Images

A map showing the Polish-Lithuanian Republic at its greatest territorial extent (mid-1600s), superimposed onto modern state boundaries, by Samotny Wędrowiec.

Martin Van Buren (1782-1862) photographed during his retirement, circa 1860. Brady-Handy photograph collection, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

US President Martin Van Buren, oil on canvas by Henry Inman, circa 1837. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

A Whig political cartoon showing the effects of the Panic of 1837. By Henry Dacre, 1838. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Former President Martin Van Buren, daguerrotype by Mathew Brady, around 1849-50. Yale University Library.

As part of Herod the Great's building program, besides the unattached edifices at the entrance to Herod's Harbor, there is material evidence for two other unique structures. One was a low-lying breakwater south of the harbor’s tower-and-wall...

A full-size replica of the lounge area of the Hindenburg, a German Zeppelin airship, which was in service from 1936 to 1937. Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen.

The German Zeppelin airship LZ 129 Hindenburg flying over New York, c. 1936.

A photograph of the British airship R 34 landing at Long Island, New York on 6 July 1919 having crossed the Atlantic Ocean, the first airship to do so. (Library of Congress)

John C. Calhoun, Secretary of War, oil on canvas by Charles Bird King, c. 1823. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.