EVB2925195: Secretary of Commerce Harry Hopkins watching a Washington-Yankee ball game. April 29, 1940 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2925206: Billiards Champion, Willie Hoppe, with trophy for the World's Three Cushion Billiard Championship. He defeated Jake Schaefer of Chicago, 50-34 in 39 innings on Feb. 14, 1941 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2925209: H.V. Kaltenborn charting his itinerary for a three-week aerial tour of Europe. July 1938. His trip coincided with the developing Munich Crisis of 1938, which he covered in his program series, 'Kaltenborn from Europe,' in August 1938. He traveled and worked with his wife, Olga. He played himself in two movies, MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON (1939) and THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL (1951) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2925814: Professor Harry Dym, works with his 12 year old student, Matthew Marcus at New York City College. Sept. 16, 1968. Dym's research included operator theory, interpolation theory, and inverse problems. He discovered the 'Dym equation', which was named after him / Bridgeman Images

EVB2925746: 1932 Socialist national candidates. Norman Thomas (right) ran for President with James Maurer, Mayor of Reading, Pennsylvania, his Vice Presidential running mate / Bridgeman Images

EVB2925824: Financier J.P. Morgan Jr., after testifying before the Senate Banking and Currency Committee. May 23, 1933 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2925829: Financier J.P. Morgan with circus midget Lya Graf sitting on his knee, June 1, 1933 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2925770: Gunder Hagg, Swedish runner with seven world records, arrived at LaGuardia Airport. June 6, 1943. He traveled from neutral Sweden to compete in U.S. track meets. Two years later, Hagg ran a mile in 4:01.4 seconds in Malmo, Sweden in 1945. The record held until broken by Roger Bannister in Oxford in 1954 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2925771: Golfers McDonald Smith and Walter Hagan, at Inwood, Long Island, on July 11, 1923. Hagan wore a tropical pith helmet to cope with the heat / Bridgeman Images

EVB2925839: John Pierpont Morgan Sr. with his wife, Frances Louisa Tracy Morgan, c. 1900 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2925842: Anne Tracy Morgan and Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt, a.k.a. Anne Sands Rutherfurd Vanderbilt. June 2, 1937. They sailed from New York City aboard the SS Normandy / Bridgeman Images

EVB2925781: Gen. Alexander Haig, was head of NATO from Dec. 1974–July 1979. He was the 7th to hold the title of Supreme Allied Commander Europe over all U.S. and NATO forces in Europe. Haig served in high civilian positions the Nixon, Ford, and Reagan Administrations / Bridgeman Images

EVB2925850: President Eisenhower laughs with champion golfer Barbara Romack and boxer Archie Moore. July 12, 1955. The White House hosted a luncheon for notables athletes / Bridgeman Images

EVB2925792: Shelley Lee Hamlin burst onto the golf scene at age 17. Aug. 8, 1966. Her score of a score of 70 won her medalist honors in the 36 hole qualifier for the U.S. Women's National Amateur Golf Championship / Bridgeman Images

EVB2925861: Communists held a demonstration for Thomas Mooney's release in San Francisco. Dec. 1, 1931. Mooney's conviction for the 1916 Preparedness Day bombing is under scrutiny after a key witness repudiated his testimony. In the background is the California State building / Bridgeman Images

EVB2925865: Thomas Mooney family reunion outside prison walls at San Quentin, California. Jan. 7, 1939 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2925866: Tom Mooney walked out of San Quentin prison after serving 22 years, Jan. 7, 1939. Mooney was pardoned by Governor Culbert L. Olson from his life sentence for the 1916 Preparedness Day Bombing in San Francisco / Bridgeman Images

EVB2925878: Sidi Mohammed Ben Moulay Arafa, Sultan Mohammed VI, of French Morocco. Aug. 27, 1955. The French elevated him to replace the exiled Mohammed V 1953, but Moroccans violently resisted. Mohammed V returned in 1955, and negotiations brought Moroccan independence in March 1956 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2925880: Prince Sidi Mohammed and Michael Jobert at memorial services for George Pompidou, 1974 (photo), Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2925886: President Joseph Mobutu (right) of the Congo with his wife during a ceremony at Kinshasa. Sept. 12, 1967. Mme. Marie Antoinette Mobutu launched a Congo River boat named after her husband / Bridgeman Images

EVB2925890: Helen Wills, woman champion tennis player c. 1921. She is playing in the new knee-length pleated skirts / Bridgeman Images

EVB2925891: Helen Wills, with trophies at the U.S. National Tennis Tournament at Forest Hills. August 18, 1923. The 17 year old Wills won her first Woman's Singles Championship defeating Molla Mallory / Bridgeman Images

EVB2925900: Helen Wills Moody and Elizabeth Ryan leaving the Wimbledon court after their finals match. July 11, 1930. Wills Moody defeated her fellow American Ryan in two sets, 6-2, 6-2. Moody retained her Wimbledon Women's Singles title, held since 1927 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2925910: Helen Wills Moody in London to defend her title at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships. June 3, 1933. She is attired in a relaxed green outfit with a matching beret / Bridgeman Images

EVB2925715: Josef Stalin (seated, right) is shown a 13.787 kilogram gold nugget by G.K. Orjonikioze. Jan 29, 1936 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2925716: Nadezhda Alliluyeva, 2nd wife of Josef Stalin in her coffin, Nov. 9, 1932. The official cause of her death was appendicitis. In reality, the 31 year old died from a gunshot wound from a small pistol. That it was self inflicted is still debated / Bridgeman Images

EVB2925720: Illegal meeting of the Tiflis workers held, under Stalin's leadership, in the Khodjevanski Cemetery. Georgia, 1898 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2925728: Edith Willkie looks up at the oversized portrait of Wendell Willkie at Republican Convention. June 28, 1940. Wilkie successfully competed for the Republican presidential nomination with Sen. Robert Taft and Arthur Vandenberg, and NYC District Attorney, Thomas Dewey. Convention Hall, Philadelphia / Bridgeman Images

EVB2925737: Wendell Willkie, make a campaign speech to thousands at Elwood, Indiana, High School. Republican presidential candidate (bottom, center) grew up in Elwood and made his formal nomination acceptance there on August 17, 1940 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2925740: Frank H. Watson of Jonesboro, Arkansas, invented a revolutionary cotton gin. Dec. 21, 1937. It whirls the cotton in a revolving drum as it extracts the its seeds by centrifugation force. Ordinary ginning alters the original fiber length, while this machine leaves the fiber untorn and adds value to the ginned cotton / Bridgeman Images

EVB2925742: Socialist Norman Thomas (center) speaking in New York's Union Square on May Day 1931 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2925821: Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr. speaking the reporters, Jan. 17, 1935. He announced the Treasury Department was putting 1000 men to work in cities with populations over 500,000 for tax collection work / Bridgeman Images

EVB2925753: Nicaragua President Anastasio Somoza challenged Pres. Figueres of Costa Rica to a duel. Jan. 12, 1955. His thuggish offer was made during the border war of 1954-55 between the Central American nations. A year earlier Somoza sent mercenary forces to Guatemala to assist the U.S. sponsored ouster progressive President, Jacobo Arbenz / Bridgeman Images

EVB2925828: The witnesses and Senators at the Senate Banking and Currency Committee hearing. May 26, 1933 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2925830: Financier J.P. Morgan politely shakes hands with a little lady, circus midget Lya Graf. June 1, 1933 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2925834: John Pierpont Morgan, c. 1880 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images