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An American flying squadron in India. After dinner a game of poker is enjoyed by the lads of "Hump Happy Tavern." The stakes are sometimes high but what you lose one night you win the next. Facing camera are, left to right: Lieutenant Marvin Siegel of Chicago, Illinois; Lieutenant Jack O. McReynolds of Dallas, Texas; Lieutenant Fred Pendoley of East Braintree, Massachusetts; Captain Richard Gately of Roslyn Heights, Long Island, New York; and Lieutenant Marion Rich of Trenton, New Jersey. Backs to camera left to right: Lieutenant Thomas G. Hay of San Antonio, Texas and Captain John B. Wilson of Deer Lodge, Montana

An American flying squadron in India. After dinner a game of poker is ...

Public domain photograph of New York in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Race between Bennett and Greely for the Post Office stakes

Race between Bennett and Greely for the Post Office stakes

A satire on the competition between rival editors Horace Greeley and James Gordon Bennett for New York post office printing contracts. The artist also comments on the circulation wars between Bennett's "New Yor... More

Washington, D.C. Row of piles being driven in a trench. In the foreground are rows of stakes that indicate where other piles are to be driven

Washington, D.C. Row of piles being driven in a trench. In the foregro...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a road works, construction, excavation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

The great race for the Western stakes 1870

The great race for the Western stakes 1870

Print shows Cornelius Vanderbilt and James Fisk in a race for control of New York's rails. Throughout 1868 and 1869, the two men had fought for control of the Erie Railroad. (See also "The Statue Unveiled," no.... More

Allies stern government at Tientsin - gruesome warning to law-breakers - Criminals three days after being shot [2 dead Chinese tied to stakes], China

Allies stern government at Tientsin - gruesome warning to law-breakers...

H2167 U.S. Copyright Office. Stereo copyrighted by Underwood & Underwood. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Executions...; Atrocities 1901; Boxer Rebellion, 190... More

The great race for the Western stakes 1870

The great race for the Western stakes 1870

Print shows Cornelius Vanderbilt and James Fisk in a race for control of New York's rails. Throughout 1868 and 1869, the two men had fought for control of the Erie Railroad. (See also "The Statue Unveiled," no.... More

Heads of beheaded criminals tied by queues to stakes, on Street near West Gate - Tientsin, China

Heads of beheaded criminals tied by queues to stakes, on Street near W...

Boxer Rebellion. H7968 U.S. Copyright Office. Stereo copyrighted by Underwood & Underwood. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Executions...; Atrocities 1901; Box... More

The horse shed stakes, free for all

The horse shed stakes, free for all

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 3189

Footrace, Pennsylvania Avenue. Stakes $25,000, Political Cartoon

Footrace, Pennsylvania Avenue. Stakes $25,000, Political Cartoon

The race for a $25,000 prize (the president's salary) is a metaphor for the 1844 campaign. The favored contender here is Henry Clay. The other runners are James K. Polk and John Tyler, while commentaries are of... More

Stack of engineering stakes precut in the shop house plant. Southeast Missouri Farms Project

Stack of engineering stakes precut in the shop house plant. Southeast ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of lumber, lumberjack workers, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

American Jockey Club Races; Jerome Park: Tom Bowling Winning the Jerome Stakes for 3 Year Olds, Value $5,500; Dash Two Miles; October 4th 1873. (Un-official Time 3:40)

American Jockey Club Races; Jerome Park: Tom Bowling Winning the Jerom...

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0188.

Unloading stakes and horses. Lasses-White tent show. Note local children at work. Sikeston, Missouri

Unloading stakes and horses. Lasses-White tent show. Note local childr...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children in poverty during the Great Depression, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

White migrant worker with hatchet and stakes to be used in setting up new camp near Harlingen, Texas

White migrant worker with hatchet and stakes to be used in setting up ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a farmer, 1930s, 20th-century dust bowl era, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

American Jockey Club Races; Jerome Park: Tom Bowling Winning the Jerome Stakes for 3 Year Olds, Value $5,500; Dash Two Miles; October 4th 1873. (Un-official Time 3:40)

American Jockey Club Races; Jerome Park: Tom Bowling Winning the Jerom...

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0188.

Because of the time and difficulties which would be encountered in buying a new staking machine, engineers of a Midwestern company converted an old standard arbor press into an air-operated machine, pictured above, which stakes screws in a twenty- millimeter shell booster. The results of the air-powered machine were a definite saving of time and elimination of fatigue which resulted from the operation of manually operated press. The young lady operating the machine was an operator of a machine for making loose-leaf notebook binders before she became employed on war work

Because of the time and difficulties which would be encountered in buy...

Public domain photograph of laboratory, scientist, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

American Jockey Club Races; Jerome Park: Tom Bowling Winning the Jerome Stakes for 3 Year Olds, Value $5,500; Dash Two Miles; October 4th 1873. (Un-official Time 3:40)

American Jockey Club Races; Jerome Park: Tom Bowling Winning the Jerom...

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0188.

Pile of stakes made with broadaxe at camp near Effie, Minnesota

Pile of stakes made with broadaxe at camp near Effie, Minnesota

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of lumber, lumberjack workers, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of a man sitting on a bench, Texas, during Great Depression

A black and white photo of a man sitting on a bench, Texas, during Gre...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of worker, marketplace, vendor, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Roof bolts used as tomato stakes in the Gunnoe Family garden

Roof bolts used as tomato stakes in the Gunnoe Family garden

Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Driving stakes for Lasses-White show. Sikeston, Missouri

Driving stakes for Lasses-White show. Sikeston, Missouri

Public domain photograph of United States agriculture in the 1930s, country, farmer, farm, great depression, migration, dust bowl refugees, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Charles Stakes to Andrew Jackson, Jr., November 3, 1846

Charles Stakes to Andrew Jackson, Jr., November 3, 1846

Public domain scan of Andrew Jackson's correspondence, American history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Migrant worker making stakes for the setting up of his tent, vicinity of Harlingen, Texas

Migrant worker making stakes for the setting up of his tent, vicinity ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Charles Stakes to Andrew Jackson, Jr., November 3, 1846

Charles Stakes to Andrew Jackson, Jr., November 3, 1846

Public domain scan of Andrew Jackson's correspondence, American history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

White migrant worker sawing wood for stakes to be used in setting up tent home, near Harlingen, Texas

White migrant worker sawing wood for stakes to be used in setting up t...

Public domain photograph - United States during 1930s Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Lots for sale in Childersburg, Alabama. Stakes mark off the separate lots

Lots for sale in Childersburg, Alabama. Stakes mark off the separate l...

Public domain photograph of Alabama in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Bridgeton, New Jersey. FSA (Farm Security Administration) agricultural workers' camp. Driving tent stakes

Bridgeton, New Jersey. FSA (Farm Security Administration) agricultural...

Public domain photograph of military personnel, army, militia, infantry, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a man sitting on a bench, Texas, during Great Depression

A black and white photo of a man sitting on a bench, Texas, during Gre...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a worker, construction, carpenter, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

White migrant making stakes for setting up his tent near Harlingen, Texas

White migrant making stakes for setting up his tent near Harlingen, Te...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a farmer, 1930s, 20th-century dust bowl era, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Pulling ropes for attachment to stakes. Lasses-White show. Sikeston, Missouri

Pulling ropes for attachment to stakes. Lasses-White show. Sikeston, M...

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s US industrial development, Second World War, US war production, indusry, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description