GCL3410536: WWII: PHILIPPINES, 1941 View of the damaged Cavite Navy Yard in the Philippines after the Japanese air attacks, showing the remains of the post office and the wrecked submarine USS Sealion at the dock in the foreground. Photograph, 17 December 1944. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3410541: WWII: BURMA, 1942 Japanese troops cheering in front of the former headquarters of the British Governor General of Burma. Japanese photograph, 1942. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3410546: EDDIE RICKENBACKER (1890-1973). American aviator. Photographed on a stretcher after his rescue from being stranded in the Pacific Ocean for three weeks. Photograph, 1942. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3410547: WWII: USS ESSEX, 1945 F6F fighter planes on the deck of the USS Essex. Photograph, 19 April 1945. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3410551: WWII: AIRFIELD, 1944 British gliders of the 6th Airborne Division ready for take off. Photograph, 1944. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3410553: WWII: HELLDIVER, 1944 U.S. Navy Helldiver taking off from the deck of the USS Hancock for a strike on Manila Bay, Philippines. Photograph, 25 November 1944. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3410555: WWII: PHILIPPINES, 1945 An injured Filipino woman and her baby waiting for rescue in Manila, Philippines during the Battle of Manila. Photograph, 1945. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3410558: WWII: TROOPS, c.1944 U.S. Coast Guardsmen helping a Marine onto an assault transport after a battle on Eniwetok Atoll in the Marshall Islands. Photograph, c.1944. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3410573: WWII: USS MOBILE, c.1944 The USS Mobile under air attack by Japanese suicide bombers off Okinawa, Japan. Photograph, c.1944. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3410884: CHEYENNE CLUB: CARD ROOM Smoking and card room in the Cheyenne Club at Cheyenne, Wyoming Territory, built in 1880. Photograph, late 19th century. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3410895: TY COBB (1886-1961) Tyrus Raymond Cobb. American baseball player. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3410896: NEW YORK: POLO GROUNDS The Polo Grounds, New York, on World's Pennant Day, 1906. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3410897: BABE RUTH (1895-1948) American professional baseball player. Ruth arriving at home plate after hitting a home run in Washington, D.C., on April 21, 1924. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3410905: YALE BASEBALL TEAM, 1901 The Yale University baseball team, 1901. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3410915: KENESAW MOUNTAIN LANDIS (1866-1944). American jurist and baseball commissioner. Photographed in 1926. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3410916: KENESAW MOUNTAIN LANDIS (1866-1944). American jurist and baseball commissioner. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3410923: GEORGE H. RUTH (1895-1948) Known as Babe Ruth, American professional baseball player. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3410926: CHARLES H. EBBETS (1859-1925) American sports executive and eponym of Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, New York. Photographed c.1900. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3410936: JIM THORPE (1888-1953) American athlete. Thorpe playing baseball for the New York Giants in 1918 or 1919. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3410940: BASEBALL GAME, 1820 Children playing baseball. Wood engraving, American, 1820. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3410944: BASEBALL GAME, 1889 Wood engraving, American, 1889. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3410949: BASEBALL PLAYERS, 1889 Sliding to base. Wood engraving, American, 1889. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3410952: BASEBALL, 1895 Portraits of the captains of the twelve baseball clubs in the National League, 1895. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3410956: DAZZY VANCE (1891-1961) Clarence Arthur 'Dazzy' Vance. American baseball pitcher. Photographed while with the Brooklyn Dodgers, c.1925. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3410960: SAMUEL CRAWFORD (1880-1968) Samuel Earl 'Wahoo Sam' Crawford. American baseball player. Photograph, early 20th century. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3410962: ROGER BRESNAHAN (1879-1944) American baseball player. Photograph, early 20th century. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3410967: LEON GOSLIN (1900-1971) Know as 'Goose' Goslin. American baseball player. Photographed while with the St. Louis Browns, c.1930. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3410970: WALTER 'RABBIT' MARANVILLE (1891-1954). American baseball player. Photographed while with the Pittsburgh Pirates, 1920s. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3410975: JIM THORPE (1888-1953) James Francis Thorpe. American athlete. Thorpe playing baseball for the New York Giants at the Polo Grounds, 1913. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3410977: WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT (1857-1930). 27th President of the United States. President Taft tossing the first ball on opening day of the 1910 major league baseball season. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3410978: WORLD SERIES, 1903 View of the Huntington Avenue baseball grounds in Boston, Massachusetts, during the opening game of the first World Series, 1 October 1903, between the Boston Americans (later Red Sox) and the Pittsburgh Pirates. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3410982: RUTH, DUNN AND BENTLEY American baseball players Babe Ruth and Jack Bentley in New York Giants uniforms for an exhibition game. Between them is pitcher Jack Dunn. Photograph, 1923. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3410983: BOSTON RED SOX, 1916 Baseball players for the Boston Red Sox seated on a bench, 1916. Left to right: Babe Ruth, Bill Carrigan, Jack Barry and Vean Gregg. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3410987: GEORGE H. RUTH (1895-1948) American professional baseball player. Photographed while playing for the New York Yankees, 1921. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3410993: GEORGE H. RUTH (1895-1948) Known as Babe Ruth. American professional baseball player for the New York Yankees. Ruth (left) photographed with New York Giants manager John McGraw, with Nick Altrock and Al Schacht doing a comedy routine during the World Series, October 1923. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3410994: GEORGE H. RUTH (1895-1948) Known as Babe Ruth. American professional baseball player. Ruth shaking hands with President Warren G. Harding at Yankee Stadium, New York City, 24 April 1923. Also in the box are Doctor Charles Sawyer and Albert Lasker. / Bridgeman Images