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D-Day, the Pacific, bombers and the home front, shot by US military photographers.

Soldiers, camps, battlefields and generals, 1861–1865.

Trenches, soldiers, early aircraft and the home front, 1914–1918.

The Normandy landings of June 6, 1944.

Patrols, helicopters, river boats and air operations, by US military photographers.

Soldiers, Inchon, winter fighting and refugees, 1950–1953.

Breadlines, migrant families and the Dust Bowl, from the FSA photographers.

The ship, her crew, the survivors and the news, 1911–1912.

Kitty Hawk, the first flight and the Wright Flyers.

Raids, stills and liquor poured down the drain, 1920–1933.

Arrivals, inspections and families, around 1900.

Factories, mills, mines and the workers in them.

The March on Washington, Martin Luther King Jr. and the marches.

Early automobiles, the Model T, races and garages.

Steam locomotives, stations, crews and railroad towns.

The whole Earth, cities at night, hurricanes and coastlines, by NASA.

Galaxies, nebulae and planets from the Hubble Space Telescope.

Apollo 11 and the Apollo missions on the lunar surface.

Spacewalks, training and crews in orbit, from Mercury to Artemis.

Launches, the Shuttle, the Space Station, Mars and research aircraft.

Portraits, Antietam, the inaugurations and the funeral.

Migrant Mother and her FSA work of the 1930s.

Child labor in mills, mines and streets, and the Empire State Building.

Streets, tenements, skyscrapers and the harbor, 1890s–1940s.

Construction, the 1883 opening and the bridge over the years.

Cowboys, cattle drives, frontier towns and stagecoaches.

Flappers, cars, sports and city life in the Roaring Twenties.

The Depression, small towns, farms and city life.

Streets, carriages, early cars and everyday life, 1900–1909.

Early portraits, the Civil War, the West and the first railroads.