EVB2937122: Suffragists Catherine Flanagan (left) and Madeleine Watson (right) of the militant National Woman's Party being arrested as they picket the White House East Gate. Both were sentenced to 30 days in Occoquan Workhouse, a prison where they were sometimes physically abused, forced if they refused to eat, and made to live in filthy conditions / Bridgeman Images

EVB2937164: Wanted poster for Billy the Kid, April 28, 1881 (poster) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2927939: Traffic Policeman in N.Y.C. on April 1, 1912. / Bridgeman Images

EVB2932612: Fannie Hurst (1889-1968) American author of many novels about ordinary women's lives, including "Imitation of Life," made into movies in 1934 and 1959. 1932 portrait / Bridgeman Images

EVB2932615: Ernst Toller (1893-1939) politically involved Marxist German Jewish playwright and poet. His best known play is "Man and the Masses,"(1923). Exiled from Germany in 1933, he committed suicide in New York in 1939. c. 1920 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2928032: Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, 1952 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2928047: The Lagoon of Nations, at the 1939 New York World's Fair, Flushing, New York / Bridgeman Images

EVB2932642: David Roberts (1896-1864) Scottish painter in an early calotype by photographic pioneer David Octavius Hill (1802-70). 1844 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2928071: WORLD WAR II, Normandy Invasion supplies, c.1944 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2932660: Lydia H. Sigourney (1791-1865) was a very successful American writer of her day, writing numerous books and periodical articles. Now dated, her subjects were piety, virtue, religion, and death. c. 1860 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2928098: Allies in the Libyan desert. Feeding bullets into a Curtiss P40F Warhawk, c.1942 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2932735: Ben Hecht (1893-1964) newspaper columist, novelist, and playwright, wrote film scripts for "The Front Page" (1931), "Wuthering Heights" (1939), "Spellbound" (1945), and "Notorious" (1946) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2932756: Mary McCarthy, 1912-1989, American author best known for her autobiography "Memories of a Catholic Girlhood" (1957), and her novel, "The Group" (1963) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2932819: James Thurber (1894-1961) American humorist, cartoonist and editor of the New Yorker, in a 1935 photo / Bridgeman Images

EVB2932855: Edna Ferber (1887-1968) American novelist and short story writer won her a Pulitzer Prize in 1924 for SO BIG, a story about the struggles and strength of her female character. 1931 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2932861: Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864) English writer of IMAGINARY CONVERSATIONS, dialogues between historical figures / Bridgeman Images

EVB2932894: Henry R. Luce (1898-1967) and General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964) holding hand-written pages of MacArthur's memoirs, that LIFE magazine had bought rights to publish. 1963 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2937404: Dr. V.K. Zworykin and Dr. James Hillier of RCA Laboratories at the electron microscope. Invented in the 1930, it exceeded magnification of optical microscopes. c. 1945 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2937434: Guard tower and lights at Fresno, California, Assembly Center, where deported Japanese-Americans were first taken before routing to the relocation camps that would be their homes for the duration of World War II. 1942 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2937440: Large-scale spraying of Syndeet, an insecticide containing DDT, on a farm in Illinois in 1948. The environmentally destructive chemical was used indiscriminately until it was banned in 1972 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2937443: Protesters of 'Operation Breath Free' wear surgical masks as they enter their cars at South Beach, Staten Island. 1967 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2937473: Chief Justice Earl Warren is escorted through crowd of protestors carrying placards attacking the Supreme Court's 1963 ruling (Abington School District v. Schempp) to prohibit prayer in U.S. public schools / Bridgeman Images

EVB2937527: Students and their teacher watch educational television in a school library in Schenectady, New York, 1954 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2937530: New York City's Manhattan's skyline shrouded in darkness, is offset by the lights of a freighter at a Brooklyn pier. On November 9, 1965, the lights went out for 12 hours in the Northeast States and Canada / Bridgeman Images

EVB2937536: Electric lamps on display in a store in the Washington, D.C. area. c. 1920 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2937542: Workmen pose for a group portrait on the giant turbine in the powerhouse of the Bonneville Dam. c. 1937 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2937584: Four workers riding on a large casing section of pipe suspended from cable as it is moved into position during construction (1933-42) of the Grand Coulee Dam, Washington / Bridgeman Images

EVB2937599: Close-up of switches in the control room of Reactor B, the first large scale nuclear reactor ever built. Photo from the Hanford Site of the Manhattan Project, c. 1942-44 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2937605: A model of Sputnik 1, International Geophysical Year, 1957 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2937614: ECHO I, NASA's first communications satellite, was a passive spacecraft based on a Mylar balloon design. Launched in 1960, ECHO I expanded to a balloon with a 100 foot diameter that reflected radio transmissions from one ground station back to another / Bridgeman Images

EVB2937632: Thomas Edison with the engineers and technicians of his Menlo Mark workshop. Edison is under the central arch, leaning against the support with his hands in his pockets. c. 1880 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2937638: Electrical outlets in an American home during World War II. The photo was released with the following conservation instructions: 'How to add years to the life of your electric cords: remove them gently but firmly from wall sockets. Don't pull or tug. When not in use, coil cord loosely around a hook.' 1943 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2937662: Early model of a Scoles and Glidden typewriter, with 18 keys. c. 1870 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2937668: John Frost and daughter listening to their radio, a luxury item in their modest home for a family of seven. Frost was the owner of a struggling farm in Northern California that produced milk, turkeys, and hogs. 1940 photograph by Russell Lee, Russell, Lee (1903-86) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2928101: American soldiers being loaded into barges in Plymouth, England for their voyage to Normandy, France / Bridgeman Images

EVB2928113: Chicago draftees line up to taste their first Army food after their arrival at Fort Sheridan, Illinois, November 18, 1940 / Bridgeman Images