EVB2933656: Adelina Patti (1843-1919), operatic coloratura soprano, with her entourage and personal Pullman car during her annual US tour in 1904. After a 40 year career, she retired in 1906 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933662: Edith Rubel Trio performing, left to right, Edith Rubel, Brenda Putnam, and Maria Roemaet. 1917 photo entitled THE PRELUDE by Laura Gilpin / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933663: Tomm Brown, one of the six members of the Brown Brothers claimed to have had the first all saxophone act, posed with 1st saxophone made by its inventor, Adolph Sax. 1922 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933664: Ernestine Schumann-Heink (1861-1936), Austrian (now Czech Republic) born, operatic contralto mastered many Wagnerian roles and regularly sang in Bayreuth, Germany. 1899 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933670: Richard Strauss (1864-1949), German musician of the modern era, composed expressive work built on the previous Romantic style. 1905 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933672: Syrian schoolboys gathered around a man with a Rababeh, a single string instrument with a square sound box played by a string bow. c. 1905 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933673: Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) Russian composer. c. 1883 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933674: Luisa Tetrazzini (1871-1940), Italian coloratura soprano and international opera star in 1911 photo / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933679: Edgard Varese (1883-1965), French born and educated composer, immigrated to the United States in 1915, at the age of 32. He pioneered using electronic music / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933680: Hans von Bulow (1830-1894) German virtuoso conductor, particularly of Wagner's operas. He continued his collaboration with Wagner even after his wife, Cosima, left him to for Wagner. 1887 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933698: Francis Hopkinson Smith (1838-1915) American novelist and travel writer / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933699: African Americans dancing in front of a uniformed band in Washington, D.C. African Americans developed a community of neighborhoods, churches, and fraternal societies in the post emancipation decades. Drawing by Mrs. Rollinson Colburn, 1887 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933702: Sheet music cover showing baseball players on the field and spectators under the tent of the Mercantile Base Ball Club of Philadelphia. 1861 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933705: Margaret Gorman, the first Miss America, at Atlantic City Carnival, with Hudson Maxim, the explosives engineer who invented smokeless gunpowder. 1922 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933706: Margaret Gorman, the first Miss America, as she won first her title in 1921 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933710: Maude Adams (1872-1953), American actress. Lithograph from photo by Ami Dupont, 1895 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933711: Maude Adams (1872-1953), American actress in costume as Babbie, from THE LITTLE MINISTER by J. M. Barrie. c. 1898. Kathryn Hepburn would play the same role in a 1934 film version / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933713: Viola Allen (1869-1948), American stage actress, at writing table in a magnificent Edwardian interior. 1903 photo by Joseph Byron, Byron, Joseph (1847–1923) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933423: Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962), an early advocate of African American civil rights, receives an award from Dorothy Height, president of the National Council of Negro Women in 1960 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933431: Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968), chats with Vice-President Hubert Humphrey (1911-1978). Humphrey was an early supporter of desegregation and civil rights. 1965 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933445: Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt addressing the 38th annual conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. in June 1947 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933457: European immigrants arriving at Ellis Island, c. 1920, some of the last to enter after World War I, when the United States set national quotas greatly reducing immigration. 1920, Bain, George Grantham - Bain News Service (1865-1944) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933469: Child laborers portrayed by Lewis Hine in 1911. Dust covered Breaker boys at Pennsylvania Coal mine, used hammers to "clean" the coal, separating slate rock from the mined coal, Hine, Lewis Wickes (1874-1940) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933479: Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906), in 1890s / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933480: Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906), in 1871 portrait attributed to Dr. Smith / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933484: Jackie Robinson (1919-1972) in Kansas City Monarchs uniform in 1945. In 1947 Robinson became the first African America to play on Major League Baseball team / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933486: Jack Johnson (1878-1946) Heavyweight Championship of the World, with arms outstretched demonstrating his long reach. 1910. PROBLEM / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933487: Jack Johnson (1878-1946) had a crowd of fans wanting to greet him in New York following his release from prison on fabricated morals charges in retaliation for his marriage to a white woman / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933490: Jack Johnson (1878-1946), former Heavyweight Championship of the World in 1931 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933494: Max Schmeling (1905-2005) before his 1938 re-match fight with Joe Louis. Harlem celebrated when Louis won the fight in the first round with a knockout / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933510: Michael C. Rockefeller (1934-1961) adjusting his camera in New Guinea, Papuan men in background. He disappeared while swimming to shore after a boating accident in New Guinea / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933516: Couples dancing to the orchestra of the Roseland Ballroom, New York City, 1941 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933524: Peasants dancing, Bosnia, Austro-Hungary, c. 1895 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933531: Couples dancing in ballroom in formal dress, 1858 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933539: Sheet music cover illustrated with caricatures of six minstrels in two scenes. Whites performed with greater expressiveness when they wore blackface and impersonated African Americans. 1845 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933574: Alesandr Glazunov (1865-1936), Russian composer of symphonies and ballets after his 1928 emigration to Paris. He was the director of the St. Petersburg Conservatory from 1905 until his voluntary departure from Russia in 1928 / Bridgeman Images