EVB2936104: Samuel Tilden (1814 -1886), New York Democratic reformer who fought the corruption of the notorious Tweed Ring, won the popular vote in the 1876 Presidential Election, but lost the electoral vote to Rutherford B. Hayes / Bridgeman Images

EVB2935506: Albert Shanker (1928-1997), leader of the New York City teachers union, threatened to strike during contract negotiations, holding a report issued by mediators in 1965. His militancy was the basis of a joke in Woody Allen's 1973 movie, SLEEPER. Shanker, holds report issued by mediators in 1965 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2935533: Captain Bruce Bairnsfather (1888-1959), Indian born British cartoonist who created the character of Old Bill, a grumpy, trench-weary World War I soldier. 1918 portrait by Pirie MacDonald, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2936122: Campaign banner for 1864 Republican presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln and running mate Andrew Johnson. Johnson was the only Southern Senator not to join the Confederacy / Bridgeman Images

EVB2935563: Cecil Beaton (1904-1980), kneeling on mantle of fireplace to take photograph of Lilyan Tashman (1899-1934), movie actress, reclining on chaise in Hollywood, California. c. 1930 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2935575: Antoine Lumiere (1840-1911), father of the famous Lumiere brothers, Auguste and Louis, partnered with his sons in their early efforts to develop motion pictures. 1907 portrait by Pirie MacDonald / Bridgeman Images

EVB2935593: Jo Davidson (1883-1952), Russian American sculptor at work on a marble plaque in his studio, beneath the shelf bearing replicas of his famous portrait busts. c. 1940 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2935626: Helen Adams Keller (1880-1968), wearing academic cap and gown in 1904. Keller was blind and deaf, and her education broke barriers for the disabled / Bridgeman Images

EVB2935638: Walter W. Liggett (1886-1935), crusading Minnesota journalist and newspaper publisher waged a journalistic campaign against 1930's organized crime and corrupt politics, was assassinated on December 9, 1935 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2935650: T. E. Lawrence (1888-1935) was an enthusiastic motorcyclist and died from injuries of a motorcycle accident in 1935, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2935695: Postcard showing man and woman having a romantic telephone conversation. 1909 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2935719: Charles Lindbergh's airplane, the Spirit of St. Louis, an hour into his historic first solo non-stop transatlantic flight. May 20, 1927 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2936467: Fully dressed female patient lying on the operating table, surrounded by the surgeons of Massachusetts General Hospital in one of the earliest operations performed under ether anesthesia. Among the surgeons is Dr. John Collins Warren, the doctor who first demonstrated surgical anesthesia / Bridgeman Images

EVB2936488: Title page to the treatise on urine analysis in the late medieval book, HORTUS SANITATIS (Origin of Health). The book describes herbal remedies and cites the works of Galen, Albertus Magnus and Dioscorides. 1491 woodcut / Bridgeman Images

EVB2935809: Golda Meir (1898-1978), in 1948 as Israel's Foreign Minister. Meir was Prime Minister of Israel from 1969 to 1974. Ingrid Bergman played Meir in the television film A WOMAN CALLED GOLDA (1982) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2935827: John Reed (1887-1920), American journalist, and communist activist, who wrote TEN DAYS THAT SHOOK THE WORLD, an account of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia. He was portrayed by Warren Beatty in the 1981 film, REDS. 1919 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2935839: Bobby Baker (b. 1928), close political ally of Lyndon Johnson, who was forced to resign powerful Senate position, Secretary to the Majority, over conflict of interest charges in 1963 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2935845: Rudolf Slansky (1901-1952), one of the leading creators and organizers of communist rule in Czechoslovakia after World War II. Slansky, with 13 others, was accused of being a Titoist, advocating a non-Russia-centric form of Communism and was executed in 1952 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2935875: Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy (1908-1957), speaking in front of a CBS camera in New York at the height of his fame and influence. 1953 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2935878: Samuel Ornitz (1890-1957), Hollywood screenwriter, testifying before House Un-American Activities Committee in 1947. He was one of the Hollywood Ten who were blacklisted by the film industry for suspected communist political activities / Bridgeman Images

EVB2935937: Popular print of President Abraham Lincoln published in 1864, when he was elected to his second term as president. Beneath the hand-colored lithographic portrait is a Lincoln quotation / Bridgeman Images

EVB2935988: Geronimo (1829-1909), Chiricahua Apache warrior with walking stick. 1904 photo / Bridgeman Images

EVB2935994: Costa Rican banana plantation has a traditional big house and small worker's quarters. c. 1910 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2936018: Odetta Holmes, c.1965 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2936027: George Barker (1844-1894), Canadian photographer, created this luminous image of grain elevators, in Buffalo, New York in 1883 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2936063: Beaux arts sculpture exhibited in the Gallery Rapp, Palace of Fine Arts, Paris Exposition, 1889 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2936111: Thomas Pryor Gore (1870-1949), first blind person to serve as a US Senator from 1907-1920 and 1931-36. He was also the grandfather of writer Gore Vidal. He is distantly related former vice-president Al Gore / Bridgeman Images

EVB2936126: Panoramic scene of Woodrow Wilson's (1856-1924), second inauguration as President on March 5th, 1917 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2936186: Elderly woman evaluating a corset at a pushcart market on Belmont Avenue, Brooklyn, New York. 1958 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2936189: Charles 'Lucky' Luciano (in center with head down), handcuffed to two deputies, leaving New York Supreme Court after being sentenced to 30 to 50 years in prison for leading prostitution rings as part of his organized crime empire. 1936 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2936225: U.S. flag waving in foreground over flight deck of an escort carrier on July 16, 1943. Of the 151 aircraft carriers built in the United States during WWII, 122 were escort carriers, cheaper, slower, lighter ships often used to protect convoys and provide air support during island invasions / Bridgeman Images

EVB2936611: 'The Symbolical Head, Illustrating All the Phrenological Developments of the Human Head,' was created by the leading American phrenologists, brothers Niles Fowler (1811-1896) and Orson Squire Fowler (1809-1887) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2936638: Human head and shoulders with heart and brain shown; some of the senses and their corresponding body parts, as well as particular sections of the brain, are identified. From anatomy text by Matthias Qualle, 1513 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2936644: Circulation of the blood from William Harvey's ON THE MOTIONS OF THE HEART AND BLOOD, 1628. Illustrations of a tourniqueted human forearms with pronounced superficial blood veins to indicate circulation. Fig. 3: Blood flow is blocked at two points, O and H. At O, the blood pools in a valve and does not flow toward the hand, but flows toward the heart. Fig. 4: Blood flow is blocked at two points, M and N, with no valve within section / Bridgeman Images

EVB2936659: Front and back view of an idealized, fully proportioned nude woman, 1586 (engraving), della Porta, Giambattista (c.1535-1615) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2936704: Lillian Wald (1867-1940), American nurse and social worker. She worked as a visiting nurse in poor neighborhoods in New York City, founded the Henry Street Settlement, and greatly influenced public health and social work / Bridgeman Images