Royalty Free Stock Photography

Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960). Portrait of the American writer taken in 1937.
Wyatt Earp (1848-1929). Portrait of the famous American lawman and gambler, c.1870.
Susan B Anthony. Portrait of Susan Brownell Anthony (1820-1906), American suffragists and social reformer, c.1900.
Simon Bolivar (1783-1830), portrait of the Venezuelan political and military leader, engraving by N M Bate, c.1819.
Rosa Parks (1913-2005). Rosa Louise McCauley Parks being fingerprinted after her arrest for the boycott public transportation...
Michael Faraday (1791-1867), an English scientist who contributed to the study of electromagnetism and electrochemistry. His ...
Howard Hughes (1905-1976) speaking before the National Press Club in Washington DC on July 21st 1938. Photograph by Harris an...
Eleanor of Aquitaine (1122-1204), engraving of the Queen consort of England (as the wife of Henry II) and of France (as the w...
Sir Edmund Hillary (1919-2008), portrait of the New Zealand mountaineer, c.1953.
Catherine of Aragon. Portrait of the first wife of King Henry VIII of England holding a monkey, painting by Lucas Horenbout, ...
Ruins of the cathedral at Ypres, Flanders, Belgium in World War I. Photo taken between 1914 and 1918
German prisoners of war on a road in France during the First World War. Photo taken between 1916 and 1918.
Portrait of the English writer, Virginia Woolf, c.1927
Couple watching film footage of the Vietnam War on a television in their living room. Photo by Warren K Leffler, February 1968
Young black boy drinking at a "Colored" water fountain in Halifax, North Carolina, USA. Photo by John Vachon, 1938
The famous 19th and early 20th century French actress, Sarah Bernhardt . Photo by Felix Nadar, c.1864
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, in a prison van as they left the U.S. Court House after being found guilty of espionage and sente...
Portrait of Oscar Wilde, the Irish playwright, novelist, essayist, and poet. Photo by Napoleon Sarony, c.1882
Portrait of the American writer Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens), by A F Bradley, 1907
The Nobel prize winning scientist, Marie Skłodowska Curie, 1911
John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865. Photo, December 1862
Portrait of the Irish writer James Joyce by Alex Ehrenzweig, April 2010
Cuban leader Fidel Castro (Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz) on a visit to Washington DC in April 1959, when he was newly installed...
Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, wife of King George VI and mother of Queen Elizabeth II. Photo taken in March 1927, when she was the D...
The Belgian born French jazz guitarist, Jean "Django" Reinhardt, at the Aquarium Club, New York City, NY, c. 1946. Photo by W...
Che Guevara, the Argentinian born Marxist revolutionary and a key figure in the Cuban Revolution. Photo by Alberto Korda, 1960
Charlie Chaplin as The Tramp, 1915
Portrait of the 19th century English writer, Charles Dickens, c.1867
Lancaster Bomber. Three Avro Lancaster B Mark Is of No 44 Squadron, Royal Air Force based at Waddington, Lincolnshire in Sept...
W. G. Grace, (William Gilbert Grace: 1848-1915), an English amateur cricketer who was important in the development of the spo...
RMS Titanic departing Southampton on April 10, 1912. Photo by F.G.O. Stuart
The Taj Mahal in Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India c.1900-1915. Photo Detroit Publishing Company.
Ernest Shackleton's ship, Endurance, trapped in the ice during the 1914/15 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition. Photo from Un...
Salvador Dali (1904-1989), the Spanish surrealist painter from Figueres in Catalonia. Photograph entitled "Salvatore Dali wi...
Official NASA portrait of Astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, commander of the Apollo 11 Lunar Landing and the first man to walk on ...
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. The two men were famous for the Lewis and Clark Expedition (Corps of Discovery Expedition...
The American actress Grace Kelly (1929-1982) waving goodbye to New York from the ocean liner Constitution, before sailing for...
The Eiffel Tower under construction, built to serve as the entrance to the Paris Exposition of 1889. This photograph, by Loui...
Charles Lindbergh (1902-1974), the American aviator famous for his first non-stop solo flight across the Atlantic in 1927. Ph...
German Zeppelin airship LZ 7. Photo from Bain News Service, 1910.
Robin Hood. An 1895 illustration by William Greer Harrison for a theatrical poster promoting Frederick Ward's production of R...
Noel Coward (1899-1973). Photo from Bain News Service, c.1925.
Nikola Tesla (1856-1943), a Serbian American inventor and engineer best known for his work on alternating current (AC) electr...
The American sprinter Jesse Owens at the start of his record breaking 200m race at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Photo from "Die ...
John Arthur "Jack" Johnson (1878-1946), nicknamed the Galveston Giant, was an American boxer, who became the first African Am...
The American poet, Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (1830-1886) Daguerrotype, 1846-7
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815- 1902), an American suffragist, social activist, abolitionist, and leading figure of the early w...
The American writer, Edgar Allan Poe (born Edgar Poe; 1809-1849). Portrait by William Sartain, 1896
Illustration of a Dodo (Raphus cucullatus) from a publication by G Kearsley on George Shaw's zoological lectures delivered at...
Catherine II of Russia (1729-1796), known as Catherine the Great, was the longest-ruling female leader of Russia, reigning fr...