EVB2944530: British prisoners at Dunkirk, France, June 1940. / Bridgeman Images

EVB2944542: World War 2, Battle of Britain. Destroyed London railway station in Westminster Bridge Road, after London's biggest night raid of the war. April 16, 1941 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2944560: Gen. George Marshall and Army-Air Force Gen. Hap Arnold during World War 2. Chief of Staff Marshall was a mentor and friend to Arnold, and a promoter of the Air Force's growth and independence during the war. c. 1942-45 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2944563: General George Patton receives the crowd's cheers in Los Angeles, June 9, 1945 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2944566: Admiral Ernest King in full naval uniform, against a backdrop of the fleet. 1956 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2946995: Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev and his traveling party before departing for New York City. Sept. 17, 1959. At far left is Andrei Gromyko, Foreign Minister of USSR. / Bridgeman Images

EVB2947022: President Eisenhower receiving an Aberdeen Angus cow and calf from the Brandywine Angus Breeders. Gettysburg, PA. June 3, 1955. / Bridgeman Images

EVB2947034: John Fitzgerald Kennedy as a freshman Senator. Picture is cropped from a group photo of 13 Senators after a luncheon with President Eisenhower. March 4, 1953. / Bridgeman Images

EVB2947049: President Eisenhower with General Mark Clark displaying the Korean War Armistice Agreement. The bound volume of maps defined the Demilitarized Zone that divided North and South Korea. c. July-Aug. 1953. / Bridgeman Images

EVB2947058: Chief Justice Fred Vinson administers the Oath of Office to Dwight Eisenhower. Jan. 20, 1953. Audience includes invited guests, Presidential families, and senior members of Congress. / Bridgeman Images

EVB2947127: Barbara Eisenhower in the gown she will wear to the 1957 Inaugural Ball. Jan. 19, 1957. / Bridgeman Images

EVB2947184: President Dwight Eisenhower playing golf at Quantico Virginia. June 19, 1954. He played with Generals Lawton Collins, Nathan Twining, Floyd Parks. / Bridgeman Images

EVB2947187: Scene at the Cleveland's Public Auditorium during the 1936 Republican National Convention. June 9, 1936. / Bridgeman Images

EVB2947205: Elvis Presley training with a bazooka while on maneuvers in Germany. He served in Germany from October 1, 1958, until March 2, 1960, with 1st Medium Tank Battalion, 3d Armored Division. c. 1959 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2947211: The 'Telephonogramme' was invented by Vital Gassmann. Paris, May 10, 1950. The receiver of this early wireless mobile telephone could fit into a briefcase. / Bridgeman Images

EVB2947214: Drive-in restaurant in Hollywood, Los Angeles. June 29, 1938. Waitress brings food to drivers who do not have time to stop at a restaurant. / Bridgeman Images

EVB2947235: A television in the kitchen for the first broadcast of a cooking show in New York. Sept. 1949. / Bridgeman Images

EVB2947250: General Charles De Gaulle in Normandy, June 11, 1945. In the background are bombed out buildings. De Gaulle was Chairman of the Provisional Government of the French Republic. / Bridgeman Images

EVB2947253: Max Schmeling on the floor for a count of nine in his match with Max Baer. June 8, 1933. Referee Donovan stopped the heavyweight fight after one minute and 51 seconds of the tenth round. / Bridgeman Images

EVB2947262: Sugar Ray Robinson, knocked out Filipino Flashy Sebastian in the first round. Madison Square Garden, August 29, 1947. / Bridgeman Images

EVB2947271: Boys at a ball game at Briggs Stadium, Detroit, Michigan, August 1942 photo by John Vachon. / Bridgeman Images

EVB2935301: William Frederick Cody, aka Buffalo Bill (1846-1917), with author of Western tales, Ned Buntline (left) and Texas Jack Omohundro (right). In 1872 Cody and Omohundro starred in an early western drama, THE SCOUTS OF THE PRAIRIE produced by Buntline / Bridgeman Images

EVB2935328: Harry Houdini (1874-1926), strapped to cot, with onlookers crowded around him in front of Keith's Theater, Boston, a major venue on the Vaudeville Circuit. c. 1910 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2935364: Todd Duncan (1903-1998), originated the role of Porgy in George Gershwin's popular opera, PORGY AND BESS, in 1935. His long career included 50 years teaching at Howard University, performances with major opera companies, and many awards. 1942 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2935376: Ethel Waters (1896-1977), African American blues singer and actress in a 1939 portrait by Carl Van Vechtan / Bridgeman Images

EVB2935379: Nancy Dickerson (1927-1997) was hired as the first female news correspondent at CBS in 1960. She worked for NBC, PBS, and produced award winning features for syndication. 1967 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2935397: Chinese Cultural Revolution poster of People's Army men and civilians celebrating a bumper crop of grain. c.1970 (poster) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2935403: Booker T. Washington addressing a laughing crowd of African American men in Lakeland, Tennessee, during his campaign promoting African American education. c. 1900 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2935406: Booker T. Washington dines with President Roosevelt, October 17th, 1901. Commemorative print celebrating the event, one of several meetings between the educator and progressive president / Bridgeman Images

EVB2935457: Margaret Gorman (1905-1995), was a sixteen-year-old from Washington, D.C. when she won the Miss America pageant in Atlantic City, 1921, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2935472: John J. Raskob (1879-1950), pioneering executive for General Motors, where he created the General Motors Acceptance Corporation to offer credit to car buyers. As an industrial manager, he developed methods to measure production efficiency. 1922 portrait by Pirie MacDonald, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2935475: August Thyssen (1842-1926), German Industrialist who built a coal, iron, and steel empire in the 19th century. 1922, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2935502: Great Hurricane of 1938. Automobile roofs on flooded Sabin Street, Providence, Rhode Island. September 1938 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2935508: Film producer Val Lewton (1904-1951), in a meeting with a nattily-dressed man wearing a bow tie and spectator shoes. c. 1945 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2932320: Edith Kingdon Gould (1864-1921), an actress and wife of railroad baron George Gould (1864-1923) in profile portrait, c. 1900 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2932323: 'You, in her thoughts', c.1917-18 (poster) / Bridgeman Images