EVB2937039: Jesse and Frank James, Cole, John, and Bob Younger, robbed the Hot Springs Stage on January 15, 1974. They robbed the passengers and the mail bags, collecting ,000. One of the gang, asked if any of the passengers had fought for the Confederacy. G. R. Crump answered yes, which caused the robbers to return his valuables / Bridgeman Images
EVB2937042: J. Edgar Hoover (1895-1972), as director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 1940. Under his leadership the FBI was established and over the next 32 years, he would hold the post, becoming so powerful that Presidents Kennedy and Johnson dared not fire him, Harris & Ewing (1905-45) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2937067: Louis 'Lepke' Buchalter, center, handcuffed to J. Edgar Hoover (left), at entrance to courthouse in New York City in 1939-40. With a ,000 reward on his head, he was tricked into surrendering to Hoover by a 'friend,' Moey Dimples. Buchalter was executed on March 4, 1944 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2937094: Adam Worth (1844-1902), the famous thief, sits facing the Pinkerton brothers on the Hot Springs Stage. Worth is small figure on front seat. In his last years, 'the Napoleon of Crime' collaborated with Pickerton, to record the history of his life, and negotiate the return of a stolen painting, THE DUCHESS OF DEVONSHIRE. c. 1900 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2937127: National Woman's Party activist, Kate Heffelfinger, wrapped in blanket, is supported after release the Washington, D.C. jail, the Occoquan Workhouse, where suffragists were sometimes physically abused, forced if they refused to eat, and made to live in filthy conditions. c. 1917 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2937335: Daisy and Violet Hilton (1908-1969), British born conjoined twins abandoned by their mother and trained as entertainers by their exploitive caretakers. They were trained to play clarinets for a jazz act in the 1920s. After breaking away from their caretakers, they toured in the U.S. sideshow and vaudeville circuit in the 1930s / Bridgeman Images
EVB2937147: Young women in a tableau as ancient warriors perform at Seneca Falls, N.Y. seventy-fifth anniversary Equal Rights celebration on July 20, 1923. After the passage of the 19th Amendment granting women the right to vote, broad based feminist activist waned for forty years / Bridgeman Images
EVB2937243: Andrew Hamilton, Peter Zenger's (seated, upper right) defense lawyer, argues against his guilt for seditious libel against the colonial governor. In the crowded New York courtroom, he argued that his client was not guilty because the libel law protected the British monarch, not an appointed governor when words of the 'libel' were true / Bridgeman Images
EVB2937388: James A. Van Allen (1914-2006), American space physicist, discovered radiation belts surrounding the Earth and extending for several thousand miles into space. The Van Allen Radiation Belts were one of the first major scientific discoveries from Earth orbiting satellites in the late 1950s / Bridgeman Images
EVB2936594: A pregnant woman, from MANSUR'S ANATOMY, authored by the Persian scholar and physician, Mansur ibn Ilyas (c. 1370-1423). Figure showing arteries, internal organs including the liver, stomach, spleen, kidneys. The fetus is in the breach position and attached to the heart by an artery. Copy completed by Hasan ibn Ahmad, working in Isfahan, in 1488 / Bridgeman Images