Someone had to hand-carve all of the presidents' eyes on Mount Rushmore:
This is Ruth Malcolmson, the woman who won the 1924 Miss America pageant:
This tea chest is one of two surviving chests from the Boston Tea Party back in 1773:
In 1972, astronaut Charles Duke left behind a picture of his family on the moon's surface. It's been there ever since:
This is what the Panama Canal looked like while it was under construction:
This is Eugene Cernan, who is, as of 2023, the last man to ever walk on the moon:
You might recognize Eugene from this iconic picture of his moon walk:
This is the Willamette meteorite, the largest meteorite that's ever been found in the United States:
The picture, from 1930, shows what the Empire State Building looked like while it was under construction:
Before it became that iconic sign all us sign-heads know and love, the Hollywood sign read "Hollywoodland":
This is what Times Square looked like in 1921:
This is Selma Burke, the woman who designed the portrait of Franklin Roosevelt that's still on the dime to this day:
This is a picture of the opening of the very first New York City subway back in 1904:
In 1969, Niagara Falls was "drained" in order to remove a large number of boulders that had accumulated at the foot of the falls:
This is the dish rag that Robert E. Lee used to surrender the Confederate army to the Union during the Civil War:
This is what the face of the Statue of Liberty looked like before it was installed onto the monument:
This is the USS Langley, the first United States aircraft carrier:
This is a billboard that was posted outside of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, a town established as a manufacturing site as part of the Manhattan Project:
This is Jackie Robinson entering the Dodgers clubhouse for the first time, five days before his first game in the MLB on April 10th, 1947:
This is Henry Ford cruising around in the first car he designed, the Quadricycle:
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