EVB2925563: Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes leaving for Europe on July 12, 1924. He would meet with European WW1 Allies negotiate the Dawes Plan to restructure the Germany's reparation payments. He sailed on the SS Borengaria with his wife Antoinette Carter Hughes and daughter Catherine, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2925728: Edith Willkie looks up at the oversized portrait of Wendell Willkie at Republican Convention. June 28, 1940. Wilkie successfully competed for the Republican presidential nomination with Sen. Robert Taft and Arthur Vandenberg, and NYC District Attorney, Thomas Dewey. Convention Hall, Philadelphia, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2925730: Republicans Wendell Willkie's last campaign appeal in the morning hours of Nov. 5, 1940. With Willkie (seated, right) are Gene Tunney, ex-heavyweight champion; Robert M. Rownd, a 96 year old Civil War veteran. In the background is an Uncle Sam poster giving the 'thumbs down' to Roosevelt's Third Term, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2936406: An pneumonia ward at the U. S. Army Base Hospital in Toul, France during the Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918-19. Most flu deaths were of healthy young adults, who died from bacterial pneumonia, a secondary infection caused by the influenza, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2941277: 1964 LBJ Presidential campaign. Lady Bird Johnson starting a four-day, 1,628-mile campaign train trip through eight southern states. She encountered hostile crowds and five of the states voted for Goldwater, protesting LBJ's Civil Rights advocacy. It was the first time a First Lady would campaign without the president. Oct. 6, 1964, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2942534: President Woodrow Wilson before Congress, announcing the break in the diplomatic relations with Germany. German resumption of unrestricted Submarine Warfare and the Zimmermann Telegram offering an anti-USA alliance to Mexico was unacceptable. Feb. 3, 1917, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images