Claim from Albina Bassani in the matter of the Titanic
This claim was presented to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Filed by Albina Bassani, a first-class passenger on the steamship...
Fire!
This photograph shows the USS Nevada providing naval gunfire support for the troops storming Omaha and Utah beaches in Normandy. During the first 3 days of the...
From the Puget Sound
In 1887, the U.S. Fish Commission sent the steamer Albatross on a three-year voyage to explore fishing grounds and gather data on the commercial fishing...
Gazing out onto the land of freedom
Immigrants anticipate their arrival on a ferryboat near Ellis Island, the major east coast immigration processing center from 1892 until 1924. An estimated 20 million...
Going home
The Soviet ship M. Anosov was photographed on November 6, 1962, leaving Cuba with a load of eight missiles on its decks. The departure of the missiles from...
Headed for shore…and war
In this D-day photograph, troops disembark from a landing craft on the Normandy coast. Coast Guardsmen manned the landing craft, which debarked troops near shore and...
Kasimov
The Soviet Ship Kasimov leaves Cuba, removing a load of military equipment from the island, including the fuselages of 15 IL-28 (Beagle) aircraft. The...