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May 1998

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Features

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Celebrity Caricature

At the National Portrait Gallery, American Icons Revealed

The AP Looks Back

150 Years of Capturing the Moment

Ansel Adams

A Future in Pictures

Computer technology is expanding the way we preserve and develop our photographic memory

Drop Cut-Off Valve and Mechanism Model

Catching a Glimpse of America's Industrial Past

Wow! A Mile a Minute!

But 60 mph was a breeze to Barney Oldfield, better known as the "speed king" of the horseless carriage world

Turn-of-the-Century Views

Review of 'Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World'

Review of 'Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World'

Review of 'The Beggar and the Professor: A Sixteenth-Century Family Saga'

Growing Pains

Departments