GCL3381842: OKAPI Photographed in 1941. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3381847: HEDGEHOG European hedgehog. Line engraving, 19th century. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3381851: ECHIDNA Line engraving, 19th century. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3381852: PLATYPUS Duck-billed platypus. Line engraving, 19th century. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3381859: WHOOP-UP TRAIL, 1870s A bull train on the 210 mile smuggling route between Fort Benton, Montana, and Fort Hamilton (Fort Whoop-Up), Alberta, Canada. Retouched photograph, 1870s. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3381864: OREGON TRAIL: PONY EXPRESS A pony express wagon halting near Chimney Rock on the North Platte River in western Nebraska. Wood engraving, American, 1867. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3381873: ISRAEL PUTNAM (1718-1790). American Revolutionary commander. Major Putnam saved by a French officer from being burned alive by Caughnawaga Native Americans during Pontiac's Rebellion in 1758. Wood engraving, 1840. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3381882: WASHINGTON PARKE CUSTIS (1781-1857). George Washington Parke Custis, American playwright and grandson of Martha Washington. Line engraving, 19th century. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3381885: WASHINGTON: HARPSICHORD Harpsichord owned by George Washington at Mount Vernon. Line engraving, 19th century. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3381888: PROTESTANT WEDDING, 1700s 'Marriage Ceremony of the Protestants at Amsterdam.' Copper engraving from 'Religious Rites & Ceremonies of All Nations' by Richard Hurd, late 18th century. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3381892: WEDDING OF QUEEN VICTORIA The wedding of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha in the chapel of St.James's Palace, London, 10 February 1840. Line engraving after a painting by Sir George Hayter. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3381897: WARSHIP IN ROUGH SEA, 1944 A World War II U.S. Navy warship in heavy sea, 1944. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3381898: SHIP IN ROUGH SEA, c.1945. American freighter in heavy sea, c.1945. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3381899: FREIGHTER IN ROUGH SEA American freighter in heavy sea, c.1945. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3381901: SARAH JAY (1757-1802) Sarah Van Brugh Livingston Jay. Wife of American jurist and statesman John Jay. Line engraving, 19th century. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3381902: LOUISVILLE CYCLONE, 1890 Church of the Sacred Heart in Louisville, Kentucky, destroyed by the cyclone that hit the city on 8 March 1890. Photograph by E. Klauber. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3381903: NEW ENGLAND: WITCHES A story about witches being told in a New England home, c.1670. Line engraving, 19th century. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3381912: FIRST OPIUM WAR, 1841 The close of the British attack on Shapoo, with the suburbs on fire. Steel engraving after Thomas Allom, 1843. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3381914: NYASALAND: CONSULAR STAFF Standard bearer of the consular staff at Nyasaland, the British-controlled territory along Lake Malawi, Africa. Line engraving, 1889. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3381916: AFRICA: YAO CHIEF, 1889 Chief Mpama of the Yao, Nyasaland (present-day Malawi). Line engraving, 1889. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3381917: AFRICA: MAKOLOLO CHIEF Chief Katunga of the Makololo, Nyasaland (present-day Malawi). Line engraving, 1889. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3381918: AFRICA: YAO CHIEF, 1889 Chief Mileta of the Yao and his son, Nyasaland (present-day Malawi). Line engraving, 1889. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3381922: NYASALAND: CONSUL STAFF The 'kilaugosi,' or leader of the caravan, at the British Consul of Nyasaland (present-day Malawi), Africa. Line engraving, 1889. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3381925: EAST AFRICA, 1889 Line engraving, 1889. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3381933: EAST AFRICA: MUSLIM MAN Line engraving, English, 1889, after Harry Hamiton Johnston. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3381937: REVOLVERS, 19th CENTURY Two revolvers manufactured by the American company Merwin, Hultert and Co. Line engraving, 1870s or 1880s. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3381956: DOUBLE BARREL PISTOL 17th or 18th century handgun. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3381959: CHARTER ARMS REVOLVER A disassembled Charter Arms Undercover .38 caliber revolver. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3382568: JAPAN: IMPERIAL BODYGUARDS Japanese imperial bodyguards. Ink and color wash on paper, c.1247, attributed to Fujiwara Nobuzane. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3382575: JAPAN: MONGOL INVASION High stone wall built by the Japanese following the first Mongol invasion (1274), shown here during the second invasion (1281). Detail from Japanese scroll painting on paper, c1293, attributed to Tosa Nagataka and Tosa Nagaaki. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3382582: JAPAN: CHILDBIRTH, 1329 Japanese scroll painting, 1329. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3382586: JAPAN: BUDDHIST PRIEST Ippen Shonen, a traveling priest who popularized dancing-praying ceremonies, arrives in Omi province. Scroll painting, 1299. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3382603: WARREN HARDING (1865-1923) Governorship campaign button for Warren G. Harding, 1910 or 1912. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3382610: GERMAN SURRENDER, 1945 Agreement signed by General Alfred Jodl on behalf of the German High Command at Rheims, France, 7 May 1945, agreeing to meet with Allied commanders for a formal ratification of the terms of surrender which had just been signed (the ratification took place the following day in Berlin). / Bridgeman Images

GCL3382613: GERMAN SURRENDER, 1945 Second page of the English version of the formal instrument of Germany's surrender at the end of World War II, signed at Berlin on 8 May 1945, ratifying the terms agreed to the previous day at Rheims, France. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3382633: JAPANESE SURRENDER, 1945 Credentials presented by Mamoru Shigemitsu, the Japanese foreign minister, at the signing of the instrument of surrender to the Allies at the end of World War II, 2 September 1945, bearing the signature of Emperor Hirohito and Prince Higashikuni Naruhiko, Japan's Prime Minister. / Bridgeman Images