EVB2934398: Marsden Hartley (1877-1943), American painter influenced by expressionism and cubism, created powerful Maine landscapes and still life paintings / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934402: Robert Henri (1865-1929), the American painter, posed in the Gertrude Kasebier's New York City studio in 1900. Henri was a bold painter associated with the Ashcan School of urban realist painters, Käsebier, Gertrude (1852-1934) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934404: SAVED (1888), an etching by Winslow Homer (1836-1910), shows an unconscious woman being rescued from a stormy sea. Themes of man's struggle against the sea was a major theme of Homer's late work / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934409: Augustus John (1978-1961), Welsh figurative painter sustained a long, successful career in century that favored abstract art. c. 1925 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934414: Page from the notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) showing geared device assembled. c. 1500 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934416: Art-students and copyists, among them many women, in the a long, sky-lit gallery of Louvre Museum in Paris. Wood engraving based on Winslow Homer's drawing is from Harper's Weekly, 1868 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934420: 1805 NAPOLEON AT AUSTERLITZ, 1908 by Ernest Meissonier (1815-1891). A long line of French cavalry with artillery moving behind them at Austerlitz / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934435: Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), Flemish Baroque painter in 1625. 19th century engraving by James Posselwhite / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934439: Large banner blaming 'The Thieves of the New York Stock Exchange' for robbing the New York Bank Note Co. of '30 years of industry.' c. 1905-1915 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934446: The Times depicts the impact of the financial Panic of 1837. Rich detail show a bank run, homeless women and child, unemployed men, closed factory, and sheriff's auction. Specie, or precious metal, is demanded as payment, since paper money was no longer trusted / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934450: German women burning money to fuel her stove during the post World War I hyper-inflation in 1923. At the time, an American dollar was worth 800 million German marks / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934451: Stock traders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in 1936 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934452: View down Broad street from its intersection with Wall Street. At right are the columns of the New York Stock Exchange. Farther down the street is the outdoor curb market of the American Stock Exchange. 1911 photo by Irving Underhill, Underhill, Irving (1872–1960) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934464: High technology in 1928 was the NY Stock Exchange's new quotation system. Photo shows a telephone operator, with headphones and mouthpiece at his post on the trading floor / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934466: Financial Panic of 1873. Thomas Nast cartoon showing an explosion blowing up Northern Pole R.R. Co., the Bank of Inflation, Fire and Brimstone Company, etc. The root causes of the panic was stressed railroad finances / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934069: Edwin Denby (1870-1929), former Congressman and future Secretary of the Navy, enlisted in the Marines as a private at the age of 47 when the US entered World War I, in 1917 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934075: Roxie Stinson having her fortune told after delivering sensational testimony at the Senate investigations of the Teapot Dome scandal. She testified in spite of intimidation from Daugherty and Billy Burns agents. Her devastating testimony prompted President Coolidge to demand their resignations. March 1924 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934077: Daisy Harriman (1870-1967) with her daughter, Ethel M.B. Harriman. At this time of her life, Harriman was expanding her political activism and would support Democrat Woodrow Wilson for the Presidency / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934078: T. Coleman Dupont (1963-1930), of the famous Dupont industrial family, was an member of the Republican National Committee from Party 1908-1930 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934097: U.S. Supreme Court in 1925. Left to right: McReynolds, Sanford, Holmes, Sutherland, Taft, Butler, Van Devanter, Stone, Brandeis, Harris & Ewing (1905-45) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934111: Charles Evans Hughes (1862-1948), posed for photographers on June 12, 1916, two days after his resignation from the Supreme Court. He accepted the Republican Presidential nomination and almost won against incumbent Woodrow Wilson / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934115: Joseph McKenna (1843-1926), Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1898 to 1925. Appointed by President McKinley, after serving as his Attorney General, he was a centrist without distinguished legal credentials. 1906 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934118: A gas station owned by the Dome Oil Company, in Tacoma Park, suburban Washington D.C. c. 1920 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934125: The Pennsylvania oil region. The Shoe & Leather Petroleum Company and the Foster Farm Oil Company, on lower Pioneer Run, Pa. c. 1895 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934127: Oil roughnecks screw one piece of drill pipe to another piece with a heavy pipe wrench. In the mid 20th century Texas was a major oil producing region for the United States. Kilgore, Texas, 1939 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934133: Oil well derricks on the beach along the California coast. c. 1944 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934141: General Frederick Grant (1850-1912), son of President Grant, and General Leonard Wood (right) with their wives. Both men served in the Philippines during the Spanish American War. c. 1905 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934142: General Leonard Wood (1860-1927), had a long varied career that included winning the Congressional Medal of Honor, service with Theodore Roosevelt in the Spanish-American war, c. 1910 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934151: William McAdoo (1863-1941), U.S. Senator, United States Secretary of the Treasury and director of the U.S. Railroad Administration, with his wife and daughters, Mary (held by her father) and Ellen in 1923 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934152: William McAdoo worked in his law firm after leaving the Wilson Cabinet, and among his clients was the Edward Doheny, one of the oil men involved in the Teapot Dome scandal. The association destroyed his chances for the 1924 Democratic presidential nonination / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934155: Fred. W. Upham (died 1923), 1923 Republican Party Treasurer, c.1908 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934156: Charles E. Hughes (1862-1948), with the backing of President Theodore Roosevelt, successfully ran for Governor of New York against William Randolph Hearst in 1906 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934161: Charles Curtis (1860-1936), Representative and Senator from Kansas, was proud of his Native American ancestry. He ended his political career as Herbert Hoover's Vice President. c. 1908 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934166: Will Rogers, a popular actor and journalist, was often in Washington, D.C. and welcomed by notables. Rogers poses with Speaker of the House, Nicholas Longworth. 1925 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934299: Ethel Barrymore (1879-1959), in a 1901 studio portrait by Burr McIntosh / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934310: Rookery Building (1886), interior court provided shops and offices around a graceful square that exposed cast iron columns, wrought iron spandrel, and steel beams / Bridgeman Images