EVB2936674: Paul Ehrlich (1854-1918), German medical scientist experimented with chemical treatments to destroy pathogens and their ill effects on humans. His greatest discovery was an arsenic based medicine that was the first effective treatment for syphilis in 1910, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2936772: DEPARTURE FROM THE OLD HOMESTEAD, an 1862 photograph by George Barnard shows a American family on the move during the Civil War. The pipe smoking woman may be a descendant of early Scotch-Irish settlers who populated the Appalachians in the 18th century, and whose women smoked pipes into the 20th century, Barnard, George N. and Gibson, James F. (fl.1860s) / 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
EVB2936841: Wives and families of Jewish American GIs leave a New York City synagogue on West Twenty-third Street, which was open all day on D-Day, June 6, 1944. They awoke to the announcement that Allied troops were landing on the beaches of Normandy and prayed for the safety of their loved ones in military service / Bridgeman Images
EVB2936936: Rag Picker's court, Mulberry Street, 1879. Many poor immigrants started at the bottom of the economic ladder, as rag pickers, who collected useable refuse for reprocessing, essentially recycling in an economy of scarcity. At lower right men carry bundles collected rags. Above, laundered rags are hung out to dry after cleaning / Bridgeman Images
EVB2936952: Women's suffrage leaders in an open car at a Votes for Women parade in New York City. Photo shows Susan Walker Fitzgerald, Emma Bugbee, Maggie Murphy, and Harriot Stanton Blatch. Blatch was the daughter of 19th century women's rights leader Elizabeth Cady Stanton. July 30, 1913, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
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