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An leather aproned blacksmith in the doorway of his forge talking to two youngsters. Photograph by Frances Stebbins Allen, c. 1900
An leather aproned blacksmith in the doorway of his forge talking to two youngsters. Photograph by Frances Stebbins Allen, c. 1900

EVB2937954: An leather aproned blacksmith in the doorway of his forge talking to two youngsters. Photograph by Frances Stebbins Allen, c. 1900, Allen, Frances Stebbins (1854-1941) / Bridgeman Images

Woman countersinking a detonator tube hole in hand grenade at Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing. Company, during World War I
Woman countersinking a detonator tube hole in hand grenade at Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing. Company, during World War I

EVB2937957: Woman countersinking a detonator tube hole in hand grenade at Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing. Company, during World War I, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images

James P. Hoffa (B. 1941), with his father James R. Hoffa (1913-1975), at testimonial dinner in 1966. The younger Hoffa was elected President of the Teamsters Union for three successive terms in 1998, 2002, and 2006
James P. Hoffa (B. 1941), with his father James R. Hoffa (1913-1975), at testimonial dinner in 1966. The younger Hoffa was elected President of the Teamsters Union for three successive terms in 1998, 2002, and 2006

EVB2938017: James P. Hoffa (B. 1941), with his father James R. Hoffa (1913-1975), at testimonial dinner in 1966. The younger Hoffa was elected President of the Teamsters Union for three successive terms in 1998, 2002, and 2006 / Bridgeman Images

Poster promoting the I.W.W. campaign for the eight hour work day, 1912 (poster)
Poster promoting the I.W.W. campaign for the eight hour work day, 1912 (poster)

EVB2938026: Poster promoting the I.W.W. campaign for the eight hour work day, 1912 (poster) / Bridgeman Images

Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins and AFL President William Green at the National Theater attending PINS AND Needles, a stage production by International Ladies Garment Workers Union, Dec. 6, 1938
Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins and AFL President William Green at the National Theater attending PINS AND Needles, a stage production by International Ladies Garment Workers Union, Dec. 6, 1938

EVB2938041: Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins and AFL President William Green at the National Theater attending PINS AND Needles, a stage production by International Ladies Garment Workers Union, Dec. 6, 1938 / Bridgeman Images

George Meany speaking at the Labor Day exercises held by the Nassau-Suffolk AFL organization, Uniondale, New York, 1941 (b/w photograph)
George Meany speaking at the Labor Day exercises held by the Nassau-Suffolk AFL organization, Uniondale, New York, 1941 (b/w photograph)

EVB2938044: George Meany speaking at the Labor Day exercises held by the Nassau-Suffolk AFL organization, Uniondale, New York, 1941 (b/w photograph) / Bridgeman Images

Striking farmers dump milk cans from a truck they have stopped to prevent delivery to market during the Great Depression. Milk strikes failed because most farmers were owner-operators and would not voluntarily destroy their produce. c. 1930-36
Striking farmers dump milk cans from a truck they have stopped to prevent delivery to market during the Great Depression. Milk strikes failed because most farmers were owner-operators and would not voluntarily destroy their produce. c. 1930-36

EVB2938059: Striking farmers dump milk cans from a truck they have stopped to prevent delivery to market during the Great Depression. Milk strikes failed because most farmers were owner-operators and would not voluntarily destroy their produce. c. 1930-36 / Bridgeman Images

Men ride on the running boards of a improvised mass transit vehicle during a strike in Brooklyn, c. 1915
Men ride on the running boards of a improvised mass transit vehicle during a strike in Brooklyn, c. 1915

EVB2938074: Men ride on the running boards of a improvised mass transit vehicle during a strike in Brooklyn, c. 1915 / Bridgeman Images

Idaho National Laboratory's Advanced Test Reactor core powered up, with the fuel plates glowing bright blue. The core is submerged in water for cooling, 1990s (photo)
Idaho National Laboratory's Advanced Test Reactor core powered up, with the fuel plates glowing bright blue. The core is submerged in water for cooling, 1990s (photo)

EVB2937551: Idaho National Laboratory's Advanced Test Reactor core powered up, with the fuel plates glowing bright blue. The core is submerged in water for cooling, 1990s (photo) / Bridgeman Images

Filling the torpedo shell prior to shooting the oil well. Nitroglycerine torpedoes were lowered into completed wells and then exploded, creating a local earthquake that broke up the rock allowing the oil to flow more freely, often causing gushers. c. 1880
Filling the torpedo shell prior to shooting the oil well. Nitroglycerine torpedoes were lowered into completed wells and then exploded, creating a local earthquake that broke up the rock allowing the oil to flow more freely, often causing gushers. c. 1880

EVB2937569: Filling the torpedo shell prior to shooting the oil well. Nitroglycerine torpedoes were lowered into completed wells and then exploded, creating a local earthquake that broke up the rock allowing the oil to flow more freely, often causing gushers. c. 1880 / Bridgeman Images

Alessandro Volta (1745-1827), demonstrating his electricity generating apparatus to Napoleon, for which Napoleon made him a count. Volta's device is now called a voltaic pile, an early electric battery, which produced a steady electric current. 1810
Alessandro Volta (1745-1827), demonstrating his electricity generating apparatus to Napoleon, for which Napoleon made him a count. Volta's device is now called a voltaic pile, an early electric battery, which produced a steady electric current. 1810

EVB2937623: Alessandro Volta (1745-1827), demonstrating his electricity generating apparatus to Napoleon, for which Napoleon made him a count. Volta's device is now called a voltaic pile, an early electric battery, which produced a steady electric current. 1810 / Bridgeman Images

Control panel and dynamo (generator) of a self-contained electric power station that might be used for a large house or small factory before electricity was available from public utilities. Rotating dynamos created electricity by converting power coal fired steam engines, and turbines powered by flowing water
Control panel and dynamo (generator) of a self-contained electric power station that might be used for a large house or small factory before electricity was available from public utilities. Rotating dynamos created electricity by converting power coal fired steam engines, and turbines powered by flowing water

EVB2937629: Control panel and dynamo (generator) of a self-contained electric power station that might be used for a large house or small factory before electricity was available from public utilities. Rotating dynamos created electricity by converting power coal fired steam engines, and turbines powered by flowing water / Bridgeman Images

1920's showroom of Schneider Electric Store in Washington, D.C. Among the electric consumer products on display include: lamps, fans, space heaters, floor cleaners, clothes washers, refrigerators, toy trains, percolators, hotplates, toasters, irons and hair wavers. Westinghouse and General Electric brands are prominent
1920's showroom of Schneider Electric Store in Washington, D.C. Among the electric consumer products on display include: lamps, fans, space heaters, floor cleaners, clothes washers, refrigerators, toy trains, percolators, hotplates, toasters, irons and hair wavers. Westinghouse and General Electric brands are prominent

EVB2937644: 1920's showroom of Schneider Electric Store in Washington, D.C. Among the electric consumer products on display include: lamps, fans, space heaters, floor cleaners, clothes washers, refrigerators, toy trains, percolators, hotplates, toasters, irons and hair wavers. Westinghouse and General Electric brands are prominent / Bridgeman Images

President and Mrs. Kennedy en route to a private party on March 7, 1961. On the cold winter night, Jacqueline Kennedy wears a mink coat
President and Mrs. Kennedy en route to a private party on March 7, 1961. On the cold winter night, Jacqueline Kennedy wears a mink coat

EVB2937725: President and Mrs. Kennedy en route to a private party on March 7, 1961. On the cold winter night, Jacqueline Kennedy wears a mink coat / Bridgeman Images

Memorial portrait of George Washington (1732-1799) crowned with laurel wreath. Drawing by Charles Balthazar Julien Fevret de Saint-Memin. c. 1800
Memorial portrait of George Washington (1732-1799) crowned with laurel wreath. Drawing by Charles Balthazar Julien Fevret de Saint-Memin. c. 1800

EVB2937728: Memorial portrait of George Washington (1732-1799) crowned with laurel wreath. Drawing by Charles Balthazar Julien Fevret de Saint-Memin. c. 1800 / Bridgeman Images

Lee DeForest, (1873-1961), ran an experimental radio station in New York City in 1916, where he made the and the first radio announcement of Presidential election results when Woodrow Wilson was reelected in 1916
Lee DeForest, (1873-1961), ran an experimental radio station in New York City in 1916, where he made the and the first radio announcement of Presidential election results when Woodrow Wilson was reelected in 1916

EVB2937752: Lee DeForest, (1873-1961), ran an experimental radio station in New York City in 1916, where he made the and the first radio announcement of Presidential election results when Woodrow Wilson was reelected in 1916 / Bridgeman Images

William Fothergill Cooke (1806-1879), with Charles Wheatstone, invented the Cooke-Wheatstone electrical telegraph, patented in 1837. It differed from the Morse telegraph in that the receiver pointed to letters, which spared operators the task of translating code
William Fothergill Cooke (1806-1879), with Charles Wheatstone, invented the Cooke-Wheatstone electrical telegraph, patented in 1837. It differed from the Morse telegraph in that the receiver pointed to letters, which spared operators the task of translating code

EVB2937767: William Fothergill Cooke (1806-1879), with Charles Wheatstone, invented the Cooke-Wheatstone electrical telegraph, patented in 1837. It differed from the Morse telegraph in that the receiver pointed to letters, which spared operators the task of translating code / Bridgeman Images

They signal
They signal

EVB2937785: They signal "Send books" - Good books left at the public library will be sent "over there" and to our men in camp everywhere, 1917 (poster) / Bridgeman Images

Helen Campbell, a wireless operator was recruited by the National League for Women's Service, a World War I government program to use women to fill jobs vacated by men drafted into the military. 1917
Helen Campbell, a wireless operator was recruited by the National League for Women's Service, a World War I government program to use women to fill jobs vacated by men drafted into the military. 1917

EVB2937788: Helen Campbell, a wireless operator was recruited by the National League for Women's Service, a World War I government program to use women to fill jobs vacated by men drafted into the military. 1917, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images

A rare unpopulated winter view of the girders of the Eiffel Tower reflected in the placid waters beneath the tower in Paris. February 1961
A rare unpopulated winter view of the girders of the Eiffel Tower reflected in the placid waters beneath the tower in Paris. February 1961

EVB2937794: A rare unpopulated winter view of the girders of the Eiffel Tower reflected in the placid waters beneath the tower in Paris. February 1961 / Bridgeman Images

Hanna furnaces of the Great Lakes Steel Corporation, Detroit, Michigan. The tank stores gas from the coke oven. Square building and extension in middle ground is where coal is fed to the coke oven
Hanna furnaces of the Great Lakes Steel Corporation, Detroit, Michigan. The tank stores gas from the coke oven. Square building and extension in middle ground is where coal is fed to the coke oven

EVB2937803: Hanna furnaces of the Great Lakes Steel Corporation, Detroit, Michigan. The tank stores gas from the coke oven. Square building and extension in middle ground is where coal is fed to the coke oven / Bridgeman Images

World War I veterans boarding a bus taking them from New York City, 1933
World War I veterans boarding a bus taking them from New York City, 1933

EVB2938110: World War I veterans boarding a bus taking them from New York City, 1933, American Photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images

African American woman porter in the New York City Subway sweeping an underground station. c. 1910
African American woman porter in the New York City Subway sweeping an underground station. c. 1910

EVB2938116: African American woman porter in the New York City Subway sweeping an underground station. c. 1910, Bain, George Grantham - Bain News Service (1865-1944) / Bridgeman Images

Uniformed woman Brooklyn Subway guard stands in the doorway of train car. c. 1910
Uniformed woman Brooklyn Subway guard stands in the doorway of train car. c. 1910

EVB2938122: Uniformed woman Brooklyn Subway guard stands in the doorway of train car. c. 1910 / Bridgeman Images

President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline waving to Inaugural parade spectators from their open limousine on Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C, 1961 (photo)
President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline waving to Inaugural parade spectators from their open limousine on Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C, 1961 (photo)

EVB2938146: President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline waving to Inaugural parade spectators from their open limousine on Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C, 1961 (photo) / Bridgeman Images

The Rock' United States Penitentiary on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay California. c.1940 (b/w photo)
The Rock' United States Penitentiary on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay California. c.1940 (b/w photo)

EVB2938209: The Rock' United States Penitentiary on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay California. c.1940 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

Al Jolson right sings to Eddie Cantor in a 1941 rehearsal
Al Jolson right sings to Eddie Cantor in a 1941 rehearsal

EVB2938218: Al Jolson right sings to Eddie Cantor in a 1941 rehearsal / Bridgeman Images

Librarian taking a printout from a UNIVAC 490 Printer. In the 1960s computer technology was available for specialists in this case to manage library catalogs and book circulation. 1966
Librarian taking a printout from a UNIVAC 490 Printer. In the 1960s computer technology was available for specialists in this case to manage library catalogs and book circulation. 1966

EVB2938227: Librarian taking a printout from a UNIVAC 490 Printer. In the 1960s computer technology was available for specialists in this case to manage library catalogs and book circulation. 1966 / Bridgeman Images

Tourists drive their automobile on through a tunnel carved in the Wawona tree Mariposa Grove Yosemite Valley California. June 15 1918. LC-USZ62-62098
Tourists drive their automobile on through a tunnel carved in the Wawona tree Mariposa Grove Yosemite Valley California. June 15 1918. LC-USZ62-62098

EVB2938263: Tourists drive their automobile on through a tunnel carved in the Wawona tree Mariposa Grove Yosemite Valley California. June 15 1918. LC-USZ62-62098 / Bridgeman Images

Electric auto at re-charging station in 1919. LC-USZ62-69341
Electric auto at re-charging station in 1919. LC-USZ62-69341

EVB2938278: Electric auto at re-charging station in 1919. LC-USZ62-69341 / Bridgeman Images

Orville Wright 1871-1948 in flight over treetops covering a distance of approximately 1 760 feet in 40 1/5 seconds at Huffman Prairie Dayton Ohio. November 16 1904. LC-DIG-ppprs-00616
Orville Wright 1871-1948 in flight over treetops covering a distance of approximately 1 760 feet in 40 1/5 seconds at Huffman Prairie Dayton Ohio. November 16 1904. LC-DIG-ppprs-00616

EVB2938347: Orville Wright 1871-1948 in flight over treetops covering a distance of approximately 1 760 feet in 40 1/5 seconds at Huffman Prairie Dayton Ohio. November 16 1904. LC-DIG-ppprs-00616 / Bridgeman Images

1929 re-enactment photo of the DEWITT CLINTON steam engine making its first trip with passengers from Albany to Schenectady on August 9 1831. The passenger cars are still designed like hores drawn carriages. LC-USZ62-104196
1929 re-enactment photo of the DEWITT CLINTON steam engine making its first trip with passengers from Albany to Schenectady on August 9 1831. The passenger cars are still designed like hores drawn carriages. LC-USZ62-104196

EVB2938371: 1929 re-enactment photo of the DEWITT CLINTON steam engine making its first trip with passengers from Albany to Schenectady on August 9 1831. The passenger cars are still designed like hores drawn carriages. LC-USZ62-104196 / Bridgeman Images

Japanese National Railways' ultra-modern express train the KODAMA Echo in English was introduced to service in November 1958. It set a world speed record of 163 kilometers per hour 101 MPH in on July 31 1959. LC-USZ62-134143
Japanese National Railways' ultra-modern express train the KODAMA Echo in English was introduced to service in November 1958. It set a world speed record of 163 kilometers per hour 101 MPH in on July 31 1959. LC-USZ62-134143

EVB2938386: Japanese National Railways' ultra-modern express train the KODAMA Echo in English was introduced to service in November 1958. It set a world speed record of 163 kilometers per hour 101 MPH in on July 31 1959. LC-USZ62-134143 / Bridgeman Images

Chicago and Alton Railroad crossing in rural Illinois near Coal City. c. 1905. LC-D4-42362
Chicago and Alton Railroad crossing in rural Illinois near Coal City. c. 1905. LC-D4-42362

EVB2938395: Chicago and Alton Railroad crossing in rural Illinois near Coal City. c. 1905. LC-D4-42362 / Bridgeman Images

Two men at the control panel of the Chickamauga Dam are dwarfed by the large scale of the generator hall. 1940
Two men at the control panel of the Chickamauga Dam are dwarfed by the large scale of the generator hall. 1940

EVB2937815: Two men at the control panel of the Chickamauga Dam are dwarfed by the large scale of the generator hall. 1940 / Bridgeman Images

Assembling department, National Cash Register, Dayton, Ohio demonstrates mass production of precisely made complex products achieved during the 19th century
Assembling department, National Cash Register, Dayton, Ohio demonstrates mass production of precisely made complex products achieved during the 19th century

EVB2937833: Assembling department, National Cash Register, Dayton, Ohio demonstrates mass production of precisely made complex products achieved during the 19th century / Bridgeman Images


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