Shelley Duvall & Sissy Spacek 3 Women, 1977: Dir. Robert Altman

The Dolly Sisters (Jenny & Rosie), c. 1920s.

Advertisment for fur scarves and a coat, c.1926

from the 1926 Sears Catalogue

Werner Herzog photographed while releasing 11,000 rats in the streets of Schiedam during the filming of "Nosferatu the Vampyre" (1979)

The First Kiss

Credit: Ethel Hays

“Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Manhattan, April 15, 1967, by Builder Levy”

January 1965. ‘Darlene takes cover in a safety jacket, the brightest solution to foul weather since sunshine.’

Belle De Jour (1967)

Leila Hyams, c. 1927.

A questionnaire by Charles Green Shaw to determine who was a real New Yorker, ca. 1926. Not one of these questions could be asked today.

Shaw was a painter, poet, writer, and illustrator. At the time he wrote this, he was a prominent writer for The New Yorker and Vanity Fair. He turned to art in 1932.

Photo: Smithsonian Institution