EVB2933966: Vaudeville troupes often included acrobatic acts, such as that of the Brothers Lowell. 1899 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934033: Will Hays (1879-1954), a lawyer for, as well as a director and stockholder of Sinclair Oil Company, became chairman of the Republican National Committee in 1918. A skilled politician, he served as Harding's Postmaster General for one year before assuming the Presidency of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors, 1922 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934042: Republican Club dinner to honor New York Governor, Charles Evans Hughes (1862-1948), in New York, 1906 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934063: Thomas J. Walsh (1859-1933), chairman of the tumultuous 1924 Democratic convention, that nominated compromise candidate, John W. Davis. Walsh was offered the Vice Presidential nomination, but declined because he believed the Democrats could not defeat Coolidge. 1924 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934008: Harry F. Sinclair (1876-1956), at mid right, bent forward, with glasses, and Senator Thomas Walsh (far left, behind table), at the Senate Committee on Public Lands and Surveys investigation of the Teapot Dome scandal. March 1924 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934022: Harry M. Daugherty (1860-1941 ), Attorney General under Warren G. Harding, 1923 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934044: Republican Senators Borah, Lodge, and Smoot, who conferred with President Coolidge on May 7, 1924. Five years earlier, all three played roles in defeating the ratification of the Treaty of Versailles and U.S. entry into the League of Nations / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934120: Gusher in a California oil field, c. 1910 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934052: John B. Kendrick (1857-1933), Democratic Senator from Wyoming, was among the first to learn about Teapot Dome oil leasing corruption. With Robert La Follette, he informed Thomas J. Walsh, who ultimately lead the investigations that uncovered the Teapot Dome scandal. c. 1920 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934062: Thomas J. Walsh (1859-1933) Democratic Senator from Montana. c. 1912 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934055: Henry Cabot Lodge (1850-1924), Republican Senator from Massachusetts seated at his desk. Frances Benjamin Johnston portrait of 1905, Johnston, Frances Benjamin (1864-1952) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934089: John Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), American financier, with two associates in 1907 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934113: Justices Joseph McKenna (left) and Willis Van Devanter (right) in 1920s, They were among the Supreme Court elders in 1920. Mckenna resigned in 1925, but Devanter continued until 1937, stepping down at the age of 78 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934088: John Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), American financier, striking photographer with cane on May 11, 1910 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934106: Oliver Wendel Holmes Jr. (1841-1935), was a professor of law at Harvard University and judge on the Massachusetts Supreme Court prior to his nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court. 1924 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934121: Gusher in a Port Arthur, Texas oil well in 1901 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933836: Marie Tempest (1864-1942) English actress, in the play, THE FENCING MASTER, 1892. In her long career, she performed comic plays by Somerset Maugham and Noel Coward / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933887: Classical Greek dancer. Albumen print from c. 1870 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933893: Florence Fleming Noyes performing a modern dance, 1907 (b/w photo), Johnston, Frances Benjamin (1864-1952) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933911: Pietro Mascagni (1863-1945), Italian operatic composer, became musical director of La Scala, Milan, in 1929. 1902 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933920: A Musical Farce Comedy, The Air Ship by J.M. Gaites, 1898 (poster) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933941: Mathews & Bulger in the polite comic play, At gay Coney Island by Levin C. Tees., 1898 (poster), Unknown Artist, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933867: General Tom Thumb's grand wedding march, popular sheet music celebrating P.T. Barnum's tiny performer. 1863 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933961: Annie Oakley (1860-1926) American sharpshooter bedecked with awards and medals in 1899 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933979: Kiralfy Bros'. ''Michael Strogoff''. The Courier of the Czar, 1882 (poster) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933942: Poster for a trained dog act, probably one that performed in Vaudeville as an independent act, 1899 (poster) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933948: The New Musical Comedy Hotel Topsy Turvy, 1898 (poster) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934027: Secretary of the Interior, Albert B. Fall, and oil executive Edward Doheny in Washington in 1926. The two were indicted in July 1924 for bribery and corruption connected to the Teapot Dome scandal. Nov. 24, 1926 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933986: Francis Hopkinson Smith (1838-1915), American engineer and author. His most notable works were the base for the Statue of Liberty and novels set in the U.S. South. 1903 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933990: Eugen Sandow (1867-1925), father of bodybuilding, disclosed his methods in his book, Sandow's System of Physical Training. 1894 photo / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934010: William 'Billy' Burns (1861-1932), was a corrupt Director of the Bureau of Investigation during the Harding Administration. He used agents to suppress evidence, and to harass and intimidate Harding's political enemies. c. 1920 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933254: Dutch Schultz, born Arthur Flegenheimer (1902-1935), waiting for the verdict in the government's income tax case against him. He was acquitted twice, but his crime businesses would never recover from the financial drain of his legal defense. 1935 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933516: Couples dancing to the orchestra of the Roseland Ballroom, New York City, 1941 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933335: Anti-Whig cartoon of 1848, depicting a military uniformed "available candidate," referring to the two victorious generals of the recently concluded Mexican War, Gen. Zachary Taylor or Winfield Scott. Taylor won the Whig nomination and was elected President / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933574: Alesandr Glazunov (1865-1936), Russian composer of symphonies and ballets after his 1928 emigration to Paris. He was the director of the St. Petersburg Conservatory from 1905 until his voluntary departure from Russia in 1928, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933779: DeWolf Hopper, (1858-1935) surrounded by six women, all in costume, starring in Sousa's El Capitan. Hopper's six marriages included one to the young actress who became known as Hedda Hopper. 1986 / Bridgeman Images