MARILYN MONROE (1926-1962). American cinema actress. In a scene from 'How to Marry A Millionaire,' 1953.

MONA LISA. Leonardo da Vinci. Detail of eyes. Wood, c1503-06.

VIETNAM WAR, 1966. Members of the 101st Airborne Division moving across a rice field in search of Viet Cong. Photograph, 23 January 1966.

HORSE RACING, c1960. /nPhotographed c1960.

FIRST TELEPHONE, 1875. Model of Alexander Graham Bell's first telephone through which speech sounds were first transmitted electrically.

FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT (1882-1945). 32nd President of the United States. Photograph, June 1936.

GERONIMO (1829-1909). American Apache chief. Photographed, 1905.

FILM: THE MISFITS, 1961. /nClark Gable and Marilyn Monroe

VAN GOGH: STARRY NIGHT. Vincent Van Gogh: The Starry Night. Oil on canvas, 1889.

VIETNAM WAR: HELICOPTER. /nTroopers of the 173rd Airborne Brigade rappel from a helicopter in South Vietnam, December 1966.

TOMMY HARMON, c1940. American football player and soldier in World War II.

ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL (1847-1922). American (Scottish-born) teacher and inventor. Alexander Graham Bell at the New York end of the first long-distance telephone call to Chicago, 18 October 1892: contemporary French wood engraving after a photograph.

RED CLOUD (1822-1909). American Oglala Sioux chief.

FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT (1882-1945). 32nd President of the United States. Photographed in the water at Warm Springs, Georgia, late 1920s.

MARILYN MONROE (1926-1962). American cinema actress.

GEORGE H. RUTH (1895-1948). Known as Babe Ruth. American professional baseball player. Photographed in the 1920s by Nickolas Muray.

FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT (1882-1945). 32nd President of the United States. Photograph, 1936.

SITTING BULL (1834-1890). American Dakota Sioux Chief.

LEONARDO DA VINCI (1452-1519). Italian painter, sculptor, architect, engineer, and scientist. Self-portrait drawing, c1514, in red chalk.

REMBRANDT van RIJN. (1606-1669). Dutch painter and etcher. Portrait of the artist. Oil on canvas.

SILENT FILM STILL: SPORTS./nDorothy Gulliver (center).

VIETNAM WAR: SOLDIER, 1970. /nA U.S. 61st Infantry Regiment trooper with a peace symbol and religious medals as well as a bandolier of bullets at Con Thiem, Vietnam, February 1970.

GEORGES BRAQUE (1882-1963). French painter.

REMBRANDT: ANATOMY, 1632. /nThe Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaas Tulp. Canvas, 1632.

CLAUDE MONET (1840-1926). French painter. Photographed by Sacha Guitry, n.d.

EGON SCHIELE (1890-1918). Austrian painter. Photographed in his studio, 1915.

FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT (1882-1945). 32nd President of the United States. Visiting the Firestone Natural Rubber Company rubber plantation in Liberia. Photograph, January 1943.

PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973). Spanish painter and sculptor; photographed in 1917.

MAN RAY (1890-1976). Originally Emmanuel Rudnitsky. American painter, photographer, and film maker. Photographed by Gisele Freund in 1967.

VAN GOGH: SELF PORTRAIT. Oil on canvas, Vincent van Gogh, 1889.