EVB2938124: Two Daytona Beach, Florida, housewives welding in an Aircraft construction class during World War II. Both have sons in the military. April 1942 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2938141: Ship moves through the Miraflores Lock of Panama Canal, c. 1915 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2938335: Harriet Quimby 1875-1912 in the Moisant monoplane in which she learned to fly. In 1911 she became the first woman to gain a pilot's license in the United States and was the first woman to fly across the English Channel April 16 1912. She died in a flying accident in July 1912. LC-USZ62-15070 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2938202: Tom Mooney a socialist labor leader stepped out of San Quentin prison on January 7 1939 after serving 22 years for a bombing conviction based on admitted perjury. The perjurers confessed soon after Mooney's conviction but all officials ignored incl / Bridgeman Images

EVB2938226: Charles Babbage 1792-1871 English mathematician and engineer who build the most advanced mechanical calculation device of his time. His mechanical computer anticipated the development of 20th century information technology. 1871 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2938162: Lucy Peabody President of the Women's National Committee for Law Enforcement an organization of 12 million that lobbied for strict enforcement of the 18th Amendment prohibition sale of alcoholic beverages. March 1930 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2938247: Great Lakes freighter unloading iron ore at the Pennsylvania Railroad ore docks in Cleveland Ohio. One 'Hulett' unloader is lowering its bucket into the ship's hold while another foreground loads a railroad car. The 'Huletts' were invented by George Hulett in the late 19th century. 1943. LC-DIG-fsac-1a34839 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2938171: William Flynn 1867-1928 head of the U.S. Secret Service when their primary concern was controlling counterfeiters. 1919 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2938265: Algerian camel rider next to a palm tree in a desert landscape. Photo attributed to Tancrede R. Dumas between 1860-1900. LC-DIG-ppmsca-04408 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2938289: Taxicabs waiting in line for passengers at the new Union Station in Washington D.C. 1914. LC-DIG-hec-03986 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2938319: Howard Hughes 1905-1976 with actress Ida Lupino 1918-1995 in Miami Florida 1937. LC-USZ62-120724 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2936840: Wives and families of Jewish American GIs attend services in a New York City synagogue on West Twenty-third Street, on D-Day, June 6, 1944 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2936855: Mott Street in New York City's Chinatown presents a cosmopolitan scene mixing Asian and American-European dress and faces. The street is lined with restaurants, laundries, and pushcarts. c. 1900 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2936915: Anti-Immigrant cartoon showing two men with barrels as bodies, labeled 'Irish Wiskey' and 'Lager Bier', carrying a ballot box. In the background is a rioting crowd at a polling place. Nativism, a social and political movement that opposed immigration of Catholic Irish, non-Protestants, and non-English speaking peoples. c. 1850 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2936924: View from Rivington Street on New York City's Lower East Side Jewish neighborhood in 1909, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2936930: New York City street types: Emigrant man and women pretzel vendor. 1896 photograph by Alice Austen / Bridgeman Images

EVB2936854: Mott Street in New York City's Chinatown presents a cosmopolitan scene mixing Asian and American-European dress and faces. The street is lined with restaurants, laundries, and pushcarts. c. 1900 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2936948: Political cartoon showing Iroquois women on cliff overlooking women marching with banner 'woman suffrage.' It's caption reads: Savagery to 'civilization'--The Indian women: We whom you pity as drudges reached centuries ago the goal that you are now nearing. By Udo Keppler for PUCK Magazine, May 1914 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2936996: National Women's Party demonstration in front of the White House in 1918. The banner protests Wilson's failure to support women's suffrage / Bridgeman Images

EVB2936944: Boys and teenagers attend night school in the Seventh Avenue Lodging House, which was home for a couple hundred 'Street Arabs,' who worked during the day and no longer lived with their families. 1900 photograph by Jacob Riis / Bridgeman Images

EVB2937044: J. Edgar Hoover (1895-1972), as director of the Bureau of Investigation in 1924. Under his leadership the Bureau became the FBI in 1935, which he headed until his death in 1972. Photo taken Dec. 22, 1924 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2937004: A room full women wearing Votes for Women' banners, witness Governor Edwin P. Morrow signing Kentucky's ratification of the 19th Amendment. Kentucky was the 24th state of the required 36 to ratify. January 6, 1920 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2937068: Joseph Valachi, 'singing' during appearance before Senate Investigations subcommittee in 1963. Valachi, a lifelong Mafia insider, provided detailed testimony on Mafia organization, culture, and leaders. Charles Bronson portrayed the gangster in the 1972 movie, THE VALACHI PAPERS / Bridgeman Images

EVB2938036: William Green (1873-1952), President of the American Federation of Labor (AFL), before the Senate Education and Labor Committee. He accused the National Labor Relations Board of dictator tactics and bias toward a competing union, the CIO (Congress of Industrial Organizations). May 1, 1939 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2938042: William B. Wilson (1862-1934), Scottish-American labor leader and politician, first Secretary of Labor (1913-1921) under President Woodrow Wilson. He worked as a child laborer in coal mines, was secretary-treasurer of the United Mine Workers of America from 1900 to 1908, and represented Pennsylvania in Congress / Bridgeman Images

EVB2938107: Factory windows bricked up for conversion to a warehouse in Minneapolis, Minnesota, during the Great Depression. 1939 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2938066: Striking Southern textile workers celebrate Labor Day with a parade and sign announcing their affiliation with the American Federation of Labor in 1934. Gastonia, North Carolina / Bridgeman Images

EVB2938125: Model wearing coveralls with insignia 'FFI' (Fashion for Industry) and matching cap. 1953 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2938158: U.S. Marines under the police direction turn flame throwers on a field of marijuana plants in Chicago. August 15 1958 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2938081: Russian Labor Association marchers at the May Day parade in New York City in 1909, Bain, George Grantham - Bain News Service (1865-1944) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2938170: William Flynn 1867-1928 held many high Law enforcement positions including New York City Detective Head of the Secret Service and Head of the Bureau of Investigation later the FBI . 1914 photo taken in Washington D.C. when he was Secret Service chief / Bridgeman Images

EVB2938090: In the Cascade Mountains near Seattle, Washington, workers load 120 foot long logs with sharpened ends, that will become fish trap piles. The piles supported large nets sited on salmon migration routes to gather massive amounts of fish for the canning industry. c. 1899 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2938037: John L. Lewis, President of the C.I.O., Francis Perkins, Secretary of Labor, and James Dewey, Labor Department conciliator after a conference with President Roosevelt to discuss a coal industry labor dispute. May 9, 1939 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2938157: Federal Bureau of Narcotics agents blockade streets with their cars in a drug bust in the San Juan Hill neighborhood of New York City 1939 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934436: Crowds making a run on the L.W. Scwenk Bank, on New York City's Lower East Side in July 1914 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2934542: General Motors managers at a large control board, which resembles a spreadsheet, keep check on flow of materials needed for the wartime production. 1941 / Bridgeman Images