EVB2938183: Black Tom Island port facilities in Jersey City were destroyed in a massive explosion on July 30 1916. The island was a storage and export facility for munitions bound for warring Europe and was believed to be caused by anti-British saboteurs, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2938747: AN EFFECTIVE BATTERING RAM IN THE HANDS OF THE RIGHT MEN. Cartoon portrays labor and commerce using a battering ram to breech the wall of high protective tariffs. Udo Keppler cartoon was published on the cover of PUCK on July 9 1902, Keppler, Udo (Joseph Keppler, Jr.) (1872-1956) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2940384: President Ford the Republican nominee shakes hands his challenger Ronald Reagan on the closing night of the Republican National Convention. Also on stage are VP nominee Robert Dole Nancy Reagan VP Nelson Rockefeller Susan Ford Betty Ford. Aug. 19 1976, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2940614: Election of 1836. Political cartoon of the 1836 presidential election as race between four candidate horses jockeyed by their political constituency. L-R William Harrison's jockey is a frontiersman Van Buren's is Andrew Jackson Webster's a New England Yankee and Hugh White's a southerner. Van Buren won the 1836 election and Harrison was elected in 1840, Unknown Artist, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2941247: Senator John Kennedy in conversation with Lady Bird Johnson at a Democratic Dinner at Sheraton Park Hotel in Washington, DC. Jan 23, 1960. Kennedy had announced his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination a few weeks earlier, on Jan. 2, 1960, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images