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This view shows concrete and rail work in progress on the Williamsburg Bridge car barn in 1921. (AP Photo)

William Jennings Bryan, orator and three-time presidential candidate, is shown in Florida, 1921. (AP Photo)

William Jennings Bryan is shown in 1921 at an unknown location. (AP Photo)

Miller Huggins, manager of the New York Yankees, poses in New York City in 1921. (AP Photo)

Pancho Villa, right, Mexican bandit and guerrilla leader in the Mexican Revolution, is shown with Torres on Nov. 19, 1920. (AP Photo)

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, left, and his wife, Eleanor Roosevelt, pose with their children, Anna, James, John, Elliott and Franklin Jr., in this 1920...

This aerial view shows the site of the molasses storage tank explosion in the section of Commercial St. between Copps Hill and the playground of North...

Firefighters and others stand in a pool of molasses after the explosion of a molasses storage tank owned by the United States Industrial Alcohol Compa...

This is a general view of the wreckage caused by the explosion of the molasses storage tank owned by the United States Industrial Alcohol Company in B...

New York suffragists fighting for women's right to vote hold a picket demonstration outside the White House in Washington, D.C., in Feb. 1917. (AP Ph...

U.S. troops are greeted by a crowd as they arrive aboard a ship at St. Nazaire, France, during World War I in 1917. (AP Photo)

U.S. troops of the 1st Division, the first American troops to land on French soil, parade in St. Nazaire, France, June 26, 1917 during World War I. (...

Thomas Alva Edison reads on the lawn at his Glenmont mansion in Llewellyn Park, West Orange, N.J., in 1917. (AP Photo)

Charlie Chaplin holds a puppet doll of the Tramp in Hollywood, Ca., in 1917. Chaplin originated the Tramp character in the 1914 silent film,

U.S. Lt. Dwight D. Eisenhower watches Illinois troops dig trenches during training at San Antonio, Ft. Houston, Texas, in 1916. (AP Photo/The D.D. Ei...

U.S. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, left, and Mamie Geneva Doud, 18, pose on a Sunday morning in Nov. 1915, one month after their first meeting. Eisenhow...

Langston Hughes, foreground, poses for a photograph in his boyhood hometown of Lawrence, Kan., in this circa 1914 photo. Hughes left Lawrence a year l...

Spectators watch the Indianapolis 500-mile race from their parked cars inside the infield of the oval Indianapolis Motor Speedway Track during the 3rd...

Suffragists led by

A man behind the counter helps a customer inside a pharmacy in 1913 at an unknown location. (AP Photo)

American golfer Francis B. Ouimet, center, shakes hands with Harry Vardon, left, and Ted Ray, both of Britain, at the U.S. Open Golf Championship at T...

Louis Mountbatten is shown as a naval cadet in 1913. (AP Photo)

John F.

Aviation pioneer Cal Rodgers, with an ever-present cigar in his mouth, is seen in this December 1911 photo sitting in the cockpit of his Wright EX pl...

Drivers speed into the first turn on the Brickyard in the first Indianapolis 500-mile race in Indianapolis, Ind., Thursday, May 30, 1911. The drivers...

Blanche Stuart Scott takes instruction from J.C. Mars at Hammondsport, N.Y. in 1910 before becoming the first woman to pilot a plane. (AP Photo)

French flyer Louis Bleriot, facing camera at back of plane, is surrounded by journalists after landing on a golf course near Dover, England, on Sunday...

French flyer Louis Bleriot, left, stands in front of his plane after landing on a golf course near Dover, England, on Sunday, July 25, 1909. Bleriot...

A Hungarian mother and her four children pose after their arrival in 1909 at Ellis Island in New York City. (AP Photo/National Park Service/Statue of...

Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon is photographed wearing a period costume dress at the age of nine at Glamis Castle, her home in Scotland, in 1909. (AP Phot...

Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon is photographed wearing a period fancy dress costume at the age of nine with her younger brother, David, at Glamis Castle, h...

Troops of the U.S. Army Signal Corps rush to the site of a crashed plane to recover the pilot Orville Wright and his passenger, army observer Lieutena...

Aviator Henry Farman is seen in his Voisin biplane at Issy les Moulineaux prior to making the first 1km flight on a closed ciruit, Jan. 13, 1908. (AP...

Orville Wright is at the controls of the

Cadets of the United States Military Academy are shown in uniform in a photo from the 1903 West Point yearbook in New York. Douglas MacArthur can be...

Members of the West Point football team pose in this 1903 yearbook photo at the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York. Douglas MacAr...

U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt signs bills in the White House in Washington, D.C., in 1903. (AP Photo)

Henry Ford stands beside the Ford 999 racer constructed in Oct. 1902, his first contribution to automobile racing. The race car driver is Barney Oldf...

Pedestrians stroll along the promenade of the Brooklyn Bridge, connecting Manhattan and Brooklyn, New York City, 1891. The suspension bridge was open...

Women and men ice skate in New York's Central Park in 1893. (AP Photo)

Thomas A. Edison poses with the the tin-foil phonograph, which he exhibited at the National Academy of Science in Washington and later demonstrated fo...

Fairy tale writer Hans Christian Andersen is shown sitting on a bench in the garden of Religheden, near Copenhagen, Denmark., in 1869. (AP Photo)

American inventor and entrepreuner Thomas A. Edison is shown in 1881. (AP Photo)

Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross, is shown in 1884. (AP Photo)

People stand atop houses among ruins after flooding in Johnstown, Pa., May 30, 1889. (AP Photo)

This battlefield scene showing casualties following the Union Army attack, led by Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker, on Confederate forces led by Gen. Stonewall...

This is a 1848 portrait painting of former first lady Dolley Madison acquired by the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., Nov. 1974. The po...

U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, wearing top hat, is shown with Union Army Gen. George B. McClellan, facing Lincoln, and McClellan's staff at Antietam,...

The Morse-Vail telegraph register, the first telegraph instrument, was used to receive the message

This picture of Abraham Lincoln appeared on the poster used in his presidential campaign in 1860. The original photo is in the Chicago Historical Soc...