The World's Most Iconic Images

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1880s 1890s TOURISTS VIEWING NEW YORK HARBOR FROM THE TORCH OF THE STATUE OF LIBERTY
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1920s NOTRE DAME CATHEDRAL STONE GARGOYLE CHIMERA OVERLOOKING SKYLINE OF PARIS FRANCE
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1920S 1930S Moody Silhouetted Woman Paris Standing In Trocadero Looking Toward Eiffel Tower
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New York, New York: c. 1940's. An interior shot of the Grand Central Railroad Station, with sunlight streaming in through the clerestory windows above.
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Mature man holding a newspaper, VE Day, New York, USA
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Harry S. Truman 33rd President of the United States (1884-1972)
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Migrant Mother photographed in Nipomo California,USA in 1936 during the dust bowl. Photographer: Dorothea Lange
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Martin Luther Kings address a crewd of 200.000 in a demonstration to protest racial inequality. In his "I have a dream" speech.
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Happy Prince -- This happy picture of Prince Charles was taken by Royal photographer Lisa, as the young Prince looked out from the kitchen window of the Welsh House at Royal Lodge Windsor. April 22, 1954. (Photo by Paul Popper Ltd.).
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Churchill In V-Humour In Metz -- Mr. Winstons Churchill Ex-Premier, gives his "V" sign as he drives through world famous "V" sign as he drives through cheering inhabitants of the French Town of Metz on the way to a civil banquet. With him is M. Robert Schuman, French Minister of Finance. July 16, 1946. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).
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Feb 23, 1945, Flag-raising on Iwo Jima. Joe Rosenthal, Associated Press, (Navy)
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18 - Wilbur Wright's Plane. December 28, 1949. (Photo by ACME News Pictures).
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The Hindenburg disaster May 6, 1937 in Lakehurst, Anonymous
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Marilyn Monroe, 1926-1962, Actress
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Yoko ono, john lennon, 1971
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RMS Titanic During Fitting Out, 01/01/1912. White Liner, built by Harland & Wolff in Belfast, nearing completion. The steamship sank April 15th 1912 off the coast of New Foundland after striking an iceberg with the loss of 1,635 passengers and crew.
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Photograph of Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh waving from the balcony on their wedding day.
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Steerage. Alfred Stieglitz (United States, 1864-1946). United States, 1907. Photographs. Photogravure
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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi 1869 1948), preeminent leader of the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India.
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Ernesto Che Guevara
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fter the earthquake - frame houses tumbled from their foundations, San Francisco Disaster, U.S.A. c1907 July 29. Medium: 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. shows two Victorian houses that have fallen off of their foundations after the San Francisco earthquake in 1906.
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February 23, 1945, Iwo Jima - A still from the film shot by Marine photographer Bill Genaust of the flag-raising atop Mt. Suribachi.
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VE Day - Soldiers hold up the Stars and Stripes newspaper in celebration of the end of WWII in Europe May 8, 1945.
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Photograph shows side view of a cowboy on a horse, looking towards the camera 1888.
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World Trade Center under Construction, New York City, New York, USA, Bernard Gotfryd, 1970
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Woman kneeling next to bed of child in Underground Tunnel during World War II Bombing of London, England, UK, photograph by Toni Frissell, January 1945
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City Lights is a 1931 American romantic comedy film written by, directed by, and starring Charlie Chaplin. The story follows the misadventures of Chaplin's Tramp as he falls in love with a blind girl and develops a turbulent friendship with an alcoholic millionaire. Also starring Harry Myers and Virginia Cherrill.
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King Kong is a 1933 American fantasy monster/adventure film. It stars Fay Wray, Bruce Cabot and Robert Armstrong, and opened in New York City on March 2, 1933 to rave reviews. The film tells of a gigantic, island-dwelling ape called Kong who dies in an attempt to possess a beautiful young woman. Kong is distinguished for its stop-motion animation by Willis O'Brien and its musical score by Max Steiner. King Kong is often cited as one of the most iconic movies in the history of cinema.
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Young Doffer Boy in Cotton Mill, Lincolnton, North Carolina, USA, Lewis Hine for National Child Labor Committee, November 1908
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Worker on the Empire State Building (1931) - Photo by Lewis Hine
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New York City Mayor Robert Wagner greeting the teenagers who integrated Central High School, Little Rock, Arkansas. Pictured, front row, left to right: Minnijean Brown, Elizabeth Eckford, Carlotta Walls, Mayor Wagner, Thelma Mothershed, Gloria Ray, back row, left to right: Terrance Roberts, Ernest Green, Melba Pattilo, Jefferson Thomas.
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Behind the Gare Saint-Lazare, Cartier-Bresson, Henri (1908-2004)
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Child labour in the USA; 1911. South Pittston, Pa. Breaker boys working in Ewen Breaker of Pennsylvania Coal Company
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Raising a flag over the Reichstag, Khaldei, Yevgeny (1917-1997)
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Hitler at the 5th Party Congress in Nuremberg, 1933, Anonymous
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ELVIS PRESLEY in JAILHOUSE ROCK (1957), directed by RICHARD THORPE.
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Photograph of soldiers playing football in No-Man's Land during the Christmas Truce. Dated 1914
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Moon: July 20, 1969 Astronaut Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, pilot of the lunar module, poses beside the United States flag during the Apollo 11 lunar landing. The Lunar Module "Eagle" is at the left. Commander Neil Armstrong took the photograph.
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Eadweard Muybridge (American, born England, 1830 - 1904), The Horse in Motion as Shown by Instantaneous Photography with a Study on Animal Mechanics.., 1881-1882
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Mt. Rushmore, South Dakota: c. 1932. Workmen working on the face of George Washington on Mt. Rushmore.
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Bombing of Nagasaki
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Montgomery, Alabama: 1956. Rosa Parks seated toward the front of the bus in Montgomery, Alabama.
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New York, New York: July 9, 1945. As the city is hit by a sudden summer storm, a jagged streak of lightning crackles down through the sky to roost on the tip of the dome of New York's Empire State Building high above Manhattan's streets.
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San Francisco, California: October 16, 1936. The Golden Gate Bridge under construction, with the roadbed being suspended from the cables.
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Titanic Ready for Maiden Voyage. RMS Titanic Ready for her Maiden Voyage, 04/02/1912. The White Liner, built by Harland & Wolff in Belfast, is aided by four tugs preparing to leave for Southampton for her maiden voyage to New York on April 10th 1912. The steamship sank on April 15th 1912 off the coast of New Foundland after striking an iceberg with the loss of 1,635 passengers and crew. (Photo by Titanic Images/Universal Images Group)
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Titanic Survivors. How the Titanic Survivors Were Picked up by the Carpathia. Photograph taken by Mr J W Barker of two lifeboats containing passengers from the Titanic, as it approaches the Carpathia. Carpathia was sailing from New York City to Rijeka on the night of Sunday, 14 April 1912. The captain, Arthur Henry Rostron, was asleep in his cabin when wireless operator Harold Cottam burst in and told him of Titanic's distress signal. Captain Rostron immediately set course to the liner's last kn
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Gene Kelly "Singin' in the Rain" 1952
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Audrey Hepburn Breakfast at Tiffany's 1961
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Vintage Photograph. Top half of Statue of Liberty and Lower Manhattan skyline in distance, New York City, Frame 6
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Vintage photograph. new york skyline as seen from under brooklyn bridge