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EVB2947450: Architect's drawing of the aerial view of a shopping center in Roosevelt Field. May 2, 1955. It was developed by William Zeckendorf and designed by I. M. Pei and built on the recently closed Roosevelt Air Field. It was in Nassau County, then a fast growing suburb of New York City. / Bridgeman Images
EVB2947221: Inventor, Joseph Massolle (center), listening to the first screening of German Movietone News. He is using a machine called a Trigeron (Work of Three), invented in 1919 by himself and Josef Engl (left) and Hans Vogt (right). Their technology for a sound track on movie film became the industry standard in the 1920s. / Bridgeman Images
EVB2947404: Buffalo Bills player Jack Kemp signs his autograph for a boy on August 4, 1964. Kemp played professional football from 1957 to 1969. In 1970 he successfully ran for Congress and was reelected for 10 terms. In 1989 he was Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in the George H.W. Bush administration from 1989-92. / Bridgeman Images
EVB2948527: The new RCA Building in Rockefeller Center on Sept. 1, 1933. The adjacent lots await construction. It was the landmark building of the complex of 19 commercial buildings between 48th and 51st streets in New York City built between 1930 and 1939. Photo by Samuel H. Gottscho / Bridgeman Images
EVB2948671: President Coolidge calls on President Machado of Cuba at the Cuban embassy in Washington. April 22, 1927. Gerardo Machado first term (1925-29) enjoyed a period of prosperity. His second was caught in the effects of the Great Depression, and his increasing use of force to hold power. In 1933 he was toppled by a bloodless coup aided by the U.S / Bridgeman Images
EVB2948701: Vice President Elect Calvin Coolidge and wife Grace walking on Washington, D.C. street. The outgoing Grace Coolidge speaks to the photographer on March 1, 1921. They moved into the Willard Hotel suite vacated by the departing Vice President, Thomas Marshall, and lived there until Coolidge became President in August 1923 / Bridgeman Images