Normal College, 68th Street and Park Avenue.. New York, 1895

This photograph shows the original building of the Normal College of the City of New York, seen from Park Avenue at East 68th Street. Designed by David I. Stagg and formally opened in September 1873, the large Gothic Revival structure occupied the block between Park and Lexington Avenues and 68th and 69th Streets.

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The Ninth Avenue El. New York, 1893

The Ninth Avenue Elevated was New York’s first elevated railway, opened in 1868 as a cable-hauled line and extended northward in stages, reaching 116th Street by 1891.

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Carrigan-Rudd Mansion. New York, 1894

The “old style residence” presented here was originally the home built for Andrew Carrigan, an Irish-born provisions merchant who emigrated in the 1820s, made his fortune, and in 1850 helped found the Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank.

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Pontoon bridges across the James River at Richmond, Virginia. Richmond, 1865

This rare photograph shows two parallel pontoon bridges stretching across the James River at Richmond, Virginia, near war’s end. The Army Corps of Engineers constructed these bridges after retreating Confederate forces burned the bridges in 1865. The Dunlop Mills are seen on the other side of the river.

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Portrait Miniature of George and Martha Washington. American, 19th century

This American School painted ivory features a charming representation of the nation’s first president and first lady.

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Photograph signed by Carter and Begin. Robert A. Cumins, 1979

Signed by Carter and Begin. Menachem Begin was awarded the 1978 Nobel Peace Prize, together with Anwar Sadat, “for their work in laying a foundation for future peace” in the Middle East. The framework, reached at Camp David, was facilitated by Jimmy Carter. The Nobel award called Carter “the masterbuilder responsible for the bridge that had to be built between Egypt and Israel.”

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The Supreme Court. Washington, D.C.: Ed Clark, 1956

Completed in 1935, the magnificent neoclassical Supreme Court Building features the motto “Equal Justice Under the Law” on the west facade. This splendid, enormous color photograph was taken by famed LIFE magazine photographer Ed Clark: “Black Church Leaders pray on the Supreme Court steps for integration to succeed” (Herrera, Frank, Ed Clark: Decades).

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Angkor Wat. Angkor, c. 1866-1873

A splendid view of Angkor Wat with deep, rich tones. Émile Gsell accompanied de Lagrée on his expedition to Angkor, where he made a series of dramatic photographs only a few months after John Thomson’s expedition. The French photographer Gsell became the first commercial photographer based in Saigon in 1866. He returned to Angkor in 1873 with the famous expedition led by Louis Delaporte.

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Liberty’s Torch in Madison Square Park. no publisher, negative ca. 1876, made from a print, late 19th century.

The torch of the Statue of Liberty was exhibited in Madison Square Park, New York to raise funds for the statue’s completion.  The torch remained in the park from 1876 through 1882.

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Portrait of Frida Kahlo. Sternberger, Mexico City, 1952, printed 2017

Kahlo and her husband Diego Rivera had become intimate friends of photographer Marcel Sternberger and his wife Ilse by that time. The couple held Sternberger’s work in such high regard that Rivera said it was the first time [I’ve] seen the real me and above his bed in Kahlo’s lifelong house La Caza Azul hangs a portrait of Frida by Sternberger.

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