The Wind Tunnel at Langley Aeronautical Laboratory (1950)
"Aerodynamic research into hypersonic speeds—perhaps in the region of 15,000 miles an hour—will ultimately be carried out"
North America
A collection of 35 Posts
Outside The Chicago Theatre On State Street (1950)
The bright lights of the 'wonder theatre of the world' caught the attention of a young Stanley Kubrick
A View Of Mulberry Street In New York City (1900)
A glimpse into Manhattan's teeming streets at the turn of the twentieth century
A Blacksmith in Illinois
Bert Wikle was a member of the German-American Community in the early twentieth century
Harry Clifton and Brideshead’s Sebastian Flyte
The real-life inspiration for a classic character from fiction
The R101 Airship Disaster with S.C. Gwynne
The feats and follies of the airship era, on board the world’s largest flying machine
A Photographic Portrait of Frederick Douglass (1879)
How the most photographed man in America harnessed the portrait as a political tool
Mount Rushmore Under Construction (1932)
Doane Robinson, Gutzon Borglum and the Making of a Monument
The World’s Biggest Prison in the Middle of Nowhere
Nick Guyatt explores an 19th century tragedy in Britain's most terrifying prison