EVB2932278: Robert Peary's Expedition holds five flags at the North Pole. (L to R): Navy League flag, DKE Fraternity flag, Polar flag carried 15 years held by Matthew Henson, DAR Peace Flag, and the Red Cross flag. 1909, American Photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2932284: Robert Peary's Arctic exploration team on the deck of the expedition ship, the "Roosevelt," in 1905. Matthew Henson (1866-1955) is the African American seated on right / Bridgeman Images

EVB2932305: Maxim Gorky (1868-1936) wrote about the life of the working class Russians and supported the Marxist Revolution but was often in conflict with its political leaders. 1906 portrait / Bridgeman Images

EVB2932311: Washington, D.C. photographer hangs from a crane to capture a view of the city in 1923 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2932326: Julia Margaret Cameron's (1815-1879), photograph, c. 1870, "Vivian and Merlin," an Illustration for Tennyson's "Idylls of the King." / Bridgeman Images

EVB2932642: David Roberts (1896-1864) Scottish painter in an early calotype by photographic pioneer David Octavius Hill (1802-70). 1844 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2932660: Lydia H. Sigourney (1791-1865) was a very successful American writer of her day, writing numerous books and periodical articles. Now dated, her subjects were piety, virtue, religion, and death. c. 1860 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2932681: Brendan Behan (1923-1964), Irish author with actor Jackie Gleason (1916-1987). Behan's play, "The Hostage," was playing on Broadway in 1960 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2932735: Ben Hecht (1893-1964) newspaper columist, novelist, and playwright, wrote film scripts for "The Front Page" (1931), "Wuthering Heights" (1939), "Spellbound" (1945), and "Notorious" (1946) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2932756: Mary McCarthy, 1912-1989, American author best known for her autobiography "Memories of a Catholic Girlhood" (1957), and her novel, "The Group" (1963) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2932061: Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) 1912 presidential campaign. Wilson Women's Wagon complete with trumpeters campaigns in New York City, / Bridgeman Images

EVB2932819: James Thurber (1894-1961) American humorist, cartoonist and editor of the New Yorker, in a 1935 photo / Bridgeman Images

EVB2932115: Ex-President Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) standing on the porch of his Washington DC home on April 28, 1922 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2932861: Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864) English writer of IMAGINARY CONVERSATIONS, dialogues between historical figures / Bridgeman Images

EVB2932148: Secretary of Commerce, Herbert Hoover (1874-1964), throws a baseball while a small crowd watches, 1922 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2932166: US Capitol and VIP platform during the 1909 inauguration of William Howard Taft (1857-1930) with crowds below / Bridgeman Images

EVB2932169: President William Taft (1857-1930) in a portrait made on March 11, 1909, just after his inauguration to the US presidency / Bridgeman Images

EVB2932175: During the Spanish American War, the ship, the USS YUCATAN, carries Roosevelt's "Rough Riders" to Cuba. Men line decks and rigging, 1898 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2932292: Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953) with his wife Carlotta Monterey O'Neill in a 1933 portrait by Carl Van Vechten, Vechten, Carl Van (1880-1964) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2932304: Edwin Markham (1852-1940) best known for his 1899 poem, “The Man with the Hoe” that used the Millet's painted image of French peasants to protest the oppression of poor workers. Photo c. 1899 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2932307: Mary Roberts Rinehart, (1876-1858), popular American novelist and playwright of mystery tales, whose career spanned over 40 years. Press photo snapped while out for a stroll with her favorite pet / Bridgeman Images

EVB2932316: US Army officers observe a Tank demonstration, Camp Meade in 1922 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2932350: Calvin Coolidge taking the oath of office on August 3, 1923, administered Vermont justice of the peace in his family's home in Plymouth, Vermont after President Harding's sudden death / Bridgeman Images

EVB2932359: Henri Bergson, (1859-1941) French philosopher who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1927. 1925 photo by Henri Manuel / Bridgeman Images

EVB2932380: Title page of a 1792 Almanac published by one of the first African American intellectuals, Benjamin Banneker (1731-1806) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2932386: George Creel (1876-1953) applied his journalism skills as head of the U.S. publicity bureau during World War I, to government home front publicity and propaganda / Bridgeman Images

EVB2932398: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-94) was an influential American writer and poet. His poem, "Old Ironsides," prevented the destruction of the U.S.S. Constitution / Bridgeman Images

EVB2932428: John Held (1889-1958) drawing, satirizing prohibition, with caption, "So long as the dry farce lasts, a girl who sips ice-water is looked upon as 'freezing the party,'" For 1928 publication in Harper's Bazaar, Held, John (Junior) (1889-1958) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2932972: Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) American poet, seated behind NBC microphone reciting her poetry. 1945 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2932461: Charles Dickens (1812-1870) in his study at Gad's Hill Place / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933017: Lobby card for "The Big Benefit" shows Bill "Bojangles" Robinson dancing and the faces other stars, including Rae Samuels, Ann Seymour, Evans and Mayer, and the Four Mullen Sisters. 1933 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2932491: Maxim Gorky (1868-1936) wrote about the life of the working class Russians and supported the Marxist Revolution but was often in conflict with its political leaders. 1910 portrait / Bridgeman Images

EVB2932515: Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin (1799-1837) Russian poet and playwright, whose political themes resulted in periodic exiles during his early career / Bridgeman Images

EVB2932527: George Washington Cable (1844-1925) American writer from the South used New Orleans as the backdrop for his fiction. He wrote against racial injustice in "The Silent South" (1885) and "The Negro Question" (1888). Portrait c. 1915 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2932560: Frank Lyman Baum (1856-1919) wrote the children's classic, "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz," 1900. 1908 portrait by Dana Hall / Bridgeman Images

EVB2932596: Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953), versatile French born British writer of poetry, history, and essays / Bridgeman Images