Photographs That Changed The World

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Johnson Is Sworn In 1963
            
            Lyndon Baines Johnson takes the presidential oath of office on November             22 as Air Force One carries his wife, Lady Bird, Jacqueline Kennedy             and several White House aides back to Washington from Dallas. Earlier,             President John F. Kennedy had been assassinated, and the speed with             which this ceremony was arranged梐nd the photo released梬as             purposeful. Johnson and his advisers wanted to assure a shocked nation             that the government was stable, the situation under control. Images             from the Zapruder film of the shooting, which would raise so many             questions, would not be made public for days.


Migrant Mother 1936
            
            This California farmworker, age 32, had just sold her tent and the             tires off her car to buy food for her seven kids. The family was living             on scavenged vegetables and wild birds. Working for the federal government,             Dorothea Lange took pictures like this one to document how the Depression             colluded with the Dust Bowl to ravage lives. Along with the writing             of her economist husband, Paul Taylor, Lange抯 work helped convince             the public and the government of the need to help field hands. Lange             later said that this woman, whose name she did not ask, 搒eemed             to know that my pictures might help her, and so she helped me.

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Galloping Horse 1878
            
            Was there a moment midstride when horses had all hooves off the ground?             Leland Stanford, the railroad baron and future university founder,             bet there was梠r at least that抯 the story. It was 1872             when Stanford hired noted landscape photographer Eadweard Muybridge             to figure it out. It took years, but Muybridge delivered: He rigged             a racetrack with a dozen strings that triggered 12 cameras. Muybridge             not only proved Stanford right but also set off the revolution in             motion photography that would become movies. Biographer Rebecca Solnit             summed up his life: 揌e is the man who split the second, as             dramatic and far-reaching an action as the splitting of the atom.

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Promontory Point 1869
            
            The ceremony begins on May 10, 1869, as an eastbound Central Pacific             locomotive and a westbound Union Pacific locomotive meet in Promontory             Point, Utah, marking the completion of the first transcontinental             railroad. The men on the cowcatchers are ready to toast the driving             of the golden spike. The work had been brutal. At one stage, efforts             to tunnel through the marble spine of a Sierra Nevada mountain consumed             an entire year, as only eight inches a day of progress was possible.             So: a fabulous accomplishment. But this is also an early example of             a photo op梩he use of a picture as a means to an end. Folks             back East could see, plain as day, that a train could take them all             the way to California, where businessmen anxiously awaited their commerce.


Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire 1911
            
            The Triangle Shirtwaist Company always kept its doors locked to ensure             that the young immigrant women stayed stooped over their machines             and didn抰 steal anything. When a fire broke out on Saturday,             March 25, 1911, on the eighth floor of the New York City factory,             the locks sealed the workers

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BERLIN桝 young man bridges the wall between East and West Berlin, 1989.

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WASHINGTON, D.C.桝t the climax of his 揑 Have A Dream

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