EVB2934666: First Lady Betty Ford and the family's pet golden retriever, Liberty, watch over her eight puppies on the South Lawn of the White House. October 5, 1975. Photo by David Hume Kennerly, Kennerly, David Hume (b.1947) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934684: Official Portrait of First Lady Nancy Reagan. February 1, 1983 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934742: George Washington Carver (1864-1943) an agricultural chemist developed new products of peanuts, sweet potatoes, and soybeans to encourage crop diversity in the American South. Cotton mono-culture exhausted the land, was often ruined by boll weevils, and left farmers at the mercy of flucturatin prices. 1937 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934803: Aerial view of Greenbelt, Maryland, the first model community planned by New Deal's work and relief programs authorized by the Federal Emergency Relief Act, signed on May 12. 1933, during Roosevelt's First Hundred Days. Photo of the completed housing taken in March 1937 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2935036: Campaign button for 1860 presidential election showing bust tintype portrait of Abraham Lincoln in a metal casing. Vice Presidential candidate, Hannibal Hamlin's, portrait is on the reverse side. 1860 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2935107: John Quincy Adams (1767-1848), was U.S. President from 1825-1829. After his presidency he was elected to the House of Representatives, where he served until his death in 1848. Daguerreotype by Mathew Brady, c. 1847 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2935127: John Van Buren (1810-1866) the second of Martin Van Buren's four sons, was a lawyer who allowed his career to be distracted by drinking, gambling, and women. Mathew Brady daguerreotype, c. 1850 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2935035: Abraham Lincoln portrait etching made in the early 20th century from Lincoln's classic Alexander Hesler portraits of 1860, by artist Otto J. Schneider (1875-1946) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2935196: George 'Machine Gun' Kelly (1897-1954), and wife, Kathryn, in court on October 13, 1933 receiving life sentences for the kidnapping of Charles F. Urschel. Kelly would die in prison in 1954. Kathryn was released from prison in 1958 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2935211: Louis 'Lepke' Buchalter (1897-1944) in New York City police mugshot of August 1939. Captured by the FBI, he was convicted of narcotics conspiracy and sentenced to 14 years in federal prison / Bridgeman Images

EVB2935123: First Lady Edith Roosevelt, with youngest son, Quentin, in a 1903 portrait by Frances Benjamin Johnston, Johnston, Frances Benjamin (1864-1952) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2935141: Cutaway diagram of Project Mercury ballistic capsule, the first U.S. manned spacecraft used for seven spaces missions between 1961-1963 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2935182: Charles Evans Hughes (1862-1948), the newly appointed Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court justice in 1930. He would lead the opposition to FDR's New Deal scheme to pack the Supreme Court in the 1930's / Bridgeman Images

EVB2935259: Valentina Vladimirovna (b.1937), Russian cosmonaut and the first woman in space. She was married to fellow cosmonaut, Andrian Nikolayev, from 1964-1982, and had a successful political career / Bridgeman Images

EVB2935183: John Marshall (1755-1835), the Chief Justice of the U.S. Portrait by Cephas Thompson (1775-1856), a self taught American painter. c. 1810 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2935275: Charlie Chaplin sitting with his young wife Oona at Hollywood nightclub in 1944 (photo) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2935108: John Quincy Adams (1767-1848), in a drawing made while he was dying in the Rotunda of the Capitol. The former president died of a stroke while he was serving in the House of Representatives. February 23, 1848 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2935119: Ulysses Simpson Grant, Jr. (1852-1929), called Buck, President Grant's second son, was a lawyer, failed politician, and businessman. In 1881, the former President lost his life savings after investing it in Buck's brokerage firm. c. 1885 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2935144: Overall view of astronaut John Glenn, Jr., (Lt. Colonel, USMC) as he enters into the spacecraft Friendship 7 prior to the first American manned Earth orbital mission. February 20, 1962 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2935206: Two policemen forcibly escorting Vincent 'Jimmy Blue Eyes' Ado (1904-2001), after appearing in lineup; a news photographer (left) foreground captures the scene. August 1947 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2935220: Meyer Lansky (1902-1983), reached the executive level in the mob and managed to avoid prison throughout his life. Lansky was portrayed by Lee Strasberg in character based on him in GODFATHER II; by Dustin Hoffman in THE LOST CITY in 2005; and by Ben Kingsley in BUGSY, 1991 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2935230: Roger Touhy (1898-1959), in 1933 police mugshots. The Capone gang framed Touhy to take over his northwest Chicago gambling operations, by faking the kidnapping of mobster John Factor. Touhy was convicted and imprisoned until 1959 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2935271: Cornelia Otis Skinner, Dolores Hart with dog on leash, and Cyril Ritchard, walking outside the Music Box theatre where they are starring in THE PLEASURE OF HIS COMPANY in 1959. The play was made into a movie starring Fred Astaire, Lilli Palmer, Debbie Reynolds, Tab Hunter, in 1961 / 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

EVB2935308: Margot Fonteyn (1919-1991), and John Hart (b. 1921) performing the ballet THREE CORNERED HAT, produced by Sadlers Wells Ballet Company, London, c. 1946. The ballet is based on the novella by Pedro Antonio de Alarcon, in which a government official attempts to seduce the faithful wife of a humble milner / Bridgeman Images

EVB2935324: Director Robert Wise (1914-2005) and producer Val Lewton (left) conversing across a desk. Lewton was head of the B-horror unit at RKO Pictures. c. 1942 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2935327: Harry Blackstone, Jr. (1934-1997) American stage magician, author, and television performer with a deck of cards. Behind him is a portrait of his famous father, The Great Blackstone / Bridgeman Images

EVB2935339: Harry Houdini (1874-1926), in chains. c. 1900 / 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

EVB2935392: Cornelia Stuyvesant Vanderbilt (1900-1976), only child of George W. Vanderbilt and Edith Stuyvesant Dresser holding a bouquet of flowers on the announcement of her engagement to British diplomat, John Francis Amherst Cecil. The couple had two sons before their 1934 divorce / 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

EVB2935393: Dr. Lorenzo J. Greene (1899-1988), pioneering African American historian earned a doctorate from Columbia University in 1942. He was a researcher for black historian, Carter G. Woodson, with whom he wrote, THE NEGRO WAGE EARNER (1930). c. 1940 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2935405: Booker T. Washington addressing crowd from porch of a small building, in Brownsville, Texas, c. 1900 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2935495: Sinking of the ocean liner the Titanic witnessed by survivors in lifeboats. May 15, 1912, Stoewer (Stower) Willy (1864-1931) (after) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2935491: Lifeboat from Titanic is lifted aboard the rescue vessel Carpathia. April 15, 1912 / 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