EVB2933265: Buffalo Bill's Wild West and congress of rough riders of the world., 1899 (poster) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933515: Alvin Ailey (1931-1989), dancer and choreographer. He featured African American dancers and themes in the Alvin Ailey dance company. 1955 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933521: Dutchman dancing in wooden shoes with pipe, c.1890 (poster) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933304: Children in an English bomb shelter during the German bombing of British cities in 1940-41 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933261: Pilot Wiley Post (1898-1935) with actor Will Rogers (1879-1935), the year they died together in an air crash in Alaska on August 15, 1935 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933409: Herman Oberth (1894-1989), German scientist with the first "ether rocket," in his construction laboratory. Oberth pioneered in rocket science from the 1920s until his retirement from the United States space program in the 1950s. c. 1935 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933297: United States helicopters air lift Vietnamese government Rangers into battle against communist Viet Cong guerrillas, Saigon. 1965 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933312: President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Marshal Joseph Stalin are shown with others around the conference table at Yalta, Crimea, in the Soviet Union / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933526: Gertrude Hoffmann (1876-1966), created a sensation when she performed as Salome in her scanty costume in vaudeville in 1909 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933532: Two couples dancing a Scottish reel. The ladies wear the monstrous feathered coiffures then fashionable. c. 1775 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933342: 1880 Presidential election cartoon, showing candidates James A. Garfield, Chester Arthur, Samuel J. Tilden, and David Davis standing on their 'records,' described respectively as troublesome, peculiar, slippery, and mixed. Published in PUCK, June 16, 1880 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933764: Edwin Forrest (1806-1872), American actor and tragedian whose life was often as tumultuous as the characters he played. 1862 portrait by Mathew Brady / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933553: Georges Bizet (1838-1875), French composer based his famous opera, CARMEN (1875), on a story by the contemporary French author Prosper Merimee / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933803: Lillie Langtry (1853-1929), 1882, Sarony, Napoleon (1821-96) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933634: Geraldine Farrar (1882-1967), poses for a news photographer aboard an Ocean Liner in New York. c. 1910 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933637: Geraldine Farrar (1882-1967), in role of Cio-Cio San in Puccini's opera, MADAME BUTTERFLY. 1908 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933682: Richard Wagner (1913-1883) German composer. Detail of portrait etching by German born artist Hubert von Herkomer (1849-1914) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933745: Lotta Crabtree, (1847-1924), popular American actress smoking a cigar in a 1868 portrait by J. Gurney / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933757: John Drew (1853-1927), American actor, seated at dressing table, in Empire Theatre, New York, 1902 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933760: Minnie Maddern Fiske, c.1890 (photo), Unknown photographer, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933778: De Wolf Hopper, 1881 (poster) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933787: Japanese print by Utagawa shows two actors on the shoulders of a giant, with a third actor leaping onto the giant. c. 1825 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933793: Joseph Jefferson (1829-1905), American actor, in scene from the play, RIP VAN WINKLE. 'Dis von don't count!' says Rip as he drinks the liquor that makes him sleep for 20 years. c. 1875 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933817: Julia Marlowe (1866-1950), English born American actress in expressive 1892 portrait by Benjamin Falk, Falk, Benjamin J. (1853-1925) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933823: Ernst von Possart (1841-1921), German actor, playwright and theator director. c. 1880 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933832: Mack Sennett girls posing in serpentine confetti. 1918 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933835: Edward Hugh Sothern (1859-1933), American Shakespearean actor, at home beside posters, handbills, letters, and other memorabilia. 1902 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933570: Chinese immigrants, wearing their native clothing, perform with traditional instruments on Iona Island in Hudson Valley north of New York City. 1883 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933097: Jerome Kern (1885-1945), talking on the telephone while his lyricist, Dorothy Fields (1905-1974), works at the piano, 1945 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933130: Frank Sinatra (1915-1998), signs his induction papers while Chief Clerk Mrs. Mae E. Jones helps out at local board No. 19-160 in Jersey City. Sinatra was exempted from military service due to a perforated eardrum / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933157: Stephen Douglas (1813-1861) was the leading Democratic candidate for the Presidency in 1860 and could have won if the Southern Democrats had not split and run John Breckenridge. With the Democratic Party's vote divided, the Republican, Abraham Lincoln won / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933172: Hannibal Hamlin (1809-1891), probably as Lincoln's Vice President during the Civil War. Hamlin's long political career included representing Maine in both houses of Congress, and as the state's governor / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933211: Abraham Lincoln (1809-1856) portrait taken by Alexander Gardner on Feb. 5, 1865, during Lincoln's last photography sitting / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933214: Abraham Lincoln (1809-1856) in the classic 1863 portrait photograph by Alexander Gardner / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933235: Juan T. Trippe, pioneer of commercial aviation and founder of Pan-American Airways, in 1927 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933247: Bruno Richard Hauptmann (1899-1936) in police custody after being questioned in connection with the Lindbergh baby kidnapping. He was convicted and executed for the crime / Bridgeman Images