AP Historical Hard Drive 2008

Referee Tommy Thomas tolling the final count over the limp form of James J. Braddock, June 23, 1937 in Chicago. (AP Photo)

Still cheerful although he has been driven from home by the flood, this boy refugee at the fair grounds on Jan. 30, 1937 in Memphis, Tennessee. He...

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Photo shows former First Lady, Frances Folsom Cleveland, who was married to President Grover Cleveland. She was noted for her charm and politicians pa...

Lawrence Morgan Kelley, Yale End, was acclaimed the outstanding football player of 1936 when he was presented the John W. Heisman Trophy, Dec. 16, 193...

Sammy Baugh, Texas Christian backfield star, is shown getting off a long practice kick in Dallas, Dec. 15, 1936. T.C.U. faces Marquette in the Cotton...

Sammy Baugh, backfield star of Texas Christian University, is demonstrating his sidestepping ability in Dallas, Dec. 15, 1936. TCU will face Marquette...

Sammy Baugh, seen here in Dallas, Tex., Dec. 15, 1936, is expected to play a stellar role in the Texas Christian backfield when his team meets Marquet...

Captain Max Pruss who piloted the ill-fated giant zeppelin Hindenburg is shown, 1937. (AP Photo)

Detroit Red Wings hockey player Larry Aurie poses in 1937. (AP Photo)

Delegates to the American Federation of Labor convention use their spare time and loose change in the slot machines in Miami, Fla., Nov. 23, 1936. (AP...

An Aerial view of Notre Dame Stadium, during Irish-Northwestern game, Nov. 21, 1936, Notre Dame, In. (AP Photo)

This is an application for Social Security, seen Nov. 6, 1936. (AP Photo)

Conductor Andre Kostelanetz poses, location unknown, Oct. 17, 1936. (AP Photo/Ralph Morgan)

John Henry Lewis, the American world's light-heavyweight boxing champion, who arrived in England yesterday, started training here, Oct. 13, 1936 in Ba...

Miss Anna May Wong (right), well-known Chinese-American film star, now visiting Beijing on August 25, 1936, is shown with the adopted Chinese daughter...

Jack Sharkey and Joe Louis (on scales) , the

An unidentified Nazi officer gives a biological lesson to students, July 27, 1936. (AP Photo)

Turning on the electrical farm Dranesville, Va., July 22, 1936 secretary ickes is shown (left) as he turned the switch which started the

Dairy cows shown near a dried up pond in the pasture on the farm of Ben Buhmeyer, where the drought has caused wide damage, July 31, 1936, Missouri. C...

A forlorn figure, this cow forages for food in dust blown pastures, July 8, 1936, Ford County, Ks. A month of rainless days and soaring temperatures,...

By the time the drought and grasshoppers get thru with farmer Albert West's wheat planting, he'll have a few skimpy handfuls of straw, unless it rains...

People gaze at a 1963 Aston Martin, which Sean Connery drove in James Bond movies, and a 1937 Roll Royce, June 20, 1963 in New York. The two cars will...

Rising its banks, March 13, 1936 in Easton. The Lehigh River is shown almost completely covering a high wire fence spreading over a roadway and into b...

Ex-King Carol is seen at dinner with Elena Lupescu, center, at the Grand Palace in Nice, France, Feb. 27,1936. The woman on the right is unidentified....

Regional soil directors of the Soil Conservation Service are shown Feb. 27, 1936 in Washington as they met at the headquarters to discuss future probl...

Abe Mickal, Louisiana State's ace halfback, smashes through Texas Christian's line but he couldn't bring his team victory in the Sugar Bowl Game in Ne...

Bill Crass, (38) Louisiana State fullback is shown scoring a touchdown in second quarter of the Sugar Bowl Game with Texas Christian by one foot in Ne...

The Earl of Carnarvon, son of the late archaeologist who opened the tomb of King Tutankhamen, is shown as he arrived in New York, Dec. 13, 1935. (AP P...

Joe Louis, sensational young Detroit heavyweight, has a handshake for Paulino Uzcudun, (right) when the boxes climb on the scales prior to their fight...

This is the first Jaguar, the 1936 SS Jaguar 2 1/2 liter saloon, seen 1936. (AP Photo)

Lawrence M. Kelley Yale End, Oct. 30, 1935 in New Haven. (AP Photo)

Max Baer lands a blow with his left hand to the head of Joe Louis. This action was in the 2nd round on Sept. 24, 1935 in New York at Yankee Stadium....

Max Baer hit the canvas for the first in his life in the third round of the fight last and these six shots shows exactly how Joe Louis did it the firs...

Coach Clark Shaughnessy, left, and Capt. Jay Berwanger of the University of Chicago's 1935 eleven talk things over during a practice session, Septembe...

Henry S. Morgan son of J. P. Morgan, who returned from abroad to assume his new duties as a partner in the investment banking firm of Morgan, Stanley...

SS (Schutzstaffel - Engl. Protective Squadron) members carry flags with a swastika and names of German states and towns as they march towards the town...

Flags with a swastika and names of German states and towns are carried to the Congress Hall in Nuremberg, Germany, September 9, 1935. Tomorrow the nat...

Max Baer at ease after a fast workout, Aug. 25, 1935 in Speculator, New York, in preparation for his September fight with Detroit's

A committee of doctors examines Max Baer's hands as the result of a New York state athletic commission ruling that he prove them in good shape before...

Joe Louis is shown weighing in on Aug. 7, 1935 on the scales that tipped at 198 1-2 pounds while King Levinsky looks on in Chicago. Levinsky's we...

Finely Wilson (in fez), grand exalted ruler of I.B.P.E.O.W., The Improved Benevolent Protective Order of Elks of the World, and his committee on arran...

Martin Zarkovich, police detective of East Chicago, Ind., is shown, 1934. Zarkovich is credited with leading the FBI to John Dillinger. (AP Photo)

A telephone clerk in the

French aviator and industrialist Louis Jacques Balsan and his wife, Consuelo Vanderbilt, Duchess of Marlborough, are shown aboard an ocean liner in Ne...

Joe Louis is favored in early speculation to continue his spectacular string of victories when he meets Primo Canera at Yankee Stadium on June 25, 19...

Dr. Blinn A.Buell, of Binghamton, N.Y., told boxer Primo Carnera June 19, 1935, following examination that he is pronounced in perfect physical shap...

James Braddock the new heavyweight champ is a Family man and he's seen with his family for a quiet walk, June 16, 1935 in Guttebnberg, N.J. The kiddie...

Joe Louis, Detroit Black heavyweight, putting the finishing touches to his training at Pompton Lakes, New Jersey on June 15. 1935, for his fight with...

Former Yankees batting legend Babe Ruth is shown during an interview in his apartment, June 3, 1935, following his return from Boston where he broke o...