EVB2936604: Whirling bed and chair used to tranquilize patients inmates in mental hospitals in 19th century Belgium, by pioneering physician Joseph Guislain (1797-1860). As head of the mental hospitals of Ghent, he developed a humane therapeutic environment for the insane. c. 1835 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2937094: Adam Worth (1844-1902), the famous thief, sits facing the Pinkerton brothers on the Hot Springs Stage. Worth is small figure on front seat. In his last years, 'the Napoleon of Crime' collaborated with Pickerton, to record the history of his life, and negotiate the return of a stolen painting, THE DUCHESS OF DEVONSHIRE. c. 1900 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2937127: National Woman's Party activist, Kate Heffelfinger, wrapped in blanket, is supported after release the Washington, D.C. jail, the Occoquan Workhouse, where suffragists were sometimes physically abused, forced if they refused to eat, and made to live in filthy conditions. c. 1917 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2937042: J. Edgar Hoover (1895-1972), as director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 1940. Under his leadership the FBI was established and over the next 32 years, he would hold the post, becoming so powerful that Presidents Kennedy and Johnson dared not fire him, Harris & Ewing (1905-45) / Bridgeman Images