studio for Portrait Masks in Paris, administered by the American Re...

After the First World War, American sculptor Anna Coleman Ladd (1878-1939) ran the Studio for Portrait Masks in Paris, administered by the American Re...

Second Lieutenant Paul Weir Cloud, still photographer with the 89th Division, in Kyllburg, Germany, January 16th, 1919.