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Ella Fitzgerald at the Downbeat, with Dizzy Gillespie making like a faun in the background, ca. September 1947.

Mickey Mantle bats during Game 4 of the 1955 World Series against the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field, October 1, 1955. The Dodgers would go on to win the series, their first.

Emphasizing that he wasn’t going to leave the nation’s capital without getting one good photograph, D.C. tourist Stan Jacobs expressed frustration Friday after atrocities kept getting in the frame of his shot. “All right, everyone, looking good—just wait two more seconds until all those military guys finish shooting their assault rifles and hop back into their big armored tank,” said a visibly impatient Jacobs, who asked his family to give him a “big smile” and “say cheese” just as several National Guardsmen, FBI agents, and DHS officers sprinted into the foreground and began physically assaulting dozens of people. 

Members of the New York Yankees team stand with bared heads in silent tribute to their dead teammate, Lou Gehrig, during rites in Briggs Stadium, Detroit, June 3, 1941. Gehrig died of ALS two years after retiring from baseball.

"Grate fishing" was a popular New York sport for years. Here, a 12-year-old boy goes fishing with "uncanny skill" for coins and other treasures in one of the city's subway gratings in 1959. His only tools: a small rock tied to a 12-foot piece of string and some lard (which is used to make the rock sticky). He then lowers the line and hauls up his catch.

Sometimes a dime, sometimes a subway token, sometimes a ring of gold. The boy was was surrounded by a large crowd in Times Square, an area home to the most profitable fishing spots. "Sometimes people throw coins down there to see if I can get them," he said. "I'll get anything except pennies. I don't bother with pennies."

His earnings for the day? Four dollars in coins, plus six subway tokens, which he used to buy clothes and contribute to the support of his widowed mother.

Other boys (and they were boys) used bubble gum to attach the treasures to their "fishing pole."

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Babe Ruth doesn't look very happy, even though he is surrounded by bathing beauties during spring training in St. Petersburg, FL, on March 12, 1926.

The Web (Brooklyn Bridge), ca. 1921.