EVB2928375: Quito, Ecuador, by Underwood & Underwood, c.1907 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2928378: The Manger, by Gertrude Kasebier, shows a woman as the Virgin Mary posed as though breast feeding the baby Jesus, c.1900, Käsebier, Gertrude (1852-1934) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2928397: Benjamin Franklin, et vita inter Americanos acta et magnis electricitatis periculis clarus, Benjamin Franklin, head and shoulders portrait, fcaing left, wearing fur cap and spectacles, medallion on pedestal, by Johann Elias Haid, c.1870 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2928423: Martha Washington, colored lithograph c. 1876 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2928448: Ellen Azson Wilson (1860-1914), First Lady 1913-1914, 1912 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2928454: World War I, The New York Tribune, caption of illustration reads: 'A Yankee Terrier Gets Its Teeth in a German Sea Wolf', February 16, 1919 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2928456: Harry Houdini, c. 1910s / Bridgeman Images

EVB2928465: The Civil War, scene of the explosion of Petersburg mine, Virginia. Figure on left has oversized shoes. Drawing on light green paper, by Alfred R. Waud, July 30, 1864 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2928476: Bessie Smith, American blues singer, portrait by Carl Van Vechten, February 3, 1936, Vechten, Carl Van (1880-1964) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2928480: John Philip Sousa (left), American composer, c.early 1900s / Bridgeman Images

EVB2928488: Now for Some Music, c.1917 (poster), Falls, Charles Buckles (1874-1959) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2928490: The Edison Concert Phonograph, Have you heard it?, 1899 (poster) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2928493: Advertisement for Victor Records, text reads: 'Enrico Caruso will hear himself sing his own Serenade, Music by Bracco, Victor Record 88,628', c.1910s / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934987: Muhammad Ali (b. 1942), displays the 24-carat gold-plated heavyweight championship belt on Sept. 18 1964. He won the belt on Feb 25, 1964, after his victory over Sonny Liston / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934998: African American men and women chopping (weeding) cotton on rented land near White Plains, Georgia in June 1942., Delano, Jack (1914-97) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934880: President Roosevelt, Rex Tugwell, and Dr. Alexander at Greenbelt, Maryland, a New Deal planned communities authorized by the Federal Emergency Relief Act signed during FDR's First Hundred Days. Nov. 1936 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934883: Willie and Tad Lincoln with cousin Lockwood Todd. Members of Mary Lincoln's large Kentucky family visited the White House, and often for extended stays. Some sided with the Confederacy, causing criticism of the First Lady / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934887: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945), nominating Alfred E. Smith for President at the 1924 Democratic Convention in New York's Madison Square Garden. Roosevelt, then a paraplegic from polio, walked to the podium supported by braces, his son and his cane / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934898: Campaign button for 1864 presidential election showing bust tintype portrait of Abraham Lincoln in a metal casing. Vice Presidential candidate, Andrew Johnson's, portrait is on the reverse side. 1864 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934899: President Lincoln on horseback with his generals, reviewing the Army of the Potomac on Monday, April 6, 1863. Edwin Forbes drawing captured a small scene of the elaborate ceremonial review / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934900: Farm Security Administration emblem. 1937 (print) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934909: Two hangman's nooses hang as a grim warning to prospective bidders on this foreclosed farm. Farmers conspired to offer very low bids at foreclosure auctions and warned others not to raise their bids, resulting in very low return to creditors. The buyers would then return the property to their destitute compatriot. May 1936 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934670: General Dwight D. Eisenhower and his wife Mamie at a Grand Rapids, Michigan campaign event in 1952. With them are Representative Gerald R. Ford and wife Betty / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934678: 18-year old future First Lady Betty Ford in a class taught by influential modern dance instructor Martha Hill (right center) at the Bennington College Summer School of Dance. Betty later became a member of Martha Graham's dance group in New York City / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934683: Official Portrait of First Lady Nancy Reagan in the Red Room of the White House. February 7, 1981 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934687: Emily Donelson (1807-1836), Andrew Jackson's niece served as the widower President's hostess from 1829 until her death from tuberculosis in 1836. Portrait painted by R.E.W. Earl, 1830 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934689: President Ronald and Nancy Reagan in an affectionate pose at their Santa Barbara, California retreat, Rancho Del Celo. August 17, 1983 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934734: Robert Carlos De Large (1842-1874, served as a Republican U.S. Representative from South Carolina from 1871-73. In 1873 he was unseated by an election challenge and died the following year / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934784: Texas tenant farmers displaced from their land by tractor farming were unemployed. In the 1930's tractors increased efficiency and reduced the manpower needs of farming, adding to the Great Depression's jobless rolls / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934792: Death chamber and electric chair at Sing Sing Prison in 1923 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934794: Soil drifting over a farm building on a South Dakota farm in 1935. Dakota was north of the 'Dust Bowl,' but the 1930s drought and decades of intensive farming on the Great Plains, left soil exposed to wind storms from Canada to Texas / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934807: Heavy equipment in the mud of Tennessee Valley Authority's Douglas Dam construction. The dam was needed during World War II to supply electricity for aluminum production, explosives manufacture, and the Manhattan Project's Oak Ridge facility. 1942 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934808: Chickamauga Dam Turbine Generators provided electricity to the rural areas of the Tennessee River Valley. It was part of the TVA, a New Deal project to stimulate the economy and create jobs during the Great Depression. c. 1940 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934810: Workmen installing a generator in the Norris Dam powerhouse. Norris Dam was the first major project of the Tennessee Valley Authority, created during the first 100 days of Franklin Roosevelt administration. Construction began on October 1, 1933 and was completed by March 4, 1936 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934813: Map diagrams the functions the New Deal public works project authorized when President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Tennessee Valley Authority Act on May 18, 1933, during the First Hundred Days of his administration / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934851: John H. Rock, free Black lawyer from Boston was the first African American admitted before the Supreme Court on February 2, 1865 / Bridgeman Images