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EVB2936860: Triangle Shirtwaist fire victims in coffins on the sidewalk. 146 women seamstresses died, mostly immigrants, many jumping from the upper two floors of an eight story building. March 15, 1911 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2934657: Former First Lady Betty Ford posing in front of the Betty Ford Center for treatment of dependency on drugs and alcohol. She was candid about her own successful battle against addiction. 1990 image courtesy of Betty Ford Center / Bridgeman Images
EVB2934660: Within two month of becoming First Lady, Betty Ford had breast cancer surgery at Bethesda Naval Hospital. President and Mrs. Ford read a petition, signed by all 100 members of the United States Senate, following the First Ladys surgery. Photo by David Hume Kennerly, Kennerly, David Hume (b.1947) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2934613: Two recently bathed men are given vaccinations by the doctor at New York City's Municipal Lodging House. c. 1910, Bain, George Grantham - Bain News Service (1865-1944) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2934687: Emily Donelson (1807-1836), Andrew Jackson's niece served as the widower President's hostess from 1829 until her death from tuberculosis in 1836. Portrait painted by R.E.W. Earl, 1830 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2934670: General Dwight D. Eisenhower and his wife Mamie at a Grand Rapids, Michigan campaign event in 1952. With them are Representative Gerald R. Ford and wife Betty / Bridgeman Images
EVB2934794: Soil drifting over a farm building on a South Dakota farm in 1935. Dakota was north of the 'Dust Bowl,' but the 1930s drought and decades of intensive farming on the Great Plains, left soil exposed to wind storms from Canada to Texas / Bridgeman Images
EVB2934851: John H. Rock, free Black lawyer from Boston was the first African American admitted before the Supreme Court on February 2, 1865 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2934887: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945), nominating Alfred E. Smith for President at the 1924 Democratic Convention in New York's Madison Square Garden. Roosevelt, then a paraplegic from polio, walked to the podium supported by braces, his son and his cane, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2934899: President Lincoln on horseback with his generals, reviewing the Army of the Potomac on Monday, April 6, 1863. Edwin Forbes drawing captured a small scene of the elaborate ceremonial review / Bridgeman Images
EVB2934998: African American men and women chopping (weeding) cotton on rented land near White Plains, Georgia in June 1942., Delano, Jack (1914-97) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2934807: Heavy equipment in the mud of Tennessee Valley Authority's Douglas Dam construction. The dam was needed during World War II to supply electricity for aluminum production, explosives manufacture, and the Manhattan Project's Oak Ridge facility. 1942 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2934810: Workmen installing a generator in the Norris Dam powerhouse. Norris Dam was the first major project of the Tennessee Valley Authority, created during the first 100 days of Franklin Roosevelt administration. Construction began on October 1, 1933 and was completed by March 4, 1936 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2934813: Map diagrams the functions the New Deal public works project authorized when President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Tennessee Valley Authority Act on May 18, 1933, during the First Hundred Days of his administration / Bridgeman Images
EVB2934900: Farm Security Administration emblem. 1937 (print) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2934909: Two hangman's nooses hang as a grim warning to prospective bidders on this foreclosed farm. Farmers conspired to offer very low bids at foreclosure auctions and warned others not to raise their bids, resulting in very low return to creditors. The buyers would then return the property to their destitute compatriot. May 1936 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2934784: Texas tenant farmers displaced from their land by tractor farming were unemployed. In the 1930's tractors increased efficiency and reduced the manpower needs of farming, adding to the Great Depression's jobless rolls / Bridgeman Images
EVB2934808: Chickamauga Dam Turbine Generators provided electricity to the rural areas of the Tennessee River Valley. It was part of the TVA, a New Deal project to stimulate the economy and create jobs during the Great Depression. c. 1940 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2934987: Muhammad Ali (b. 1942), displays the 24-carat gold-plated heavyweight championship belt on Sept. 18 1964. He won the belt on Feb 25, 1964, after his victory over Sonny Liston / Bridgeman Images
EVB2934883: Willie and Tad Lincoln with cousin Lockwood Todd., Brady, Mathew (1823-96) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2934898: Campaign button for 1864 presidential election showing bust tintype portrait of Abraham Lincoln in a metal casing. Vice Presidential candidate, Andrew Johnson's, portrait is on the reverse side. 1864 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2934512: 1912 cartoon attacking business greed shows the ruined Statue of Liberty floating in New York Bay. Liberty is replaced on her pedestal by a golden calf, wearing crown and collar with $ sign, Unknown Artist, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2934518: The Federal Reserve Board of Governors with Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon (4th from left), May 16, 1923, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2934524: Henry Ford (1963-1947), and Military officers, inspect a multi-wheeled vehicle with caterpillar tracks. 1921, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2934536: Comedian Marty Allen, holding wallet with four credit cards. Consumer credits cards, introduced in the 1950's, became common in the 1960's. 1960 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2934602: President Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865). Portrait by Alexander Gardner taken on February 5, 1865, Unknown photographer, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2934632: Ford Model T, roadster with a single seat and room for only two to three people, parked on the Mall in Washington, D.C. 1925, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2934662: President Ford, Bob Hope visit Mrs. Ford at the Bethesda Naval Hospital, Bethesda, MD, during her recovery from breast cancer surgery. October 5, 1974. Photo by David Hume Kennerly, Kennerly, David Hume (b.1947) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2934683: Official Portrait of First Lady Nancy Reagan in the Red Room of the White House. February 7, 1981 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2934734: Robert Carlos De Large (1842-1874, served as a Republican U.S. Representative from South Carolina from 1871-73. In 1873 he was unseated by an election challenge and died the following year, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2934474: New York City's Wall Street in ruins with dead bulls piled behind a sign reading, 'This street is closed for repairs.' 1869 (engraving), Nast, Thomas (1840-1902) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2934489: Homeless men in the reading room of a dime a night Bowery lodging house in 1910, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2934519: John Pierpont Morgan, 1837-1913. Portrait from Harper's Weekly, May 18, 1901, Unknown photographer, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2934561: The Wall Street Bombing. Police, soldiers, and reporters at the scene of the Wall Street terrorist bombing, Sept. 16, 1920.The dead and injured people have been removed, leaving wrecked cars and a dead horse on Wall Street / Bridgeman Images
EVB2934567: Charles Ponzi (18821949), wearing pajamas, probably in Brazil, 1942. During his 1920 pyramid scheme in Boston, Ponzi ended up collecting million and paying back only million, before he was imprisoned and finally deported Italy in 1934 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2934570: Louise Brooks (1906-1985), popular silent film actress, posing with ten telephones, some old models as well as the most up to date 1936 models / Bridgeman Images
