Jacob Riis, Patriotic Election in Beach St. School, ca. 1890 (242.1982)

A Cuban man Ignacio Cubilla Banos celebrates his 111th birthday. He has 11 children, 40 grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren

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The washerwoman and her son. Photographed in 1891. Photo Bettmann/Corbis

O&W Wreck Loco. 140.

Courtesy of De Forest Douglas Diver Railroad Photographs, ca. 1870-1948/Cornell University Library

Wrecked Bridge and Coal Cars, 1870. (Possibly the wreck at Fish's Eddy in the Delaware River.)

Courtesy of De Forest Douglas Diver Railroad Photographs, ca. 1870-1948/Cornell University Library

Wreck Cleared Off Track, 1878

Courtesy of De Forest Douglas Diver Railroad Photographs, ca. 1870-1948/Cornell University Library

Train Wreck Loco 201, 1878

Courtesy of De Forest Douglas Diver Railroad Photographs, ca. 1870-1948/Cornell University Library