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EVB2936324: Glenn Martin (1886-1955), delivering newspapers in his airplane. He built his first airplane in 1909, and his first airplane factory in 1912 in Los Angeles, California. He successfully promoted his airplanes by stunt flying, and other attention getting gimmicks. c. 1911 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2936345: Dutch tobacco shop. Four men are gathered around a table smoking long-stemmed pipes; at left, two men with a child purchase tobacco at the shop counter. With European adoption of smoking, tobacco became the economic foundation of the British North American colonies in the 17th century / Bridgeman Images
EVB2936233: General Leslie Groves (1896-1970), walking across the site of the first atomic bomb blast site at Alamogordo, N.M. in July 1945. Groves was the military leader of the Manhattan Project to develop the Atomic Bomb. He was played by Paul Newman in the 1989 movie, FAT MAN AND LITTLE BOY / Bridgeman Images
EVB2936404: Plague patient. A physician (center front) is taking the pulse of a patient while he breaths through sponge soaked in herbs to protect against evil emanations from the victim. Two men with torches provide light. Three women attend to the patient. From Joannes de Ketham's FASCICULO DE MEDICINA, 1493. Ketham was a German physician living in Italy at the end of the fifteenth century / Bridgeman Images