AP Historical Hard Drive 2007

German Chancellor Adolph Hitler speaks with young visitors, 1938. (AP Photo)

Selma Lagerlof, world famous Swedish authoress, celebrates her 80th birthday on November 20, 1938. Lagerlof is the recipient of the 1909 Nobel Prize i...

1938 photo of Pope Pius Xi in Rome, Italy. (AP Photo)

Stuart Chase, right, New York Economist, and L.C. Sabin, representing the Lake Carriers Association of Cleveland before the House Rivers and Harbors C...

Dr. Wang Chung-hui, China's Minister for Foreign Affairs, and C. Yates McDaniel, Associated Press correspondent at Nanking, Nov. 16, 1937. (AP Photo)

A group of German girls in native costumes are seen with Nazi propaganda minister Dr. Joseph Goebbels, front row, left, and Chancellor Adolph Hitler,...

British boxer Tommy Farr, right, is seen with American boxer Joe Louis, 2nd right, after their 15 round World Heavyweight Championship fight, in the Y...

Referee Arthur Donovan looks on as British boxer Tommy Farr is seen fighting American boxer Joe Louis during their 15 round World Heavyweight Champion...

British boxer Tommy Farr is seen fighting American boxer Joe Louis during their 15 round World Heavyweight Championship fight, in the Yankee Stadium,...

British boxer Tommy Farr is seen prior to his Heavyweight Championship fight against American boxer Joe Louis. New York, Aug. 30, 1937. (AP Photo)

American Beijing Union Medical College a Rockefeller Hospital was heavily guarded by Chinese forces during crisis, August 3, 1937. (AP Photo)

Peiping's celebrated

U.S. Marines guard the entrance to the U.S. Embassy compound at Beijing, China on July 28, 1937. An estimated 1,300 Americans are seeking safety as...

Thomas Warner Jr. is shown with Jean MacDonald in Ensenada, Mexico on July 17, 1937. Warner, whose

Thomas Warner Jr. accompanies his father to a conference with District Attorney Buron Fitts in Los Angeles on July 19, 1937. The conference was over t...

Here is a photo of the front, or main, gate between the inner and outer section of Beijing, July 15, 1937. Known as the Cheng-yang-men gate, this anci...

Here is a photo of the front, or main, gate between the inner and outer section of Beijing, July 15, 1937. Known as the Cheng-yang-men gate, this anci...

This is a memorial to Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes, creator of the characters Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, immortalized here in Madrid, July 15...

After a hard day in the field on his farm, former Supreme Court Justice Willis Van Devanter lights up his favorite pipe and takes a well-earned rest,...

A tattoo artist traces delicate multi-colored figures on a Japanese woman, June 22, 1937. It often takes up to three years to complete a tattoo as la...

The Duke and Duchess of Windsor, on their honeymoon, in the grounds of Wasserleonburg Castle, Austria, June 9, 1937.

The Duke and Duchess of Windsor, on their honeymoon, in the grounds of Wasserleonburg Castle, Austria, June 9, 1937.

After attending the opening of the Paris exhibition of which he is commissioner general for the United States, Thomas J. Watson, president of the Inte...

The Duke and Duchess of Windsor in a motor boat on one of the canals in Venice, Italy, June 4, 1937, smile at onlookers as they are taken to a hotel....

The Duke and Duchess of Windsor pose on the castle steps after their wedding at Chateau de Cande near Tours, France, on June 3, 1937. The floor-length...

The U.S. Navy joined with San Francisco in celebration of the opening of the Golden Gate Bridge, May 30, 1937. A naval vessel had just passed under t...

More than 200,000 people were estimated to have walked across the Golden Gate Bridge, world's longest suspension bridge, when it opened to the public,...

King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, drive in an open carriage up Ludgate Hill, London, May 24, 1937, to St. Paul's Cathedral, to attend the Empire Day...

King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, backs to camera, and Princess Elizabeth, drive in an open carriage up Ludgate Hill, London, May 24, 1937, to St. P...

An unidentified survivor of the airship Hindenburg disaster, along with a nurse and unidentified emergency service workers are seen in an ambulance as...

Britain's Duke of Windsor and his American fiancee Mrs. Wallis Simpson, happily pose in the grounds of the Chateau De Cande, near Tours, France, May 7...

Byron Nelson, from Reading Pa., who staged a sensational finish to win the Augusta National Golf Tournament, is shown receiving his $1,500 check from...

James Joy Johnston, matchmaker for boxing matches at Madison Square Garden in New York, has lived in Amerca for 50 years but clings to the British cu...

Raymond Moley, close advisor of President Roosevelt, speaks in opposition to the President's court reorganization program as a witness before the Sena...

Prices of raw materials for war materials are soaring throughout the world. As one result, this thrifty Belgian peasant profitably spends his time col...

Congresswoman Virginia E. Jenckes (D-Ind.), was not happy with the national cucumber situation which she said was complicated by the reciprocal trade...

Former Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky, in the garden of his house in Coyoacan, Mexico, Feb. 24, 1937, where he is writing about his life in exile....

A group of girls are being trained in the art of charging an enemy with rifles and bayonets, at their high school in Tokyo, Japan, Feb. 18, 1937.Japan...

A farmer ploughs his last furrow in his field with his team of Shire horses, in Wiltshire, England, Feb. 15, 1937. (AP Photo)

Workers test gas-masks at at the Siebe-Gorman Works, in London, England, Feb. 11, 1937, as the demand from home and overseas increases for the precaut...

German navy and army officers arrive at the Naval Base at Hamburg, Germany, Feb. 8, 1937, for the launch of the new German cruiser 'Admiral Hipper'. F...

Scottish singer and music-hall entertainer Sir Harry Lauder, at the Highland Gathering in Sydney, Australia, Feb. 8, 1937. (AP Photo)

German Minister of Propaganda Dr. Joseph Goebbels, left, and the french Ambassador to Berlin Andre Francois-Poncet talk during the German Press Festiv...

The launch of the new German heavy cruiser, named 'Admiral Hipper', at Hamburg Docks, Germany, Feb. 6, 1937, by Admiral Erich Raeder. The ship was nam...

A grave attache releases the bonds and manacles from the body of a drug dealer who was executed, in Peiping, China, on Jan. 13, 1937, under China's a...

Labour leaders in the automobile workers' strike met January 12, 1937 in Washington, D.C. to confer with John L. Lewis in a council of war in the Camp...

Red snipers who occupied a derelict house on the road to the Madrid front in Villareal surrend with upraised arms on Jan. 7, 1937 to Fascist troops wh...

Thomas J. Watson, President of International Business Machines, January 6, 1937. (AP photo)

As the year 1936 closed the Chinese government announced a nationwide cleanup on drug addicts, drug merchants and manufacturers of narcotic drugs woul...

Brown-eyed Ola Prickett, daughter of a sharecropper, holds an ear of corn much as if it were a doll, near Atlanta, Ga., Dec.23, 1936. Her father says...