EVB2934883: Willie and Tad Lincoln with cousin Lockwood Todd. Members of Mary Lincoln's large Kentucky family visited the White House, and often for extended stays. Some sided with the Confederacy, causing criticism of the First Lady / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934887: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945), nominating Alfred E. Smith for President at the 1924 Democratic Convention in New York's Madison Square Garden. Roosevelt, then a paraplegic from polio, walked to the podium supported by braces, his son and his cane / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934898: Campaign button for 1864 presidential election showing bust tintype portrait of Abraham Lincoln in a metal casing. Vice Presidential candidate, Andrew Johnson's, portrait is on the reverse side. 1864 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934899: President Lincoln on horseback with his generals, reviewing the Army of the Potomac on Monday, April 6, 1863. Edwin Forbes drawing captured a small scene of the elaborate ceremonial review / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934900: Farm Security Administration emblem. 1937 (print) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934909: Two hangman's nooses hang as a grim warning to prospective bidders on this foreclosed farm. Farmers conspired to offer very low bids at foreclosure auctions and warned others not to raise their bids, resulting in very low return to creditors. The buyers would then return the property to their destitute compatriot. May 1936 / Bridgeman Images

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 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934678: 18-year old future First Lady Betty Ford in a class taught by influential modern dance instructor Martha Hill (right center) at the Bennington College Summer School of Dance. Betty later became a member of Martha Graham's dance group in New York City / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934683: Official Portrait of First Lady Nancy Reagan in the Red Room of the White House. February 7, 1981 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934687: Emily Donelson (1807-1836), Andrew Jackson's niece served as the widower President's hostess from 1829 until her death from tuberculosis in 1836. Portrait painted by R.E.W. Earl, 1830 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934689: President Ronald and Nancy Reagan in an affectionate pose at their Santa Barbara, California retreat, Rancho Del Celo. August 17, 1983 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934734: Robert Carlos De Large (1842-1874, served as a Republican U.S. Representative from South Carolina from 1871-73. In 1873 he was unseated by an election challenge and died the following year / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934784: Texas tenant farmers displaced from their land by tractor farming were unemployed. In the 1930's tractors increased efficiency and reduced the manpower needs of farming, adding to the Great Depression's jobless rolls / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934792: Death chamber and electric chair at Sing Sing Prison in 1923 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934794: Soil drifting over a farm building on a South Dakota farm in 1935. Dakota was north of the 'Dust Bowl,' but the 1930s drought and decades of intensive farming on the Great Plains, left soil exposed to wind storms from Canada to Texas / Bridgeman Images

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 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934808: Chickamauga Dam Turbine Generators provided electricity to the rural areas of the Tennessee River Valley. It was part of the TVA, a New Deal project to stimulate the economy and create jobs during the Great Depression. c. 1940 / Bridgeman Images

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 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934813: Map diagrams the functions the New Deal public works project authorized when President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Tennessee Valley Authority Act on May 18, 1933, during the First Hundred Days of his administration / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934851: John H. Rock, free Black lawyer from Boston was the first African American admitted before the Supreme Court on February 2, 1865 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934000: Albert Davis Lasker (left), founder of modern advertising, as chairman of the U.S. Shipping Board, takes part in an lifeboat drill with 1923 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934002: Edward L. Doheny (1856-1935) with his prominent lawyer, Frank J. Hogan. Hogan developed the defense that Doheny had leased the California naval oil reserves out of patriotism, to help build the fuel storage capacity at Pearl Harbor. Jan, 11, 1924 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934003: Edward L. Doheny (1856-1935 with his lawyer, Frank J. Hogan. Doheny was Hogan's perfect client, 'a scared rich man.' In 1929, Hogan got Doheny acquitted of bribery, even though the bribe recipient, Albert Fall, had been convicted five months earlier / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934012: William 'Billy' Burns (1861-1932), as the newly appointed Director of the Bureau of Investigation (now the FBI) on August 22, 1921 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934014: William 'Billy' Burns (1861-1932), was a famous private detective before Harding's Attorney General Frank Daugherty appointed him as Director of the Bureau of Investigation (now called the FBI) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934015: Will Rogers and Mrs. Ed Evalyn McLean, wife of the Washington Post publisher Ned McLean, at a ballgame. Rogers wrote books, articles, and a syndicated newspaper column. Of his political reporting he said, 'I don’t make jokes—I just watch the government and report the facts.' October 5, 1924 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934016: Tea Kettle Butte, near Green River City, Wyoming became the visual symbol the 'Teapot Dome' scandal of the Warren Harding administration in the 1920s. Albumen prints from 1860-1870 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934035: Will H. Hays, former chairman of the Republican National Committee and Postmaster General, before the Senate committee investigating the Teapot Dome scandals, March 22, 1924 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934056: Henry Cabot Lodge (1850-1924) Republican Senator from Massachusetts from 1893 to 1924. 1905 portrait by John D. Morris / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934059: Reed Smoot (1862-1941) the first Mormon U.S. Senator poses, in his office with mailbags. In 1919 Smoot opposed ratification of the Treaty of Versailles and U.S. entry into the League of Nations. 1919 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2929000: Bridges, detail of the Siuslaw River Bridge, one of five depression-era bridges that completed the Oregon Coast Highway. Designed by Conde B. McCullough, the bridge spans the Siuslaw River at Oregon Coast Highway in Florence, Oregon, photograph c.1970s / Bridgeman Images

EVB2929004: Grand Central Air Terminal, designed by Henry L. Gogerty in 1928, combines Spanish Colonial Revival style with Art Deco Moderne design. The first planes to bear the names of Jack Northrop and Howard Hughes were built at Grand Central Air Terminal. Photograph c.1936, 1310 Air Way, Glendale, Los Angeles, California / Bridgeman Images

EVB2929009: Cincinnati Union Terminal, clock on east front, constructed in 1933, partially demolished in 1974, Cincinnati, Ohio, photograph c.early 1970s / Bridgeman Images

EVB2929014: The Civil War, view of Charleston, South Carolina, from Fort Wagner, Morris Island, c.1800s / Bridgeman Images

EVB2929044: The Civil War, General Herman Haupt (1817-1905), rowing a boat made of small pontoons, photograph by Andrew J. Russell, 1862-1863 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2929046: World War I, Italian eagle attacking double-headed Austrian imperial eagle in mid-air over mountains c.1918 (lithograph) / Bridgeman Images