EVB2923506: Initiation of Social Security in 1936. Employees application for Social Security. This form must be filled out by all employees classified under the Soc. Sec. Act and must be submitted to the local postmaster not later than Dec. 5th, 1936 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2923507: 1965 Social Security Tax Hike. The increase boosted the maximum yearly tax to .20, a hike of 59% over the previous maximum. Thirty-five cents of each taxable for Social Security in 1966 went to Medicare. NOTE: in 1966 inflates to ,610 in 2012 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2923509: The first Social Security checks are mailed. Guy Allen, an officer of the Treasury Department (wearing jacket) supervises the mailing by the Post Office of thousands of old age insurance checks. Jan. 1, 1940 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2923510: Social Security files. 5,000 filing cabinets will be used to keep the records of the Social Security Administration. Nov. 27, 1936 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2923512: Information technology installed in the Social Security Department. A worker at of the automatic card sorters as it was being operated. Nov. 27, 1936 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2923527: A naked young woman and her escort ride a horse through Goose Lake Park during the three day rock music festival. Aug. 7, 1970 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2923529: Oil platform operating in the Gulf of Mexico west of Punta Gorda, Florida. Jan. 9, 1968 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2923536: Wall Street on March 10, 1933 during the New Deal 'Bank Holiday'. Usually crowded, the streets are relatively empty, following the closing of banks and the stock brokerage houses. Trinity Church is in the background / Bridgeman Images

EVB2923542: Trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange on April 3, 1968. After news broke that North Vietnam was willing to begin Peace talks with the US, trading ran 46 minutes ahead of the high speed market tickers / Bridgeman Images

EVB2923545: Paper refuse after heavy trading on the New York Stock Exchange on Oct. 10, 1974. The day saw its best monthly gain since Gerald Ford became president on August 9, 1974 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2923546: Closing time on the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange on March 11, 1976. The Dow Jones Industrial Average crossed the ,000 mark twice during the day, but fell back both times, ending the day at .70, up 4.96 points / Bridgeman Images

EVB2923556: The African American teenagers with tuxedos and top hats during the August 1943 riots in Harlem / Bridgeman Images

EVB2923561: Derelict apartment buildings in New York's Harlem. Even with the post-war housing shortage, many apartment buildings were abandoned and burned out. In some cases people still lived in units in these buildings. July 18, 1946 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2923564: Harlem's famous thoroughfare, 125th street in 1943 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2923586: Anti-Vietnam War protest in Milan, Italy. The demonstrators hold a banner with pictures of the four students killed at Kent State University. May, 7, 1970 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2923593: Earthquake destruction on a street in Mishawa, Japan. 250 were killed, thousands rendered homeless and many villages in the southern portion of Japan were leveled. Nov. 25, 1930 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2922903: Republicans at a Los Angeles Rams and the Minnesota Vikings game, 1969 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2922909: Vice President Spiro Agnew golfing at Palms Springs, California, Feb. 7, 1970 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2922910: Vice President Spiro Agnew and comedian Bob Hope in a golf cart. The are at Scioto Country Club, Columbus, Ohio. Sept. 2, 1968 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2922914: Vice President Spiro Agnew meeting with Kenya's Revolutionary President Jomo Kenyatta, July 12, 1971 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2922928: GOP Congressional leaders offer opposition. Sen. Everett Dirksen (left) and Rep, Dec. 15, 1967 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2922949: President Franklin Roosevelt inspects Grand Coulee Dam, Oct. 2, 1937 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2922951: President Franklin Roosevelt surrounded by saluting Honor Scouts, marking the 27th anniversary of the founding of the Boy Scouts on Feb. 8, 1937 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2922955: President Franklin Roosevelt and a very animated Eleanor Roosevelt, leave a society wedding at St. James Church, Hyde Park, NY, July 11, 1936 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2922961: Franklin D. Roosevelt (left) was assistant secretary of the navy, under Josephus Daniels (center), 1919 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2922965: President Franklin Roosevelt receives the five-millionth copy of the Boy Scout Handbook, April 13, 1935 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2922968: President Franklin Roosevelt and the First Lady received veterans from Walter Reed Hospital at a White House garden party, May 31, 1936 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2922975: Dec. 21, 1933. Franklin Roosevelt with his Cabinet. At head of table is FDR seated at his desk in the White House, Dec. 21, 1933 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2922976: FDR inspect Norris dam construction, Jan 17, 1934 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2922978: President Franklin Roosevelt, debonair with his cigarette holder. 1939 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2922981: President Franklin Roosevelt inspects the new Union Pacific Streamliners, Feb. 19, 1934 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2922984: President Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt welcome the Mexican Minister of Finance (center), Alberto Pani, to discuss world economic problems, May 11, 1933 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2922986: Harvard Class of 1904 reunion at the White House. President Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt are on the South Portico of the White House as President's Harvard University classmates gather for a 30 year reunion. April 21, 1934. / Bridgeman Images

EVB2922993: Governor Franklin Roosevelt on the back of his 1932 campaign train at Bellefontaine, Ohio, 13, 1932. / Bridgeman Images

EVB2922998: New York Democrats hold a 'Victory Dinner' at the Astor Hotel, Jan. 14, 1932 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2923600: Ahmad Shah Qajar, Shah of Persia, during his two year residence in Europe while Reza Khan (later Reza Shah Pahlavi) took over the Iranian government (1923-25). In 1925 the Majlis (Iranian Legislature) formally terminated his monarchy / Bridgeman Images