EVB2932231: Elaborate 1908 photomontage constructed of hundreds of portraits and other photographs of Theodore Roosevelt engaged in various activities / Bridgeman Images

EVB2932233: President and Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt with group of people at 1902 reception in the White House as Washington emerged from mourning assassinated President William McKinley. 18 year old Alice Roosevelt is in the receiving line / Bridgeman Images

EVB2932236: Frances Folsom Cleveland (1864-1947), the youngest First Lady married 49 year old President Grover Cleveland (1837-1908) in 1886. February 1897 portrait by Frances Benjamin Johnston, Johnston, Frances Benjamin (1864-1952) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2932241: Helen Keller (1880-1968), blind and deaf since age 2, standing by tree, in 1907 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2932245: Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1854-1919), author and poet whose popular works incorporated a Victorian religion, morals, and even subtle eroticism. c. 1905 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2932252: Will Rogers, c. 1930s / Bridgeman Images

EVB2932253: Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.(1809-94) was an influential American writer and poet. His poem, "Old Ironsides," prevented the destruction of the U.S.S. Constitution / Bridgeman Images

EVB2932258: Five racing cars round the track bend in a cloud of dust at the Rockville, MD fair in 1923 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2932262: John Burroughs (1837-1921) wrote on nature subjects and inspired the early conservation movement. 1901 Portrait / Bridgeman Images

EVB2932984: Torquato Tasso (1544-1595) Italian poet wrote the epic GERUSALEMME LIBERATA (Jerusalem Liberated), 1581, about the First Crusade and the European conquest of Jerusalem in 1099 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2932992: Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542), English Renaissance poet. 19th century engraving from Holbein painting / Bridgeman Images

EVB2932997: Byron Price (1891-1981) director of Censorship for the United States during World War II, entering White House, 1945 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933001: Dorothy Dandridge (1922-1965), photographed upon her arrival in New York for the premier of CARMEN JONES the performance for which she was nominated for the best actress Academy Award. 1954 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933006: Dorothy Dandridge (1922-1965), dances at nightclub in Las Vegas in 1955. Halle Berry portrayed Dandridge in INTRODUCING DOROTHY DANDRIDGE, 1999 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933009: Mary Martin (1913-1990) and Director Jerome Robbins (1918-1998), flying onstage in rehearsal for a 1956 PETER PAN Television production / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933012: Bill Robinson (1878-1949), also known as Bojangles, with his wife Fannie in 1933 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933016: Bill Robinson (1878-1949), also known as Bojangles, famous African American actor and dancer. 1933 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933027: Louis Armstrong and Vice President Richard Nixon, 1957 (photo), Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933029: Louis Armstrong, Nice, France, 1960 (photo), Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933036: Jazzkongen New Orleans, 1947 (poster) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933042: Josephine Baker in a seductive pose. c. 1920's (photo), Gudenberg, Freiherr Wolff von (1890-1961) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933046: Count Basie (1904-1984), African American jazz musician at the piano, 1958 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933048: Richard Rodgers, Irving Berlin and Oscar Hammerstein II, seated in back is Helen Tamiris, conduct auditions for musical comedy, TOUCH AND GO (1949), at the St. James Theatre. Tamiris won the Antoinette Perry Award for the play's choreography / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933049: Irving Berlin (1888-1989), playing one of his songs as WACs sing, in Papua New Guinea during World War II / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933052: Irving Berlin (1888-1989) composed at the piano, creating both music and lyrics. Among his classics are GOD BLESS AMERICA, WHITE CHRISTMAS, ALEXANDER'S RAGTIME BAND, and THERE'S NO BUSINESS LIKE SHOW BUSINESS. 1936 photo / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933058: Cab Calloway (1907-1994), flamboyant African America bandleader holding conductor's baton. 1951 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933076: Ella Fitzgerald (1917-1996) had a sixty year career. The title of this 1938 photo refers her first hit song, “A-Tisket, A-Tasket.” / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933090: Coleman Hawkins (1904-1969), jazz musician with his tenor saxophone, performing with Coleman Hawkins Quartet in 1965 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933094: Mahalia Jackson singing from the Lincoln Memorial, 1957 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933095: Mahalia Jackson (1911-1972), African American gospel singer. Portrait by Carl Van Vechten, 1962, Vechten, Carl Van (1880-1964) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933100: Charlie Parker, 'Yardbird', (1920-1955), African American Jazz saxophonist in 1947 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933104: Cole Porter (1891-1964), American song writer and many sophisticated classic songs including: “I Get a Kick Out of You,” “Begin the Beguine,” “I've Got You Under My Skin,” and many more / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933105: Elvis Presley (1935-1977), performs on THE MILTON BERLE SHOW, April 03, 1956 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933108: Elvis Presley (1935-1977), in a prize-winning performance portrait by Bob Moreland of the St. Petersburg Times. 1957 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933112: Leontyne Price (b. 1927), African American opera star as Bess, from George Gershwin's PORGY AND BESS. 1953 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933120: Paul Robeson (1898-1976), addressing the World Conference of Partisans of Peace in Paris in 1949. Robeson publicly expressed his leftist politics throughout the Cold War, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images