AP Historical Hard Drive 2007

Las Vegas, Nev. business section 1906. This photo is looking west on Fremont street, the

Strollers walk by the Waldorf Hotel on Fifth Avenue at 34th Street in New York City in this 1905 photo. (AP Photo)

Workers set the capstone on top of the Washington Monument, Dec. 6, 1884. Engineer Gen. Thomas L. Casey, in derby hat, oversees the work. (AP Photo)

This is the scene at the dedication of the Washington Monument, Feb. 21, 1885. The 555-foot shaft was then the highest structure in the world. (AP P...

The Eiffel Tower in Paris is seen under construction in 1887. (AP Photo)

The staircase of the Eiffel Tower which is still under construction is seen, 1887. Most visitors will use the elevator to get from the first floor to...

The foundation of what will be the Eiffel Tower in Paris is seen in 1887. (AP Photo)

The bottom of what will be the Eiffel Tower is under construction in 1887, in Paris. (AP Photo)

The battle of Gettysburg at its height July 3, 1863, showing activity behind the Union lines on Cemetery Hill, with force resting and regrouping amid...

The capstone of the Washington Monument is set by workmen, 1884. (AP Photo)

The cornerstone of the Washington Monument is laid by Benjamin French, a Masonic Grand Master, July 4, 1848, using the same trowel used by George Wash...

Horatio Alger is seen here in a historical photo from 1852. His name is sysnonymous with the rags-to-riches American dream described in his 100-odd st...

The Prince of Wales is seen in 1901 wearing a naval outfit. (AP Photo)

This wood-burner, built by Danforth and Cooke of Paterson, N.J., is the grandaddy of all motive power innuse on the U.P. and is shown in New Jersey in...

This is Robert Dudley's famous painting

In this illustration, Annie Ellsworth dictates the first dispatch via telegram to inventor Samuel Morse, seated, in the Supreme Court chambers, May 24...

The first trans-Atlantic telegraph cable is laid 1866, linking Newfoundland to Ireland. No other information available. (AP Photo)

A pony express rider greets Western Union linemen as they string wires of the first transcontinental telegraph, 1861. (AP Photo)

In this Daniel Huntington painting, Samuel Morse and his backers are depicted in 1894 at a meeting in the home of Cyrus Field in Gramercy Park, N.Y....

Two federal railroad commissioners on an inspection trip sit on the pilot of this wood-burning locomotive over newly built sections of the Central Pac...

Cyrus West Field, financier and pioneer of the trans-Atlantic telegraph cable, is seen in 1862. (AP Photo)