ID: EVB2930915

Baseball. Outside Ebbets Field, Brooklyn, New York. 1920

Unknown photographer, (20th century)

ID: EVB2930964

Bicycle. Times girl on bicycle, 1921

Unknown photographer, (20th century)

ID: EVB2931480

The American Revolution. Broadside encouraging action by the Sons Of Liberty. Boston 1768

ID: EVB2930039

Tom Mix (in car), arrested for speeding, May 5, 1925

Unknown photographer, (20th century)

ID: EVB2930129

The Civil War, clerks in front of office of Commissary General of Prisoners, F Street at 20th, Washington DC, photograph, 1865

Unknown photographer, (19th century)

ID: EVB2933083

Benny Goodman (1909-86), at rehearsal with his musicians, around piano left to right: Vernon Brown, George Auld, Gene Krupa, Clint Neagley, Ziggy Elman, Israel Crosby and Teddy Wilson (at piano). 1952

ID: EVB2933257

Dutch Schultz, born Arthur Flegenheimer (1902-1935), New York mobster, in 1935

ID: EVB2933247

Bruno Richard Hauptmann (1899-1936) in police custody after being questioned in connection with the Lindbergh baby kidnapping. He was convicted and executed for the crime

ID: EVB2932832

Jeanne Shelley, Una Merkel, Eudora Welty and David Wayne look over script for Welty's "The Ponder Heart," in which Wayne starred at the Music Box Theatre. 1956

ID: EVB2932894

Henry R. Luce (1898-1967) and General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964) holding hand-written pages of MacArthur's memoirs, that LIFE magazine had bought rights to publish. 1963

ID: EVB2932881

Richard Harding Davis (1864-1916) with other newspaper correspondents lounging on deck of steamer during the Spanish-American War

ID: EVB2932781

Dr. Allan Nevins (1890-1971) and Tyler Dennett (1883-1949), both historians, celebrate their 1934 Pulitzer Prizes with cakes made to look like each of their books

ID: EVB2933263

Orson Welles (1915-1985) with his shadow in an expressive portrait from 1938

ID: EVB2933290

James Purdy, (b. 1923) American novelist and short-story writer

ID: EVB2933296

Japanese photo of the mushroom cloud of the atomic bomb blast in Nagasaki, Japan, Aug. 9, 1945

ID: EVB2933326

Emperor Bao Dai (1913-1997) of South Vietnam and his wife in 1955, the year South Vietnam became a republic. The ex-Emperor returned to France, where he had been educated and earned the title of the “Playboy Emperor.”

Unknown photographer, (20th century)

ID: EVB2934567

Charles Ponzi (1882–1949), wearing pajamas, probably in Brazil, 1942. During his 1920 pyramid scheme in Boston, Ponzi ended up collecting million and paying back only million, before he was imprisoned and finally deported Italy in 1934

ID: EVB2931487

The American Revolution. Buckman Tavern, headquarters of the Colonial Militia Lexington, Massachusetts

ID: EVB2931667

One of the redoutable "Flying Tigers" ready to take off from an Alaskan point in a Curtis P-40 "Warhawk" fighter plane. c. 1940-1946

ID: EVB2932694

Taylor Caldwell (1900-1985), a very successful popular novelist of multi-generation family sagas, many of which were dramatized for movies and television. 1945

ID: EVB2934807

Heavy equipment in the mud of Tennessee Valley Authority's Douglas Dam construction. The dam was needed during World War II to supply electricity for aluminum production, explosives manufacture, and the Manhattan Project's Oak Ridge facility. 1942

ID: EVB2931532

One-legged Geek biting the head of a snake at a sideshow, Louisiana State Fair, 1938

ID: EVB2931550

Mexico City, Escuela Normal, an educational building used by UNESCO, c.1947

ID: EVB2934810

Workmen installing a generator in the Norris Dam powerhouse. Norris Dam was the first major project of the Tennessee Valley Authority, created during the first 100 days of Franklin Roosevelt administration. Construction began on October 1, 1933 and was completed by March 4, 1936

ID: EVB2934478

During the Great Depression foreclosed farmers moved to nearby towns Hoovervilles. Photo shows former farmer William Swift in his squatter shack in Circleville, Ohio. 1938 photo by Ben Shahn

Shahn, Ben (1898-1969)

ID: EVB2931644

US Navy, loading bombs at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas 1942

ID: EVB2930102

Folk Music. Lolo Mendoza and Chico Real, with guitars, at the home of Mrs. Sarah Kleberg Shelton, Kingsville, Texas. Ruby Lomax, photographer, 1940

ID: EVB2932818

James Thurber (1894-1961) American humorist, cartoonist and editor of the New Yorker, best known for his day-dreaming character of "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty". 1954

Palumbo, Fred (fl.1944)

ID: EVB2932168

First Lady, Florence Mabel Kling Harding (1860-1924) was the first US president's wife to have been divorced from a pre ious husband. ious husband

ID: EVB2934670

General Dwight D. Eisenhower and his wife Mamie at a Grand Rapids, Michigan campaign event in 1952. With them are Representative Gerald R. Ford and wife Betty

ID: EVB2931647

Pilot training at the Naval Air base, Corpus Christi, Texas, 1942

Hollem, Howard R. (fl.1940s)

ID: EVB2932311

Washington, D.C. photographer hangs from a crane to capture a view of the city in 1923

ID: EVB2934266

President Warren G. Harding (1865-1923), swinging golf club

ID: EVB2933242

The only German attempt at World War II sabotage on the US mainland was a dismal failure. Eight saboteurs disembarked from a submarine with explosives and cash in June 1942. One of them, George Dasch (2nd from Lower right), contacted the FBI, leading to the arrest of all the others within two weeks. Dasch and Burger (lower right) were sent to prison, while

ID: EVB2933312

President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Marshal Joseph Stalin are shown with others around the conference table at Yalta, Crimea, in the Soviet Union

ID: EVB2932101

Theodore Roosevelt wearing a pith helmet during his 1910 African expedition