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"
Snapshot
Here we look at snapshots in time as caught in photographs, paintings, maps and letters, investigating the history of the artefact and its meaning for us today.
Raising the US Flag on Iwo Jima (1945)
On 23 February 1945 one of the iconic photographs of the Second World War was taken on the Pacific island of Iwo Jima. Here it is in colour.
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
The Death of Vladimir Lenin (1924)
On 21 January 1924, the Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin died. Here's how the news was reported in Britain.
A View Of Mulberry Street In New York City (1900)
A glimpse into Manhattan's teeming streets at the turn of the twentieth century
Sandbags Inside Amiens Cathedral (1918)
A journalist describes a poignant service in a barricaded and subdued church
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 TWA Flight Center at JFK Airport in 1962
An iconic, innovative 1960s airport terminal hailed as a critically-acclaimed architectural masterpiece