


The valuable stallion Nearco is led from his personal bomb shelter on the Beech House stud farm. England, 1941.



Looks like a bad day to mow your lawn. Pictured are lineups at a gas station during the 1973 fuel shortage.



Einstein’s office at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, photographed on the day of his death, April 18, 1955.



Uftwaffe pilots playing cards during the African campaign, 1942. The plane in the background is a Me-109



Elisabeth “Lilo” Gloeden stands before judges, on trial for being involved in the attempt on Adolf Hitler’s life, 1944.



A Grumman X-29 experimental aircraft. It was engineered to test a forward-swept wing, canard control surfaces, and other novel aircraft technologies. The aerodynamic instability of this arrangement increased agility but required the use of computerized fly-by-wire control.


