GCL3354050: JAMES K. POLK (1795-1849) Eleventh President of the United States. The inauguration on 4 March 1845 as depicted in an English newspaper of that year. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3354054: MARTIN VAN BUREN (1782-1862). Eighth President of the United States. Steel engraving, 19th century. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3354064: JAMES BUCHANAN (1791-1868) Fifteenth President of the United States. Steel engraving. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3354068: LINCOLN CARTOON, 1862 An English cartoon of 1862, featuring President Abraham Lincoln, commenting on the unreliable reporting of the progress of the American Civil War in the New York press. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3354073: JAMES KNOX POLK (1795-1849) Eleventh President of the United States. Etching, 19th century. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3354074: GENERAL GRANT AND FAMILY Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885), 18th President of the United States, and his family. Mezzotinit by John Sartain, 1868, after William Cogswell. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3354080: DAG HAMMARSKJOLD (1905-1961). Swedish political economist and government official. Photographed in April 1953. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3354081: GRANT'S INAUGURATION, 1873 The second inauguration of President Ulysses S. Grant on 4 March 1873. Contemporary wood engraving. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3354084: JAMES KNOX POLK (1795-1849). Eleventh President of the United States. Steel engraving, 19th century. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3354085: CASIMIR PULASKI (1747-1779) Polish soldier in American Revolutionary War. Steel engraving, 19th century. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3354092: DAILY LIFE: SEWING, 1880 'She made her sisters' pinafores when they were younger; now she cut out bonnets and dresses, turning her nimble fingers to anything.' Wood engraving, English, 1880. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3354093: WWII: PEARL HARBOR. Three U.S. battleships stricken during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, 7 December, 1941. Left to right: USS West Virginia, severely damaged; USS Tennessee, damaged; USS Arizona, sunk. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3354105: DRUID Wood engraving, 19th century. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3354107: DRUIDIC MEGALITH Wood engraving, 19th century. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3354110: PASSENGER ELEVATOR, 1883 Passenger elevator. Line engraving, American, 1883. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3354113: JOHNNY CARSON (1925-2005) American comedian and television host. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3354123: HARPS Irish harp, 15th century, national symbol of Ireland; (top left and right); English bell harp, 18th century (bottom left); Welsh harp, century unknown (bottom right). Copper engraving, English, 18th century. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3354127: MORMON CARTOON, 1882 'Violators of the Laws of the Land.' An 1882 American newspaper cartoon by Thomas Nast on George Q. Cannon's removal as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives because of his polygamy., Nast, Thomas (1840-1902) / Bridgeman Images

GCL3354142: GENE STRATTON PORTER (1868-1924). American writer. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3354149: EDWARD VIII (1894-1972) King of Great Britain, 1936. Photographed in 1968. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3354157: LOUIS XIV (1638-1715) King of France, 1643-1715. King Louis XIV leading the assault on and capturing the city of Valenciennes, France, on 16 March 1677. Engraving and etching, French, 19th century. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3354163: PALAEOZOIC LANDSCAPE An early 20th century German reconstruction of the luxurious vegetation that flourished during the Carboniferous period of the Palaeozoic era. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3354165: BARON JUSTUS von LIEBIG (1803-1873). German chemist. Stipple engraving, English, 1845. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3354171: SAMUEL PIERPONT LANGLEY (1834-1906). American astronomer and airplane pioneer. Photographed c.1894. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3354174: GEBHARD L. von BLUCHER (1742-1819). Prussian field marshal. Von Blucher crossing the Rhine at Caub (Kaub), Prussia, on 1 January 1814. Wood engraving, 19th century. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3346997: MARK TWAIN (1835-1910) American humorist. Photographed in 1906 by Van der Wegde. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3347001: BUSHROD WASHINGTON (1762-1829). American jurist, nephew of George Washington Etching, 1891, by Albert Rosenthal. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3347006: STRAFFORD TRIAL, 1641 Sir Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford's trial by Parliament under a bill of attainder, 1641. After a contemporary engraving by Wenceslaus Hollar., Hollar, Wenceslaus (1607-77) / Bridgeman Images

GCL3347007: RICHARD STODDERT EWELL (1817-1872). American Army officer. Stipple engraving, American, 19th century. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3347008: HENRY HOBSON RICHARDSON (1838-1886). American architect. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3347014: SHERLOCK AND WATSON Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Dr. John Watson in one of the fourteen Sherlock Holmes movies they made together between 1939 and 1946. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3347199: BALLET: ROMEO AND JULIET Romeo, though recognized, is welcomed as a guest by the Capulets. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3347203: THE TAMING OF THE SHREW Petruchio behaves outrageously at his wedding, Act 1. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3347208: THE TAMING OF THE SHREW Katherina and Petruchio revel in their new-found love. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3347213: ANDREW JACKSON (1767-1845) Seventh President of the United States. Lithograph silhouette, 1845. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3347215: WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON (1773-1841). Ninth President of the United States. Mezzotint, 1841, by John Sartain after James R. Lambdin. / Bridgeman Images