EVB2940272: Chinese Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping and US President Jimmy Carter in a high level meeting with senior advisors during Deng's State Visit in January 1979. On March 1 1979 the US established full diplomatic relations with Communist China and ended its 30 year recognition of Taiwan as the legitimate ruler of mainland China. January 1979 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2936416: Africans of Natal, now a province in eastern Republic of South Africa, line up for vaccination during an 1904 smallpox epidemic after the Colonial government ordered universal vaccination. The woman at the head of the line looks away as the vaccine is administered to her arm / Bridgeman Images
EVB2936440: A pregnant woman sitting in a birthing chair is being attended to by three midwives, one ready to receive the baby, the second standing behind the chair, and the third standing at the woman's side comforting her. Implements are on a table in background. Engraving from Swiss physician, Jakob Rueff's, THE CONCEPTION AND GROWTH OF MAN, 1580 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2936646: Woodcut of a hand with palmist markings to aid the interpretation of lines and undulations on the palm of the hand in fortune telling. From Magnus Hundt's ANTROPOLOGIUM, 1501, an anatomical text that interpreted anatomy physiologically, philosophically, and religiously / Bridgeman Images