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Queen Elizabeth
September marks the fourth anniversary of the death of Elizabeth II.
Thurgood Marshall
In 1967 Marshall became the first African American to be confirmed as a US Supreme Court justice.
Yousuf and Estrellita Karsh
On August 28, 1962, Yousuf Karsh married Estelle Nachbar.
Lyndon B. Johnson
“LBJ” was born on August 27, 1908.
Leonard Bernstein
The conductor, composer, pianist, music educator, author, and humanitarian was born on this day, August 25, in 1918.
Jerry Lewis
Karsh photographed him for the Muscular Dystrophy telethon.
Lenore Tawney
Coming later this year is a new exhibition titled “Sites of Agency: Studio Photography.”
Woodstock
Karsh photographed two musical artists who performed at the festival.
H. G. Wells
Wells wrote more than forty novels and dozens of short stories.
Cecil B. DeMille
DeMille was an American filmmaker and actor who made 70 feature films.
Beatrice Lillie
Lillie was a Canadian-born British actress, singer and comedy performer.
Sir Alexander Fleming
Pictured in the laboratory in which he discovered and tested penicillin.
Naum Gabo
Gabo was a Russian and American constructivist sculptor and theorist.
The Honorable Linden Forbes Samson Burnham
Burnham was a Guyanese politician.
Emilio Greco
“He produced a portrait bust of lyric beauty.”
Lyndon B. Johnson
In 1965 Johnson signed Medicare into law.
Jacqueline Kennedy
“I photographed her against a Coromandel screen.”
Alexander Calder
“It’s easy to make,” he explained to my wife.
Neil Armstrong
On this day in 1969, Armstrong became the first human to walk on the surface of the moon.
Disneyland
Disneyland opened on July 17, 1955.
Lilly Daché
Daché was a French-born American milliner and fashion merchandiser.
Gerald Ford
Ford was photographed by Karsh in January of the final year of his presidency.
Sir Ernest MacMillan
MacMillan was a Canadian conductor, composer and organist.
Karsh Playing Tennis
Karsh enjoyed a game of tennis.
Lyndon Johnson
On this day in history, Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act into law.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
The German-American architect was photographed on this day in 1962.
Slim Pickens
Pickens was an American actor and rodeo performer.
Bill Blass
Blass was the recipient of many fashion awards.
Paul Dudley White
White was an American physician and cardiologist.
Leonid Brezhnev
He told Karsh he would sit for a portrait if Karsh made him look as good as Audrey Hepburn.
John Steinbeck
“Here was a courteous but reticent man who did not wear his heart on his sleeve.”
Jacques Cousteau
Cousteau was born on this day, June 11, in 1910.
Judy Garland
Karsh photographed her for LIFE magazine in 1946.
Duke and Duchess of Windsor
On June 3, 1937, former King Edward VIII married Wallis Simpson.
Edmund Hillary
Hillary and Tenzing Norgay were the first recorded climbers to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
Jawaharlal Nehru
Nehru served as his country’s first prime minister.
Andrei Sakharov
Sakharov was a Soviet and Russian nuclear physicist, dissident, Nobel laureate, and activist.
J. Paul Getty
Getty is pictured at home in England.
Bertrand Russell
“He distracted me with his dark thoughts when my mind should have been on my work.”