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EVB2937689: Lillie Langtry (1853-1929), English society beauty and mistress to the Prince of Wales (later Edward VII), became a successful theatrical actress. 1887 portrait by B.J. Falk, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2937701: Nose of a B-29 bomber coming in for a landing at a field in Guam in 1945, during the final months of Pacific operations against Japan during World War II / Bridgeman Images
EVB2937719: Britain's King Edward VIII as Prince of Wales, wearing the headdress of a Native American chief during a visit to the United States in the early 1920s, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2937740: Social Security Administration clerks seated at massive tabulating machines, actually early computers, used to manage the individual records of millions of Americans in the Social Security system. c. 1940 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2937773: Joseph Henry (1797-1878), American physical scientist whose work on the electromagnetic relay was the basis of the electrical telegraph, invented separately in the 1830's by American, Samuel Morse, and British, Charles Wheatstone. 1860s portrait / Bridgeman Images
EVB2937848: Lock and drill department assembly line of women workers at National Cash Register, Dayton, Ohio. C. 1902 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2937854: Rows of neat family houses near the Homestead Steel Works, Pennsylvania, c. 1905, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2937860: Krupp's Essen, Germany, steelworks' 10,000 ton bending press. The Krupp had a near monopoly in heavy arms manufacture in Germany. c. 1910, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2937911: Hauling ore by wagons with a fourteen mule team from Potosi mine, Nevada. The Potosi mine, named after the famous Bolivian silver mountain, produced lead, silver and zinc from its discovery in 1856 by Mormon settlers into the 1900s. Photo taken between 1880 and 1910 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2937941: Domestic scene with two girls, one reading to another who sews. 1873, Unknown Artist, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2937944: Deaf-mute girls sewing and darning in a training school in Sulphur, Oklahoma. April 1917 photo by Lewis Hine, Hine, Lewis Wickes (1874-1940) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2937953: Title page from the December 1845 issue of THE LOWELL OFFERING, a magazine written and published by the young women working in the Lowell, Massachusetts. Lowell was a custom built mill town, with company owned boarding houses for its female employees who made to a month / Bridgeman Images
EVB2937965: Lagonda Agricultural Works, Springfield, Clark County, Ohio, Warder, Brokaw & Child, c.1859 (chromolithograph), Forbes, Edwin Austin (1839-95) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2937968: Boys learn carpentry in an open air summer school in Chicago in 1917, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2945239: U.S. soldiers in street fighting during the Battle of Brest, in Brittany, France. One soldier looks for German snipers in the streets of Brest, while a another covers him from behind a doorway. Sept. 1944. World War 2 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2945248: American gunners load a shell into the barrel of a gun M1 155mm 'Long Tom' in France. June-Sept., 1944. World War 2 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2945317: Aerial view of a A-20 G Havoc light bomber with D-Day 'invasion stripes' painted on its wings. Plumes of smoke rise from the Forest Cerisy, where a German Machine gun position blocked the U.S. advance. Allied domination of the air was critical to the success of the Normandy invasions. June 8, 1944. World War 2 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2945473: Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Crew at the briefing prior to the flight of the Enola Gay. Capt. William Parsons and Colonel Paul Tibbets go over last-minute data. World War 2. August 6, 1945 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2938010: Ann Burlak (1911-2002), self-proclaimed communist revolutionary, leaving a striker's rally with reporters after she was refused permission to speak. Fall River, Massachusetts, 1934 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2938016: William 'Big Bill' Haywood (1869-1928), was a founding member of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), an leader in the Socialist Party of Americ. In 1918 he was convicted of violating the Espionage Act and fled to the Russian Soviet Republic for the remainder of his life, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2938031: Eugene Debs (1855-1926) ran for U.S. President as the Socialist Party's candidate in 1900, 1904, 1908, 1912, and 1920, the last time from his prison cell. c. 1920, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2938034: Labor leaders John Mitchell and Samuel Gompers were convicted of violating an injunction restraining a boycott during the 1906 strike against the Buck Stove and Range Company of St. Louis, Missouri. Their conviction was overturned by the Supreme Court, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2938037: John L. Lewis, President of the C.I.O., Francis Perkins, Secretary of Labor, and James Dewey, Labor Department conciliator after a conference with President Roosevelt to discuss a coal industry labor dispute. May 9, 1939 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2938046: Labor Union activist, Mother Jones (1837-1930), was a founder of the United Mine Workers and the Industrial Workers of the World. c. 1920, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2938061: Policeman sleeping on the porch of a New York City brownstone during the strike by wagon drivers of Adams Express, American Express, and Wells Fargo. 1910, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2938067: Employees of Coca-Cola plant on strike, display a sign reading, WE WANT CLOTHES FOR OUR CHILDREN AND ENOUGH FOR THEM TO EAT. Sikeston, Missouri, May 1940, Vachon, John (1914-75) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2938124: Two Daytona Beach, Florida, housewives welding in an Aircraft construction class during World War II. Both have sons in the military. April 1942 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2938157: Federal Bureau of Narcotics agents blockade streets with their cars in a drug bust in the San Juan Hill neighborhood of New York City 1939 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2938163: Law enforcement photo of a shoe with metal box in cut out section of heel used to smuggle drugs into a detention facility / Bridgeman Images
EVB2938202: Tom Mooney a socialist labor leader stepped out of San Quentin prison on January 7 1939 after serving 22 years for a bombing conviction based on admitted perjury. The perjurers confessed soon after Mooney's conviction but all officials ignored incl / Bridgeman Images
EVB2938226: Charles Babbage 1792-1871 English mathematician and engineer who build the most advanced mechanical calculation device of his time. His mechanical computer anticipated the development of 20th century information technology. 1871 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2938238: Cargo ships in the Chicago River. Warehouses and grain elevators line the urban river banks of the Port of Chicago. 1900. LC-D4-12626, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2938247: Great Lakes freighter unloading iron ore at the Pennsylvania Railroad ore docks in Cleveland Ohio. One 'Hulett' unloader is lowering its bucket into the ship's hold while another foreground loads a railroad car. The 'Huletts' were invented by George Hulett in the late 19th century. 1943. LC-DIG-fsac-1a34839 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2938259: Cattle in a small boat destined to provide beef for the ocean liners anchored in the Suez Canal Port Said. 1900. LC-USZ62-103021, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2938265: Algerian camel rider next to a palm tree in a desert landscape. Photo attributed to Tancrede R. Dumas between 1860-1900. LC-DIG-ppmsca-04408, Unknown photographer, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2938277: Edsel convertible manufactured by the Ford Motor Company in 1957 took 1950s automotive design over the top with its distinctive oval grill. Despite aggressive marketing the car sold badly and was discontinued three years after its 1957 launch. LC-USZ62-71566 / Bridgeman Images