Margaret Bourke-White, a photographer for LIFE magazine, makes a precarious photo from one of the eagles on the 61st floor of the Chrysler Building in New York City in 1934. #

Steel support struts are visible inside several newly constructed giant pipes to be installed in a diversion tunnel that will carry the Missouri River around Fort Peck Dam construction in Montana in 1936. #

Outside a ramshackle barn in a windswept landscape, two men sharpen a blade on a hand-cranked grinding wheel while others, including several barefoot children, wait nearby, photographed in 1934. #

African American flood victims line up to get food and clothing from a Red Cross relief station in front of billboard ironically extolling "WORLD'S HIGHEST STANDARD OF LIVING / THERE'S NO WAY LIKE THE AMERICAN WAY." #

Original caption: "A group shot of escorts for lovely princesses & countesses of the Ak-Sar-Ben Coronation Ball, who are chosen by the members of a special committee from Omaha's socially elite. October 1938." #

Scottish Cameron Highlander and Indian troops march past pyramids in Egypt in 1940, part of the Allied defense preparations against an Italian attack, during World War II. #

Original caption: "Members of the native Bedouin camel cavalry called Meharists commanded by the officers of the French expeditionary force, pose on their she-camel mounts (males are only good for beast of burden) in desert near Damascus. May 1940." #

Original caption: "Uniform-clad pupils at the Chisinau School for Girls give the official salute of the Straga Taree (Watch of the Country), a compulsory fascistic Romanian Youth Organization. February 1940." #

Original caption: "Overall view of central Moscow with antiaircraft gunners dotting sky over Red Square with exploding shells, with spires of Kremlin silhouetted by a German Luftwaffe flare. July 26, 1941." #

Original caption: "Wartime Chinese orphans with hands over their ears as they sing a bombing song, 'Oom, Oom, Oom' (the sound of the planes) at an orphanage funded by United China Relief, a central U.S. organization for eight Chinese aid societies. July 1941." #

Two fliers of the 8th Bomber Command, clad in high-altitude flying clothes including sheepskin coats and helmets, oxygen masks, and sunglass goggles, at an aerodrome in southern England in September of 1941 #

Original caption: "Margaret Bourke-White at the ready, standing by an airplane propeller and fully garbed in a leather fleece-lined flight suit, camera in hand. 1943." #

Left: An American gun crew fires their 155mm caliber field gun, known as a Long Tom, toward German positions several miles away during the campaign to retake Italy in 1944. Right: A nighttime artillery barrage by Allied forces supporting a U.S. patrol attacks German fortification positions in the Apennine Mountains on the Italian front. #