EVB2932385: 1897 portrait of an African American woman named Margaret, by noted photographer, Frances Stebbins (1854-1941) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2932388: Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) Russian novelist, seated outdoors at the Tolstoy estate in Iasnaia Poliana, 1908 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2932418: Red Harold Grange, (1903-1991) in December 1925, after he left the University of Illinois to play professional football for the Chicago Bears / Bridgeman Images

EVB2932422: Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-64) American novelist who wrote "the Scarlett Letter," and "The House of the Seven Gables ." / Bridgeman Images

EVB2932430: Marion Morgan dancers on a Washington, D.C. Beach in 1923. They popular vaudeville troop performed ballets based on classical legends / Bridgeman Images

EVB2932434: Charles M. Schwab (1862-1939)in Washington in 1920. He made over 200 million dollars in the steel industry and was one of the business giants of the U.S. from 1900-1930. His fortune was wiped out during the Great Depression / Bridgeman Images

EVB2932437: William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878) was an influential editor of the New York Evening Post for 50 years, and promoted human social equality, including abolition. He was among the founders of the Republican Party / Bridgeman Images

EVB2932506: Percival Lowell (1855-1916) American Astronomer, founder of the Lowell Observatory at Flagstaff, Arizona. He planned the observations of Nepture that lead to the discovery of Pluto / Bridgeman Images

EVB2932565: Early calotype by photographic pioneer David Octavius Hill (1802-70) "Newhaven fisherboy. " of 1844 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2932628: Chester Himes (1909-1984) expatriate African American "noir" novelist, writer of detective novels and stories. 1946 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2932656: Joseph Addison (1672-1719), intertwined his political and literary careers, accepting commissions to create poetry celebrating royalty and British history, and holding a seat in the House of Commons / Bridgeman Images

EVB2932701: Walter V. Clark (1909-1971), novelist wrote about the American West, best known for the "The Ox-Bow Incident," (1940) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2932704: Richard Condon (1915-1996) American author of "The Manchurian Candidate" and "Prizzi's Honor." / Bridgeman Images

EVB2932744: James Joyce (1882-1941) author of 20th century classics, "Ulysses" (1922) and "Finnegan's Wake" (1939). 1941 / Bridgeman Images

MES2914381: St. Maria Magdalena basilica, Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume (photo) / Bridgeman Images

SZT2914485: Fritzi Massary, 1882 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

SZT2914503: Renée Sintenis (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MES2914571: St. Andrea church, Venegazzù Veneto, Italy / Bridgeman Images

MES2914583: Duodo villa, Monselice, Veneto, Italy / Bridgeman Images

MES2914611: St. Stefano Island, Lazio, Italy / Bridgeman Images

MES2914638: Faculty of Political Science, University of Bologna, Emilia Romagna, Italy (photo) / Bridgeman Images

RBT2914727: The Gate, Lindau, Bavaria, Germany, 2010 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

RBT2914738: Alexanderplatz, Berlin, Germany, 2015 (photo) / Bridgeman Images

RBT2914769: Berliner Dom, Berlin, Germany, 2016 (photo) / Bridgeman Images

XRA2899325: Swimming : return game after the Olympic Games, Paris, September 10, 1960 : Australian swimmer David Theile (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

XRA2899331: Cocktail given for the start of filming of film "Aimez vous Brahms" on September 12, 1960 : actors Yves Montand, Ingrid Bergman, Anthony Perkins and Anatole Litvak (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

XRA2899334: Annette Stroyberg and her husband Roger Vadim attending premiere of film "Blood and Roses", Paris, September 14, 1960 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

XRA2899337: Gary Cooper (rose in mouth) with his wife and his daughter attending premiere of film "Blood and Roses", Paris, September 14, 1960 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

XRA2899343: The "Tour de France Automobile" (sports car race) : departure in Nice, French Riviera, under rain, September 16, 1960 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

XRA2899352: Marshal Josip Broz Tito, Yugoslavian president, arriving in Paris, September 14, 1960 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

XRA2899361: Francis Blanche, Simone Renant and Darry Cowl durin cocktail for premiere of film "La francaise et l'amour", Paris, September 16, 1960 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

XRA2899376: Actors Anthony Perkins, Ingrid Bergman and Yves Montand in Paris for presentation of actors of film "Aimez vous Brahms ?" September 12, 1960 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

ZKM2914979: Bison figurine (mammoth ivory) / Bridgeman Images

XRA2899858: Trial in Paris of general Guillemet, Benoiton and colonel Guibertaux on November 3, 1949 (former collaborators) (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2932760: Thomas Mann (1875-1955) and wife, Katia, in 1938, as they arrived to spend the WWII years in exile in Princeton, NJ. Thomas Mann, a German, won the 1929 Nobel Prize for Literature / Bridgeman Images

EVB2932772: A.A. Milne (1882-1956), the author of "Winnie the Pooh" with his son, Christopher Robin (b.1920), on whom he based the character of the same name / Bridgeman Images