20th century AP staffers

Founded in New York in 1846, The Associated Press has employed thousands of men and women over the years to cover the world’s most important stories. AP journalists in the field have covered breaking news from around the globe and told important stories with in-depth investigative journalism. This gallery contains photographs of writers, photographers and other support staff who have at times risked their own lives to report the news.  

Some of the photos in this collection are from the AP Corporate Archives.  Collections in the Corporate Archives document the work of AP staffers around the world, covering both news and administrative operations.

A wire photo receiver showing the cylinder in which the negative is contained, is shown in The Associated Press' photo department in New York, 1935, with Eddie Nittoly, right, attending to the machine. (AP Photo)

Marty Lederhandler, second from right, works in the darkroom of AP's New York headquarters on Madison Ave. ca. 1936. Lederhandler, who became an AP photographer, captured on film every U.S. president from Herbert Hoover to Bill Clinton, covered the D-Day landing in 1944 and climaxed a 66-year career with an iconic shot of the 9/ll World Trade Center attacks. (AP Photo/Corporate Archives)

Associated Press Foreign Correspondent James A. Mills (1883-1942), right, is pictured with an undentified friend beside a roadside mileage marker near Alexandrette in what is now Turkey, on September 2, 1938. At the time, Mills was reporting from the Middle East.

Associated Press photographer Murray Becker of New York takes a general view picture of the scene at the 1936 Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio in the Public Auditorium, using a 28-inch camera, June 1936. (AP Photo)

Drew Middleton, Associated Press reporter in London, has become a war correspondent and is to going to France next week, October 9-10th. He will wear the uniform of correspondents with the British Army: an officers uniform with special badges and a “Press” armlet. Drew Middleton, Associated Press correspondent is shown in his uniform passing the sandbagged Associated Press building in London on Oct. 24, 1939. (AP Photo)

Members of the AP London staff have their own air raid protection squad and here they are shown going through their first full dress parade on May 16, 1940 on the roof of the Associated Press building. They are, left to right, I. A. Milligan, C. Michaels, K. C. Boxall, L. I. Jones, G. Selkirk and G. Angus. (AP Photo/Corporate Archives)

Members of the London staff of the Associated Press went ahead with their work, sending news to the world from temporary quarters in the flooded basement of The Associated Press building on Sept. 25, 1940 after a German bomb landed outside the front door. From left are: G.H.P. Anderson, Anne Keefe, Edwin Stout and Drew Middleton. (AP Photo)

C. Yates McDaniel, left, and Frank "Pappy" Noel, April 22, 1942. (AP Photo/Frank Noel)

Grant MacDonald, Wide World photographer, unshaven, very dirty, and slightly unhappy about it all, rests in the dust and mosquitoes, after reaching the end of the line, last outpost of construction crews on the Alaska road between Fort St. John and Fort Nelson, June 6, 1942. (AP Photo)

From left, Ed Widdis, Associated Press photographer; Dean Schedler, Associated Press writer and Murlin Spencer, Associated Press writer. These are the men on the job covering the news for The AP in New Guinea, Nov. 23, 1942. (AP Photo/Ed Widdis)

Ruth Cowan, Associated Press war correspondent, who has covered almost every front page assignment, in England, on Jan. 29, 1943. (AP Photo)

Actor Ralph Bellamy has appeared in 83 movies, but he’s deserted Hollywood temporarily to play a smash role in a current Broadway hit, “Tomorrow, The World.” Miss Frances Long, Associated Press reporter, interviews Mr. Bellamy in his New York apartment, July 23, 1943. (AP Photo/Charles Kenneth Lucas)

Frank Filan, Associated Press photographer on assignment with wartime still photographer pool, who did his shooting in the American invasion of Tarawa in the Gilberts with a borrowed camera after his camera was lost going ashore with the first Marine wave on November 21, stands near a bullet-riddled plane on the airfield at Tarawa, Dec. 6, 1943. (AP Photo/Frank Filan)

Don Whitehead, Associated Press correspondent, writes his story of the landing at Anzio Beach in Italy, from a fox hole in February 1944. (AP Photo/Bill Allen)

Associated Press photographer with the wartime pool, Joe Rosenthal, takes time out to rest with Bob Campbell, a Marine from San Francisco, March 2, 1945, in front of a large Japanese gun knocked out by Marines at the base of Mount Suribachi. Rosenthal scaled the mountain to make the picture of the U.S. flag being raised there. (AP Photo)

Four staff writers for The Associated Press are pictured working in the courtroom where the Nuremberg war crimes trials are being held, December 1945. From left: Boots Norgaard, Louis Lochner, Wes Gallagher and Dan DeLuce. (AP Photo/B.I. Sanders)

Elaine Kahn, Pittsburgh AP staffer, talks with Clark Shaughnessy, University of Pittsburgh gridiron coach, about 1946 prospects in Pittsburgh, January 1946. (AP Photo/Walter Stein)

Associated Press Food Editor Cecily Brownstone in her home test kitchen in 1947. (AP Photo)

AP Boston photographer J. Walter Green, assigned to Rome, discusses coverage with AP London photographer Lawrence Harris at London's Wembley Stadium during the Summer Olympics, August 1948. (AP Photo)

In this June 1950 photo, Associated Press reporter Bob Thomas accompanies Lucille Ball as she practices the part of a door-to-door saleswoman in Los Angles. (AP Photo)

From left, AP staffers George McArthur, Bill Waugh and Max Desfor sit together outside the new AP press tent at Munsan, Korea, after moving from the train which had been "home" to correspondents since the start of the truce talks. The sign says: The Associated Press, Munsan Bureau, The World's Greatest Newsgathering Organization. (AP Photo)

The Tokyo bureau staff enjoyed a Christmas party at Chief of Bureau Bob Eunson's house. The smooth dance team tapping out a hot waltz clog is photographer Max Desfor and bureau chief Bob Eunson, 1951. (AP Photo)

Rome darkroom staffer Carlo Pelliccia dries negatives in a bathroom where film for five AP photographers was being processed during the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina, Italy. (AP Photo/Walter Attenni)

Atlanta Associated Press staffer Kathryn Johnson, left, donned bobby socks and a sweater to obtain the only eyewitness story of Charlayne Hunter's first day of class at the University of Georgia, Jan. 11, 1961. School officials stopped all other reporters at the door but Kathryn was "just another student." Hunter was one of the first two African American students to enroll in the University of Georgia. (AP Photo)

Photographers of The Associated Press are pictured at work in Yankee Stadium in New York, covering the second game of the 1961 World Series between the New York Yankees and the Cincinnati Reds, Oct. 5, 1961. From foreground to background are Harry Harris, John Rooney and Murray Becker. (AP Photo)

Frances Lewine, left, of The Associated Press talks with Mrs. Jaqueline Kennedy on the lawn of the Governor's residence at Karachi, Pakistan, after the First Lady had dismounted from a camel ride. Miss Lewine was a member of the press contingent that covered Mrs. Kennedy's world tour in March 1962. (AP Photo/Corporate Archives)

Former Vice President Richard Nixon, left, sits for a portrait at Associated Press headquarters in New York on his 51st birthday, Jan. 9, 1964. AP chief photographer Murray Becker, center, directs the shoot with photographers Tony Camerano, foreground, and Ed (Eddie) Adams, right. (AP Photo/Corporate Archives)

AP Photographer Bob Daugherty, 1965. (AP Photo/Corporate Archives).

AP newsmen Peter Arnett, left, and Mary Ann (Kelly) Smith discuss armored operations with a tankman beneath the muzzle of a heavy tank of the 25th Infantry Division at Cu Chi, Vietnam (Sept. 1967). (AP Photo)

Associated Press photographer Horst Faas, with his Leica cameras around his neck, accompanies U.S. troops in War Zone C in Vietnam, 1967. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Horst Faas)

In this 1968 photo, Coretta Scott King and AP reporter Kathryn Johnson, left, review plans for The King Center during a meeting on the campus of Atlanta University in Atlanta. In a new memoir, "My Life with the Kings: A Reporter's Recollections of Martin, Coretta and the Civil Rights Movement," retired Associated Press reporter Kathryn Johnson describes many civil rights flashpoints that she covered in the 1960s, and details her close relationship with the movement’s leader, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., and his family. (AP Photo)

In this 1967 photo, Associated Press photographer Horst Faas works in Vietnam. Faas, a prize-winning combat photographer carved out new standards for covering war with a camera and became one of the world's legendary photojournalists in nearly half a century with The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Courtesy AP Corporate Archives)

Associated Press photographer Huynh Cong "Nick" Ut photographs the battle between North Vietnamese troops and a South Vietnamese armor/ranger tank force two miles north of Svay Rieng, Cambodia, May 8, 1970. One hour later, the 21-year-old native of South Vietnam's Mekong Delta became the first newsman reported wounded in the current Cambodian border operations. Ut was wounded in the lower abdomen by a Fragment from an enemy B-40 rocket grenade. The fragment was removed and he has returned to work. (AP Photo)

AP newswomen were briefed by AP Managing Editor Lou Boccardi, during an orientation visit to the AP General Office in New York. AP World, the employee magazine, will announce in its next issue that the term "newswoman" will be used in the future to describe women reporters. Heretofore male and female writers all were classified as "newsman." From left: Jackie Snyder, Pittsburgh bureau; Debby Rankin, Chicago; Janet Bataile, Des Moines; Mary Gordon, Newark, Nancy Shipley, Nashville and Bocccardi, 1971. (AP Photo/Corporate Archives)

In this circa 1987 photo, AP photographer Kim Chon-kil looks at negatives at the Seoul, South Korea bureau. Kim suffered a broken arm when he was caught between rock-throwing students and riot police. (AP Photo/Corporate Archives)

This undated photo shows reporters working at the 383 Madison Ave. office of The Associated Press in New York. (AP Photo/Corporate Archives)

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