Before the 101 Freeway opened, photographer Leigh Wiener took this photo of his son Devik on the off-ramp to Laurel Canyon Blvd in Studio City, California c. 1959

Richard Powers cover art, 1959

This Photo Was Made Just Before 4 P.M. at Broadway and 43rd Street, Looking East Across Times Square, Photo by Carl T. Gosset Jr., 1959

Participant of the third Soviet Antarctic expedition biologist V. Makushok with one of the emperor penguins he raised. Photo by V. Bogomolov (1959).

Morris Oxford Traveller Television Detector Vehicle, 1959. Because in the UK it is necessary to purchase a TV license to watch the BBC, in the past detector vehicles have been used to check which homes were using an unlicensed television

Lorraine Hansberry in her apartment in New York City, 1959

Space Travel - Chrysler [1959]

Miss Bubble Bath / calendar illustration by Bill Randall, September 1959.

Annemarie Heinrich

Summer in the city (self portrait), Buenos Aires, 1959