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EVB2937530: New York City's Manhattan's skyline shrouded in darkness, is offset by the lights of a freighter at a Brooklyn pier. On November 9, 1965, the lights went out for 12 hours in the Northeast States and Canada / Bridgeman Images
EVB2937536: Electric lamps on display in a store in the Washington, D.C. area. c. 1920 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2937542: Workmen pose for a group portrait on the giant turbine in the powerhouse of the Bonneville Dam. c. 1937 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2937584: Four workers riding on a large casing section of pipe suspended from cable as it is moved into position during construction (1933-42) of the Grand Coulee Dam, Washington, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2937599: Close-up of switches in the control room of Reactor B, the first large scale nuclear reactor ever built. Photo from the Hanford Site of the Manhattan Project, c. 1942-44 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2937605: A model of Sputnik 1, International Geophysical Year, 1957 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2937614: ECHO I, NASA's first communications satellite, was a passive spacecraft based on a Mylar balloon design. Launched in 1960, ECHO I expanded to a balloon with a 100 foot diameter that reflected radio transmissions from one ground station back to another / Bridgeman Images
EVB2937632: Thomas Edison with the engineers and technicians of his Menlo Mark workshop. Edison is under the central arch, leaning against the support with his hands in his pockets. c. 1880 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2937638: Electrical outlets in an American home during World War II. The photo was released with the following conservation instructions: 'How to add years to the life of your electric cords: remove them gently but firmly from wall sockets. Don't pull or tug. When not in use, coil cord loosely around a hook.' 1943 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2937662: Early model of a Scoles and Glidden typewriter, with 18 keys. c. 1870, Unknown photographer, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2937668: John Frost and daughter listening to their radio, a luxury item in their modest home for a family of seven. Frost was the owner of a struggling farm in Northern California that produced milk, turkeys, and hogs. 1940 photograph by Russell Lee, Russell, Lee (1903-86) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2937707: World War II. Announcing state of war with Germany, a British Newspaper man holding stack of newspapers and sign stating 'Special late news: War - Official,' in Whitehall, London on September 7, 1939, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2937722: President Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969), in wheelchair at Fitzsimons Army Hospital, Denver, following his serious heart attack on September 24, 1955. Against his doctors' advice, he successfully ran for a second term in 1956 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2937758: Thomas A. Edison (1847-1931), in his West Orange, New Jersey, laboratory, c. 1901 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2937797: Gustav Krupp von Bohlen (1870-1950), American born as Gustav Bohlen married Alfred Krupp's granddaughter Bertha in 1906, and Kaiser Wilhelm II immediately granted him the surname 'Krupp.' He ran the Krupp heavy industry conglomerate from 1909 until 1941, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2937866: Making steel with Bessemer Converters in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Wood engraving from a drawing by Charles Graham. 1886 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2937896: Families and friends waiting at the mouth of the Marianna Coal Mine after the explosion of November 30, 1908. 154 miners were killed in one the deadliest mining accidents of the 20th century, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2937923: Goodyear's Vulcanite Court, the Exhibition of Hard India Rubber Goods at the Crystal Palace Exhibition in 1851. Goodyear spend ,000 on the display which included giant balloons, live-saving devices, rubber boats, shoes, medical instruments, and furniture, for which he won six awards, Unknown Artist, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2937947: Young boy unwinding silk cocoons and reeling silk threads with pre-industrial tools in his Syrian home in 1914, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2937950: Blind women weaving at looms accompanied by an orchestrion, a self playing musical instrument, at right. Photo taken by Byron Company for the New York Association for the Blind / Bridgeman Images
EVB2937989: Houses under construction at the Navy defense housing project for enlisted men in the Marines and Navy. San Diego, California. May 1941 photo by Russell Lee, Russell, Lee (1903-86) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2938001: Traditional shoemaker in his workshop is Tony Bruno of Washington, D.C. who made and repaired shoes for presidents and politicians. 1925, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2938007: Anthracite Coal Strike Commission was appointed by President Roosevelt to study the economics of the coal industry and propose a settlement of the long United Mine Works strike of 1902, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2948526: FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover on a loveseat with six women at the Willard Hotel, Washington, D.C. They were attending the convention of the International Association for Identification, for professionals in forensic identification, investigation, and scientific examination of physical evidence. c. 1940 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2948556: African American woman ironing, c. 1930. Photogravure of image by Doris Ulmann. She is best known for her sensitive portraits of rural Southern people between 1928-1934 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2948559: Wendell L. Willkie Notification Ceremony, in Elwood, Indiana, August 17, 1940. This ceremony dated from the 19th century, when Presidential candidates did not attend nominating conventions, but were 'notified' of their victory weeks later / Bridgeman Images
EVB2948562: Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy sits at desk piled high with mail, March 24, 1950. He received over 5000 letters a day. Elected Republican Senator from Wisconsin in 1947, he became foremost provocateur of the 1950s 'Red Scare' in America / Bridgeman Images
EVB2948568: Moscow Celebration of May Day, 1960. Demonstrating Workers fill Red Square before Lenin's Tomb and the Kremlin Wall / Bridgeman Images
EVB2948598: President Gerald Ford meeting with Tip O'Neill at the White House, Feb. 6, 1975. O'Neill was then Democratic House Majority Leader, and served as Speaker of the House from 1977-87 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2948622: U.S. Capitol West Front during the Inauguration of President Bill Clinton. Jan. 20, 1993 (photo) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2948625: Former Congresswoman and Vice Presidential Nominee, Geraldine Ferraro in Nov. 1998. She had just published a book, FRAMING A LIFE: A FAMILY MEMOIR / Bridgeman Images
EVB2948640: Children's class at the Harlem Art Workshop, at the New York Public Library, 135th St. Branch. Susie McIver teaches in a WPS Federal Art Project, c. 1933-34 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2948661: President Calvin Coolidge talking with Newspapermen at the White House, Aug. 14, 1923. Coolidge is wearing a mourning band on his sleeve for the late President Warren Harding who died less than two weeks earlier, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2948664: The Capitol and crowd at the March 4, 1925 inauguration of President Calvin Coolidge, Harris & Ewing (1905-45) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2948676: President Calvin Coolidge and First Lady visiting disabled World War 1 veterans. c. 1923-28 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2948682: President Calvin Coolidge signing the United States Revenue Act of 1926. It reduced inheritance and personal income taxes, eliminated the gift tax, and ended public access to Federal Income Tax returns, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
