EVB2933863: Woman circus performer named Adjie seated in a cage with three lions. 1899 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933889: Japanese woodcut of Drinking party with Geishas at teahouse Kawachiro. By Hiroshige Ando, c. 1840 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933914: Broadcast radio's first decade prompted novel uses. Photo shows a shut-in woman, wearing radio headset, listening to radio on stand next to sofa. 1923 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933955: Primrose & Dockstader's Huge Minstrel Company, c.1900 (poster) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2925567: Water skier George Hughes passed under the bridge at Cypress Gardens, Florida. June 28, 1963. He wore only tiny shoe skis instead of the traditional long water skis / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933971: Hurly-Burly Extravaganza and Refined Vaudeville, 1899 (poster) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933978: Kiralfy Bros'. ''Michael Strogoff''. The Courier of the Czar, 1882 (poster) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933992: Eugen Sandow (1867-1925), German born strongman, wearing wrestling leotard, Roman sandals, and six pointed star pendant. 1894 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2927508: Vendors filling peanut bags at the World Series in Yankee Stadium, New York City, October 4, 1939. / Bridgeman Images

EVB2927511: Head usher giving instructions to his staff before the start of the World Series, Yankee Stadium, New York City, October 4, 1939. / Bridgeman Images

EVB2927531: Men wait in line for food on East 25th Street, New York City, 1930 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2927564: Luxury liners flanking an aircraft carrier at piers along the West Side HighwayFrom left to right: The Independence, The America, The United States, The Olympia, The U.S.S. Intrepid, The Queen Elizabeth (pulling in), The Mauretania, and The Sylvania, New York City, July, 1961 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2927570: Fans cheer a Brooklyn Dodgers Pennant Victory in a bar on Withers Street. New York City, September 25, 1941 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2927585: Pearl Harbor anniversary in Times Square. Thousands of people gathered before the Liberty Statue war bond booth pay silent tribute to those who have died in the war since the Japanese attack, Broadway and 43rd Street, New York City, December 7, 1944 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2927588: Central Park, New York City, photochrom, 1901 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2927670: An Alcatraz cell block, San Francisco, August 20, 1934 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2927701: Women and children demonstrate in front of the Capitol against the Vietnam War, Washington DC, June, 22, 1972 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2927747: Aerial view of Newark's Springfield Avenue after two nights of racial rioting, 1967 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2927781: Princess Grace of Monaco, c. 1970s. / Bridgeman Images

EVB2927839: The crew of Apollo 14, 1971 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2927865: Militant suffergettes are arrested in London, 1910s / Bridgeman Images

EVB2927868: Women attending a suffrage parade, U.S., 1912 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2927893: Sir Thomas Beecham, conductor, in an undated portrait / Bridgeman Images

EVB2927909: Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938), American author, c.1930s. / Bridgeman Images

EVB2927912: TIMES SQUARE, brownout, November 1, 1943. / Bridgeman Images

EVB2927915: TIMES SQUARE, NY, late 1930s. / Bridgeman Images

EVB2927939: Traffic Policeman in N.Y.C. on April 1, 1912. / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934015: Will Rogers and Mrs. Ed Evalyn McLean, wife of the Washington Post publisher Ned McLean, at a ballgame. Rogers wrote books, articles, and a syndicated newspaper column. Of his political reporting he said, 'I don’t make jokes—I just watch the government and report the facts.' October 5, 1924 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934069: Edwin Denby (1870-1929), former Congressman and future Secretary of the Navy, enlisted in the Marines as a private at the age of 47 when the US entered World War I, in 1917 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934075: Roxie Stinson having her fortune told after delivering sensational testimony at the Senate investigations of the Teapot Dome scandal. She testified in spite of intimidation from Daugherty and Billy Burns agents. Her devastating testimony prompted President Coolidge to demand their resignations. March 1924 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934115: Joseph McKenna (1843-1926), Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1898 to 1925. Appointed by President McKinley, after serving as his Attorney General, he was a centrist without distinguished legal credentials. 1906 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934166: Will Rogers, a popular actor and journalist, was often in Washington, D.C. and welcomed by notables. Rogers poses with Speaker of the House, Nicholas Longworth. 1925 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934173: Alice Roosevelt Longworth speaks to Mrs. William Borah at Washington, D.C. gathering. The previous year, Longworth gave birth to a daughter fathered by her long-time lover, William Borah, the husband of Mrs. Borah. 1926 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934179: George W. Norris (1866-1944), Nebraska Senator, was a Progressive Republican who supported Democratic Presidential candidates Al Smith in 1928, and Franklin Roosevelt in 1932 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934187: The first U.S. air mail pouch is handed to helmeted pilot Earle Ovington by Postmaster General Frank H. Hitchcock on Nassau Boulevard, Long Island, September 23, 1911 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934206: Andrew Mellon (1855-1937), Secretary of the Treasury, at 168th anniversary of birth of Alexander Hamilton, the first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury. January 10, 1925 / Bridgeman Images