Photo Researchers ftp March 2011

Margaret Sanger. (1879-1966). Birth control advocate. When Sanger's mother died at age fifty, Sanger cited her mother's 11 pregnancies as the cause of...

Grace Kelly (1929-1982) putting on makeup. Kelly was an American Academy Award-winning actress in the 1950s. In 1956, she married Rainier III, Princ...

Grace Kelly (1929-1982) while filming The Bridges at Toko-Ri. Kelly was an American Academy Award-winning actress in the 1950s. In 1956, she married...

Grace Kelly (1929-1982) in a pool during the filming of The Bridges at Toko-Ri. Kelly was an American Academy Award-winning actress in the 1950s. In...

Photograph of a teacher, (Gloria Edney), with a student in Old Crow, Yukon, Canada; early 1960's.

Anchorage, Alaska, in the spring of 1915.

Restored personal railway car of General William Jackson Palmer, president of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad. Built in 1878, it is now located in...

An American family of 1957 inspecting the case displaying the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution at the National Archives Building in...

Ellsworth, Kansas train station; 1953.

Pope Pius XII, photographed in 1938. Photo by Ernest Nash.

A shaman performs rites to heal a sick man in the square of Djemaa el Fna, Marrakech, Morocco.

Boys of the Warusha tribe in Tanzania have their faces painted in preparation for the circumcision ceremony, performed around 12-13 years of age; phot...

Undated imae of architect I.M. Pei, at work in his office.

Teenagers walk to school; 1962.

Historic image of friends drinking at Mory's Temple Bar in New Haven, Connecticut; mid-20th century.

Debutante's ball in the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, in San Francisco; 1966.

Two career women of the 1960s, at a time when American women were entering the workforce in greater numbers.

Image from a cocktail party; 1968, location unknown.

Women inside the RCA building, (now the GE building), write telegrams at a Western Union; November 1953.

Undated portrait Gifford Pinchot, the first Chief of the United States Forest Service, (1905-1910), and later a governor of Pennsylvania.

Former Supreme Court judge Thurgood Marshall; undated.

Former president Dwight D. Eisenhower, photographed at St. John's College, in Maryland, at the dedication of the Francis Scott Key Auditorium; 1969.

Undated image of Martin Luther King, Jr, at an African-American church in Chicago, Il. Photo by Donald M. Schwartz.

June 1965 photograph of Martin Luther King, Jr., standing with Robert Dosseh, then the Archbishop of Lome, Togo.

Image of John F. Kennedy during his presidential visit from May 31st to June 2nd, 1961. Here, Kennedy leaves the American Embassy Residence for Elyse...

Civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968).

Poet Allen Ginsberg; undated. Photo by F.C. Crispolti.

Portrait of author Jack Kerouac; undated.

Author and poet Stephen Spender; undated.

Dizzy Gillespie performs at the Village Gate, in New York City.

Undated image of the iconic sitar player Ravi Shankar.

October, 1907 image of then-President Teddy Roosevelt with the chief of the US Forest Service, Gifford Pinchot, on the river steamer 'Mississippi.' T...

A Lockheed Constellation in flight; 1950.

A Douglas DC-3 in flight; undated.

A Sikorsky S-42 flying boat, circa 1940. Note the wheels are attached only while the plane is ashore.

Prior to take-off on a hurricane reconnaissance mission, Captain Lester J. Vohs, Aircraft Commander, gives final instructions to his flight crew of th...

A Lockheed C-130 Hercules in flight; undated. Note the combination of wheels and teflon-coated skiis, for landing on snow, ice, or dry ground.

Undated image of Lt. Jack Harding, Jr. and Lt. Erik Nelson, who in 1924 participated in the first round-the-world flight. They are pictured here with...

1933 photograph of the 'Winnie Mae,' the plane that pilot Wiley Post and navigator Harold Gatty used to set the record for aerial circumnavigation of...

1933 photograph of pilot Wiley Post and navigator Harold Gatty with their plane, 'Winnie Mae.' In 1931, the two set the record for aerial circumnavig...

Aviator Douglas Corrigan, photographed upon his arrival in St. Louis, Missouri; 8/24/1938.

Undated image of former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt.

Undated portrait of the sculptor Marisol.

Portrait of composer and librettist Gian Carlo Menotti; circa 1965.

Painter John Marin, photographed in 1952 in Cape Split, Maine.

Undated image of the artist and sculptor George Segal.

Undated portrait of actor Sidney Poitier.

Undated image of writer Carl Sandburg, taken at his home in Flat Rock, North Carolina.

A woman is baptized in a river near Waycross, Georgia, by the Reverend E. P. Corbitt of the Pine View Baptist Church; 1960.

Traffic heads up the FDR drive, on the east-side of Manhattan. The U.N. Headquarters can be seen in the background; circa 1960-1961.