Directing Traffic Frame Color:Unframed the Sultan of Swat

the Sultan of Swat

New York Times staff photographer Ernie Sisto took this photo in 1946 of kids peeking at a preview of "the greatest show on earth" at Madison Square Garden

000 spectators gathered in Times Square outside The New York Times building to receive updates

working in New England and rural Alaska

themed ballrooms

Directing Traffic Frame Color:Unframed the Sultan of SwatA gas powered flare aides a police officer directing traffic in the London fog. "The device can be folded up and put in a metal box sunk in the street," read The Times caption for this photo on October 23, 1935. Somehow, these failed to catch on. London's infamous fog dates back to the 1800s and pollution from the Industrial Revolution. "The British capital is particularly liable to natural winter fog," Christine L. Corton wrote for The Times in 2015.