EVB2935886: Georgia Neese Clark Gray (1900-1995), was the first woman Treasurer of the United States, serving from 1949 to 1953 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2935892: President Chester A. Arthur's (front-center) expedition to Yellowstone National Park. Among his companions were Civil War hero General Philip H. Sheridan (left of Arthur), and Robert Todd Lincoln (right of Arthur). 1883 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2935901: Democratic candidate for President, Adlai E. Stevenson, waving to crowd at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N.Y., during television broadcast of the 1952 campaign / Bridgeman Images

EVB2935925: Hiding place of the sniper who killed President Kennedy, on the sixth floor of Texas School Book Depository, on November 22, 1963 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2935937: Popular print of President Abraham Lincoln published in 1864, when he was elected to his second term as president. Beneath the hand-colored lithographic portrait is a Lincoln quotation / Bridgeman Images

EVB2935988: Geronimo (1829-1909), Chiricahua Apache warrior with walking stick. 1904 photo / Bridgeman Images

EVB2935994: Costa Rican banana plantation has a traditional big house and small worker's quarters. c. 1910 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2936018: Odetta Holmes, c.1965 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2936027: George Barker (1844-1894), Canadian photographer, created this luminous image of grain elevators, in Buffalo, New York in 1883 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2936063: Beaux arts sculpture exhibited in the Gallery Rapp, Palace of Fine Arts, Paris Exposition, 1889 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933682: Richard Wagner (1913-1883) German composer. Detail of portrait etching by German born artist Hubert von Herkomer (1849-1914) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933745: Lotta Crabtree, (1847-1924), popular American actress smoking a cigar in a 1868 portrait by J. Gurney / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933757: John Drew (1853-1927), American actor, seated at dressing table, in Empire Theatre, New York, 1902 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933760: Minnie Maddern Fiske, c.1890 (photo), Unknown photographer, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933778: De Wolf Hopper, 1881 (poster) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933787: Japanese print by Utagawa shows two actors on the shoulders of a giant, with a third actor leaping onto the giant. c. 1825 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933793: Joseph Jefferson (1829-1905), American actor, in scene from the play, RIP VAN WINKLE. 'Dis von don't count!' says Rip as he drinks the liquor that makes him sleep for 20 years. c. 1875 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933817: Julia Marlowe (1866-1950), English born American actress in expressive 1892 portrait by Benjamin Falk, Falk, Benjamin J. (1853-1925) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933823: Ernst von Possart (1841-1921), German actor, playwright and theator director. c. 1880 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933832: Mack Sennett girls posing in serpentine confetti. 1918 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933835: Edward Hugh Sothern (1859-1933), American Shakespearean actor, at home beside posters, handbills, letters, and other memorabilia. 1902 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933841: David Warfield (1866-1951), American actor, dressed as tramp. In the 1890's, prior to his success as a popular dramatic actor, he worker with Vaudevillians, Fields and Weber, often playing Jewish immigrants. 1897 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933844: Anna May Wong (1905-1961), Chinese-American film actress who persevered throughout her long career against casting discrimination. She lost the lead role in THE GOOD EARTH, 1937, to Caucasian actress, Luise Rainer. 1937 portrait by Carl Van Vechten, Vechten, Carl Van (1880-1964) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933862: Juggler in jester costume holding two burning clubs while a fire burns on his head. 1902 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933871: Vernon Blythe Castle (1887-1918), and wife, Irene, dancing. 1914. Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire, starred in the 1939 film, THE STORY OF VERNON AND IRENE CASTLE / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933880: Fanny Elssler (1810-1884), Austrian ballerina, as the water-nymph Ondine performing a dance with her own shadow. The dance and pose were copied by Nathanial Currier from that of another European dancer, Fanny Cerrito. 1846 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933889: Japanese woodcut of Drinking party with Geishas at teahouse Kawachiro. By Hiroshige Ando, c. 1840 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933904: Harry Houdini (1874-1926), in still from a movie he made with Famous Players-Lasky Corporation, shows him chained in a prison cell, from which he will escape. c. 1915 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933919: Poster advertising the act of a contortionist twisted so that his face and rear-end are oriented in the same direction, 1892 (poster) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933955: Primrose & Dockstader's Huge Minstrel Company, c.1900 (poster) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933964: Palace Theatre, New York City, built by vaudeville impresario Martin Beck in 1913. To play the Palace became a symbol of show business success. Vaudeville shows at the Palace ended in 1932, but the theater still exists, at 1564 Broadway / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933687: Eugene Ysaye (1858-1931), Belgian violinist, conductor, and composer. 1898 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933708: Charles Frohman presents Miss Maude Adams in a new comedy, The little minister by J.M. Barrie, 1897 (colour lithograph) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933726: Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923), French actress, in the role of the dying Camille, with her maid helping her put on her slippers. c. 1887 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933753: Marie Dressler (1868-1934), Canadian born comedienne, and later oscar-winning character actress wearing lamp shade style hat, with brim up. c. 1909 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933765: Edwin Forrest (1806-1872), American actor, as Shakespeare's Richard III. 1855 / Bridgeman Images