AP Historical Hard Drive 2007

This is a Ford automobile made in 1901 by Henry Ford, seen Aug. 10, 1939. (AP Photo)

Sophie Tucker, president of the American Federation of Actors, left, joins William Green, center; head of the American Federation of Labor, and Ralph...

Actress Katharine Hepburn, bottom, is pictured with her sisters, Marion, left, and Margaret, Aug. 1939. (AP Photo)

The center of Mishawaka, Ind. is where Lincoln Way, right, and Main St., left, meet, as shown in a photo on July 19, 1939. The 29,000 residents there,...

Associated Press correspondent Alvin Steinkopf broadcasting from Danzig, Poland to America on the situation in the

Shown here is the Stateville Penitentiary near Joliet, July 1939, where many life termers are imprisoned. This is the main entrance to the prison, fr...

U.S. Senator Robert A. Taft, of Ohio, his wife, Sarah and his mother, Helen are shown as they attended the wedding in New York City June 27, 1939 of...

Al Ettore,left, is slapped around the ring by Maxie Rosenbloom in the third round of their ten-round bout on Monday, June 26, 1939 in Los Angeles. (AP...

Lou 'Iron Man' Gehrig is shown being greeted by his wife Eleanor as he arrives at Newark Airport June 21, 1939 on his return from Mayo Clinic, Rochest...

Lawrence Berenson (right) is shown with Col. Fulgencio Batista when Batista visited New York November 1938. Left to right; Batista, Mrs. Elisa Batista...

Alan Lomax and his wife strum his guitar and practice songs of the Western Range he'll sing at the White House musical, which president and Mrs. Roose...

Dr. Serge Voronoff, a Paris surgeon who pioneered in gland transplanting operation for male rejuvenation, poses with his wife on the French liner Norm...

Frida Kahlo, painter and surrealist, wife of noted Mexican muralist Diego Rivera, poses at her home in Mexico City, April 14, 1939. (AP Photo)

Part of the huge crowd of people that that came out to see the annual Easter Parade stand at the corners of Fifth Avenue and West 50th St. in midtown,...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt is shown signing the Neutrality Bill in the White House in Washington, Nov. 4, 1939, making it law, lifting the arms e...

Mary Astor arrives in Manhattan March 1, 1939 to attend the New York Premiere of

Rosalie Fairbanks, a guide to the New York World's Fair, points to the theme of the exposition - the Trylon and Perisphere - in New York on Feb . 22,...

An aerial view of California's San Quentin state prison is shown in San Quentin, Calif. on Feb. 1, 1939. (AP Photo/AJF)

Preceded by Senora Cerda, President Aguirre Cerda of Chile is shown inspecting Earthquake ruins at Talca, Chile, Jan 31, 1939. (AP Photo)

Under the watchful eyes of Storm Troopers, victims of the Anti-Semitic drive scrub the pavement and a wall, Jan. 29, 1939 at an unidentified location...

John Henry Lewis lies prone as he was sent on his back to the canvas three times in the first round of his fight with Joe Louis in New York Jan.2, 193...

Irving Torgoff photographed January 21, 1939. After playing at LIU, Torgoff played professionally in the National Basketball League, the American Bask...

Natives of Tunis in the French colony of Tunisia are seen, Jan. 19, 1939. (AP Photo)

Farwell salutes from the ferryboats they will replace on Jan. 15, 1935 sped first trains over the San Francisco-Oakland bay bridge January 14, 1939...

Georgia Bullodogs Head coach Wally Butts posing for a picture in Atlanta on Saturday, December 31, 1938. (AP Photo)

Harry Hopkins, former Progress Administrator, was sworn in as Secretary of Commerce, succeeding Daniel C. Roper, who resigned December 24, 1938, to r...

Model Diane Dorsey demonstrates the new motorized

Frau Magda Goebbels, wife of German propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, left, is seen collecting funds for winter unemployment relief at the Air Mini...

Joe Carr, 58, President of the National Football League, 1939. (AP Photo)

This 1939 image shows the world's first jet plane

Thomas Edison's dynamo comes to life again at the New York World's Fair on Consolidated Edison Day, 1939. Floyd L. Carlisle, left, chairman of the bo...

Associated Press writer Drew Middleton is shown in his new war correspondent uniform, 1939. Middleton is in the London office of the Associated Press...

Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt carves the Thanksgiving turkey on his visit to the patients of the Warm Springs, Ga., Foundation, Nov. 25, 1938. With him...

Three-feet two-inch Stanley Ross and seven-feet nine-inch Henry Hite look out a window as they arrived in New York onboard the ocean liner Queen Mary,...

Three boys pause at an old Jewish synagogue near the Zoo in Berlin, Nov. 16, 1951 to read posters placed there by the

Fulgencio Batista, Chief of the Cuban Army, (in civilian dress) visited the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., Nov. 14, 1938, where he is show...

After having seen Col. Fulgencio Batista in action, officials in Washington understood better, Nov. 11, 1938, how the ex-private rose to the position...

Governor-elect Culbert L. Olson of California was made after his victory over Frank F.Merriam, the Republican incumbent, was assured by returns from...

Governor-elect Culbert L. Olson of California was made after his victory over Frank F.Merriam, the Republican incumbent, was assured by returns from...

This is President Franklin Roosevelt's rambling stone retreat in his Hyde Park estate, called Top Cottage, as it neared completion, Oct. 20, 1938. Th...

Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales , Gordon Hewart, arrives at Westminster, London, Oct. 12, 1938. (AP Photo)

Don Budge, left, holds the big cup he won when he defeated his close friend and doubles partner, Gene Mako, who won the little cup in the National Sin...

Elton Mayo, professor of industrial research at Harvard University, is expected to address the International Managment Congress in Washington, DC, Sep...

FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover, left,and his assistant Clyde Toulson enjoy a roling chair ride on the boardwalk in Atlantic City, N.J. on Sept. 8, 1938. (A...

FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover, left,and his assistant Clyde Toulson enjoy a roling chair ride on the boardwalk in Atlantic City, N.J. on Sept. 8, 1938. (A...

Jesse Owens, former Olympic speedster, opened a dry cleaning shop in Cleveland, and is shown working on the first suit to be brought in, Aug.25, 1938....

Edward H. Crump, Memphis democratic boss, shows his pleasure with the primary election results August 4, 1938. Crump's ticket swept through the Te...

Some 10,000 persons attend the opening meeting at the Del Mar Turf Club (pictured), where Bing Crosby is president, in Los Angeles on July 29, 1938. (...

A chinese artist reaches a new high plane in this poster to help China fight the war. It shows the Chinese forces, left, recuing their women and child...

The Huniazi castle, built in 1350 A.D., is shown in Hunedoara, Romania, July 8, 1938. Today an industrialized city, Hunedoara is a part of the Transyl...