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Paul D. Cravath, who assumed his new duties as president and chairman of the Board of Directors of the metropolitan opera company in New York City on...

"Seventeen minutes to New York," said Death Valley Scotty in his first glance at wirephoto in California on Oct. 21, 1931. "What do I think about it?...

"Seventeen minutes to New York," said Death Valley Scotty in his first glance at wirephoto in California on Oct. 21, 1931. "What do I think about it?...

Walter "Death Valley" Scott, colorful mystery man of the desert, attending a Hollywood movie premier on Oct. 11, 1931. He is accompanied by Mrs. Rober...

A section of the large crowd of excited brokers gathered in Throgmorton street of London, United Kingdom, on Sept. 22, 1931, the second day of the Sto...

Vivian Duncan, "Eva" of the Duncan sisters, known in private life as Mrs. Nils Asther, wife of the film star, arrival in New York, Aug. 7, 1931, with...

Evangeline Love Brewster Johnson, wife of the conductor of the Philadelphia, Pa., symphony orchestra Leopold Stokowski, arrives in New York City from...

Jascha Heifetz, noted violinist and his wife, Florence Vidor, motion picture star, arrive in New York City, June 2, 1931 following a pleasure tour thr...

Douglas Fairbanks Jr. at a movie premiere in Hollywood, California on Jan. 24, 1931. Left to right: William Hains, Joan Crawford, Doug Jr. and Ivor No...

Ralph DePalma, of Los Angeles, California, veteran racer as he looked when he made his first appearance at the American Legion Ascot Speedway in Los A...

During the great depression, rioting farmers dumped cans of milk rather than sell for two cents a quart. In this image babies and small children of re...

Walter Brookins, from his present home in Los Angeles, California on July 25, 1930, noted aviation pioneer, recalls the day in 1909 he became associat...

Clerks in the office of Tobey and Kirk, broad street, New York, United States, read the ticker on Oct. 25, 1929, after one of the busiest nights in th...

The porter cleaning up the pile of ticker tape after the Wall Street Market had closed on October 24, exactly ten years to the day after the Wall Stre...

RUC officers look at the debris Sunday, August 16, 1998, following yesterday's bomb in Omagh town centre. The bomb exploded Saturday afternoon killing...

Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) officers look over the debris early Sunday August 16, 1998, left behind following Saturday's bomb blast in Omagh, Nor...

3 founders of Boy Scouts of America in 1916. Left to right: Ernest Thompson Seton, Lord Robert Baden, Powell Daniel Beard. (AP Photo)

With a crippled engine, Ralph DePalma of Los Angeles crosses the finish line at Indianapolis Speedway on March 10, 1915. Another engine failure had s...

Boy Scouts in 1915 learn all about tying knots 17 different kinds. Camps and groups were small in those days. (AP Photo)

Boy Scouts of America, White House, Washington on Feb. 3, 1912. (AP Photo)

First Banquet Boy Scouts in 1910. (AP Photo)

In this photo provided by the Library of Congress, the Confederate White House, home of Confederate leader Jefferson Davis during the Civil War in Ric...

In this photo provided by the Library of Congress, Maj. Gen. Irvin McDowell, officer of the Federal Army, shown sometime between 1860 and 1870, locati...

In this photo provided by the Library of Congress, reading the death warrant to Henry Wirz on the scaffold in Washington, D.C., on November 10, 1865....

In this photo provided by the Library of Congress, Hon. Alexander Hamilton Stephens of Georgia, vice president of the Confederacy, with African-Americ...

In this photo provided by the Library of Congress, Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside, officer of the Federal Army, shown sometime between 1860 and 1865, l...

In this photo provided by the Library of Congress, Maj. Gen. George G. Meade, officer of the Federal Army, sometime between 1860 and 1865, location un...

In this photo provided by the Library of Congress, Franz Sigel, officer of the Federal Army, shown sometime between 1860 and 1870, location unknown. (...

In this photo provided by the Library of Congress, Allan Pinkerton ("E. J. Allen") of the Secret Service on horseback during the Battle of Antietam in...

In this photo provided by the Library of Congress, Confederate fortifications with Federal soldiers in Manassas, Va., in March 1862. (AP Photo/Library...

In this photo provided by the Library of Congress, the Drum Corps of the 93rd New York Infantry in Bealeton, Va., in August 1863. (AP Photo/Library of...

In this photo provided by the Library of Congress, generals of the Army of the Potomac in Culpeper, Va., in September 1863. Left to right: Governeur K...

In this photo provided by the Library of Congress, the guard mount of 114th Pennsylvania Infantry (1st Division, 3rd Corps), in Brandy Station, Va., i...

In this photo provided by the Library of Congress, rear view of the camp of Captain John J. Hoff of the Union Army in Gettysburg, Pa., in July 1865. (...

In this photo provided by the Library of Congress, Gen. Leonidas Polk, an officer of the Confederate Army, shown sometime between 1860 and 1864. (AP P...

In this photo provided by the Library of Congress, Jubal A. Early, an officer of the Confederate Army, shown sometime between 1860 and 1870, location...

In this photo provided by the Library of Congress, John Wilkes Booth, holding a cane, shown sometime between 1860 and 1865, location unknown. Booth as...

In this photo provided by the Library of Congress, Braxton Bragg, an officer of the Confederate Army, shown sometime between 1860 and 1870, location u...

In this photo provided by the Library of Congress, Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, officer of the Confederate Army, shown sometime between 1860 and 1865, loc...

In this photo provided by the Library of Congress, Brig. Gen. John Pope, officer of the Federal Army, circa 1861, location unknown. He was appointed M...

In this photo provided by the Library of Congress, Maj. Gen. Henry W. Halleck, officer of the Federal Army, shown sometime between 1860 and 1865, loca...

In this photo provided by the Library of Congress, David E. Twiggs, an officer of the Confederate Army, shown sometime between 1860 and 1862, location...

In this photo provided by the Library of Congress, participants and crowd at the first inauguration of President Abraham Lincoln, at the U.S. Capitol...

In this photo provided by the Library of Congress, Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, officer of the Federal Army, shown sometime between 1860 and 1865, loca...

In this photo provided by the Library of Congress, Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker, officer of the Federal Army, shown sometime between 1860 and 1865, locatio...

In this photo provided by the Library of Congress, Major General Joseph Hooker, seated on horse, wearing military uniform, two tents and large buildin...

In this photo provided by the Library of Congress, 110th Pennsylvania regiment at Falmouth, Va., April 24, 1863, nearly annihilated at Battle of Chanc...

In this photo provided by the Library of Congress, President Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, in Gettysburg, Pa., on Nov. 19, 1863. (AP Photo/Lib...

In this photo provided by the Library of Congress, Major General Philip Sheridan and his generals in front of Sheridan's tent in 1864, location unknow...

In this photo provided by the Library of Congress, wounded soldiers from the Battle in the "Wilderness" at Fredericksburg, Va., May 20, 1864. (AP Phot...