EVB2936972: Alice Paul (1885-1977), protested with British women's suffrage advocates before becoming chairman of the Congressional Committee of the militant National American Woman Suffrage Association in 1913. In 1917 it merged with the Woman’s Party to form the National Woman’s Party / Bridgeman Images

EVB2937025: Jesse James rides for his life through Shieldsville, Minnesota, after the disastrous Northfield Minnesota bank robbery, which netted nothing, left two bank employees murdered, two robbers killed, and Jim Younger wounded. The three Younger brothers were captured but Frank and Jesse escaped. September 7, 1876 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2936999: Women identified as Mrs. Suffern, is surrounded by a crowd of men and boys, while she holds a home-made banner in women suffragist parade 'Help us to win the vote.' 1914 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2936816: Group portrait of members of a Jewish kibbutz, in Palestine. c. 1920-39 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2936860: Triangle Shirtwaist fire victims in coffins on the sidewalk. 146 women seamstresses died, mostly immigrants, many jumping from the upper two floors of an eight story building. March 15, 1911 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2936873: Japanese American women, laundering their families' clothes in metal washtubs during their three month incarceration at Pinedale Assembly Center. 4,823 internees were later sent to permanent internment camps for the duration of World War II. c. April 1942 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2936876: Five smiling Japanese American women internees at Tule Lake Relocation Center during World War II, Russell, Lee (1903-86) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2936894: Hattie Caraway (1878-1950) in a 1914 studio portrait when she was the wife of Arkansas Representative Thaddeus Caraway. She was educated, a former school teacher, and the mother of three boys. When Thaddeus died in 1931, she filled his Senate seat for two terms / Bridgeman Images

EVB2936974: National Woman's Party activists watch Alice Paul sew a star onto the NWP Ratification Flag, representing another state's ratification of the 19th Amendment. Party members, Mabel Vernon is seated far left), and Anita Pollitzer is standing on right. c. 1919 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2936977: National Women's Party demonstration with a bonfire in front of the White House in 1918. The banner questions Wilson's commitment to democracy for his failure to support women's suffrage / Bridgeman Images

EVB2936942: Italian American mother with five young children in her Providence, Rhode Island home. Photograph by Lewis Hine, November 1912, Hine, Lewis Wickes (1874-1940) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2936954: Lucy Burns (1879-1966), American suffragist and women's rights advocate speaking to a crowd of men in New York City. c. 1913 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2937046: The guns that protect the President. Members of the White House police force that are taking part in the third annual marksmanship match. August 2, 1938 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2936306: Helen Jacobs, (1908-1997) American tennis player who won ten Grand Slam titles. 1934 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2936309: Mildred 'Babe' Didrikson, (1911-1956), running in the first heat of the 80-meter hurdles, at the 1932 Olympics at Los Angeles. She won the Gold Medal for the event / Bridgeman Images

EVB2936312: Jim Ryun (b. 1947), winning the 1966 Baxter Mile in the New York Athletic Club indoor games at Madison Square Garden. In 1966, Ryun set world records in the mile and the half-mile runs / Bridgeman Images

EVB2936330: The John Bull locomotive was a is a British-built railroad steam engine that operated in the United States, from 1831 to 1866. It was built by Robert Stephenson and Company and operated for the Camden and Amboy Railroad, the first railroad in New Jersey / Bridgeman Images

EVB2936416: Africans of Natal, now a province in eastern Republic of South Africa, line up for vaccination during an 1904 smallpox epidemic after the Colonial government ordered universal vaccination. The woman at the head of the line looks away as the vaccine is administered to her arm / Bridgeman Images

EVB2936419: Jonas E. Salk (1914-1995), American medical researcher who developed the first Polio vaccine, holding tray of test tubes. c. 1955 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2936422: Patients and nuns at the Hospital of Hotel Dieu in Paris. Interior of a medieval ward with patients (some two to a bed) being attended by nuns, one of whom is taking a patient's pulse. 19th century wood engraving after painting in 'Le Livre de Vie Active de l'Hotel Dieu' , c.1482 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2936420: American National Red Cross tent hospital in Auteuil, France for treating gassed soldiers during World War I. 1917-18, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2936423: Exterior of Hotel-Dieu, Paris, with nuns at the doors, receiving a patient on a stretcher. 19th century wood engraving after painting in 'Le Livre de Vie Active de l'Hotel Dieu', c.1482 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2936440: A pregnant woman sitting in a birthing chair is being attended to by three midwives, one ready to receive the baby, the second standing behind the chair, and the third standing at the woman's side comforting her. Implements are on a table in background. Engraving from Swiss physician, Jakob Rueff's, THE CONCEPTION AND GROWTH OF MAN, 1580 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2936465: Heart surgery performed in the 1950s / Bridgeman Images

EVB2936446: Public health education in Red China, 1957 (poster) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2936473: CAT (computer-aided tomography) scan being performed on a patient at the National Institute of Health, Bethesda, Maryland. 1987 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2937237: Taft Court. United States Supreme Court group portrait. Center front is Chief Justice William Howard Taft. c. 1925 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2937273: Three Russian convicts building a camp near the Eastern Siberian Railroad. Throughout the 19th century, Russia populated its easternmost territories with political and criminal prisoners. c. 1895 photo by William Henry Jackson, Jackson, William Henry (1843-1942) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2937316: Newark, New Jersey. Aerial view, 1874 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2937342: At the height of a polio epidemic, Dr. Harry Seanor, fastens the one pound lung on an eight year old boy, to show the difference in size to that of the 700 pound lung at left. Iron lungs were respirators to assist patients breathing. 1949 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2937369: Peaceful use of atom. Two female technicians prepare radioactive isotopes for medical and industrial use. They work with remote controls and are shielded by a lead barrier, at the Radiochemical Center, in Amersham England / Bridgeman Images

EVB2937409: Workmen assemble Project Mercury space capsules for American astronauts, at McDonell Aircraft Corporation, St. Louis, Missouri in 1961 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2937430: Japanese American soldiers enjoy the music of a Hawaiian ukulele as they wait to detrain at Camp Shelby, Mississippi in 1943. While some Japanese volunteered for military service, a significant and often under reported umber choose to not to / Bridgeman Images

EVB2936380: Joseph Merrick (1862-1890), known as the 'Elephant Man', suffered from Neurofibromatosis, a congenital disorder. Standing profile engravings of Merrick were published in the British Medical Journal in 1886. He was portrayed by John Hurt in the 1980 film THE ELEPHANT MAN / Bridgeman Images

EVB2936333: 'William Crooks' a 1861 locomotive of the Great Northern Railway with tender and cars. The tender is a special car to carry fuel and water to keep the locomotive running / Bridgeman Images

EVB2936348: Front and back views of a human figure with numerous acupuncture points and meridians identified. Between the figures, but not to scale, are three acupuncture needles. Illustration from a 1825 French book on Chinese acupuncture by Jean Baptiste Sarlandiere / Bridgeman Images