AP Historical Hard Drive 2008

Mr. and Mrs. E. M. House pose for camera, 1920. (AP Photo)

Harry S. Truman, left, stands in his Kansas City store, circa 1920, with, second from left, Francis Berry, who served with Truman as a captain in Worl...

Colonel Edward House poses for camera, 1920. (AP Photo)

Boxing pose of James J. Braddock, 1920. (AP Photo)

At Palace of Versailles in Paris, the treaty marking the close of World War I was signed by representatives of the Allied Powers and of Germany, June...

The Peace Conference in 1919 at Versailles, France. (AP Photo)

Photo shows the Pope Plus XI when as Monsignor Ratti, was sent to Poland in 1919 by the late Pope Benedict XV as

Treaty of Versailles, 1919 in France. (AP Photo)

Street scene in Bulligny, France the regimental headquarters of the 165th Infantry, 42nd Division, Sept. 7, 1918. (AP Photo)

Gen. John J. Pershing is shown in St. Mihiel, France, Sept. 1918. (AP Photo)

The Soviet Union is now preparing for celebrations marking the anniversary of the birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, April 22, 1870 in Moscow. Lenin died...

Georges Clemenceau,left, the French war premier, and General Pershing reviewed the U.S. guard of honor, May 23, 1918 at Chaumont, France. (AP Photo)

Sixteen days after the United States entered the World War the British High Commission headed by Arthur J. Balfour Britain's Foreign Secretary arrived...

Pictured are the remains of the Imperial Hotel, 1916, Dublin, Ireland. It was destroyed during the Irish Republican Army's Easter uprising. (AP Photo)

Pictured are the ruins in North Street, 1916, Dublin, Ireland. They were destroyed during the Irish Republican Army's Easter rebellion of that year....

Irish prisoners being marched along a Dublin Quay under a British guard during the bloody Irish insurrection that began, Easter Monday, 1916, Dublin,...

U.S. General John Pershing in Mexico in 1916. (AP Photo)

A portrait painting of Franz-Ferdinand of Austria, who was assassinated at Serajevo on June 28, 1914. Name of painter is not given. (AP Photo)

Pilot Louis Bleriot stands in the cockpit of his plane while mechanics give the plane a final once-over, just before his flight across the English Ch...

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...

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...

Actress Tallulah Bankhead is shown at the age of five, in Alabama, 1907. (AP Photo)

Two recently arrived immigrant children from Holland are shown at Ellis Island in New York, 1906. (AP Photo/Augustus Sherman)

This is excavation at Lafayette Street, then known as Elm Street, near Pearl Street, for New York's subway line, seen May 6, 1901. (AP Photo)

German Emperor Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany at the age of 35, poses in 1894. (AP Photo)

King Sobhuza II of Swaziland, the world's longest-ruling king, is shown July 22, 1979, during his 80th birthday celebrations at the Somhlolo National...

This is one of the earliest known X-rays taken by inventor Wilhelm Konrad Roentgen, seen Jan. 23, 1896, showing a woman's hand. (AP Photo/American In...

The first public appearance of the crouching start is recorded in this Yale photo taken of an intercollegiate race on May 12, 1888.Charles H. Sherrill...

A Life magazine cartoon from 1896 lampoons the discovery of the X-ray by scientist Wilhelm Konrad Roentgen. (AP Photo)

David Lloyd George poses for camera,1890. (AP Photo)

Col. Edwin L. Drake, right, stands with friend, Peter Wilson, in front of Oil Creek, Penn. well, on the historic day when oil was found at 69 1/2 feet...

Major General George G. Meade, 1869. Meade was Union Commander from 1815-1872. (AP Photo)

This is a historical illustration of Fenian prisoners, shown under British guard, being taken to Mountjoy Prison, 1867, Dublin, Ireland. The Fenian Mo...

This lithograph shows a boomtown in the South of Californias Mother Lode country, 1856, Columbia, Calif. At that time this probably was the biggest to...

Spanish and U.S. ships battle during the Spanish American War in the waters off Manila, the Philippines, 1898. (AP Photo)

This illustration depicts Betsy Ross as she sews the first American flag, 1776. (AP Photo)

This is the battle during the Spanish American War in which the U.S. wiped out Spain's fleet inside Manila Bay, the Philippines, 1899. (AP Photo)

Charles Darwin, as he appeared in 1875, hardly seemed a revolutionary figure, Nov. 12, 1959. Yet Darwin's

White House viewed from northwest, 1799. (AP Photo)

This is a scene during the battle of Manila, Spanish American War, 1898. (AP Photo)

Major John J. Pershing, second from left, appears with fellow officers in 1899 in Mindinao, the Philippines. (AP Photo)

In this illustration, Betsy Ross is shown with the first American flag she made, as she shows it to General George Washington, June 1776. (AP Photo)

U.S. White House viewed from North before it was burned by the British in 1814. (AP Photo)

Photo shows Gen. George A. Custer shown March 2, 1892. (AP Photo/Mathew Brady)

White House in 1833, viewed from Southwest. (AP Photo)

U.S. White House, 1850. (AP Photo)

White House in 1840, viewed from Southwest. (AP Photo)

Oliver Hazard Perry defeats the British on Lake Erie, near Put-in-Bay, Ohio, Sept. 10, 1813. Perry was been quoted as writing

Unidentified gold miners pan for gold, 1890, El Dorado County, Calif. (AP Photo)

Supreme Court Nominee Sen. Hugo Black of Alabama hadnt given law a thought when this picture was made in 1892. Six year old Hugo is shown fourth from...