AP Historical Hard Drive 2008

Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt, the democratic presidential nominee, bids farewell to his daughter-in-law, Betsey and his granddaughter, Sarah as he d...

Governor Franklin D.Roosevelt gives his first address at the end of his cruise through New England waters at Hampton Beach, N.H., July 18,1932. The d...

Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt, democratic nominee for president, is shown at the wheel of the yawl, Myth 11, as the craft got under way in at Port J...

Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt, the democratic nominee for president, and his three sons, wave to friends ashore as they sailed aboard the yawl, Myth...

Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt, the democratic presidential candidate, lends an attentive ear, while his granddaughter, Anna Eleanor Dall, whispers so...

Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of the Governor and Democratic Presidential Nominee, Franklin D. Roosevelt, isphotographed in Hyde Park, NY, July 10,1932. Mrs...

Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt, his wife, Eleanor and son James, greet Reverand Wilson at the St. James Episcopal Church in Hyde Park, NY, July 10,193...

Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt entertains a number of his friends and neighbors at a victory dinner at Hyde Park, NY, July 10,1932. The Governor just...

Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt, shown on the terrace of Crum Elbow,the ancestral home of the Roosevelts at Hyde Park, NY, July 9,1932. The Governor...

Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt, shown shaking hands with friends, neighbors and old political cronies who hurried to Crum Elbow to congratulate him on...

Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt, democratic presidential nominee, and Robert H. Jackson, secretary of the Democratic Executive Committee, discussion te...

Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt, Democratic Presidential Nominee, is shown during a press conference aboard a train while enroute from Chicago to Alban...

Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt, Democratic Presidential Nominee, cheerily returns the greetings of the huge crowd that turned out to see him when his...

Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt is surrounded by newspapermen after he had learned of his being nominated as the democratic presidential standard-beare...

Workmen set last slab atop RKO building in New York City, June 29, 1932. (AP Photo)

When Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York went to Kingston, New York, Memorial Day to give the principal address at the Washington Bicentennial cele...

A crowd cheers for aviatrix Amelia Earhart as she boards her single-engine Lockheed Vega airplane in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, for the trip back...

Edith Roosevelt, widow of the late president Theodore Roosevelt, is photographed on board the S.S. Leviathan, in New York, May 13, 1932. She had just...

President Hebert Hoover, left, leaves St. Matthew's Catholic Chuch with Ambassador Paul Claudel of France after attending a memorial service for the l...

The Manchester, Ga., Drum and Bugle Corps greet Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt as he arrives at his new cottage at Warm Springs, Ga., for a vacation,...

Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt , his wife, Eleanor, center and their daughter-in-law, Elizabeth, are shown in front of their new cottage in Warm Sprin...

Trumpets and drums greets Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York as he arrived at his new cottage, April 30, 1932 at Warm Spring, Ga., for a vacat...

Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York, Governor Albert C. Ritchie of Maryland, both candidates for the Presidential Nomination and Governor John...

Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York,left and Governor Albert C. Ritchie of Maryland, right, both prospective democratic presidential candidates...

Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York is seen through the window of a train as he leaves New York, on April 24, 1932. Roosevelt will attend the G...

Cordwood is is neatly stacked in rows 200 feet long at Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt's home in Hyde Park, NY, April 11, 1932. The Governor said the w...

President Hoover is presented with a monumental bust of George Washington by Swiss sculptor Ernest Durig, left and Minister of Switzerland Marc Peter,...

Fred Perry, England's second ranking tennis player, pictured with the championship trophy after winning the Men's Tennis Title of Bermuda during the m...

Irving Jaffee of the United States, with his award, after winning the 10,000-meter Olympic speed skating championship, the feature event of the intern...

The winners of the 5,000-meter speed skating event Edward Murphy, US; Irving Jaffee, US; and Bill Logan of Canada, February 4, 1932 at Lake Placid, N....

Texas Christian University Coach F.A. Schmidt, poses Jan. 21, 1932. (AP Photo)

Max Schmeling and his manager, Joe Jacobs (with cigar), when the heavyweight champ sailed for Germany, January 22, 1932 from New York, after signing t...

Mahatma Gandhi is shown in front of 10 Downing Street, London, Nov. 21, 1931. (AP Photo)

Ted Husing, radio announcer of the Columbia broadcasting system, who was banned, Nov. 13, 1931 by William J. Bingham, director of the Harvard Universi...

General Chiang Kai-shek (second figure with right hand on his hip), chairman of the National Government of China, reviews his troops, the National Gua...

Vittorio Emanuele Orlando, war-time premier of Italy, October 7, 1931 in his hotel suite in New York City. Orlando and his wife arrived in this countr...

Erny Pinckert, Sept. 11, 1931, who won all American honors as a blocking halfback for the University of Southern California last year will do some ba...

Married a few hours previously, Actor William Powell, left, and Actress Carol Lombard, are shown here as they sailed for a Hawaiian Honeymoon, June 27...

Actor William Powell and Actress Carol Lombard pose just after their marriage, June 26, 1931. (AP Photo)

U.S. Marines are lined up at Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua, awaiting orders to proceed to the interior of the country in search of Nicaraguan rebel leader...

Marines from the USS Nashville land at Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua, April 19, 1931, called in to help find the rebel leader Augusto Cesar Sandino, who a...

U.S. Marines are lined up at Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua, awaiting orders to proceed to the interior of the country in search of Nicaraguan rebel leader...

Marine Lt. Darrah is shown after spending two days in the dense jungles of Nicaragua, April 19, 1931, where he is searching for Nicaraguan rebel leade...

U.S. Marines board a flatbed truck at Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua, April 19, 1931, for transportation to the interior of the country to aid in the searc...

This is the U.S. Marine barracks at Managua, Nicaragua, where thousand of victims of the earthquake are being cared for, April 1, 1931. The Marines h...

Thomas Edison's laboratory at Ft. Myer, Fla., on Feb. 26, 1931. (AP Photo)

Joe Humphries, veteran announcer, holding up Tommy Loughran's hand in token of victory after the former lighter heavyweight champion of Philadelphia,...

Joe Humphries, veteran announcer, holding up Tommy Loughran's hand in token of victory after the former lighter heavyweight champion of Philadelphia,...

Eddie Goodfellow of the Detroit

Henry M. Leland, the