Probably the most famous image from the student uprising in China in 1989, this photograph shows a single person blocking the tanks that were emerging on the square

closing night of the International Exhibition in San Francisco in 1915

Busy streets Men and women stroll a row of jewelry shops on the Lower East Side (right) and stand in line for bread during the Great Depression (left)

Pillared hall with glass and mirror mosaic decorations, in the Jalnavas or Fountain Palace, City Palace, Udaipur 1882

Palace, Udaipur 1910

Palace (Rear view), [Udaipur] 1895

Building roads Workers lay bricks to pave 28th Street in Manhattan on October 2, 1930

Balloon ascension, Ferndale, California. Unknown photographer, 1871

Another Inside View of Masjid Hagia Sophia Ayasofya Istanbul Turkey in 1890

Inside View of Masjid Hagia Sophia Ayasofya Istanbul Turkey in 1890

Artist rendering of Mt Tacoma (Mt Rainer) from Commencement Bay, Tacoma, WA 1888

April 18th, 1906. It is the most famous photograph of the devastation caused by the great fire and earthquake san-francisco-fire-sacramento-street-1906-04-18

Apollo 8 astronaut Bill Anders snapped this shot of the Earth rising over the Moon’s horizon as he and Frank Borman orbited the Moon 1968

Little Bohemia 1949

Lincoln funeral cortege