EVB2934316: Palace of Mechanic Arts and lagoon at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Illinois. Photo by Frances Benjamin Johnston, Johnston, Frances Benjamin (1864-1952) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934317: Birdseye view. World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934328: John Nash's (1752-1835), building design for the County Hall, Stafford, England. The harmoniously proportioned classical Palladian design was never executed. 1794 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934335: Carson, Pirie, Scott & Company Department Store of 1904 was Louis Sullivan's last large commercial buildings. The design features strong horizontal bands, large rectangular windows, and art nouveau influenced cast iron ornament / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934339: Woolworth Building during the last stages of exterior construction. The tower takes shape and most of the building exterior is faced with white terra cotta. July 1, 1912 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934342: Woolworth Building, the tallest in the world from 1913 to 1930, dwarfs surrounding buildings, New York City. In lower foreground is City Hall. 1913 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934550: Edward Davis Jones (1856–1920) a cofounder of Dow Jones & Co. While the Dow Jones Industrial Average bears his name, his partner, Charles Dow, was its sole creator. c. 1900 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934552: Exterior the Stock Exchange, New York City. Lithograph by John Borne after drawing by C. Autenrieth, c. 1850 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934554: The panic inside the New York Stock Exchange during the reading of the list of bank failures, including the prominent bank, Jay Cooke & Company. September 18, 1873 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934559: Al Capone (1899-1847), Prohibition era gangster boss in 1931 mug shot made by the Miami police / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934571: Food stall in post-World War II Tokyo has customers, but no rice. As late as the mid-1950's, Japan's economy was still recovering from defeat, with many essentials only available on the black market. Jan. 1954 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934574: 1949 Ford cars sit on a deserted assembly line during the 25 day strike called by the United Auto Workers to oppose Henry Ford II's imposition of automation and more efficient production standards / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934576: Engineers assembling a proto-type of the a Ford Motor Company auto. Auto makers met increased competition by offering bigger, more elaborate car designs yearly. 1954 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934587: William McAdoo served as the first Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. Photo shows the McAdoo with the Federal Reserve Board of Governors: P. Warburg, J.S. Williams, W.G. Harding, A.C. Miller, C.S. Hamlin, W.G. McAdoo, Fred. Delano. c. 1914 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934596: Citizens going to the public White House reception after Andrew Jackson's inauguration. The crowd trashed the house and had to be coaxed out by moving the refreshments to lawn. The new president was forced to spend the night at Gadsby's Hotel. British print by Robert Cruikshank. March 4, 1829 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934605: Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), on February 28, 1857, prior to Senate nomination. Lincoln mussed up his hair before the picture was taken so his friends back home would recognize him. By Alexander Hesler, Chicago, Illinois / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934606: Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), on February 28, 1857, prior to Senate nomination. Lincoln mussed up his hair before the picture was taken so his friends back home would recognize him. By Alexander Hesler, Chicago, Illinois / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934614: New York City's Municipal Lodging House vaccinated homeless tenants. On the wall is a poster stating the rules of the shelter. 1910 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934617: Squatter's shacks in Central Park with the landmark Dakota Apartment building in the background. The Hooverville grew up at a construction site where work was suspended due to New York City's Depression era budget deficits / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934621: Homeless Japanese in Tokyo, months after Japan's World War II surrender, spend the night on the steps of one of Tokyo's subway stations. Many discharged soldiers are still wearing their military uniforms. Dec. 6, 1945 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934629: 1955 Ford four-door sedan featured two-tone paint, heavy chrome detail, white wall tires, wrap around windshield, and a hint of tail fins / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934631: Ford Model T, touring car with room for four to five passengers, parked on the Mall in Washington, D.C. with the Lincoln Memorial in the distance. 1925 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934635: A Lincoln coupe, Ford Motor Company's luxury, offering parked at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. c. 1925, Harris & Ewing (1905-45) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934636: Ford Model T touring car. Model Ts made between 1908 and 1914 were available in colors other than black. c. 1913 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934638: An 1896 Ford, a gasoline-powered motor car, which its maker, Henry Ford, called 'Quadricycle.' / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934642: The George Washington Memorial Bridge (Aurora Bridge), a cantilever and truss bridge over the Seattle's Lake Union, opened to traffic on February 27, 1932. Photo shows the drawbridge bridge under construction in 1931 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934646: Model Ts, and one more luxurious Lincoln (center front) are parked by a Ford Motor Company dealership in Washington, D.C. in 1926 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934650: New York City skyline from Brooklyn in 1931. The Singer (left of center with rounded top) and Woolworth (center) buildings, formerly the tallest skyscrapers, are dwarfed by newer towers in the Financial District / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934972: Federal Hall of the City of New York, as appeared in the year 1797. 1847 lithograph by Henry R. Robinson / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934997: African Americans picking cotton as a day laborers on Mississippi, 1940 (photo), Wolcott, Marion Post (1910-90) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934999: Afro-Caribbeans cultivating sugar cane on the Virgin Islands Company plantation on St. Croix. 1941, Delano, Jack (1914-97) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2935000: African Americans and mule drawn wagons loaded with loose cotton at a processing station in the U.S. South. The building is probably a cotton gin where the cotton seeds will be removed prior to baling the cotton for sale. 1922 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2935007: African American day laborer picking cotton on the Resettlement Administration's Lake Dick Cooperative Association in Sept. 1938. Member farmers were white, but hired local African Americans for labor during harvest season. September 1938 photo by Russell Lee, Lee, Russell (1903-86) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2935009: African Americans leaving a cotton field after a day of picking in the U.S. South. 1887 engraving from a drawing by Matt Morgan / Bridgeman Images

EVB2935033: Popular print of President Lincoln made during his first term. He is shown writing, perhaps a reference to the Emancipation Proclamation, with a map of the Union, and troops drilling in the distance. c. 1862-64 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2935034: Commemorative portrait of assassinated president Abraham Lincoln. 1877 lithograph / Bridgeman Images