EVB2932856: Edna Ferber (1887-1968) author of many novels later made into motion pictures including, SHOWBOAT (1926), GIANT (1952), and ICE PALACE (1856) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2932864: Anita Loos (1893-1981) American novelist and screenwriter started her career writing for silent films including Griffith'a INTOLERANCE (1916.) Loos's best known for work is GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDS, which was made into a musical film in 1953 with Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell. 1953 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2932874: Dalton Trumbo (1905-1976), prominent Hollywood screenwriter, before the House Un-American Activities Committee while under investigation for "communist" affiliations / Bridgeman Images

EVB2932882: Pauline Frederick (1906-1990), was one of the first prominent women television news correspondent in the 1950s. 1960 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2932883: Henry Woodfin Grady (1850-1889) American southern journalist and publisher of the ATLANTA CONSTITUTION. He used his influence to advocate economic development following the devastation of the Civil War / Bridgeman Images

EVB2936016: Fanny Elssler (1810-1884). Austrian ballerina, toured America from 1840-43. She is in her ballet costume, seated at a dressing table. 1841 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2936017: Fiddlin' Bill Henseley, mountain fiddler, at the Asheville, North Carolina Music festival. 1937 (b/w photo), Shahn, Ben (1898-1969) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2938249: Enrollees from across the country arriving at the United States Maritime Service training station at Sheepshead Bay New York. During World War II the station had 10 000 apprentice seamen in training for the American Merchant Marine. 1943. LC-USW33-026129-C / Bridgeman Images

EVB2938273: Malcolm Campbell 1885-1948 set the world land and water speed records in 1920s and 1930s. 1931 portrait. LC-USZ62-104073 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2938274: HE LETS HER STEER WHILE HE GETS HER EAR. Affectionate young couple enjoying the privacy of an automobile in 1907 LC-USZ62-111679 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2938276: Henry Ford 1863-1947 on January 2 1916. LC-USZ62-62286_DUPE / Bridgeman Images

EVB2938281: Henry Ford 1863-1947 in Washington D.C. February 9 1927. LC-DIG-npcc-16583_CROP / Bridgeman Images

EVB2938284: Henry Ford and August Degener with their six cylinder Ford racer at Daytona Beach in 1905 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2939721: US Marines patrol the streets of Beirut Lebanon in a truck during a multinational peacekeeping operation. 1983 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2939730: US forces demonstrate entry tactics used by the counter terrorism force in Baghdad Iraq. June 26 2007 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2939732: US soldier cuffs an Iraqi man suspected of making improvised explosive devices during the Iraq insurgency. Mosul Iraq. June 5 2007 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2939733: US soldiers clear a staircase during a combined training exercise with Iraqi soldiers near Bahbahani Iraq on June 6 2009 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2939742: Jay Leno greets sailors at an undisclosed location during the first months of US operations in Afghanistan after the al Qaeda's 9/11 attacks on the US. Dec. 23 2001 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2939755: Make shift shelters in downtown Port Au Prince Haiti after 7.0-magnitude earthquake on January 12 2010 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2939757: US military diagram of the fortified villa of Osama Bin Laden in the northern Pakistani city of Abbottabad. May 3 2011 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2939761: A US Army Black Hawk helicopter hovers above the ancient Ziggurat of Ur near Nasiriyah Iraq Oct. 11 2009. Aerial view shows the upper steps of the ancient Neo-Babylonian monument / Bridgeman Images

EVB2939780: Cadets march in formation during a ceremony at the US Air Force Academy. June 5 1984 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2939785: Flags at gravesites in Arlington National Cemetery for Memorial Day observance. c. 2008 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2939788: Jordanian Honor Guardsmen welcome Admiral Mike Mullen during an arrival ceremony in Amman Jordan Feb. 16 2010 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2939789: General James Conway Marine Corps Commandant administers the Marine oath of enlistment during a mass reenlistment ceremony. c. 2010 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2939790: A soldier guards the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery. Army's senior leadership laid a wreath in tribute to the Army's 233rd birthday. June 14 2008 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2939795: Overview of the releases of US prisoners of war at Gia Lam Airport Hanoi Vietnam. Feb.-April 1973 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2939798: military artist's concept of a laser beam director with the cutaway showing laser paths designed to track targets in flight and to direct a high power laser beam to targets, 1985 (illustration) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2939806: Dramatization of a US Marine affected by post traumatic stress disorder which is experienced by many soldiers long after the danger of combat is over / Bridgeman Images

EVB2939807: Dramatization of a US Marine affected by post traumatic stress disorder which is experienced by many soldiers long after the danger of combat is over / Bridgeman Images

EVB2939811: Chief of Staff of the Army General George W. Casey center left talks with a wheel chair bound soldier while other wounded do their physical therapy at the Center for the Intrepid Fort Sam Houston Texas. Nov. 17 2008 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2939819: An explosion in the USS Iowa's Turret Two killed 47 crewman on April 19 1989. Investigations proposed two different causes of the disaster sabotage by a suicidal sailor or accidental powder explosion / Bridgeman Images

EVB2939822: US Navy sailor digs under a wood and barbed wire obstacle on the Naval Special Warfare obstacle course. March 2 2011 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2944539: Fire fighting during World War 2 Battle of Britain. Firemen at work in bomb-damaged street in London, after Saturday night raid, c. 1941 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2944543: World War 2, Battle of Britain. Londoners watch the demolition of historic Smithfield Market's tower during the Blitz. April 1941 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2944569: General and Madame Chiang Kai Shek with Gen. Joseph Stilwell after the Doolittle Raid on Japan. April 19, 1942 / Bridgeman Images