AP Historical Hard Drive 2007

Babe Didrikson Zaharias smiles at a cheering crowd assembled in Denver's City Hall to welcome her home from an unprecedented tour across American and...

Koreans living in this area under the control of the Russians enjoy skilled medical aid offered in this Soviet hospital in Chinnampo, Korea, July 2, 1...

Residents of Tel Aviv, Palestine's all-Jewish city, swarm around automobiles of members of the United Nations Special Commission on Palestine in front...

A Pan American World Airways Constellation,

22-year-old German actress Hildegard Knef is seen after the premier of the Helmut Kaeutner film

Robert B. Woodward, Associate Professor of Chemistry at Harvard University, holds a molecular model June 16,1947 showing the structure of molecules c...

Fourteen-year-old Joan Sommerville of Edinburgh, Scotland, left, and 15-year-old Jean Buckner of Gullane get autographs from legendary golfer Mildred...

The file photo from June 6, 1947 shows the State Governor of Schleswig Holstein, Hermann Luedemann, of the West German Social Democratic Party, at a S...

Nelson Eddy, Father Patrick Peyton and Gregory Peck attend a broadcast of

Senate Secretary Carl Loeffler, right, signs the Senate approved Italian Peace Treaty as Senate President Arthur H. Vandenberg looks on in Washington,...

Lord Louis Mountbatten, Viceroy of India, met with seven Indian leaders in the study of the Viceregal Lodge, New Dlhi, India, June 2, 1947, to discuss...

A small beggar and a leper take up their stand at City Hall in Seoul, Korea to solicit offerings, May 31, 1947. (AP Photo)

The quadruplet daughters of Annie Mae and James

A British officer examines broken a iron gate leading to a corridor inside Acre Prison, north of Haifa, May 6, 1947, from which more than 200 Arab and...

Cargo ships and barges, fully loaded with their cargoes, stand idle in the Victoria and Albert Docks, London, April 28, 1947, due to a strike by Londo...

H. Chester Saunders, clerk, in a drug store at Newburyport , Mass., April 25, 1947, holds out a jar of pennies from which an unidentified customer tak...

This specially posed portrait of H.R.H. British Princess Elizabeth before a microphone for her birthday speech which she made was taken in Cape Town,...

Illegal Jewish immigrants crowd the deck of the

Illegal Jewish immigrants crowd the deck of the

Actor Charlie Chaplin and his young wife, former debutante Oona O'Neill, daughter of playwright Eugene O'Neill, visit the Stork Club in New York, Apri...

German actress Hildegard Knef is seen sitting on the edge of the empty swimmingpool at her home in Berlin, Germany March 29, 1947. (AP Photo)

The Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo is rehearsing for the world premiere of Valerie Bettis'

The British Army officers' club in Jerusalem was destroyed by a bomb blast, March 1, 1947, during a wave of terrorist attacks in Palestine that day....

Celebrating his tenth Birthday Prince Harald of Norway is seen sking in the grounds of the Royal Residence at Skaugum, Norway, Feb. 21, 1947. (AP Phot...

Franciscan priests give last rites to victims of a blast in downtown Los Angeles following an explosion at the O'Connor Electro-Plating Company, Feb....

Smoke rises from the scene of a violent chemical explosion that leveled a two-story building that housed the O'Connor Electro-Plating Company in Los A...

Debris from the explosion of a two story building where the O'Connor Electro-Plating Company was located lies scattered over a wide area and covers ad...

This is a general view of the wreckage of a two-story building that housed the O'Connor Electro-Plating Company, which was destroyed in a horrific exp...

Rescue workers search the wreckage of a two-story building which housed the O'Connor Electro-Plating Company, which was destroyed by a violent chemica...

The S.A. Brown Pharmacy was established in 1806 and is seeen here Feb. 14, 1947. Here a customer looks over some of the stock of the old fashioned dr...

Seen here are outdated devices from a drug store, Feb. 14, 1947. At the lower left is a pill-rolling machine, next to an obsolete pair of scales and...

Due to severe fuel shortage in Britain, factories and businesses are turning to alternative power sources, as at this London scientific instrument man...

Due to severe fuel shortage in Britain, factories and businesses are turning to alternative power sources, as at this London factory where the power i...

British business men and government officials riding in an armoured car of the Palestine police, pass through a road block, on their way from their h...

Italian delegate, Antonio Meli Lupi di Soragna signs the Italian Peace Treaty at the Quai D'Orsay in Paris, February 10, 1947. Just behind him chief o...

A line of vehicles, stretching for almost a mile, waits to pass through a road block on the main road from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv, Feb. 6, 1947. The ro...

Buses bring the evacuated families of officers and troops serving in Jerusalem, Haifa and Tel Aviv, to the barracks area in Sarafand Army Camp, Palest...

Buses bring the evacuated families of officers and troops serving in Jerusalem, Haifa and Tel Aviv, to their barracks area in Sarafand Army Camp, Pale...

Groups of evacuees prepare for the journey to Sarafand, in the Sports Club assembly centre, in Jerusalem, Feb. 4, 1947. (AP Photo)

British Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin signes the five peace treaties in the Foreign Ministry in London, February 4, 1947 for the allies of Germany dur...

Soldiers from the Royal Irish Fusiliers man a road block and check all passengers identifications from a bus, in the Jewish section of Jerusalem, Feb...

A casket labeled as containing the body of Celia Bassin but said by conductor J.J. McCoy to be that of late gangster Al Capone, was aboard the Illinoi...

Ralph J. Capone, extreme right, brother of ailing gangster Al Capone, tells newsmen that Al has one chance in a thousand to live through his present c...

Ralph Capone, brother of the critically ill gangster Al Capone, brings beer to newsmen on death watch at the Capone home at Miami Beach, Jan. 25, 1947...

Shouting and waving banners, Red Flag communists advance on the Secretariat in Rangoon, Burma, Jan. 21, 1947, in a demonstration that erupted into dis...

Orson Welles' reflection, left, all askew by a fun-house distortion mirror, is interviewed by Gene Handsaker of the Associated Press, reflection cente...

From left, owner Charles Bidwell of Chicago Cardinals; Charles Trippi in Cardinals iniform and Jim Conzelman coach, after Trippi signed $100,000 contr...

Charley Trippi, left, Georgia football star, signs his $100,000 with Chicago Cardinals at Chicago, Jan. 17, 1947. Contract covers 4 years. Coach Jimmy...

Charles Trippi, left, and Charles Bidwell, owner of the Chicago Cardinals of the National Football League, prepare to leave New York, Jan. 16, 1947 fo...

Movie star Johnny Weissmuller swings his golf club and lets out a yell as he finds his ball in the rough while playing in the $10,000 National Pro-Ama...