A balloon from Anchorage, Alaska, flies over Cook Inlet, 1986

A bird’s eye view of Mecca and surrounding hillsides, August 1917

A boat sits still in the water at sunrise near Abu Simbel, Egypt, December 1923

A boy sells lemonade from his front yard stand on Main Street in Aspen, Colorado, 1973

A bride leaves for the Old Dutch Church in Sleepy Hollow, New York, 1987

A child sits among the produce from a Florida citrus grove, 1930

A Civil Air Patrol rescue team aids a pilot whose plane was downed outside of Long Island, May 1956

A colourful hallway in Casa Blanca, the Puerto Rican Governor’s Palace, December 1924

A cruise ship and other boats passing beneath a bridge, 1968

A dromedary camel and rider in the peach blossom festival in Fort Valley, Georgia, May 1925

A farmer buring the hoof of a horse before shoeing it in Scotland, May 1921

A farmer embraces his dog in his stonewalled field on Inishmore Island in Ireland, March 1971

A flock of birds fly up from an enclosed courtyard in Old Havana, December 1987

A fortune teller displays her cards in Jemaa el Fna square in Marrakesh, Morocco, June 1971

A girl sits by a lake with snow-capped mountains in the background, California, 1929

A gondola from Sugarbush Resort takes skiers to the top of a peak in Vermont, August 1967

A group of dancing Swazi maidens in Swaziland, South Africa, October 1930

A group of people gather round and watch a snake charmer at work in India, 1923

A group picnics on a field in Thessaloniki, Greece that was once a malaria-ridden swamp, 1940

A kitten aboard a floating Victoria water lily pad in the Philippines, 1935

A long exposure reveals cannonballs’ paths in a battle reenactment near Charleston, South Carolina, April 1961

A man and his dog on the Overhanging Rock in Yosemite National Park, May 1924

A man balances a piece of pumice rock on his legs in Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alaska, September 1921

A man stands next to orphaned Russian Jews upon immigration to the U.S., New York, July 1919

A metal-mesh glove protected a photographer’s hand while he changed flashbulbs during a shoot in Mexico’s Yucatan, 1959

A motorboat carries tourists to fishing grounds off Tahiti, July 1962

A Native American sends smoke signals in Montana, June 1909

A pipe emits poisonous gases in a flame produced by oil production, April 1948

A quiet mosque in Palestine, 1926

A portrait of Sultan Qaboos bin Said bin Taimur in Muscat, Oman, September 1981

A rainbow arches over Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe in 1196

A rush of water in freshet season collapses Tegucigalpa’s arched bridge in Honduras, August 1916

A sailor gets a tattoo on his arm in Virginia

A shadow of a man holding a bicycle is cast on a wall near the Zambezi River, 1996

A shielded dummy in a basement for atomic bomb testing in Nevada, March 1953

A sled dog, tied to a whale rib, howls under the midnight sun in Alaska, 1969

A solitary fisherman’s home keeps watch on quiet Placentia Bay in Newfoundland, Canada, 1974

A Tibetan spiritual figure holds a Mongolian blade after twisting it with his seemingly superhuman strength, 1935

A view of ships and canoes docked in the harbor for summer camp fun at the Lanakila Camp for Boys in Vermont, 1927

A wealthy group of young people relax by a pool in California, 1940

A welder works on cowls for liberty ships in California, 1942

A well-worn stairway leads to a house on Oahu’s North Shore, November 1979

A woman gazes at lions in the Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. in 1931. These lions were brought to the U.S. from Africa by Theodore Roosevelt

A woman harvests vanda orchids from Hilo nursery fields in Hawaii, March 1975

A woman on a farmer’s shoulder emphasizes a corn crop’s height in Minnesota, 1916