Three-time Pulitzer Prize–winning writer and editor Carl Sandburg. Steichen/Vanity Fair.© Condé Nast
Ethel Barrymore, an early–20th-century stage and screen actor, for Vanity Fair in 1925. Steichen/Vanity Fair.© Condé Nast
Singer and actor Paul Robeson in New York City in 1933 for a Vanity Fair story on his role as Brutus Jones in The Emperor Jones, the first film with an African American star. Steichen/Vanity Fair.© Condé Nast
Actor Clara Bow, who often played the quintessential flapper and became a sex symbol of the Roaring ‘20s, for the February 1930 issue of Vanity Fair. Steichen/Vanity Fair.© Condé Nast
New York City’s George Washington Bridge, a double-decked suspension bridge that spans the Hudson River between Manhattan and Bergen County, N.J., in 1931, the year that it opened. © Permission of the Estate of Edward Steichen
