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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, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2937353: Hospital ship, 'S.S. Hope' , 15,000-ton ship sailed from 1960-1974 with operating rooms, a pharmacy, isolation ward, radiology department, and training facilities. Project HOPE (Health Opportunities for People Everywhere) continues health outreach in the 21st century / 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
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
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
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
EVB2937472: Abe Fortas, President Lyndon Johnson's nominee to the Supreme Court at the Senate Judiciary Committee in 1965. He was confirmed but failed conformation as LBJ's 1968 nominee for Chief Justice and was forced to resign in 1969 for accepted fees while serving on the high court / Bridgeman Images
EVB2937475: The telephone booth in which Vincent 'Mad Dog' Coll was murdered by assassins working for Dutch Schultz on February 8, 1932 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2937514: Meyer Lansky (1902-1983), underworld financier who built gambling casinos in Cuba and Las Vegas in 1958. He inspired movie characters: Hyman Roth, portrayed by Lee Strasberg in GODFATHER II, and Max Bercovicz, by James Woods ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERIc. He was portrayed by Ben Kingsly in BUGSY, Dustin Hoffman in THE LOST CITY, and Patrick Dempsey in MOBSTERS / Bridgeman Images
EVB2937529: Interior of a 1940's refrigerator, Rosener, Ann (1914-2012) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2937541: Electrical generators in Edison Sault Power Plant at Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan were powered by the 21 foot drop of Saint Mary's River between Lakes Superior and Huron. The power plant was the longest in the world in 1902 and it's generating power was exceeded only by the Niagara Falls works, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2937556: Gusher spewing oil from top of a derrick at the Lady Hunter Well near Petrolia City, Pennsylvania. c. 1880 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2937567: Oil gusher at Signal Hill in California near the Long Beach, one of the most productive oil fields in the world. 1920s, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2937573: Loading an oil train in the Pennsylvania oil region. c. 1880, Unknown photographer, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2937582: Windmills near Omsk, Siberia, in Imperial Russia Empire, 1885, Unknown photographer, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2937597: Ernest Orlando Lawrence (1901-1958), won the 1939 Nobel Prize for Physics for the invention and development of the cyclotron. c. 1935 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2937609: Rivers of cables for the Dawn supercomputer at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. 2009 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2937621: Satellite tracking antenna dish at Stanford University in Northern California, 2007 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2937627: A hand cranked device onsisting of coiled metal wire and a magnet, demonstrates the principle elements of 19th and 20th century electrical generators, also called dynamos. Illustration from DYNAMO-ELECTRICITY, 1884 by George B. Prescott / Bridgeman Images
EVB2937642: Charles P. Steinmetz (1865-1923), German-American mathematician and electrical engineer often worked in his canoe while boating in the upstate New York's Mohawk River / Bridgeman Images
EVB2937651: Samuel F. B. Morse (1791-1872), inventor of the magnetic telegraph. Steel engraving by John Sartan / Bridgeman Images
EVB2937660: Office of the Underwood Typewriter Company in Washington, D.C., c. 1910 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2937669: A husband tunes the radio while his wife holds populist right-wing radio priest, Father Coughlin's newspaper SOCIAL JUSTICE, with a headline, STALIN ORDERS WORLD REVOLUTION. This comfortable middle class home was in Royal Oak, Michigan, where Father Coughlin was a priest. 1938 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2937696: Army nurses lighting up their cigarettes in 1947, when smoking was seen as a simple pleasure rather than a health hazard / Bridgeman Images
EVB2937708: German delegates at Versailles listening to speech by French Prime Minister Clemenceau in 1919 (photo) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2937732: Albert Einstein speaking in Washington, D.C. c.1940 (b/w photo), Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2937753: Thomas A. Edison (1847-1931) at his desk in his West Orange, New Jersey, laboratory, c. 1913 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2937762: Frank Stanton (1908-2006), President of CBS, speaking at a meeting of radio and television news directing in New York. October 16, 1959 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2937765: Alexander Graham Bell and Mabel Hubbard Bell hold hands and look toward the sea from Sable Island, Canada in 1898. Mable lost her hearing from scarlet fever at age five, and met Bell when she was his 15 year old student. They married five years later / Bridgeman Images
EVB2937783: Technologist at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory operating a telephone connected to electronic equipment. 1925, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / 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, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
