EVB7068402: Female giant, Anna Haining, (aka Anna Swan), 7 feet, 11 inches tall, poses with two normal sized people, ca. 1865-70. Her parents were Scottish immigrants to Canada, and of normal height / Bridgeman Images

EVB7068403: Marriage of Captain Martin van Buren Bates to Anna Swan, at St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London, June 17, 1871. They met at a circus in Halifax where Martin Van Buren Bates was performing. Anna was hired to tour with Martin, and giant couple fell in love. They had two children, both over-sized. Her first died at birth, the second, weighed 23 pounds 9 ounces and was nearly 30 inches long, lived for only 11 hours / Bridgeman Images

EVB7068404: General Grant, Jr.'s real name is Edmund Newell. P.T. Barnum claimed was the smallest man in the world. When he appeared at Barnum's Museum, he was 13 years old, 23 inches tall and weighed 18 1-2 lbs. New York. The taller man in this 1864 photo is photographer, George Stacy / Bridgeman Images

EVB7068407: Nightlife in Philadelphiaan Oyster Barrow in Front of the Chestnut Street Theater', by John Lewis Krimmel, 1811-13. Three young men, eat oysters from a young women street vendor, assisted by African American who opens the fresh seafood on a wheelbarrow food cart (watercolour), Krimmel, Johann Ludwig (John Lewis) (1787-1821) / Bridgeman Images

EVB7065905: Woman wearing a flat fronted corset, shaping the fashionable 'pigeon breast' Gilded Age silhouette. Photo is dated 1899 / Bridgeman Images

EVB7065912: Florence Nightingale, founded modern nursing as an essential aspect of medical care. During the Crimean War, her team of nurses improved the unsanitary conditions at a British hospital, reducing deaths by two-thirds / Bridgeman Images

EVB7065928: View from the stands of baseball game in Griffith Stadium, Washington, DC / Bridgeman Images

EVB7065943: John Lawrence Sullivan, the bare-knuckle champion in a boxing stance, 1898. After losing his title to Jim Corbett, Sullivan appeared in exhibition fights, but did not his attempt to regain his title. / Bridgeman Images

EVB7065950: Three gold miners working a claim with picks and shovels, Alaska, c. 1897-99 / Bridgeman Images

EVB7065952: Gold seekers climbing the 'Golden Stairs' near the top of Chilkoot Pass, in Alaska, winter 1897-98. They had to climb about 550 feet from the base, over the Coast Mountains, between Alaska and northern British Columbia, and to Yukon Territory beyond / Bridgeman Images

EVB7065955: Dawson City was boom town at the confluence of the Yukon and Klondike Rivers. During the Gold Rush in 1898 the population reached 40,000, only to plummet to 8000 by the end of 1899, when the Gold Rush ended. Photo by F.D. Fujiwara, Fujiwara, F. D. (fl. 1897) / Bridgeman Images

EVB7065966: Frankie Burns, boxer fought four title matches for World Bantamweight Championship from 1912 to 1917. He never won the title / Bridgeman Images

EVB7065970: Studio portrait of boxer Jack Johnson, with fists in fighting stance, 1928 / Bridgeman Images

EVB7065973: Jess Willard, heavyweight boxer in a boxing post, Sept. 3, 1912. Willard won the heavyweight championship by defeating Jack Johnson in 1915, and lost it to Jack Dempsey in 1919 / Bridgeman Images

EVB7065978: Group portrait of boxer Jack Johnson, Heavy Weight Champion, at his training camp, 1910-15. L-R: Perkins; Marty Cutle; J. Debray; Jack Johnson; W. Burns; C. Respress; Jack Skully; and Brown / Bridgeman Images

EVB7065983: Vanderbilt Cup Auto Race in Nassau County, New York, on October 8, 1908. The course ran over Long Island Motor Parkway, a paved road built by William Kissam Vanderbilt II for the race. Photo shows Foxhall Keene's 'Mercedes' and Herbert Lytle's 'Isotta' on the track / Bridgeman Images

EVB7065984: The start of the 1914 Vanderbilt Cup auto race, held in Santa Monica, California, on Feb. 26. Teddy Tetziaff drives a FIAT in car number 1 / Bridgeman Images

EVB7065990: Italian-American driver, Ralph De Palma, winning the Vanderbilt Cup race, Santa Monica, CA, Feb. 26, 1914 / Bridgeman Images

EVB7065992: Man standing on the scientific tower of the Eiffel Tower in 1889. Placed the cupola, it was built to extend the life of the 'temporary' monument, projected to be demolished after the 1889 Paris Exposition. In 1889 it held scientific instruments and a communication (then telegraph) antennae, as it does in the 21st century. Photo by Neurdein Brothers, Neurdein, Etienne (1832-p.1915) & Neurdein, Louis Antonin (1846-p. 1915) / Bridgeman Images

EVB7066001: Jim Thorpe, in a New York Giants uniform at the New York Polo Grounds. In 1913, he signed with the New York Giants, and played six seasons in Major League Baseball between 1913 and 1919 / Bridgeman Images

EVB7066007: Dwight Filley Davis, with the 'Davis Cup', which he purchased with his own $1000 in 1899. In 1899 he was one of four Harvard men who wanted to challenge British golfers to a trophy match. When the took place at the Longwood Cricket Club in Boston, in 1900, the US team won. Davis was Assistant Secretary of War when this photo was taken, on March 1924 / Bridgeman Images

EVB7066014: Four young members of Philadelphia's 'Mermaid Club', at a swimming and diving meet, 1910-1915. They wear swimming caps and streamlined wool knit tank suits, quite similar in design to those of male swimmers / Bridgeman Images

EVB7066016: Annette Kellerman, an Australian swimmer, was the first major actress to do a nude scene in 1916. In the film, DAUGHTER OF THE GOODS, Kellerman played the character Anitia, who appears nude during a waterfall sequence, though most of Kellerman's body is covered by her long hair / Bridgeman Images

EVB7066017: Jesse Owens leading the hundred-yard at a 1935 college athletic event in Evanston, Ill. Nicknamed 'Buckeye Bullet', he was running for Ohio State University. Owens won a record eight individual NCAA championships in 1935 and 1936 / Bridgeman Images

EVB7066023: The Bennett Sisters' were an athletic act on the vaudeville circuit from 1907 to 1918. The traveling act featured three sisters, Lura, Crystal, and Alla. They were described as 'muscular' women who boxed, wrestled, and fenced. Lura claimed to be the World's Champion female wrestler and challenged 'all comer' to on the spot matches / Bridgeman Images

EVB7066029: Jay Gould held more than 16,000 miles of US railroads in the 1880s. He was the ultimate 'robber baron', leaving his heirs a fortune of $72 million. Photo c. 1870 / Bridgeman Images

EVB7066035: John Pierpont Morgan in candid news photo, c. 1900-13. The profile photo shows his afflicted nose. He suffered from the skin condition, rosacea, compounded by rhinophyma / Bridgeman Images

EVB7066036: Charles M. Schwab, the first president of the US Steel Corporation from 1901-1903. He moved to Bethlehem Shipbuilding and Steel Company in 1903, leading it through World War 1 and the skyscraper boom / Bridgeman Images

EVB7066039: Charles Dana Gibson, American magazine illustrator, c. 1915-1919. His pen-and-ink sketches of beautiful young women, 'Gibson Girls', are icons of the turn of the century and the Gilded Age / Bridgeman Images

EVB7066042: John Henry Newman, former priest of the Church of England, converted to Catholicism in 1845. His APOLOGIA PRO VITA SUA (1864) defended his conversion. In 1879 he was created a cardinal by Pope Leo XIII. Photo c. 1860 / Bridgeman Images

EVB7066046: After receiving their admission papers, European immigrants line up leave Ellis Island, 1900. If their finals destination was New York City, Hoboken or Jersey City, the ferry would take them to a terminal at the Battery of lower Manhattan / Bridgeman Images

EVB7066048: Jack and Abby Landlord, freed slaves in Savannah, Georgia, 1875. The elderly couple were enslaved until the end of the Civil War, when emancipated in old age. The Freedman's Bureau assisted such needy people immediately after the war / Bridgeman Images

EVB7066066: James Montgomery Flagg, American magazine illustrator, with an inanimate model, 1913 (photo) / Bridgeman Images

EVB7066069: Charles Marion Russell, prolific artist of the Old American West in 1900. Russell painted the 19th century frontier with its Indians, cowboys, outlaws, animals, and landscapes / Bridgeman Images

EVB7066070: H.L. Mencken was called the 'Sage of Baltimore'. As a journalist, satirist, cultural critic, and scholar of American English, he wrote humorously about serious subjects. 1910s portrait / Bridgeman Images

EVB7066082: Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1876. The author of UNCLE TOM'S CABIN, 1852, came from the religious and abolitionist family of patriarch Lyman Beecher / Bridgeman Images