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Chilean President Salvador Allende, wearing helmet, right, talks on the phone in an office of La Moneda, (the Presidential Palace), Sept. 11, 1973, in...

In 1902, the Flatiron Building with its 20 stories was the first midtown skyscraper. Soon after the Metropolitan Tower drawfed it. (The New York Times...

New York Times staff photographer Art Brower covers the October 1956 World Series accompanied by his son, Ricky, and the large-format or "Big Bertha"...

Transcontinental railroad in Promontory Summit, Utah, 1869. The first transcontinental railroad was completed on May 10, 1869, when the rails of the U...

1924 The First Parade. For most New Yorkers, Macy's annual Christmas parade on Thanksgiving Day marks the start of the holiday season. This photogr...

First Parade1924. Macy's Christmas Parade. Waiting for the unveiling of the fairy wondertown show in Macy's 75-foot window at the end of the proces...

1930 Macy's Parade Uncle Sam on the march in Macy's parade. Stepping high, wide and handsome over Columbus Circle yesterday. The New York Times

Broadway Celebrates Thanksgiving Day: The Macy Parade of Clowns and monsters in the air, passes through Times Square. Thousands of children and grow...

The day when the comic strips come to life in New York City. A "super colossal" Indian sways in the wind as it is carried down Broadway in the R. H. M...

FILE -- (NYT8) WASHINGTON -- Dec. 14, 2006 -- Sen. Tim Johnson, D-SD, is seen prior to a meeting with then Supreme Court Noninee Jugde Samuel A. Alito...

(NYT10) NEW YORK -- Sept. 6, 2005 -- OBIT-TRUSCOTT-B&W -- Alan Truscott, New York Times Bridge Editor, in a 1964 file photo. Truscott, the contract br...

(NYT45) BEIJING -- Aug. 30, 2005 -- CHINA-ARTIST-3 -- Zhang Xiaogang at work in his studio in Beijing, July 29, 2005. Zhang, 47, is one of China's bes...

(NYT39) BEIJING -- Aug. 30, 2005 -- CHINA-ARTIST-2 -- Zhang Xiaogang at work in his studio in Beijing, July 29, 2005. Zhang, 47, is one of China's bes...

(NYT38) BEIJING -- Aug. 30, 2005 -- CHINA-ARTIST -- Zhang Xiaogang at work in his studio in Beijing, July 29, 2005. Zhang, 47, is one of China's best-...

sack#081780, Event date: 11/28/1966 Published date: 11/29/1966 Caption: Truman Capote said he paid 39 cents at F.A.O. Schwarz for black Halloween...

Issaquah, Washington: 7/6/2005: Customers checking out at the Costco warehouse in Issaquah, WA. (Peter Yates/ The New York Times)

Issaquah, Washington: 7/6/2005: Richard A. Galanti, CFO of Costco, outside company headquarters in Issaquah. PHOTO CREDIT: Peter Yates for The New...

Issaquah, Washington: 7/6/2005: Jim Sinegal (right), President and CEO of Costco, with warehouse manager Mark Sjoboen, at the company's Issaquah ware...

ISSAQUAH, Wash. --SUN. JULY 17 -- COSTCO-STRATEGY - Customers shopping at the Costco warehouse in Issaquah, Wash., July 6, 2005. (Peter Yates/The New...

Issaquah, Washington: 7/6/2005: Jim Sinegal, President and CEO of Costco, at the company's Issaquah warehouse store. Sinegal insisted on wearing the...

LONG BEACH, L.I. -- 1938 HURRICANE -- One of the many houses wrecked along the oceanfront in Long Beach, Long Island after the Hurricane September 21...

LONG BEACH, L.I. -- 1938 HURRICANE 2 --A severe Hurricane Hit Long Island in September 1938. Damage to homes on Wyoming Avenue in Long Beach, Septemb...

(NYT10) WASHINGTON -- June 27, 2005 -- SCI-WALTER-REED-ESSAY -- Soldiers wounded in World War I recuperating at Walter Reed Hospial in August, 1918. S...

LAWRENCE, Kan. -- June 24, 2005 -- -- WIRED-CITY-2 -- Rob Curley, left, the World Company's director of new media, next to Vonna Keomanyvong, Becky W...

LAWRENCE, Kan. -- June 24, 2005 -- WIRED-CITY-3 -- Rob Curley, left, the World Company's director of new media, next to Vonna Keomanyvong, Becky Wils...

LAWRENCE, Kan. -- June 24, 2005 -- -- WIRED-CITY 4 -- Rob Curley, left, the World Company's director of new media, next to Vonna Keomanyvong, Becky W...

LAWRENCE, Kan. -- June 24, 2005 -- -- WIRED-CITY- -- Rob Curley, left, the World Company's director of new media, in his office on June 20, 2005. (Don...

12-960-L-115-E-1 Cuba Departs: Premier Fidel Castro at Idlewild before he left on trip home. 09-29-1960 Credit: The New York Times

Date: 3/23/1953 Montague Roberts original driver of the Thomas Flyer in the NY Frisco lap of the New York to Paris race in 1908 looks over the car he...

Women's suffragist parade in New York City, 1912 The New York Times Photo Archives

Robert Schmidt new German Minister of Labor May 19, 1921 Credit: The New York Times

Amelia Earhart just before leaving Boston for Newfoundland where she kwill start her overseas flight. Published June 24, 19928

posted date July 24, 1929 Deputy Judge of the Town Court of Hamden and Mmember of the facultyof the Yale Law School at New Haven, who has been appoint...

Howard Carter Examining King Tut, 1922 Credit: The New York Times Photo Archives

Coolidge's first pitch, 1924 President Calvin Coolidge throws out the first ball in the first World Series baseball game in Washington, Oct. 11, 1920...

Adolph Hitler circa 1925.

Texas Oil Tower Oil Rig on main street in Breckinridge, Texas, 1920.

Possibly April 1928 Amelia Earhart ( Mrs. George Palmer Putnam). Published mid-week pictorial June 4, 1932

Folder 1981-L-2 The Joneses of Atlanta: Bobby Jones, with his wife and his father and his mother, ready to play a foursome on the Eastlake Links, Whe...

Date January 28, 1931 Suspending his Faculty duties to labor fo the nation: Dean Charles E. Clark of the Yale University Law School who is head of a...

PHOTO LIBRARY FOLDER # 41-815 HARRY DANNING of the New York Giants CREDIT: THE NEW YORK TIMES SEPTEMBER 17, 1937 Published 9/18/37

Photo Library Folder # 41-815 Harry Danning Feb 7, 1939 Credit: The New York Times

7096-L-5 6/25/1935 NY City, Yankee Stadium, Louis won over Carnera on a tecnical knockout in the sixth round. Credit: The New York Times.

9230-L-7 Date: 7-3-1936 Arriving at the Bartow mansion in Pelham Bay Park to take possession of the "Summer city hall" Credit: The New York Times

Folder 4494 Funeral of Marcus Loew, movie magnate buried from Pembroke, the Loew country home at Glen Cove, Long Island. Credit: Times Wide World Pho...

9230-L-5 Date: 7-14-1936 THE MAYOR ARRIVES IN A SIDECAR Mr. La Guardia used a police motorcycle, driven by Patrolman Joseph Lamb, yesterday to span th...

R.W. Gallagher The New York Times studio, 1937

FOLDER 523-L-4 FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT CREDIT: TIMES WIDE WORLD JANUARY 31, 1932

Folder 16-426 Sean O'Casey leading Irish Dramatist Credit: Times Wide World Published March 26, 1934

Thurman Arnold circa 1939 Credit: The New York Times