EVB2953712: Vice President Spiro T. Agnew addressing the Kane County Republican Rally in St. Charles, Illinois. He stated that 'morbid preoccupation with Watergate' threatens the government's ability to function. September 8, 1973 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2953763: The first electrical telegraph, on which the message 'What Hath God Wrought' was received on May 24, 1844. / Bridgeman Images

EVB2953784: Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox, c. 1951 Ted Williams gets batting practice by hitting grapefruits pitched by Red Xox Manager Joe Cronin. Sarasota, Fla, March 2, 1940 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2953787: Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox, May 21, 1954 Ted Williams gets batting practice by hitting grapefruits pitched by Red Xox Manager Joe Cronin. Sarasota, Fla, March 2, 1940 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2953811: New York Governor and presidential candidate, Thomas E. Dewey, as a young lawyer. c.1931 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2953814: US Elections. Right, next to elephant: Ohio Governor Thomas J. Herbert holding 'Taft' button next to Republican mascot, Eva, in support of US Senator Robert Taft, at the Republican National Convention, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June 1948 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2953817: Thomas Edison experimenting with his rubber plant garden at his winter home in Fort Meyers, Florida. 01/18/29. / Bridgeman Images

EVB2953844: Thurgood Marshall, (1908-1993), Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1967-1991, c. 1960. / Bridgeman Images

EVB2953865: Timothy Leary (1920-1996), and wife Rosemary Leary, following his arraignment for the possession and sale of illegal drugs. He pleaded not guilty to the charges which stemmed from a December 9, raid on his Millbrook estate. He was released after posting bail. December 11, 1967 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2953880: Tito Schipa (1888-1965), Italian opera singer, c.1930s / Bridgeman Images

EVB2953910: American novelist Upton Sinclair, (1878-1968), after he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his novel 'Dragon's Teeth', 1943. / Bridgeman Images

EVB2953916: Van Cliburn, 1954 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2953934: Vince Lombardi, (1913-1970), General manager of the Green Bay Packers and one of the most successful head coaches in the history of American football, 1969 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2953964: Lenin giving a speech to Vsevobuch servicemen on the first anniversary of the foundation of the Soviet armed forces, Red Square, Moscow, 25th May 1919 (photo), Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2953985: Warren G. Harding, 29th President of the United States. Photo dated 1921. / Bridgeman Images

EVB2953991: Warren G. Harding, 29th President of the United States (1921-1923). / Bridgeman Images

EVB2954015: Wernher von Braun, c. 1960s / Bridgeman Images

EVB2943521: Harry Hopkins, nominee for Commerce Sec., testifying to Congress. 1939 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2943533: The FDR White House secretariat. Feb. 19, 1938. Marguerite Lehand, the President's private secretary is at center front in plaid dress. To her right is Grace Tully, who replaced LeHand after her 1942 illness / Bridgeman Images

EVB2943557: VP James Garner handles 45-caliber pistols as Sen. Harry Truman watches. Feb.17, 1938. Truman got Jesse James' guns from a doctor's wife, whose husband received them in payment of medical services rendered Frank James / Bridgeman Images

EVB2943560: Eleanor Roosevelt at age 5 with her father Elliott in New York City. April 30, 1989 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2943569: Wendell Willkie addressing the National Press Club. June 12, 1940. Willkie, who never held a public office, was a rising dark horse candidate for the Republican Presidential nomination, Harris & Ewing (1905-45) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2943587: Vice President Garner signing a Neutrality Bill. Jan. 8, 1937. / Bridgeman Images

EVB2943638: Eleanor Roosevelt at Cold Spring Institute for Gerontology. 1955 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2943668: Eleanor Roosevelt and movie stars at FDR's 1938 birthday party. / Bridgeman Images

EVB2943686: Bruce Barton at a typewriter, possibly when the adman and author served in Congress from 1937 to 1941 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2943701: Steel executives before the Monopoly Committee, Nov. 3, 1939. / Bridgeman Images

EVB2943764: Elderly woman beggar selling pencils during the Great Depression, 1938. She is sheltered against an urban dress shop window. The photo was taken New Deal photographer and featured in 'One Third of the Nation', by Arnold Eagle and David Robbins / Bridgeman Images

EVB2943803: CCC enrollee drilling holes for dynamite shots. The Explosion Course also offered training in the handling and use of dynamite. Camp Triangle, Salem, Virginia, July 26, 1940 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2943806: Remains of the defunct NRA three years after its closing. One manager with seven assistant attends over half an acre of filing cabinets. The 40,000,000 records were destined for the National Archives. Oct. 26, 1938 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2954033: William Jennings Bryan (right), and his brother, Charles W. Bryan, Governor of Nebraska, c.1924 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2954039: Winston Churchill, (1874-1965) British Prime Minister and 1953 Nobel Prize for Literature. On being returned to being Prime Minister, 9/21/51 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2954042: Winston Churchill, 1963 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2954054: The Prime Minister's Journey across the Atlantic, Winston Churchill, October 9, 1941 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2954084: President William Howard Taft (right), his brother Charles Taft (top left), c.1912 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2954087: WILLIAM HENRY JOHNSON (1901-1970) / Bridgeman Images