EVB2925743: Socialist Norman Thomas before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Jan. 22, 1941. Thomas testified that the Lend Lease Bill would give President Roosevelt too much power / Bridgeman Images

EVB2925770: Gunder Hagg, Swedish runner with seven world records, arrived at LaGuardia Airport. June 6, 1943. He traveled from neutral Sweden to compete in U.S. track meets. Two years later, Hagg ran a mile in 4:01.4 seconds in Malmo, Sweden in 1945. The record held until broken by Roger Bannister in Oxford in 1954 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2925838: Frances Louisa Tracy Morgan, widow of J.P. Morgan Sr. attending the funeral of John L. Cadwalder, 1914 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2925895: Helen Wills, tennis champion from California receiving trophy. c. 1925 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2925903: Americans Helen Wills Moody and Sidney Wood, in mixed doubles play in France. May 31, 1932. They placed second, losing the finals to Betty Nuthall and Fred Perry of Britain at the Roland Garros Stadium, Auteuil, France / Bridgeman Images

EVB2925964: Three women recipients of the 'Togetherness Award'. / Bridgeman Images

EVB2925908: Helen Wills Moody playing against Manual Alonzo at the Westside Tennis Club at Forest Hills. May 18, 1933. Wills Moody often practiced against men / Bridgeman Images

EVB2925918: Atty. Gen. John Mitchell before the Senate Juvenile Delinquency Subcommittee. Sept 15, 1969. The hearing focused on narcotics sales and possession. A recent survey of 89 cities indicated arrests for narcotics and marijuana violations doubled during the past two years / Bridgeman Images

EVB2925932: Martha Mitchell, wife of Atty. Gen. John Mitchell modeled a Santa Claus costume. Dec. 11, 1971. She appeared on a local telethon to raise funds for Washington DC's Children's Hospital / Bridgeman Images

EVB2925985: 'The only security against inflation for most Americans, is their jobs,' said George Meany. Sept. 30, 1974. The AFL-CIO President and Leonard Woodcock of UAW were attending a White House Economic meeting / Bridgeman Images

EVB2925989: A World War II veteran and his wife, with baby, read headline, 'Truman Asks Draft!' March 17, 1948 (photo) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2925975: American Federation of Labor (AFL) President, George Meany, March 29, 1955. The top item on Meany's 1955 agenda was merging the AFL with the CIO (Congress of Industrial Organizations). He achieved this 'ONE BIG UNION' goal in Dec. 1955 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2925996: Composer Marvin David Levy and soprano Evelyn Lear, 1967 (photo) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2926085: Pro-Choice Action Committee of Cleveland picket in front of the Hallenden House, site of Right to Life Society convention. 1979. / Bridgeman Images

EVB2926054: The Saint Louis Blues, sheet music by W.C. Handy, as performed by Paul Whiteman (pictured), c.1920s / Bridgeman Images

EVB2926097: ALEXANDER G. BELL-At home listening to his radiophone set, 5-6-22. / Bridgeman Images

EVB2926135: The American Revolution, a 20th Century re-enactment of Americans at Concord Bridge returning British fire, April 19, 1775 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2926144: ANDREA DORIA, the Italian ocean liner is sinking in the ocean, 60 miles off of Nantucket Island, July 25, 1956, after its collision with the Swedish liner, Stockholm, at 11:10 PM. / Bridgeman Images

EVB2926154: Northwest Airlines 65-passenger Boeing, 1949. / Bridgeman Images

EVB2926211: Some of the first stewardesses for United Airlines, known as 'skygirls', standing next to a Boeing tri-motored plane, 1930 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2926162: U.S. Army training, 1940's. / Bridgeman Images

EVB2926232: United States Marines in ground exercises at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, October, 1960. The exercises preceded the BAY OF PIGS invasion in April, 1961, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2926280: Governor Calvin Coolidge, the vice-presidential candidate in the 1920 election / Bridgeman Images

EVB2927536: The Empire State Building, New York City, c.1950s / Bridgeman Images

EVB2927584: The Third Avenue El, the Bronx, New York City, c.1954 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2927555: The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, New York City, November 22, 1962 / 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

EVB2927632: The Panama Canal, locomotives called mules pull vessels through the Gatun Locks, raising ships 85 feet to Gatun Lake, c.1976 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2927662: NEW YORK CITY--A couple of jobless, homeless men doing their laundry, November 18, 1931. / Bridgeman Images

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

EVB2927677: Alcatraz Island, San Francisco, while a prison, c.1940 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2927606: NORMANDY, beaches on D-Day, American Photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2927672: Alcatraz Island, principal buildings and locations, c.1946 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2927693: Vietnam War protester, San Francisco, California, 1975 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2927779: Princess Grace of Monaco, September 30, 1976. / Bridgeman Images

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