AP Historical Hard Drive 2008

Actress Tallulah Bankhead was born in this apartment house in Huntsville, Ala., 1902, seen Jan. 12, 1931. (AP Photo)

Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral is shown on her arrival in New York from Italy, Sept. 23, 1930, where she will lecture on Hispanic literature and civili...

Otto Sanhuber, Attic Man, convicted of manslaughter by a Los Angeles Jury for the murder in 1922 of Fred O. Sterreich, wealthy manufacturer, was freed...

Mahatma Gandhi is shown before his arrest in Surat, Bombay, for disobeying the salt laws, May 13, 1930. (AP Photo)

Pres. Calvin Coolidge and Mrs. Grace Coolidge are shown on the grounds of the William Wrigley Jr. estate, Feb. 23, 1930, Catalina Island, Calif. Mr. C...

Six outstanding stars on Coach Hanley's squad that will represent the East in the East-West Game at San Francisco on New Year's Day. They are, left to...

This is a general view of the State Prison at Auburn, N.Y., seen Dec. 11, 1929. A riot at this prison in July resulted in four people wounded, two ki...

Drought Refugees from South Dakota, circa 1930. (AP Photo)

This airplane was the same as the P-12 except for slight changes in instruments, improvements of landing gear and tail surfaces, and overall length. N...

Ted Husing, sports announcer, 1930. (AP Photo)

James J. Braddock, of Jersey City, the outstanding challenger for the light heavyweight crown will fight the champion, Tommy Loughran, of Philadelphia...

British auhtor P.G. Wodehouse, with his wife Ethel, right, and daughter Leonora, about to board the boat train at Waterloo Sation, London, March 4, 19...

Jiffy Griffiths and Jim Braddock in action, Nov. 30, 1928. (AP Photo)

Actress Tallulah Bankhead and her fiancee Count Anthony Bosdari are shown in London shortly before their wedding, Nov. 28, 1928. (AP Photo)

At top: the flag of Nicaragua's rebel Sandino forces, seen May 15, 1928. At bottom, a U.S. Marine air field in Nicaragua. The field is within easy f...

Famous surviving World War One German ace Ernst Udet about to leave his plane after a practice flight, near Munich, Germany, April 24, 1928. (AP Photo...

Australian explorer Hubert Wilkins, right, and American pilot Carl Ben Eielson, as they prepare to take off from Point Barrow, Alaska, April 23, 1928,...

New Zealand's Heavyweight Boxing Champion Tom Heeney, trains in a gym in London, England, April 23, 1928. (AP photo)

American aviators and Polar explorers, Commander Richard E. Byrd, left, and Floyd Bennett, in New York, USA, April 22, 1928. (AP Photo)

American Ray Keech, sitting in the six-wheeled Triplex Special, at Daytona Beach, Florida, April 22, 1928, after successfully driving along the beach...

South African financier and racehorse owner Solomon Barnato Joel, known as Solly B., on board his yacht 'Eileen' in the Medierranean, April, 11, 1928....

A sea-plane flies over the Monument Aux Morts, near the entrance to the harbour at Nice, on the French Riviera, April 10, 1928. (AP Photo)

Romania's Prince Nicholas addresses new Army recruits, who have just sworn allegiance to King and country, in Bucharest, Romania, April 9, 1928. (AP P...

Jerry Hoyt was nine years old when he sat in the cookpit of this midget racing car in 1928 photo. This racer was built for him by his father former...

1928 photo of T. E. Lawrence. British author Desmond Stewart claims in a New Book that T.E. Lawrence, best-known as Lawrence of Arabia may have been m...

Contestants compete in a 1928 dance marathon contest in Culver City, Calif. Dance marathons became entertainment fixtures during the Depression era ye...

Ban Johnson who for 34 years ruled the American league as its president recently handed in his resignation to the League's directors at the organizati...

In a fast bout, Oct. 7, 1927 in New York at Madison square garden, Tommy Loughran of Philadelphia won a decision over Mike McLigue, gaining the light...

Jack Dempsey vs. Gene Tunney in fight action, Sept. 23, 1927. (AP Photo)

British golfer Archie Compston during the final day's practice for the Ryder Cup team, at Moortown, Leeds, May 1927, before leaving for America. (AP P...

William Beebe, oceanographer and explorer, is shown aboard the SS Arcturus, the vessel sent out by the New York Zoological Society and the Museum of N...

Ignace Paderewsky one time premier of Poland and perhaps better known as the world's greast composer-pianist, on a visit to premier Mussolini at the m...

First game star Harold

Sir Arthur Balfour is seen, 1925. (AP Photo)

Mitchell Palmer, former Attorney General of the United States, leaves Senate office building after appearing before special Senate committee investiga...

Premier Benito Mussolini, of Italy and leader of the Italian Fascists, poses for camera, November 22, 1923. (AP Photo)

Italian actress Eleonora Duse is shown, Oct. 9, 1923. (AP Photo)

Dr. Chaim Weizmann, the inventor of TNT, is pictured abroad the liner Mauretania as he left on June 6, 1923 in New York City as a delegate to the Zion...

Blasco Ibanez is shown in his garden villa, Fontana Rosa, near Menton, the Riviera, Dec. 22, 1922. (AP Photo)

The head of a huge bronze Buddha which was destroyed by an earthquake, shown, 1923, Ueno, Okinawa, Japan. (AP Photo)

This is the march on Rome which was led by Mussolini, October 24, 1922 . (AP photo)

The holdup of a mail car in Western Ireland by Republican Girl Raiders who are searching for government dispatches, Sept. 6, 1922, Ireland. Note the G...

Troops ready for action as the landing expedition neared the shore in the daring coup which resulted in the capture of one of the rebels few remaining...

The release of Irish prisoners from English jails after the signing of the peace treaty at the final London conference, Dec. 30, 1921, Ireland. (AP Ph...

Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin in a park, 1922. (AP Photo)

Boeing built 200 MB-3As, the first fighter aircraft to be produced by the company and the first large order for aircraft placed after World War I in 1...

The Opening Ceremony at the carnegie peace palace of the commission for a permanent court of International Justice which was named by the League of Na...

Finnish runner Paavo Nurmi reaches Paris en route to the United States, where he is determined to enter the Olympic games despite the

Colonel and Mrs. Edward M. House are passengers on steamship Lapland as they sail from New York for Europe, June 14, 1920. Colonel House was an adviso...

Illinois Rep. John B. Anderson, candidate for the republican nomination for President, talks with reporters following his talks during a breakfast of...