GCL3160659: NEW YORK: BRIDE, 1920 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

GCL3160664: SOCIETY WEDDING, 1878 The civil wedding ceremony in London of the Earl of Rosebery to Miss Hannah Rothschild, only child of the banker Baron Mayer de Rothschild. Wood engraving from a contemporary English newspaper. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3160667: ENGLISH CROWN The coronet of a Marquess of England. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3160671: YEHUDI MENUHIN (1916-1999) American conductor and violinist: photographed in 1924. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3160678: MAIN STREET IN MID-WEST Main Street in an unidentified mid-Western town, c.1920: oil over a photograph. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3160681: ST. LOUIS: TORNADO, 1896 The tornado at St. Louis, Missouri, 27 May 1896. Contemporary lithograph by Kurz and Allison. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3160687: INCA HARVEST FESTIVAL at the Colcan temple garden of the sun. Woodcut, 1633, from a French edition of Garcilaso de la Vega's 'Histoire des Yncas, Roye du Peru.' / Bridgeman Images

GCL3160691: ASSYRIAN GENIUS Clay figure of a winged genius. From Nimrud, Neo-Assyrian Period. 8th-7th century B.C. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3160694: SUMER: CYLINDER SEAL Mythological scene depicting the legendary Sumerian king, Gilgamesh. Impression from a Sumerian cylinder seal, c2300 B.C. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3160703: WILLIAM MORGAN (1774-1826) American Freemason. 'William Morgan taken from Batavia by a mob of Masons and confined in Canandaigua jail under false pretences.' Wood engraving from 'The Anti-Masonic Almanac,' 1829. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3160706: EDWARD II king of England, 18th century (engraving) / Bridgeman Images

GCL3160709: CASTLE HEDINGHAM England: Essex. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3160713: THOMAS-ALEXANDRE DUMAS (1762-1806) French soldier. Stipple engraving, English, 1807. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3160717: SHAD The American or white shad (Alosa sapidissima). / Bridgeman Images

GCL3160729: DAVID STRAUSS (1808-1874) David Friedrich Strauss. German theologian and philosopher. Wood engraving, 1874. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3160739: ANCIENT EGYPT: COFFIN Mummy and painted coffin of Thent-mut-en-gebtiu, a priestess of Amun. From Thebes, 26th Dynasty, c600 B.C. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3160741: BOYLE: SCEPTICAL CHYMIST Title-page of the 1661 London edition of Robert Boyle's The Sceptical Chymist dealing with Boyle's concept of matter as composed of atoms and clusters of atoms in motion. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3160743: PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN, 1884 Grover Cleveland and Thomas A. Hendricks as the Democratic Party candidates for President and Vice President on an 1884 campaign poster. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3160748: ROME: SOLDIERS Copper engraving, English, 1812. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3160758: SILVER COIN, c993 Feudal silver denier minted by Hervé, Bishop of Beauvais, during the reign of Hughes Capet, c993 (Reverse). / Bridgeman Images

GCL3160760: ARCHIMEDES (c287-212 B.C.) Part of a page from 'Adjecta...Eutochii,' 1544. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3160773: JAMES CLERK MAXWELL (1831-1879). Scottish physicist. Title-page of the first volume of the first edition of Maxwell's 'A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism,' Oxford, 1873. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3160783: ROBERT BOYLE (1627-1691) English chemist and physicist. Title page of the rare Latin translation, 1665, of Robert Boyle's 'The Style of the Scriptures,' the first of his devotional works. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3160787: ROBERT BOYLE (1627-1691) English chemist and physicist. The first page of a two-page broadsheet, published in May 1688, in which Boyle describes the loss of, and damage to, many of his manuscripts. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3160791: FILM STILL: BEACH. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3160801: GEORG PHILIPP TELEMANN (1681-1767). German composer. Aquatint, c.1750, by Valentin Daniel Preisler after a painting by Louis Michael Schneider. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3160806: HARRY S. TRUMAN (1884-1972) Thirty-third President of the United States. Truman, with his wife Bess and daughter Margaret behind him, being sworn in as the 33rd President of the United States following the death of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, April 12, 1945. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3160809: ZAMBIA: COPPER MINE Mine workers drilling charge holes for blasting in the Roan Antelope Copper Mine in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia), 1955. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3160812: JOHN BUNYAN (1628-1688) English preacher and writer . In an English prison for preaching without a license. Pen-and-ink illustration. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3160818: BRECHT: MOTHER COURAGE Helene Weigel as Mother Courage in a 1954 production of Bertolt Brecht's play, 'Mother Courage and Her Children.' / Bridgeman Images

GCL3160823: ROMAN THEATER The performance of a comedy. Engraving, 19th century. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3160827: GEORGE BERNARD SHAW (1856-1950). Irish man of letters. Shaw (right) rehearsing 'Androcles and the Lion,' 1913. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3160838: SWORDMAKER, 16th CENTURY Engraving after a 16th century woodcut by Jost Amman. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3160842: HAND PRINTING-PRESS, 1890 Banknote printing-press at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, Washington, D.C. Line engraving, 1890. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3160844: BANK NOTE PRINTING PRESS Numbering machine at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, Washington, D.C. Line engraving, 1890. / Bridgeman Images

GCL3160851: GREEK COIN, c380 B.C Silver stater of Apendus, c380 B.C. Obv: two men wrestling; reverse: a slinger. / Bridgeman Images