EVB2938678: Levi 'Lee' Shubert 1871-1953 was a Polish-born American theatre owner and producer. With his brother Sam he acquired and operated many New York theaters including the Winter Garden and Shubert Theatres. c. 1920 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2938687: Mrs. James J. 'Molly' Brown 1867-1932 acquired her wealth with her husband J.J. Brown in Colorado minefields. She has been portrayed by Debbie Reynolds in THE UNSINKABLE MOLLY BROWN 1964 Cloris Leachman in S.O.S. TITANTIC and Kathy Bates in TITANTI / Bridgeman Images

EVB2938708: Nelson W. Aldrich 1841-1915 Republican Senator from Rhode island from 1881-1911 supported business interests and protective tariffs. His daughter married John D. Rockefeller Jr. c. 1900, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2938440: President Reagan delivering his last State of the Union address. Reagan displayed a 43 pound 'behemoth' the Federal budget and called for a 'drastic overhaul' of the budget process. Behind Reagan are VP George Bush and Speaker Jim Wright. January 25 198. PO-USP-USC-Reagan_NA-12-0091M / Bridgeman Images

EVB2938446: The Reagans greet the Gorbachevs at the White House State for a White House State Dinner. Earlier that day Reagan and Gorbachev signed the INF Treaty eliminating nuclear and conventional ground-launched ballistic and cruise missiles with intermediate ra / Bridgeman Images

EVB2938449: President and Nancy Reagan meeting with Pope John Paul II at The Vatican. June 7 1982 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2938455: President and Nancy Reagan having tea with Prince Charles and Princess Diana in the White House Residence. Nov. 9, 1985 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2938464: President Reagan and Mrs. Reagan attending a memorial service for Lebanon and Grenada casualty victims Camp Lejeune North Carolina. 241 U.S. service members were killed and 80 seriously injured in the Beirut barracks bombing of Oct 23 1983. In Grenada / Bridgeman Images

EVB2938503: Vice President and Barbara Bush surrounded by their grandchildren (photo) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2938509: George Bush as a U.S. Congressman from 1966-1970 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2938548: Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney meets with Prince Sultan Minister of Defense and Aviation of Saudi Arabia on Dec 1. 1990. Saudi Arabia provided the staging base for over 500 000 anti-Iraq coalition troops / Bridgeman Images

EVB2938551: Explosion from a direct U.S. hit on a Grenadian position on the first day of the U.S. lead invasion of the Caribbean island on Oct. 25 1983 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2938665: Helena Rubinstein 1870-1965 Polish born cosmetics entrepreneur wearing dramatic jewelry in the dining room of her New York City apartment c. 1940, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2938671: John Wanamaker 1838-1922 opened Philadelphia's first department store in 1875. Photo shows Wanamaker in his role as United States Postmaster General during the Benjamin Harrison. c. 1890 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2938674: Phineas T. Barnum 1810- 1891 a entertainment promoter and showman established BARNUM'S AMERICAN MUSUEM in New York City in 1841 to display amusing unusual and faked exhibits to the gullible paying public. After the museum was destroyed by a Confede / Bridgeman Images

EVB2938677: Marie Dressler Anne Morgan and Jules Bache, c.1920 (photo), Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2938680: Portrait of E.I. du Pont 1771-1834 (painting), Peale, Rembrandt (1778-1860) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2938692: Samuel I. Newhouse 1895-1979 broadcasting businessman magazine and newspaper publisher. He founded Advance Publications publishers of several top selling magazines including VOGUE VANITY FAIR and THE NEW YORKER. 1950 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2938707: Ida M. Tarbell 1857-1944 was a muckraking journalist for McClure's magazine in the 1900's. Her HISTORY OF THE STANDARD OIL COMPANY was published in 1904. c. 1910 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2938722: Hetty Howland Robinson Green 1835-1916 in the 1890s. Born into a Quaker family made wealthy by whaling she inherited 7.5 million in 1864 which she grew to over 100 million making her the world's richest woman / Bridgeman Images

EVB2936119: President Herbert Hoover (1874-1964), takes the oath of office from Chief Justice William H. Taft (1857-1930), on the east portico of the U.S. Capitol, March 4, 1929 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2936152: Mary Church Terrell (1863-July 1954) was an African American writer and socially prominent Washington D.C. civil rights activist. She personally lobbied U.S. Presidents during the Jim Crow era. c. 1895 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2936173: Muhammad Ali, works out on light bag in Miami, Florida. 1965 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2936182: United States Capitol Building in 1828, showing the west front with cows grazing in the foreground. Watercolor painting John Rubens Smith / Bridgeman Images

EVB2936218: High school girls digging air raid shelters in a hillside in Hanoi, North Vietnam during the American bombings of 1965-1966 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2936233: General Leslie Groves (1896-1970), walking across the site of the first atomic bomb blast site at Alamogordo, N.M. in July 1945. Groves was the military leader of the Manhattan Project to develop the Atomic Bomb. He was played by Paul Newman in the 1989 movie, FAT MAN AND LITTLE BOY / Bridgeman Images

EVB2936239: Chinese 5th and 6th armies under the command of American General Joseph 'Vinegar Joe' Stilwell, resting near the banks of Uyu river in the Burma jungle during their retreat India in the summer of 1942 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2936260: Ambassador to Great Britain, Joseph Kennedy, in his London study, helping his youngest son, Edward Kennedy, with his studies. c. 1938 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2936281: Carrie Chapman Catt, ( 1859-1947), was president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association when the Nineteenth Amendment grant women the right to vote was adopted in 1920, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2936024: Benjamin West (1738-1829), and his family in London, 1779. The American-born artist (far right holding palette) built his mature career in England, where he received the patronage of King George III and was elected President of the Royal Academy / Bridgeman Images

EVB2936078: African Americans enjoying some rest and recreation after a day of work picking cotton. Three men are shooting dice on the edge of cotton field while others watch. c. 1900 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2936084: Margaret Walker (1915-1998), pioneering African American poet, novelist and critic, is best known for her 1943 poem, FOR MY PEOPLE, and the novel JUBILEE (1966). She claimed Alex Haley plagiarized JUBILEE in his novel, ROOTS, but lost her legal suit for copyright infringement. c. 1940s / Bridgeman Images

EVB2936144: Nine men at a secret meeting of southern unionists. Called 'scalawags,' they represented a minority in the South that had not supported secession in 1861 and wanted to participate in the Reconstruction government of their states. 1866 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2936162: Salvation Army's New Year's Dinner in a large auditorium, 1910 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2936222: American soldiers wading through water in on an island in the New Georgia Group of the Solomon Islands as part of General Douglass MacArthur's, Operation Cartwheel, against the Japanese base at Rabaul, Papua New Guinea. 1943 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2936228: After victory in Europe, the Troops of the 20th Armored Division and units of the 9th Army whoop it up as the SS John Ericsson nears it pier on New York City's Hudson River. August 6, 1945, Ravenna, Al (fl.20th century) / Bridgeman Images