EVB2930652: Wagon Train to the West. A wagon train of settlers crosses the Nevada desert. Daniel Jenks, color drawing, 1859 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2930655: The Santa Fe Trail. A pioneer struggles through heavy snow on the Great Plains. Daniel Jenks, color drawing, 1859 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2930658: Wagon Train to the West. An imaginary scene of a wagon train with Indian attack. color lithograph, 1887 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2930670: 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Voting Rights (1870)Passed by Congress February 26, 1869, and ratified February 3, 1870, the 15th amendment granted African American men the right to vote / Bridgeman Images

EVB2930679: Whitewood Canyon, Wade and Jones R.R. Camp, Black Hills, South Dakota. photo by John C. Grabill, 1890 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2930703: The Interview. Three Cheyenne men, Standing Elk, No. 1; Running Hog, No. 2; Little Wolf, No. 3, wearing ceremonial clothing and holding rifles with Col. Oelrich, No. 4; Interpreter, No. 5. Dakota Territory. photo by John C. Grabill, 1887 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2930709: Cheyenne Sun dance in progress. Oklahoma Photo by Edward Curtis c1910 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2930760: The famous Anaconda copper smelters and mines, Butte, Montana, stereo photograph by Standard Scenic Company, 1907 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2930769: Main Street, Salt Lake City, Utah c. 1908 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2930784: Northwestern America showing the territory ceded by Russia to the United States, 1867 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2930787: Buffalo hunt in the wild west. A buffalo hunter shooting a buffalo as two Natives ride alongside with spears. chromolithograph. c1897 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2930793: American bison herd, callotype, 1906 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2930811: Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor. 1904 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2930841: Trenton street scene, Trenton, New Jersey, ca 1893 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2930886: Electricty. Westinghouse AC generator. At the time of completion (1898), it generated three-phase AC power at a pressure of 40,000 volts, the highest voltage of any commercial electric power system in the world. Telluride Power Company, Nunn Hydroelectric Plant, Utah, 1898 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2930910: New York City. the first train on the Gilbert Elevated Railroad passing through Sixth Avenue, near the Jefferson Market Police Court. woodcut, April 29th, 1878 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2930922: Coney Island, Luna Park at night. New York City, photograph, 1905, American Photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2930928: New York City. Night view of New York by Sperry searchlight, skyline from East River. Photograph, March 31, 1919 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2930937: Great Forepaugh & Sells Brothers shows combined. Phenomenal acts of contortion. chromolithograph c. 1899 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2930952: Dr. Charles H. Parkhurst, anti-Tammany crusader, c. 1896 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2930955: Pullman Palace Car Works. Worker's Housing, built 1880s. Langley Avenue, Pullman, Illinois / Bridgeman Images

EVB2930958: Help our town win the right to fly this flag - Third Liberty Loan honor roll - awarded by the U.S. Treasury Department, 1917 (poster) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2930964: Bicycle. Times girl on bicycle, 1921 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2930967: Elizabeth Hughes, with bicycle. c. 1915-1925 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2930994: Liliuokalani, Queen of Hawaii. c. 1917 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2931027: Two African American soldiers wearing Union uniforms. Tintype c. 1860-1870, American Photographer, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2931057: Fireplace in the bedroom of Floyd Burroughs, cotton sharecropper, Hale County, Alabama. Hale County, Alabama. Published in the book, 'Let Us Now Praise Famous Men'. photograph by Walker Evans, 1936 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2931060: Washstand in the Dog Run and Kitchen 1936 (photo), Evans, Walker (1903-75) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2936774: Ellis Island provided new immigrants with services to prevent their exploitation by dishonest moneychangers. The Money Exchange converted their currencies without charge. c. 1910 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2936813: Group of Jewish immigrants harvesting hay on the Ein Gev Kibbutz on the east side of the Sea of Galilee, c.1937-39 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2937085: Jesse James death occurred in this house at St. Joseph, Missouri. Wood engraving from a drawing made the day of the shooting, April 3, 1882 / 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

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

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

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