Harold Seidel, George Feher, and Derrick Scovil with solid-state maser, 1957

Robert Amon, inspects the tail boom of his Lockheed P-38, which was almost severed from the tail assembly when a Japanese 40-Millimeter anti-aircraft shell struck his Lightning fighter, 1945

Helen, a Native American telephone and switchboard operator at Many Glacier Hotel, Montana, 1925

Carl Swanson holding a Westinghouse Type AW-220 100 Kw power tube, 1929

Elvis Presley US Army, 1958

American entertainer Sammy Davis Jr., US Army, 1943

Naziha Dulaimi was an early pioneer of the Iraqi feminist movement. She was a co-founder and first president of the Iraqi Women's League, the first woman minister in Iraq’s modern history

Ernest Hemingway on his sixtieth birthday, July 21,1959

Dick Powell, of the US 25th Division, and his friend ‘Fuzzy’ share a meal near the front line, March 12, 1951

Walter Hamer conducting electrometric measurements on acidity standards, useful in the control of many processes such as electroplating, purification of drinking water, air conditioning, June 16, 1937

Former world heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali watches his 21-year-old daughter Laila, 1999

Van der Wal was the 1961 recipient of the Society of Women Engineers Achievement Award for her research in the effects of space flight on living organisms

Alain Robbe-Grillet, epresentative writer and leading theoretician of the Nouveau Roman, the French “anti-novel” that emerged in the 1950s

John Deere started his career as a blacksmith, inventor and then manufacturer. In 1837, Deere started an eponymous company that went on to become an international powerhouse

Georges Blind, a member of the French resistance, smiling at his German firing squad, 1944

Edwin Aldrin takes a selfie while spacewalking during NASA's Gemini 12 mission in November 1966

Stalin and Churchill in Livadia Palace during the Yalta Conference, February 1945

Senator Robert F. Kennedy is assassinated, this day in 1968

Eartha Mae Kitt was an American singer, actress, and cabaret star

Margaret Bourke-White on the edge of the Chrysler Building doing what she did best... creating art through documenting the world around her, New York, 1931