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EVB2936952: Women's suffrage leaders in an open car at a Votes for Women parade in New York City. Photo shows Susan Walker Fitzgerald, Emma Bugbee, Maggie Murphy, and Harriot Stanton Blatch. Blatch was the daughter of 19th century women's rights leader Elizabeth Cady Stanton. July 30, 1913 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2936997: Women's suffrage activists protest the U.S. Senate's failure to pass the federal woman suffrage amendment in 1918. In January 1918, after President Wilson finally declared his support, the House of Representatives, unlike the Senate, passed the amendment by two-thirds majority / Bridgeman Images
EVB2937024: Frank James (1843-1915), was the outlaw partner and older brother of Jesse James. After Jesse's death in 1882, Frank surrendered to Missouri's governor and after bargaining to be tried for only two robberies. He was acquitted in both and lived peacefully to age 72, American Photographer, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2934862: Sign of an experimentation station in Louisiana reads 'University of Louisiana and the Department of Agriculture, Cooperating.' New Deal farm programs continued under different names, with modified programs, throughout the 20th century, often in alliances with public universities. October 1938 photo by Russell Lee, Russell, Lee (1903-86) / 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
EVB2935238: John Dillinger (1903-1934), famous bank robber, in police custody in September 1933, would soon be freed by five former convict pals from the Indiana State Prison. Dillinger has been portrayed by several actors: Lawrence Tierney, 1945; Nick Adams, 1965; Ben Johnson, 1973; Richard Dreyfuss, 1973; and most recently by Johnny Depp, in PUBLIC ENEMIES, 2009 / 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
EVB2937681: Woman looking at two television sets. One, similar to a set demonstrated at the 1939 New York World's fair, has a small screen incased horizontally in a large wooden cabinet and is viewed from a reflective mirror. The other, now displayed 25 years later at the 1964 New York World's fair, is a large screened color television / Bridgeman Images