EVB2934077: Daisy Harriman (1870-1967) with her daughter, Ethel M.B. Harriman. At this time of her life, Harriman was expanding her political activism and would support Democrat Woodrow Wilson for the Presidency / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934125: The Pennsylvania oil region. The Shoe & Leather Petroleum Company and the Foster Farm Oil Company, on lower Pioneer Run, Pa. c. 1895 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934152: William McAdoo worked in his law firm after leaving the Wilson Cabinet, and among his clients was the Edward Doheny, one of the oil men involved in the Teapot Dome scandal. The association destroyed his chances for the 1924 Democratic presidential nonination / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934155: Fred. W. Upham (died 1923), 1923 Republican Party Treasurer, c.1908 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934161: Charles Curtis (1860-1936), Representative and Senator from Kansas, was proud of his Native American ancestry. He ended his political career as Herbert Hoover's Vice President. c. 1908 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934173: Alice Roosevelt Longworth speaks to Mrs. William Borah at Washington, D.C. gathering. The previous year, Longworth gave birth to a daughter fathered by her long-time lover, William Borah, the husband of Mrs. Borah. 1926 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934179: George W. Norris (1866-1944), Nebraska Senator, was a Progressive Republican who supported Democratic Presidential candidates Al Smith in 1928, and Franklin Roosevelt in 1932 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934182: Senate Committee on Elections engaged in the counting vote to determine if Michigan Senator Truman Handy Newberry (1864-1945), would retain his Senate seat. He was suspected of political corruption, and while he was not unseated, he resigned in 1922. In the foreground are Sen. Walter E. Edge of N.J. and Selden P. Spencer of MO. 1921 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934194: Andrew Mellon, Secretary of the Treasury, with Utah Senator Reed Smoot. Both Republicans saw the Teapot Dome investigations as partisan attacks by the Democrats in an election year / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934206: Andrew Mellon (1855-1937), Secretary of the Treasury, at 168th anniversary of birth of Alexander Hamilton, the first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury. January 10, 1925 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934209: President Calvin Coolidge and members of his cabinet pose on the White House Lawn: Labor-Davis, Agriculture-Wallace, Commerce-Hoover, Post Master Gen-New, War-Weeks, State-Hughes, the President, Treasury-Mellon, Atty. Gen.-Stone and Navy-Wilbur. April 11, 1924 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934230: The White House in Washington, D.C., as horse drawn carriages arrive with guests for Alice Roosevelt's wedding to Ohio Representative Nicholas Longworth. February 1906 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934242: Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (1887-1944), interviewed by a reporter in 1923. Roosevelt would run for Governor of New York in 1924, but the taint of Teapot Dome and vigorous campaigning of the cousins, Eleanor and Franklin, for his Democratic opponent, Al Smith, ended his career in elective politics / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933050: Irving Berlin (1888-1989) in WWI army uniform and seated on cot. In 1942, for he created an all soldier revue, THIS IS THE ARMY, to boost morale and raise money for the war effort / Bridgeman Images

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 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933107: Elvis Presley , advertising for JAILHOUSE ROCK. 1957 (photo) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933128: Pete Seeger (b. 1919) singing playing banjo. He wrote many classic folk songs popularized in the 1960s, including “Where Have All the Flowers Gone,” “If I Had a Hammer,” and “Turn, Turn, Turn.” / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933158: Stephen Douglas (1813-1861) the year he ran for President in a four way race that resulted in the election of Abraham Lincoln. Douglas was short and stout, and nicknamed the "Little Giant." / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933161: Mary Todd Lincoln (1818-1882), wife of Abraham Lincoln, in a ball gown and flowers in her hair. She was both admired and criticized for her stylish extravagance, Brady, Mathew (1823-96) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933164: Mary Todd Lincoln (standing at far right) in a group photo with a Southern Plains Indian delegation taken in the White House Conservatory on March 27, 1863 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933215: Abraham Lincoln's birthplace, a log cabin in Kentucky with fireplace and the spinning jenny of Mrs. Lincoln. 1891 photo / Bridgeman Images

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 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933245: The bullet riddled car in which bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde died at the hands of Texas Rangers and Louisana police at Gibsland, Louisiana on May 23, 1934. Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty stared in the 1967 film, BONNIE AND CLYDE / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933257: Dutch Schultz, born Arthur Flegenheimer (1902-1935), New York mobster, in 1935 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933263: Orson Welles (1915-1985) with his shadow in an expressive portrait from 1938 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933284: Men pulling racks of clothing on busy sidewalk in Garment District, express the vitality of mid-20th century New York. 1955 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933290: James Purdy, (b. 1923) American novelist and short-story writer / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933293: Dr. Joyce Brothers (b. 1925) having breakfast and reading newspaper with her husband Milton. Dr. Brothers emerged in the 1950's as a popularizer of psychology via books and television. 1955 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933296: Japanese photo of the mushroom cloud of the atomic bomb blast in Nagasaki, Japan, Aug. 9, 1945 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933064: Ornette Coleman (b. 1930) African American jazz saxophonist in 1960 / Bridgeman Images

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.” / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933097: Jerome Kern (1885-1945), talking on the telephone while his lyricist, Dorothy Fields (1905-1974), works at the piano, 1945 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933338: 1868 Democratic National Convention was held in New York City's Tammany Hall / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933130: Frank Sinatra (1915-1998), signs his induction papers while Chief Clerk Mrs. Mae E. Jones helps out at local board No. 19-160 in Jersey City. Sinatra was exempted from military service due to a perforated eardrum / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933157: Stephen Douglas (1813-1861) was the leading Democratic candidate for the Presidency in 1860 and could have won if the Southern Democrats had not split and run John Breckenridge. With the Democratic Party's vote divided, the Republican, Abraham Lincoln won / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933172: Hannibal Hamlin (1809-1891), probably as Lincoln's Vice President during the Civil War. Hamlin's long political career included representing Maine in both houses of Congress, and as the state's governor / Bridgeman Images