ICONIC PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS

Dancers

Dancers- all kinds of dancers!

California Marathon Dancers, 1927; gelatin silver print, circa 1927 ((w-13-2297)

JFK Assassination

Lee Harvey Oswald shot by Jack Ruby, photograph by Bob Jackson

Lee Harvey Oswald Being Shot by Jack Ruby, 1963; gelatin silver print, 1963 (w-13-0398)

Death in the Making, by Jack Beers, 1963; gelatin silver print, circa 1963 (w-14-0695)

Photograph by Jack Beers

LBJ being sworn in aboard Air Force One, November 22, 1963, photograph by Cecil Stoughton, 1963 (w-11a-2637)

Lee Harvey Oswald, 1960s; printed circa 1964 (w-14-0093)

Lee Harvey Oswald

Mrs. John F. Kennedy with Attorney General Robert Kennedy seeing casket of her slain husband placed in an ambulance, November 22, 1963; printed November 23, 1963 (w-14-3679)

Bloody Dress

Robert Kennedy

Robert F. Kennedy Assasination by Boris Yaro, June 5, 1968; printed 1969 (w-14-0699)

Robert F. Kennedy Assasination

Pulitzer Winners

Pulitzer Prize winners.

Kent State University Shootings, by John Filo, May 1970; printed 1973 (w-14-0928)

A mother and her children escaping aerial bombardment, South Vietnam, by Kyoichi Sawada, 1965; printed 1972 (w-15-0327)

The tragedy of the Vietnam war depicted

Adlai Stevenson campaigning for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1952 by William M. Gallagher; printed 1975 ((w-14-1468)

Adlai Stevenson with a hole in his shoe

Presidents

Richard Nixon, JFK, LBJ, Truman

Richard M. Nixon resigning the presidency, August 6, 1974; printed August 9, 1974 (w-11-575)

Richard M. Nixon resigns the presidency.

Dewey defeats Truman, November 4, 1948, by Frank Cancellare; printed 1972 (w-11a-2263)

Dewey defeats Truman

John F. Kennedy and Dwight D. Eisenhower at Camp David, April, 1961, by George Tames; printed 1969 (w-15-0356)

Kennedy and Eisenhower walking at Camp David

President John F. Kennedy and son in the oval office, by Alan Stanley Tretick, October 1963; printed November 1963 (w-13-2469)

JFK and son in Oval Office

World War II

Long may she wave.

Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima, February 23, 1945, by Joe Rosenthal; printed circa 1975 (w-14-0525)

Iwo Jima

Raising the flag on Iwo Jima

Douglas MacArthur signing surrender documents September, 1945; printed 1945 (w-13-1824)

Douglas MacArthur signing the Instrument of Surrender

Old Glory flies again on Guam, 1945; printed circa 1945; (w-12-0337)

Old Glory flies over Guam

American Flag raised on Okinawa, 1945; printed 1945 (w-14-0808)

American Flag raised on Okinawa

Disasters

Hindenberg to ships

The Hindenberg explodes in New Jersey, by Murray Becker, 1937; printed circa 1948 (w-12-1699)

Hindenberg

Hindenburg disaster, (Print: June 18, 1949)

The SS Andrea Doria listing after a collision, July 25, 1956; printed 1956 (w-12-0486)

Andrea Doria

Criminals

You know em when you see em.

Patty Hearst with automatic weapon in front of Symbionese Liberation Army poster, April 1974; printed 1979 (w-15-0559)

Patricia Hearst, the kidnapped millionairess.

Patty Hearst holding automatic rifle during a bank robbery, April 1974; printed 1975 (w-12-0843)

Patty Hearst

Sweetheart Killer Hurt Hardy hanged in public in Missouri, February 26, 1935; printed 1937 (w-13-3255)

Public Hanging

Artists

Diego Rivera Addressing Striking Students, 1933; printed circa 1933 (W-13-0069)