Photos from the Battle of the Bulge

Browse this gallery of photos from the Battle of the Bulge to see what it was like.

Early Eastman Kodak Ads

Kodak advertisments that appeared in newspapers and magazines between the years 1890 and 1928.

James Eads' Architectural drawings

See the bridge construction drawings preserved in the special collections of the library at Washington University in St. Louis.

The Camera Goes to War

Just 22 years after the birth of photography, enterprising photographers rushed to Civil War battlefields and produced America's first documentary images of war

Ben Steele's Drawings

A death march survivor, Montana native Ben Steele spent the next 40 months in prison camps on a hell ship, and working as a slave laborer in a Japanese coal mine before his liberation at the end of the war.

Mike McGrath's drawings

Mike McGrath spent five years and nine months as a prisoner of war in Vietnam.

Music Festival Fashion

Depression-Era Desperadoes

Mug shots of 1930s gangsters.

Medical Instruments and Teaching Aids

Medical instruments and teaching tools from the mid-19th century.

The Ups and Downs of America's First Amusement Park

See photos of George Tilyou's grinning "funny face" logo for Steeplechase Park, the giant tower at Dreamland, and Luna Park's 1.3 million electric lights that drew crowds of fun-seekers for decades.

David Vetter's Spacesuit

See pictures of David and his special suit

Faces in the Crowd

Chicago documentary photographer Sigmund Krausz published his Street Types of Chicago in 1892. Rather than take photos on the streets, he lit and posed subjects against a neutral studio backdrop to create what he termed "Character Studies."