EVB2936959: The Suffrage Hike of 1912 from Manhattan to Albany was staged to bring attention to issue of women's suffrage. Its organizer, Rosalie Gardiner Jones, poses with others in NYC to promote the hike. Photo shows women suffrage hikers Jessie Stubbs, General Rosalie Jones, and Colonel Ida Craft, Bain, George Grantham - Bain News Service (1865-1944) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2937031: Unidentified masked robbers, suspected to be the James gang, robbed a passenger train at Winston, Missouri on July 15, 1881. They killed a second man in the baggage car before they escaped with ,000 in bills and coins. In response, the governor of Missouri placed a ,000 reward for the gang / Bridgeman Images
EVB2937136: Inez Milholland, wearing white robes and a crown riding a white horse as the 'Herald' in the Women's Suffrage parade of March 3, 1913, the day prior to Woodrow Wilson's inauguration. It was the last major suffrage demonstration to use such theatrical costumes, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2937148: Suffragist Mabel Vernon speaking to large crowd of men an Open-Air Meeting in Chicago. In addition to her gifts as a speaker for the National Women's Party, she organized demonstrations and was herself arrested and imprisoned in 1917, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2937217: Mrs. Rose ONeal Greenhow (1814-1864)(with her daughter), Confederate Spy during the U.S. Civil War, imprisoned at old Capitol. She was exiled to the South and greeted as a heroine. She died on a mission to smuggle gold through the Union blockade in 1864, Brady, Mathew (1823-96) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2935218: Monk Eastman (c.1873-1920), early 20th century gangster, was buried with full military honors in recognition of his army service during World War I. He was killed by a criminal partner, Jerry Bohan, a corrupt Prohibition agent. 1920, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2935308: Margot Fonteyn (1919-1991), and John Hart (b. 1921) performing the ballet THREE CORNERED HAT, produced by Sadlers Wells Ballet Company, London, c. 1946. The ballet is based on the novella by Pedro Antonio de Alarcon, in which a government official attempts to seduce the faithful wife of a humble milner / Bridgeman Images
EVB2935392: Cornelia Stuyvesant Vanderbilt (1900-1976), only child of George W. Vanderbilt and Edith Stuyvesant Dresser holding a bouquet of flowers on the announcement of her engagement to British diplomat, John Francis Amherst Cecil. The couple had two sons before their 1934 divorce / Bridgeman Images
EVB2937244: Peter Zenger's Philadelphia lawyer, Andrew Hamilton, defying court protocol, directly addresses the jury during his trial for seditious libel against the appointed corrupt colonial governor, William Crosby. The jury acquitted Zenger after only 10 minutes deliberation. 1735 / Bridgeman Images