EVB2933051: Irving Berlin (1888-1989), seated alone in auditorium in 1942. In addition to theatrical hits, Berlin's film credits include: TOP HAT, FOLLOW THE FLEET, EASTER PARADE, CALL ME MADAM, HOLIDAY INN, and ANNIE GET YOUR GUN / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933063: Domenico Cimarosa (1749-1801), Italian composers of comic operas. Il matrimonio segreto (The Secret Marriage), 1792, is his best known work / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933069: Martin Luther King (1929-1968) and entertainer Sammy Davis Jr. (1925-1990) share a laugh in Davis' dressing room at New York's Majestic Theater in 1965. Davis supported King's civil rights crusade with generous financial support / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933081: Dizzy Gillespie (1917-1993), African American jazz trumpeter. Headshot. 1955 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933087: Oscar Hammerstein (1895-1960), was the lyricist to Richard Rogers' music during the golden age of the Broadway musical comedy. Their credits include: OKLAHOMA, CAROUSEL, SOUTH PACIFIC, THE KING AND I, THE SOUND OF MUSIC. 1958 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933093: Mahalia Jackson (1911-1972), African American gospel singer. Portrait by Carl Van Vechten, 1962, Vechten, Carl Van (1880-1964) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934561: The Wall Street Bombing. Police, soldiers, and reporters at the scene of the Wall Street terrorist bombing, Sept. 16, 1920.The dead and injured people have been removed, leaving wrecked cars and a dead horse on Wall Street / Bridgeman Images

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 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934570: Louise Brooks (1906-1985), popular silent film actress, posing with ten telephones, some old models as well as the most up to date 1936 models / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934573: B-24 Liberator bombers nearing completion on the assembly line at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas. 1942 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934582: Circular blanks of copper and crass inspected for flaws in metal structure before they become shell casings for the U.S. in World War II. Chase Copper and Brass Company, Euclid, Ohio, 1942 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934597: President Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) Stereocard by Lewis E. Walker, February 1865 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934600: President Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) is close to a smile in this August 1863 portrait by Alexander Gardner (1821-1882) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934612: In Tokyo, months after Japan's World War II surrender, homeless Japanese families huddled in subway stations to sleep. October 20, 1945 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934654: President Jimmy Carter and Rosalynn Carter in the White House. Rosalynn was a politically active First Lady, serving as as her husband's closest adviser and often sitting in on cabinet meetings. c. 1977 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934657: Former First Lady Betty Ford posing in front of the Betty Ford Center for treatment of dependency on drugs and alcohol. She was candid about her own successful battle against addiction. 1990 image courtesy of Betty Ford Center / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934660: Within two month of becoming First Lady, Betty Ford had breast cancer surgery at Bethesda Naval Hospital. President and Mrs. Ford read a petition, signed by all 100 members of the United States Senate, following the First Lady’s surgery. Photo by David Hume Kennerly, Kennerly, David Hume (b.1947) / 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

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

EVB2934602: President Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865). Portrait by Alexander Gardner taken on February 5, 1865 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934632: Ford Model T, roadster with a single seat and room for only two to three people, parked on the Mall in Washington, D.C. 1925 / Bridgeman Images

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

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

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

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

EVB2933409: Herman Oberth (1894-1989), German scientist with the first "ether rocket," in his construction laboratory. Oberth pioneered in rocket science from the 1920s until his retirement from the United States space program in the 1950s. c. 1935 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933414: Eleanor Roosevelt presents the Spingarn Medal, the highest honor bestowed by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, to opera singer, Marian Anderson. 1939 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933460: Dr. Thomas A. Dooley (1927-1961) examining an ill child at a hospital in northern Laos. Dooley became a celebrated and controversial doctor to the needy in Southeast Asia in the 1950s / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933481: Unemployed single women in New York demonstrate for public works jobs. Some placards read "Forgotten women," because public policy focused only on men's unemployment. December 7 , 1933 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933532: Two couples dancing a Scottish reel. The ladies wear the monstrous feathered coiffures then fashionable. c. 1775 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933547: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827). 1819 portrait by Ferdinand Schimon (1797-1852) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933489: Jack Johnson (1878-1946) Heavyweight Championship of the World, with arms outstretched demonstrating his long reach. 1910. PROBLEM / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933556: Enrico Caruso (1873-1921) seated at the piano in his New York apartment. c. 1915 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933513: Irving, Henry Irving (1838-1905) English stage actor, was the first actor to be knighted by Queen Victoria in 1895 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933607: Pietro Mascagni (1863-1945) Italian composer of realistic operas, of the verismo style. His last opera, NERONE, composed in 1935, praised Mussolini. 1903 photo / Bridgeman Images