EVB2932925: Clare Boothe Luce (1903-1987) at age three. Her father abandoned their family and she was raised by her single mother / Bridgeman Images

EVB2932931: Clare Boothe Luce (1903-1987) in 1943, the year she became Connecticut's Republican representative in Congress / Bridgeman Images

EVB2932946: Maxwell Bodenheim (1893-1954) is remembered more for his colorful bohemian life style in New York's Greenwich Village than his poetry and novels from the 1920s and 1930s. 1919 portrait / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933319: FBI mug shots of six top-ranking members of the American Communist Party: Eugene Dennis, William Z. Foster, Benjamin Davis, John Williamson, Henry Winston, and Jacob Stachel. The communist party was virtually criminalized in the post-war era in the United States. 1948 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933328: Jacqueline Bouvier as the 'Inquiring Camera Girl' of the Washington Times-Herald, 1952 hington Times-Herald. 1952 hington Times-Herald. 1952 hington Times-Herald. 1952 hington Times-Herald. 1952 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933340: 1876 Grand National Democratic banner with candidates Samuel J. Tilden and Thomas A. Hendricks. The Tilden-Hendricks banner, states their campaign theme of federal reform / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933358: Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Herbert Hoover in on way to Roosevelt's inauguration. Hoover did not speak because he resented Roosevelt's lack of support during the bank crisis that occurred between the election and inauguration. 1933, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933385: Emma Perry Carr (1880–1972), pioneering Mount Holyoke College professor of chemistry and research chemist / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933406: Albert Einstein, 1945 (b/w photo), Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933466: Child laborers portrayed by Lewis Hine in 1911. Breaker Boys were used in the anthracite coal mines to separate slate rock from the mined coal prior to shipment to market, Hine, Lewis Wickes (1874-1940) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933472: Homeless men at the police station lodging, in New York City. The facilities were disease ridden places where the strong preyed on the weak. This location was spreading typhus. Jacob Riis photo, c. 1895 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933508: Howard Hughes (1905-1976) in 1936 portrait / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933529: Sailors aboard the USS OLYMPIA waltzing at tiffin (lunch time), 1899. The USS OLYMPIA was Admiral Dewey's flagship and is now a museum ship at the Independence Seaport Museum, Philadelphia / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933562: Enrico Caruso (1873-1921), holding his baby daughter, Gloria. 1919 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933568: Enrico Caruso (1873-1921), as the clown Canio in PAGLIACCI, an opera by Ruggero Leoncavallo. 1908 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933021: Marian Anderson (1897-1993), African American opera singer, received greater recognition in Europe in the 1930's than in Americ. 1940 portrait by Carl Van Vechten, Vechten, Carl Van (1880-1964) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933039: Pearl Bailey (1918-1990), African American jazz singer in 1965 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933060: Cab Calloway (1907-1994), greeted by his daughters, Chris and Lael, at the airport in 1951 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933153: Henry Clay (1777-1852). Commemorative portrait of the great American Whig politician / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933156: Henry Clay (1777-1852), 1851 dauguerreotype by Matthew Brady. In his seventies he designed the Compromise of 1850, averting the Civil War for ten years / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933168: Simon Cameron (1799-1889) was Lincoln's first Secretary of War, but due to his corruption and mismanagement was replaced in 1862 by Edwin Stanton / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933177: Jefferson Davis (1808-1889), president-elect of the new southern confederacy, addressing the citizens of Montgomery, Alabama, from the balcony of the Exchange Hotel, on Feb. 16, 1861, two days before his inauguration / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933183: Abraham Lincoln (1809-1856) and his son Thaddeus (also called Thomas and Tad). This Alexander Gardner portrait of Feb. 5, 1865 was Lincoln's last photography sitting / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933222: Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) depicted as a frontier rail splitter in 1909 commemorative portrait / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933228: Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), hand colored lithography published after Lincoln's death in 1865 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933234: Paul Poiret (1879-1944), most modern couturier in pre-World War I France. 1913 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933240: David Greenglass (b. 1922), cooperated with prosecutors of his sister, Ethel, and her husband Julius Rosenberg, who were convicted and executed for atomic espionage and treason in 1953. Greenglass, who was assigned as a machinist to the Manhattan Project to build the atomic bomb, provided the Rosenbergs with data on atomic weapons / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933291: Ignazio Silone (1900-1978), Italian writer and politician wrote novels expressing his socialist world view. FONTAMARA 1930, BREAD AND WINE 1938, and SCHOOL FOR DICTATORS 1939, were well received works. In post World War II Italy be was active in the Democratic Socialist Party / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933610: John McCormack, (1884-1945), Irish-American tenor, in costume. 1910 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933628: The Brooklyn Academy of Music in 1861, shortly after its completion / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933655: Adelina Patti (1843-1919) in 1881, at the height of her forty year career as a top international opera singer / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933667: Noble Sissle (1889-1975), American jazz composer, lyricist, bandleader, singer and playwright. With Eubie Blake, he wrote songs for SHUFFLE ALONG, the first hit musical on Broadway written by and about African-Americans. 1951 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933685: Bruno Walter (1876-1962) German conductor, whose career in Germany and Austria ended with his emigration to the United States at the beginning of World War II. In the US, he conducted at the Metropolitan Opera and New York Philharmonic. 1905 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933748: Charlotte Cushman (1816-1876), in costume as Meg Merrilies, a gypsy character from a poem by John Keats. c. 1860 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933766: Edwin Forrest (1806-1872), American actor, as Shakespeare's King Lear, one of his most successful roles. c. 1860 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2933769: David Garrick (1717-1779), English actor, as Shakespeare's Richard III. Mezzotint by John Boydell, after painting by Nathaniel Dance. 1772 / Bridgeman Images