AP Historical Hard Drive 2008

The ice breaker

Famous surviving World War One German ace Ernst Udet with German stunt flyer and aviatrix Thea Rasche after they had taken part in the flying exhibiti...

Britain's Prince George, left, stands with the captain of the Canadian Pacific liner

American Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg, left standing, with Irish President William Cosgrave, second left, during the playing of the national An...

King Alfonso XIII of Spain plays a game of tennis in Santander, Spain, Aug. 30, 1928. (AP Photo)

American Polar explorer Commander Richard Byrd, right, poses for Enrico Glicenstein, Professor of Fine Arts, Warswa Academy, Poland, Aug. 30, 1928. Th...

On a street in London, England, Aug. 30, 1928, two caners repair a chair. (AP Photo)

Former British Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald, with his youngest daughter Sheila, in the cab of a Canadian Pacific engine, at Schreiber, Ontario, Aug...

French President Gaston Doumergue, left, arm in arm with American Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg and some of the Peace Pact signatories, in the...

German Foreign Minister Gustav Stresemann, centre with hat, is welcomed at the Gare Du Nord, Paris, Aug 27, 1928, by the Chief of French Protocol Beco...

American millionaire Charles Levine, left, with American heiress Mabel Boll and the pilot of Levine's plane ' Queen of the Air' Bert Acosta, stand by...

South African pilot Lieutenant Pat Murdoch in his plane touch down in Cape Town Aug. 12, 1928, after flying from England in 13 days. (AP Photo)

South African pilot Lieutenant Pat Murdoch in his plane touch down in Cape Town Aug. 12, 1928, after flying from England in 13 days. (AP Photo)

A parade of 250 automobiles are shown in New York July 4, 1928 for the wake of Frankie Yale. (AP Photo)

Franklin D. Roosevelt, of New York giving the great nomination speech for New York Governor Alfred Smith on June 29, 1928. Roosevelt is placing Smith...

Spectators watch Fritz von Opel in the driver's seat of the rocket car, called the Opel-Rak 2 as he attains high speeds in the first test at the Avus...

Driver Louis Meyer, Los Angeles novice, is besieged by friends and admirers on May 30, 1928 after winning the Indianapolis 500- race, in Indianapolis...

Fritz von Opel rides a rocket propelled Opel RAK 2 test car, reeching a top speed of 230 km/h on the avus highway in Berlin, Germany, May 23, 1928. Th...

Fritz von Opel rides a rocket propelled Opel RAK 2 test car, reeching a top speed of 230 km/h on the avus highway in Berlin, Germany, May 23, 1928. Th...

George Souders, 1927 winner of the Indianapolis 500-mile race at the speedway classic shown on May 14, 1928 in Indianapolis. (AP Photo)

All that remains of the six-storey Banque Populaire, in Tchirpan, Bulgaria, April 24, 1928, after the earthquake which killed more than 100 people and...

American evangelist Aimee McPherson kneels and prays in New York, USA, April, 18, 1928. Aimee is due to tour Britain later this year. (AP Photo)

A sea-plane flies over the harbour at Monte Carlo, Monaco, April 10, 1928. (AP Photo)

A sea-plane flies over the Promenade, at Nice, on the French Riviera, April 10, 1928. (AP Photo)

A flying-boat flies over the entrance to the habour at Monte Carlo, Monaco, April 10, 1928. (AP Photo)

Aerial view of the esplanade at Monte carlo, Monaco, April 10, 1928. (AP Photo)

The Puerta Del Sol, 'Sun Gate', in Madrid, Spain, March 29, 1928. (AP Photo)

One of the strangest cases of identity is that of a woman who was found in Berlin in an emaciated condition shortly after World War I, and believed by...

Inventors George Eastman, left, and Thomas Edison meet in the garden on 1928 of Eastman's Rochester, New York, home to announce the first Kodak color...

Byron Bancroft

Boxer Jack Dempsey has just floored boxer Gene Tunney in the seventh round of their title match in Chicago, Sept. 22, 1927. Referee Dave Barry, motion...

Shop windows were smashed and business places wrecked when Sacco-Vanzetti sympathizers become violent in a Post-execution Demonstration, Aug. 31, 1927...

Shop windows were smashed and business places wrecked when Sacco Vanzetti sympathizers became violent here in a post execution demonstration and many...

Crowds gathered in the Plaza del Congresso for meetings in protest against the execution of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. The people are liste...

Boston's streets are lined for miles by thousands of persons when the Sacco-Vanzetti funeral cortege passed by on Aug. 29, 1927 in Boston. (AP Photo)

U.S. President Calvin Coolidge, clad in cowboy attire, poses with photographers while celebrating the Fourth of July in Rapid City North Dakota on Jul...

George Souders, former Purdue University student, is shown getting the checkered flag as he crossed the finishing line a winner of the annual 500-mile...

Aviator Charles A. Lindbergh stands in front of his plane

George Eastman's party on the way to Kidong Valley in Africa. Left to right: Mr. & Mrs. Martin Johnson, George Eastman, Daniel B. Pomeroy & Dr. Audley...

Earl (Red) Blake, with hands on hips, Army coach, and Cadet Gridders look on from sidelines as Ventan Yablonski, Columbia back, kicks point after touc...

People walk past the railings of Hyde Park, London, May 4, 1926, after it had been closed to the public. Hyde Park has been turned into a stronghold,...

People watch a truck go through a gate, guarded by policemen, at Hyde Park, London, May 4, 1926, after it had been closed to the public. Hyde Park has...

Mounted police and soldiers prevent men from entering a building during the General Strike, in London, May 4, 1926. (AP Photo)

Extra police officers on duty outside 10 Downing Street, London, May 3, 1926, in case of any protests. (AP Photo)

Greb Harry poses on Feb. 21, 1926.(AP Photo)

Court scene of Scope's case, 1925. (AP Photo)

Court scene of Scope's case, 1925. (AP Photo)

Bobby Jones, left being presented with Amateur Golf Cup by Wyant Vanderpool, President of the U.S. Golf Association on Sept. 27, 1924. (AP Photo)

Helen Wills,17 years old girl who is the National Junior girls singles and doubles Champion on April 10,1923, in Berkely ,California, who has won fift...

Nicola Sacco, the radical leader, who with Bartolemo Vanzetti, was convicted of killing a paymaster on March 19, 1923 in South Braintree, Mass. is tak...