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EVB2937147: Young women in a tableau as ancient warriors perform at Seneca Falls, N.Y. seventy-fifth anniversary Equal Rights celebration on July 20, 1923. After the passage of the 19th Amendment granting women the right to vote, broad based feminist activist waned for forty years, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2937025: Jesse James rides for his life through Shieldsville, Minnesota, after the disastrous Northfield Minnesota bank robbery, which netted nothing, left two bank employees murdered, two robbers killed, and Jim Younger wounded. The three Younger brothers were captured but Frank and Jesse escaped. September 7, 1876 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2937067: Louis 'Lepke' Buchalter, center, handcuffed to J. Edgar Hoover (left), at entrance to courthouse in New York City in 1939-40. With a ,000 reward on his head, he was tricked into surrendering to Hoover by a 'friend,' Moey Dimples. Buchalter was executed on March 4, 1944 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2937094: Adam Worth (1844-1902), the famous thief, sits facing the Pinkerton brothers on the Hot Springs Stage. Worth is small figure on front seat. In his last years, 'the Napoleon of Crime' collaborated with Pickerton, to record the history of his life, and negotiate the return of a stolen painting, THE DUCHESS OF DEVONSHIRE. c. 1900 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2937127: National Woman's Party activist, Kate Heffelfinger, wrapped in blanket, is supported after release the Washington, D.C. jail, the Occoquan Workhouse, where suffragists were sometimes physically abused, forced if they refused to eat, and made to live in filthy conditions. c. 1917 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2937540: Switchyard at TVA's Wilson Dam hydroelectric plant, near Sheffield, Alabama. A series of electrical transformers topped with ceramic insulators, transfer power from the generation system of the Wilson Dam to the distribution system that delivered power to consumers. 1942 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2937388: James A. Van Allen (1914-2006), American space physicist, discovered radiation belts surrounding the Earth and extending for several thousand miles into space. The Van Allen Radiation Belts were one of the first major scientific discoveries from Earth orbiting satellites in the late 1950s / Bridgeman Images
EVB2937472: Abe Fortas, President Lyndon Johnson's nominee to the Supreme Court at the Senate Judiciary Committee in 1965. He was confirmed but failed conformation as LBJ's 1968 nominee for Chief Justice and was forced to resign in 1969 for accepted fees while serving on the high court / Bridgeman Images
EVB2937514: Meyer Lansky (1902-1983), underworld financier who built gambling casinos in Cuba and Las Vegas in 1958. He inspired movie characters: Hyman Roth, portrayed by Lee Strasberg in GODFATHER II, and Max Bercovicz, by James Woods ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERIc. He was portrayed by Ben Kingsly in BUGSY, Dustin Hoffman in THE LOST CITY, and Patrick Dempsey in MOBSTERS / Bridgeman Images