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

EVB2933460: Dr. Thomas A. Dooley (1927-1961) examining an ill child at a hospital in northern Laos. Dooley became a celebrated and controversial doctor to the needy in Southeast Asia in the 1950s, . / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933485: Jack Johnson (1878-1946) was the first African American to win the Heavyweight Championship in 1908. 1910 photo, . / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933488: Jack Johnson (1878-1946) smoking a cigar and a holding cane while watching Baer-Carnera fight in Madison Square Garden in 1934, . / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933506: 1948 Tucker automobile was ahead of its time with many advanced engineering and safety features. The story of the car is told in the 1988 film, TUCKER: THE MAN AND HIS DREAM starring Jeff Bridges,, . / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933513: Irving, Henry Irving (1838-1905) English stage actor, was the first actor to be knighted by Queen Victoria in 1895, . / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933527: Nautch girl, a young Indian dancing on rug with Hindu men and women watching. India, 1914, . / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933535: Members of the Monaghan Men's Irish Dancing Class and their partners perform the Irish quadrille. By the turn of the century, many Irish-Americans adopted refined entertainments. 1905, . / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933547: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827). 1819 portrait by Ferdinand Schimon (1797-1852), . / 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

EVB2933606: Pietro Mascagni (1863-1945), Italian operatic composer, became musical director of La Scala, Milan, in 1929. 1902, . / Bridgeman Images

SZT2983062: Kaethe Kruse in Leipzig, 1938 (b/w photo), . / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933613: Nellie Melba (1859-1931), popular opera star with her father, David Mitchell, and a young girl, in her native Melbourne, Australia, . / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933660: Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) Italian opera composer in 1908, . / Bridgeman Images

SZT2989066: Soldiers in the ruins of a russian city, 1941 (b/w photo), . / Bridgeman Images

SZT2989084: Reading room of the Reichstag in Berlin (photo), . / Bridgeman Images

SZT2989087: German army postal service at the Eastern Front (b/w photo), . / Bridgeman Images

SZT2989120: Hitler in the Poststadion in Berlin (b/w photo), . / Bridgeman Images

SZT2989126: Jungmaedel (Young girls) on a hike (b/w photo), . / Bridgeman Images

SZT2989150: Kids of Hitler Youth and League of German Girls in Berlin, 1937 (b/w photo), . / Bridgeman Images

SZT2989156: Opening of the Motorway section Munich - Holzkirchen (b/w photo), . / Bridgeman Images

SZT2989163: Ruin of the convent of Christ in Tomar (b/w photo), . / Bridgeman Images

SZT2989166: Enthusiastic BDM-Girls (b/w photo), . / Bridgeman Images

SZT2989169: Swearing in of NSDAP Officials (b/w photo), . / Bridgeman Images

SZT2989172: Oath on Hitler (b/w photo), . / Bridgeman Images

SZT2989248: World Exhibition in St. Louis, 1904 (b/w photo), . / Bridgeman Images

SZT2989263: Rudolf Hess at admission of the Sudeten-German-Party into the NSDAP, 1938 (b/w photo), . / Bridgeman Images

SZT2989339: Mohammed Amin al Husseini inspects bosnien SS, 1944 (b/w photo), . / Bridgeman Images

SZT2989345: King Maximilian. I. Joseph from Bavaria (photo), . / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933825: Humorous caricature of an actor portraying Richard III in Shakespeare's HENRY VI. The caption reads, An actor of quick conceptions. Of one or both of us, the time is come. Cackle, cackle! 1790, . / 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

EVB2933871: Vernon Blythe Castle (1887-1918), and wife, Irene, dancing. 1914. Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire, starred in the 1939 film, THE STORY OF VERNON AND IRENE CASTLE, . / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933929: Burlesque chorus girl in her brief costume of blue tights, pink cape with feathers in her hair. 1899, . / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933999: Albert Davis Lasker (right), advertising man and chairman of the U.S. Shipping Board, talks with Illinois Representative Martin B. Madden (left) in 1923, . / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934002: Edward L. Doheny (1856-1935) with his prominent lawyer, Frank J. Hogan. Hogan developed the defense that Doheny had leased the California naval oil reserves out of patriotism, to help build the fuel storage capacity at Pearl Harbor. Jan, 11, 1924, . / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934012: William 'Billy' Burns (1861-1932), as the newly appointed Director of the Bureau of Investigation (now the FBI) on August 22, 1921, . / Bridgeman Images