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
EVB2945253: Long lines of C-47 transports loaded with paratroopers at an English airfield, Sept. 17, 1944. Operation Market Garden would drop 34,600 airborne troops near key bridges in the Netherlands. A BRIDGE TO FAR, was a 1977 film based on Cornelius Ryan's 1974 book about the disastrous battle. World War 2 / 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
EVB2934332: Interior of the New York State Library designed by Henry Richardson, the most prominent American architect from 1870 to his death in 1886. His neo-Romanesque style masked functional design which inspired both Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright. 1890, Wright, Frank Lloyd (1867-1959) / Bridgeman Images