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

EVB2934556: Littered floor of New York Stock Exchange after a day trading session in the early 1920s / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934562: The Wall Street Bombing. A man stands over a dead horse, after the explosion in front of J.P. Morgan & Co. office at Broad and Wall Streets. 38 were killed, and 300 injured in the Sept. 16, 1920 anarchist bombing / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934563: The Wall Street Bombing. Police and soldiers attend to the dead and injured after the Wall Street terrorist bombing, Sept. 16, 1920, in the New York City financial district / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934565: The Wall Street Bombing. Soldiers and police form a line at door of the Morgan Bank while bodies of the victims, covered with debris, are lying in the foreground. Wall Street, in front of the Sub Treasury (Federal Hall). Sept. 16, 1920 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934584: Meyer Amschel Rothschild (1744-1812), founder of the international banking family. c. 1790 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934585: Vanderbilt residences, St. Thomas Church, and Hotel St. Regis, on New York's Fifth Avenue in 1900 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934592: General Douglas MacArthur with his staff officer, Col. Dwight D. Eisenhower, stand among troops in Anacostia Flats during the U.S. Army action to break up the Bonus Marcher's encampment. Washington, D.C. July 1932 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934599: President Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) in profile portrait of February 9, 1864. By Anthony Berger of Mathew Brady's stud o. o. York City / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934603: Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) in a portrait of June 3, 1860 by Alexander Hesler. This is one of three portraits made that day, shortly after Lincoln won the Republican nomination and before he grew his beard / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934616: The Great Depression. An unemployed homeless man stands in the doorway of his rough, but orderly, dwelling in New York's Central Park in 1933. The Central Park Hooverville residents were evicted in 1933 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934623: Tramps traveling in a freight car pass the time playing cards. Migrant laborers hopped box cars to seek work. c. 1910 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934628: Bell Telephone Company introduced the push-button telephone in 1959 to replace the rotary dial phones. The phone used newly available transistors to produce its many tones with electronic oscillators / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934639: Ford Motel T truck making deliveries in Washington, D.C. 1923 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934661: As she recovered from breast cancer surgery, President and Mrs. Ford toss a football, a gift from Washington Redskins Coach George Allen, in the hallway of Bethesda Naval Hospital. October 4, 1974. Photo by David Hume Kennerly, Kennerly, David Hume (b.1947) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934674: Future First Lady in 1952. Betty Ford holds her second son, Jack, while her eldest son Michael plays at a small table in their apartment / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934682: Martha Jefferson Randolph (1772-1836) Thomas Jefferson's oldest daughter served as her widower father's White House hostess. Her husband, Thomas M. Randolph, was a Congressman. Engraving based on Thomas Sully portrait of c. 1805 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934690: Hillary Rodham Clinton in a White House portrait taken on October 8, 1997. Throughout her time as First Lady Hillary experimented with many hairstyles / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934700: African American mother teaching children numbers and alphabet in their sharecropper home in Transylvania, Louisiana. 1937 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934710: African Americans at a tenants meeting at the Ida B. Wells Housing Project in Chicago, Illinois. Built in 1941 as part of the Public Works Administration, the project was designated for African Americans, and had a park, playgrounds, and athletic fields. They were demolished in 2008 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934716: U.S. Army 41st Engineers on parade ground at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, March 1942. In the segregated army, many African Americans was assigned to engineer construction that built and repaired roads, airfields, and bridges / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934719: African American men and women wait in line for voter registration, at the Antioch Baptist Church in 1948 (location unknown). After World War II, the NAACP organized voting drives as part of their 'Double Victory' strategy for racial equality / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934722: Commemorative photo montage of the members of the Mississippi Legislature, in 1874-'75. One third of the men are African American, indicating both their political progress during the immediate Post Civil War period. In 1876, this progress was reversed as Southern Democrats regained political power to disenfranchise most blacks / Bridgeman Images