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The telephone booth in which Vincent 'Mad Dog' Coll was murdered by assassins working for Dutch Schultz on February 8, 1932
The telephone booth in which Vincent 'Mad Dog' Coll was murdered by assassins working for Dutch Schultz on February 8, 1932

EVB2937475: The telephone booth in which Vincent 'Mad Dog' Coll was murdered by assassins working for Dutch Schultz on February 8, 1932 / Bridgeman Images

Bataan Death March, when about 12,000 American and 63,000 Filipino POWs were force-marched. In the 55 miles from Bataan to prison camps in the Philippine, Japanese abuse reduced their numbers by estimated 7,000–10,000 men. World War 2
Bataan Death March, when about 12,000 American and 63,000 Filipino POWs were force-marched. In the 55 miles from Bataan to prison camps in the Philippine, Japanese abuse reduced their numbers by estimated 7,000–10,000 men. World War 2

EVB2944458: Bataan Death March, when about 12,000 American and 63,000 Filipino POWs were force-marched. In the 55 miles from Bataan to prison camps in the Philippine, Japanese abuse reduced their numbers by estimated 7,000–10,000 men. World War 2 / Bridgeman Images

World War 2, Battle of Britain. A Union Jack flag lies among the rubble of homes smashed by a German missile, either a V-1 or V-2. Camberwell Road, London, 1944-45
World War 2, Battle of Britain. A Union Jack flag lies among the rubble of homes smashed by a German missile, either a V-1 or V-2. Camberwell Road, London, 1944-45

EVB2944545: World War 2, Battle of Britain. A Union Jack flag lies among the rubble of homes smashed by a German missile, either a V-1 or V-2. Camberwell Road, London, 1944-45 / Bridgeman Images

Soviet Ace pilot Boris Safonov, next to his I-16 airplane. Words on the aircraft read 'For Stalin'. Lt. Colonel Safonov shot down 24 German aircraft before he was killed in action off Murmansk on May 30, 1942. 1941 photo by Evgenii Khaldei
Soviet Ace pilot Boris Safonov, next to his I-16 airplane. Words on the aircraft read 'For Stalin'. Lt. Colonel Safonov shot down 24 German aircraft before he was killed in action off Murmansk on May 30, 1942. 1941 photo by Evgenii Khaldei

EVB2944578: Soviet Ace pilot Boris Safonov, next to his I-16 airplane. Words on the aircraft read 'For Stalin'. Lt. Colonel Safonov shot down 24 German aircraft before he was killed in action off Murmansk on May 30, 1942. 1941 photo by Evgenii Khaldei / Bridgeman Images

U.S. Army troops look at the ruins of a Japanese seaplane in the lagoon near Makin Island, Tarawa Atoll. The Japanese used it as a machine gun nest. Nov. 19-23, 1943
U.S. Army troops look at the ruins of a Japanese seaplane in the lagoon near Makin Island, Tarawa Atoll. The Japanese used it as a machine gun nest. Nov. 19-23, 1943

EVB2944650: U.S. Army troops look at the ruins of a Japanese seaplane in the lagoon near Makin Island, Tarawa Atoll. The Japanese used it as a machine gun nest. Nov. 19-23, 1943 / Bridgeman Images

Dead Japanese soldier in Tanapag Harbor on Saipan. He was among a group attempting to escape the island by boat. July 5, 1944
Dead Japanese soldier in Tanapag Harbor on Saipan. He was among a group attempting to escape the island by boat. July 5, 1944

EVB2944674: Dead Japanese soldier in Tanapag Harbor on Saipan. He was among a group attempting to escape the island by boat. July 5, 1944 / Bridgeman Images

Marine patrol on Saipan found a Japanese family sheltering in a hillside cave, June 21,1944. 1,000 of the 25,000 civilians on Saipan committed suicide in the last days of the battle
Marine patrol on Saipan found a Japanese family sheltering in a hillside cave, June 21,1944. 1,000 of the 25,000 civilians on Saipan committed suicide in the last days of the battle

EVB2944680: Marine patrol on Saipan found a Japanese family sheltering in a hillside cave, June 21,1944. 1,000 of the 25,000 civilians on Saipan committed suicide in the last days of the battle / Bridgeman Images

Harry Hopkins, nominee for Commerce Sec., testifying to Congress. 1939
Harry Hopkins, nominee for Commerce Sec., testifying to Congress. 1939

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

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
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

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

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
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

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

Eleanor Roosevelt at age 5 with her father Elliott in New York City. April 30, 1989
Eleanor Roosevelt at age 5 with her father Elliott in New York City. April 30, 1989

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

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
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

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

Vice President Garner signing a Neutrality Bill. Jan. 8, 1937.
Vice President Garner signing a Neutrality Bill. Jan. 8, 1937.

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

Eleanor Roosevelt at Cold Spring Institute for Gerontology. 1955
Eleanor Roosevelt at Cold Spring Institute for Gerontology. 1955

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

Eleanor Roosevelt and movie stars at FDR's 1938 birthday party.
Eleanor Roosevelt and movie stars at FDR's 1938 birthday party.

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

Bruce Barton at a typewriter, possibly when the adman and author served in Congress from 1937 to 1941
Bruce Barton at a typewriter, possibly when the adman and author served in Congress from 1937 to 1941

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

Steel executives before the Monopoly Committee, Nov. 3, 1939.
Steel executives before the Monopoly Committee, Nov. 3, 1939.

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

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
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

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

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
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

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

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
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

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

Interior of a 1940's refrigerator
Interior of a 1940's refrigerator

EVB2937529: Interior of a 1940's refrigerator / Bridgeman Images

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
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

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 / Bridgeman Images

Gusher spewing oil from top of a derrick at the Lady Hunter Well near Petrolia City, Pennsylvania. c. 1880
Gusher spewing oil from top of a derrick at the Lady Hunter Well near Petrolia City, Pennsylvania. c. 1880

EVB2937556: Gusher spewing oil from top of a derrick at the Lady Hunter Well near Petrolia City, Pennsylvania. c. 1880 / Bridgeman Images

Oil rig workers, called roughnecks, at work, loosening sections of pipe on an drilling platform, Kilgore, Texas. 1939 Photo by Russell Lee
Oil rig workers, called roughnecks, at work, loosening sections of pipe on an drilling platform, Kilgore, Texas. 1939 Photo by Russell Lee

EVB2937559: Oil rig workers, called roughnecks, at work, loosening sections of pipe on an drilling platform, Kilgore, Texas. 1939 Photo by Russell Lee, Russell, Lee (1903-86) / Bridgeman Images

Four newly designed solar power collection dishes at Sandia National Laboratory in 2009. The new dishes are designed for high-volume production, ease of maintenance, and could be in commercial service by 2010
Four newly designed solar power collection dishes at Sandia National Laboratory in 2009. The new dishes are designed for high-volume production, ease of maintenance, and could be in commercial service by 2010

EVB2937577: Four newly designed solar power collection dishes at Sandia National Laboratory in 2009. The new dishes are designed for high-volume production, ease of maintenance, and could be in commercial service by 2010 / Bridgeman Images

Recreation of a gentile colonial American house with two women in colonial costume. 1913 photo by Wallace Nutting
Recreation of a gentile colonial American house with two women in colonial costume. 1913 photo by Wallace Nutting

EVB2937589: Recreation of a gentile colonial American house with two women in colonial costume. 1913 photo by Wallace Nutting / Bridgeman Images

Luis W. Alvarez (1911-1988), American physicist awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1968 for the discovery of many subatomic particles. Working with his son, geologist Walter Alvarez, he applied nuclear physics to help develop the theory that an asteroid strike led to the extinction of dinosaurs. c. 1960
Luis W. Alvarez (1911-1988), American physicist awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1968 for the discovery of many subatomic particles. Working with his son, geologist Walter Alvarez, he applied nuclear physics to help develop the theory that an asteroid strike led to the extinction of dinosaurs. c. 1960

EVB2937592: Luis W. Alvarez (1911-1988), American physicist awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1968 for the discovery of many subatomic particles. Working with his son, geologist Walter Alvarez, he applied nuclear physics to help develop the theory that an asteroid strike led to the extinction of dinosaurs. c. 1960 / Bridgeman Images

1849 model of the first commercially successful sewing machine. Invented by Issac Singer, it used the lockstitch patented by Elias Howe. Singer built the first sewing machine with verticle needle movement powered by foot treadle rather than a hand crank
1849 model of the first commercially successful sewing machine. Invented by Issac Singer, it used the lockstitch patented by Elias Howe. Singer built the first sewing machine with verticle needle movement powered by foot treadle rather than a hand crank

EVB2937655: 1849 model of the first commercially successful sewing machine. Invented by Issac Singer, it used the lockstitch patented by Elias Howe. Singer built the first sewing machine with verticle needle movement powered by foot treadle rather than a hand crank / Bridgeman Images

Little girl smiles as she enjoys a radio program in the 1930s
Little girl smiles as she enjoys a radio program in the 1930s

EVB2937670: Little girl smiles as she enjoys a radio program in the 1930s / Bridgeman Images

Antennas on the roof of the U.S. Army Radio Station in Washington D.C. 1924
Antennas on the roof of the U.S. Army Radio Station in Washington D.C. 1924

EVB2937673: Antennas on the roof of the U.S. Army Radio Station in Washington D.C. 1924 / Bridgeman Images

American television inventor, Philo T. Farnsworth testified to a Congressional committee about the difficulties in getting patents. Farnsworth is seated between George Everson, Secretary of Farnsworth Television, Inc. and Richard C. Patterson, Jr., Assistant Secretary of Commerce. January 1939
American television inventor, Philo T. Farnsworth testified to a Congressional committee about the difficulties in getting patents. Farnsworth is seated between George Everson, Secretary of Farnsworth Television, Inc. and Richard C. Patterson, Jr., Assistant Secretary of Commerce. January 1939

EVB2937682: American television inventor, Philo T. Farnsworth testified to a Congressional committee about the difficulties in getting patents. Farnsworth is seated between George Everson, Secretary of Farnsworth Television, Inc. and Richard C. Patterson, Jr., Assistant Secretary of Commerce. January 1939 / Bridgeman Images

Drillers excavating the dam foundation on the Nevada site of Boulder dam, excavating the dam foundation. 1933
Drillers excavating the dam foundation on the Nevada site of Boulder dam, excavating the dam foundation. 1933

EVB2937697: Drillers excavating the dam foundation on the Nevada site of Boulder dam, excavating the dam foundation. 1933 / Bridgeman Images

Sailors in the National Maritime Union hiring hall for deck and engine hands, watching the board where the jobs are posted. New York, c. 1955
Sailors in the National Maritime Union hiring hall for deck and engine hands, watching the board where the jobs are posted. New York, c. 1955

EVB2937700: Sailors in the National Maritime Union hiring hall for deck and engine hands, watching the board where the jobs are posted. New York, c. 1955 / Bridgeman Images

Mao Zedong, c.1945 (photo)
Mao Zedong, c.1945 (photo)

EVB2937712: Mao Zedong, c.1945 (photo) / Bridgeman Images

'Evacuation Sale' sign on a Japanese-American store in preparation for World War II relocation. Internees were given little notice and forced to abandon or sell their businesses at heavy losses
'Evacuation Sale' sign on a Japanese-American store in preparation for World War II relocation. Internees were given little notice and forced to abandon or sell their businesses at heavy losses

EVB2937733: 'Evacuation Sale' sign on a Japanese-American store in preparation for World War II relocation. Internees were given little notice and forced to abandon or sell their businesses at heavy losses / Bridgeman Images

Tabulator-Printer used by the U.S. Navy Department in 1917. It was a predecessor of electronic computers, and worked by mechanically reading punch cards with coded information and printed out readable information
Tabulator-Printer used by the U.S. Navy Department in 1917. It was a predecessor of electronic computers, and worked by mechanically reading punch cards with coded information and printed out readable information

EVB2937739: Tabulator-Printer used by the U.S. Navy Department in 1917. It was a predecessor of electronic computers, and worked by mechanically reading punch cards with coded information and printed out readable information / Bridgeman Images


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