GCL3349406: HARRY HOUDINI (1874-1926) American magician. Houdini (right) gives ,000 in bonds to William McMorris, City Collector of Boston, Massachusetts, to challenge Margery Crandon's claim as a spiritual medium. Photographed in December 1924. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3349410: CLEMENT VALLANDIGHAM (1820-1871). American politician. Original carte-de-vosite photograph, c.1861 by Mathew Brady. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3349412: CLEMENT VALLANDIGHAM (1820-1871). American politician. Original carte-de-vosite photograph, c.1861 by Mathew Brady. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3349424: PTOLEMY VI (d. 145 B.C.) Called Ptolemy Philometor. King of Egypt, 180-145 B.C. Medallion of Ptolemy VI in 176 B.C. Copper engraving, 17th century. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3349429: JAY GOULD (1836-1892) American financier. Steel engraving, late 19th century. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3349439: GIACOMO MEYERBEER (1791-1864). German composer: line engraving, German, 19th century. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3355245: TOM McLAURY, OUTLAW Killed by Doc Holliday at the OK Corral, Tombstone, Arizona, Oct. 26, 1881. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3355250: HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW (1807-1882). American poet. Steel engraving, 1873. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3355254: SAMUEL FRANCIS du PONT (1803-1865). American naval officer. Photographed by Mathew Brady during the Civil War., Brady, Mathew (1823-96) / Bridgeman Images

GCL3355260: JOHN GREELEAF WHITTIER (1807-1892). American poet. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3355261: ALFRED IRENEE DUPONT (1864-1935). American industrialist. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3355262: EDMUND WALLER (1606-1687) English poet. Steel engraving. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3355266: CARL UPMANN'S CIGAR, 1895 American magazine advertisement, 1895. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3355274: PHOTOGRAPHY: CAMERA, 1889 Concealed camera. American magazine advertisement, 1889. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3355278: CLEOPATRA, 1934 Claudette Colbert in the title-role. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3355279: DAVID PIETERSEN DE VRIES (1592?-1655). Dutch colonizer in America. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3355280: WASHINGTON IRVING (1783-1859). American author. Oil over a daguerreotype, c.1848-49. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3355284: Instant hot chocolate. American magazine advertisement, 1893 (engraving) / Bridgeman Images

GCL3355287: SEAL OF NEW NETHERLAND Dutch territories of North America, 17th century. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3355297: LEONE BATTISTA ALBERTI (1404-1472). Italian mathematician, architect, painter, and writer. Self-portrait, c.1440. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3355301: HARDY: CASTERBRIDGE, 1886 'Farfrae was footing a quaint little dance with Elizabeth Jane.' Engraving after Robert Barnes for Thomas Hardy's 'The Mayor of Casterbridge,' 1886. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3355309: WOUTER VAN TWILLER (1580?-1656). Dutch administrator in America; governor of New Netherland (1633-37). / Bridgeman Images

GCL3355312: BENITO MUSSOLINI (1883-1945) Italian dictator; photographed in 1930. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3355327: CARTOON: AL CAPONE, 1930. 'The King Still Reigns.' American cartoon showing Capone still in control of Chicago after the St. Valentine's Day massacre of 1929, but before his 1931 conviction on income-tax evasion. Cartoon, 1930. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3355330: OIL WELL, 19th CENTURY An early American oil well in the valley of Oil Creek, Pennsylvania, showing oil being pumped directly into vats before being poured into wooden barrels for shipment. Wood engraving, French, 1870, after Emile Bayard. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3355331: ANTI-IMMIGRANTS CARTOON 'The Last Yankee': a lone Yankee standing tall, is regarded with curiosity by a throng of immigrants in the city: American cartoon, 1888. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3355335: BENITO MUSSOLINI (1883-1945) Italian dictator. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3355337: NEW HEBRIDES: MASK Painted tree fern mask with boar's tusk, from the island of Malakula, 20th century. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3355349: RHODE ISLAND, USA, 1839 South view of Pawtucket. Wood engraving, American. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3355350: VICTOR COUSIN (1792-1867) French philosopher. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3355351: JEAN-BAPTISTE KLEBER (1753-1800). French soldier; assassinated by Egyptian; painting by H. de Callias. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3355354: NUDE DRINKING TEA, 19th CT From a stereograph view. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3355356: NUDE POSING, 19th CT From a stereograph view. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3355360: BENJAMIN 'BUGSY' SIEGEL (1906-1947). American mobster. Siegel's body lies slain by gunfire on a couch in the house of girlfriend Virginia Hill, Beverly Hills, California, 20 June 1947. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3355366: TOUSSAINT L'OUVERTURE (1743-1803). Pierre Dominique Toussaint L'Ouverture. Haitian general and liberator. Etching by John Kay of Edinburgh (1742-1826)., Kay, John (1742-1826) / Bridgeman Images

GCL3355370: LOCOMOTIVE, 1831 The 'DeWitt Clinton' locomotive built for the Mohawk & Hudson Railroad by the West Point Foundry Association in 1831. / Bridgeman Images