ID: EVB2925159

Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, theologian of Catholic University Washington, D.C. Monsignor Sheen hosted the night-time radio program, THE CATHOLIC HOUR, from 1930 to 1950

ID: EVB2925166

Fulton J. Sheen following a private audience Pope Paul VI at the Vatican, March 17, 1971. Sheen was a celebrated radio and television priest from 1930 to mid-1960s until a dispute with Cardinal Spellman over money. Subsequently, his television work was discouraged, his leadership at the Society for the Propagation of the Faith was terminated, and he was reassigned to Rochester, New York

ID: EVB2925169

Henry Stimson, U.S. Sec. of State, spoke at the London Naval Conference of 1930. It was the third in a series of five meetings limiting the size of the world’s largest navies. Behind Stimson, was Charles Dawes, U.S. Ambassador Britain. Aristide Briand, French Foreign Minister, at extreme right

ID: EVB2925178

Indonesian ruler Sukarno was removed from power on Jan, 10, 1967. He was stripped of his 'President-for-Life' title by the legislature, the People's Consultative Assembly. He spent the next four years before his death in 1970, under house arrest in Bogor Palace

ID: EVB2925186

Senator Frank Church, Idaho Democrat, Jan. 28, 1975. He was Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Activities. In the wake of the Watergate Scandal, the Church Committee, exposed decades of illegal activities of the CIA and FBA

ID: EVB2925195

Secretary of Commerce Harry Hopkins watching a Washington-Yankee ball game. April 29, 1940

ID: EVB2925202

Mrs. Geoffery Gates, the former Mrs. Louise Macy Hopkins, widow of the advisor Harry Hopkins. Sept. 12, 1947. Geoffery Gates was a socially prominent New York architect. They married at the home of the bride's sister and brother-in-law, the Nicholas Ludington's in Ardmore, Pennsylvania

ID: EVB2925203

Willie Hoppe, carom billiards champion in 1912. He was planning a rematch with George Sutton, who had arms below the elbows. Their second match would take place at the Hotel Astor, NYC

ID: EVB2925204

Billiards World Champion Willie Hoppe's hand was is insured for ,000. He won 51 world titles between 1906 and 1952

ID: EVB2925210

H.V. Kaltenborn at the CBS microphone, c. 1938-1940 as Europe moved toward war. During the Munich Crisis, in Sept. 1938, he slept in the CBS studio and reported day and night from until the day after the signing of the Four Power Agreement on Sept. 29th. He played himself in two movies, MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON (1939) and THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL (1951). T

ID: EVB2925529

Joe Adonis, was named as one of the U.S. top six criminals by Kefauver Committee in 1950. On May 28, 1951, he was sentenced to 2-3 years in New Jersey state prison. Actor James Percell portrayed Adonis in GANGSTER WARS, 1984. Lewis Van Bergen portrayed Adonis in the 1991 film, BUGSY, 1991

ID: EVB2925619

Stephen Zweig, Jewish Austrian writer, was international popular in the 1920s and 1930s. Two of his books were made into films. BEWARE OF PITY, was made in 1946 starring Lilli Palmer, Albert Lieven and Cedric Hardwicke; and LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN, 1948, with Louis Jourdan, Joan Fontaine, and Marcel Journet

ID: EVB2925633

Kay Summersby with her World War II memorabilia, including autographed photos of Winston Churchill, George Marshall, Franklin Roosevelt and a framed letter from General Eisenhower, a ribboned medal, and the unframed photo of Gen. Omar Bradley she is holding. Publicity photo for her 1948 memoir, 'Eisenhower Was My Boss.'

ID: EVB2925651

Bill Tilden rehearsing with his leading lady, Sandy Weiner, for a charity play in Philadelphia. Jan. 15, 1923. The play was performed at the Bellevue Stratford Hotel, benefitted Germantown Academy, the prep school Tilden attended

ID: EVB2925653

Bill Tilden playing tennis in a tournament at St. Cloud, France, outside of Paris. June 6, 1927

ID: EVB2925667

Bill Tilden, former Tennis Champion, c. 1951. He was isolated from former friends and associates after his two imprisonments on homosexual related morals charges. Charlie Chaplin allowed Tilden to use his private court for lessons to help him continue working

ID: EVB2925668

Bill Tilden, former Tennis Champion, at 58 years at Lakewood Park, Ohio. June 1951. He was practicing for the Pro Tennis Tournament, with Mayor A. I. Kauffman

ID: EVB2925681

Gloria Swanson's daughter, Michelle Farmer, to wed Bob Amon, 36, Turkish movie business manager. They were married on Dec. 17, 1951 in Paterson, N.J. Gloria Swanson was reported as ill and did not attend the wedding

ID: EVB2925706

Communist Party and Soviet government officials in Tbilisi, Georgia, 1926.

ID: EVB2925713

Comrades A. S. Yenukidze, Josef Stalin, and Maxim Gorky on 10th Anniversary of the Red Sportintern. At Lenin's Tomb, Moscow, August 3, 1931. Later, Comrade A. S. Yenukidze, would be cropped out of this picture. In Great Purge of the 1930s Enukidze was expelled from the Party, arrested, tried, and shot for disloyalty to Stalin

ID: EVB2925718

K.E. Voroshilov, Joseph Stalin, V.M. Molotov at funeral for Soviet stratosphere martyrs. On Jan 30, 1934, Osoaviakhim-1, a hydrogen-filled high-altitude balloon carried a capsule with a crew of three 72,000 feet into the Earth's stratosphere. Catastrophic loss of buoyancy resulted in a crash that killed all the men

ID: EVB2925441

American racing driver Peter Revson with model Marjorie Wallace at the Ontario Speedway. March 9, 1974. The former Miss World was rumored to be engaged to Revlon cosmetics millionaire Revson. Less than 2 weeks later Revson died in a crash in South Africa

ID: EVB2925465

Sybil Burton and her husband, Jordan Christopher, at New York's discotheque 'Arthur'. Mrs. Christopher is cutting a cake during the celebration of the successful night clubs one year anniversary. May 12, 1966

ID: EVB2925479

Dr. Alfred D. Hershey, 60, awarded 1969 Nobel Prize for Medicine. He shared the prize with Dr. Salvador Luria and Dr. Max Delbruck, for their discoveries concerning the genetic structure of viruses

ID: EVB2925493

Willie Heston, University of Michigan's famous halfback, 1903. His uniform had a laced canvas placket, with heavy external shoulder, elbow, thigh and knee pads

ID: EVB2925508

Professors Auguste Piccard and his brother twin Jean. Auguste was the first human to reach the stratosphere. Jean's invented clustered high-altitude balloons. Their inventions were are used in balloon flight, aircraft, and spacecraft

ID: EVB2925139

Jean Acker, estranged wife of actor Rudolph Valentino. They married on Nov. 6, 1919, and immediately separated. She locked him out of their hotel bedroom on their wedding night. Valentino filed for divorce in Mexico. He married Alla Nazimova on May 13, 1922 in Mexicali, Mexico, before his divorce was legally final

ID: HST2908143

Crown Ornament, 9th-10th century (gold)

Javanese School

ID: HST2908151

Chief's Betel Leaf Bag, Nage peoples, 18th-19th century (gold)

Indonesian School

ID: HST2908171

Lute, Ottoman, late 19th-early 20th century (wood, ebony, ivory & mother-of-pearl inlay)

Turkish School

ID: HST2908179

La Fée aux fleurs, 1870-1900 (cast iron)

Moreau, Mathurin (1822-1912)

ID: HST2908191

Jar (Olla) with Step Motif, 1880-90 (earthenware with slip )

Zuni People (19th century)

ID: HST2908241

Seated Guanyin, early 18th century (blanc de chine porcelain)

Chinese School, Qing dynasty (18th century)

ID: HST2908261

Clear Creek Canyon, Colorado, c.1899 (photolitho)

Jackson, William Henry (1843-1942)

ID: HST2908271

Derniere Croisade (Last crusade), 1896 (lithograph, state ii)

Bonnard, Pierre (1867-1947)

ID: HST2908283

Head of a Kore (marble)

Roman, (1st century AD)