EVB2937865: Bessemer steel manufacture. Six illustrations of operations in a steel mill. Top: Testing rail; Rolling a rail; Sawing a Rail. Center: The Converter. Bottom: Casting Ingots; Heating Ingots. 1876 wood engraving by Alfred Waud / Bridgeman Images

EVB2937740: Social Security Administration clerks seated at massive tabulating machines, actually early computers, used to manage the individual records of millions of Americans in the Social Security system. c. 1940 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2937848: Lock and drill department assembly line of women workers at National Cash Register, Dayton, Ohio. C. 1902 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2937860: Krupp's Essen, Germany, steelworks' 10,000 ton bending press. The Krupp had a near monopoly in heavy arms manufacture in Germany. c. 1910, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2937997: Panama Canal construction showing massive locks before the gates were installed. c. 1912 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2938012: Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (1890-1964), addressing Paterson Silk Strikers, June 1913 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2937185: Contemporary FBI badge and gun with American flag / Bridgeman Images

EVB2937221: Bertillon system photographs taken at a ten year's interval, reveal it is the same man by the spiral lobe of the ear and the facial angle / Bridgeman Images

EVB2937329: Striking women employees of Woolworth's demand a 40 hour work week in New York City , 1937 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2937341: A pharmacist demonstrates the use of an early phone answering machine, a telephone disc prescription recorder, as another fills a prescription. 1952 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2937347: Salk Vaccine, was mass produced and rushed into distribution in 1956 after passing final trials in 1955. The vaccine brought an end to a disease that infected tens of thousands yearly / Bridgeman Images

EVB2937356: A well baby clinic in Framingham, Massachusetts, provided medical examinations to babies. c. 1920 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2937362: Dr. Frances Oldham Kelsey, a pharmacologist with the Food & Drug Administration prevented U.S. distribution of the sedative Thalidomide, which caused thousands of severe birth defects in Europe. 1962 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2937365: United Nations health programs provided screening tests for tuberculosis, at Victoria Girls College in Patiala, India. 1950 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2937428: Japanese-Americans at the Santa Anita Assembly Center where family groups identify their baggage prior to departure to the relocation camps that would be their homes for the duration of World War II. 1942 / 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 / 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 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2937163: Four women of accused and convicted of harboring fugitives Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker. Left to right: Audrey Barrow, Mrs. Connie Barrow (Clyde's mother), Blanche Barrow and Mary Odare. 1934 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2937181: Six members of the James-Younger Gang members killed or captured in the disastrous Northfield, Minnesota bank robbery of Sept. 7, 1876. Bill Chadwell and Clell Miller were killed in the street in front of the bank. While the Younger Brothers were captured, the James Brothers, Jesse and Frank escaped capture and evaded the law for another five years / Bridgeman Images

EVB2937150: Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902), American women's rights leader. Engraving c. 1865 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2937168: John Dillinger (1903-1934), in mugshot probably made during his eight and half year term in Indiana State Prison. Dillinger was played by actor Warren Oates in the 1973 movie DILLINGER, and by Johnny Depp in 2009 film, PUBLIC ENEMIES. c. 1925 / 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

EVB2937189: FBI forensic science. A technician removing safe insulation from the shoes of a burglary suspect at the FBI lab in 1954 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2937222: Fingerprint record sheet from the Navy Department in 1918 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2937289: National Rifle Association's queen of rifle shooters in 1939 was Jean Yocum, George Washington University co-ed, who won the Women's Individual Intercollegiate Rifle Championship / Bridgeman Images

EVB2937361: Clara Barton (1821-1912), in retirement after a life of humanitarian nursing and leadership the American Red Cross. c. 1906 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2937391: Gertrude Theresa Cori (1896-1967), was the third women to receive the Nobel Prize, which she shared with her husband Carl and Argentine physiologist Bernardo Alberto Houssay (1887-1971). The trio won the 1947 Nobel Prize in Medicine for discoveries in the biochemistry of glycogen, main form of carbohydrate storage in humans. 1948 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2938045: John Mitchell's horse-drawn carriage, arriving in a coal town during the Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902. Mitchell, President of the United Mine Workers of America, was surrounded by a crowd of boys. 1902 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2938095: Man operates a drill-press in the North American Aviation's Inglewood, California plant, which built B-25 bombers and Mustang fighters. October 1942, / Bridgeman Images

EVB2938113: Multi-ethnic group of men waiting to apply for subway work in New York City, c. 1910. The underground rapid transit system opened with 22 miles of track in 1904 and throughout the city for the next 30 years. c. 1910 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2938167: Federal Bureau of Narcotics illustration of a Marijuana leaf. c. 1950 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2938203: Iva Ikuko Toguri D'Aquino 1916-2006 in 1949 at the time of her trial for treason for allegedly participating in 'Tokjo Rose' broadcasts during World War II. Toguri was convicted with perjured testimony and spent six years in prison. She was officially / Bridgeman Images

EVB2938242: Japanese longshoremen loading bundles of raw silk onto a freighter. c. 1938 LC-DIG-ppmsca-13472 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2938046: Labor Union activist, Mother Jones (1837-1930), was a founder of the United Mine Workers and the Industrial Workers of the World. c. 1920 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2938257: Obelisks on shore and ships moored at the Port Said entrance to the Suez Canal. 1860 photo by Francis Frith. LC-DIG-ppmsca-04472, Frith, Francis (1822-98) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2938105: Wharf and warehouses in 19th century Japan, in 1857, shortly after Admiral Perry established an agreement opening trade between the United States and Japan / Bridgeman Images