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This is the stage behind the proscenium arch where the Iroquois Theater fire began on Dec. 30, 1903. Flimsy scenery coming in contact with open light...

Wagons and men on horseback wait for the official opening of a run in 1892 in Oklahoma. This scene is similar to the original run of 1889 in Indian Te...

This is an illustration of the first telegraph building used in Newfoundland at Heart's Content Bay, after the trans-Atlantic cable was laid in 1866....

The Wright, Beverly & Co. in Dodge City, 1883. (AP Photo)

Illustration of Cavalry General Philip Sheridan on his famous ride down the Shenandoah Valley to rally his retreating forces and turn defeat into vict...

Settlers race across the border into Indian Territory as a signal opens the area to white settlement in Oklahoma City on April 22, 1889. The capital o...

A scene in old Madison Square Garden, New York, during the holding of the first auto show in November 1900. (AP Photo)

3-year-old Giovanni Battista Montini in the arms of his grandmother Francesca Buffali in 1900. At right is Montini's brother Lodovico. (Ap Photo)

1760 Tobacco, Rolling Road. (AP Photo)

An illustration shows the

City Hall in New York City, 1825. (AP Photo)

1890 photo of German inventor Robert Bosch (1861 -1942) who used a bicycle to visit his customers. (AP Photo/Str/HO)

An illustration of a Molly Maguires meeting is shown in 1874. Molly Maguires was a secret society that terrorized Pennsylvania mine areas and focused...

This is a letter written by editor of the New York Tribune, Horace Greeley, Nov. 10, 1872. It reads:

Willis Hatfield, front row, right, is shown in this famous portrait of the Hatfield clan, made in April 1897, at a logging camp near this southern Wes...

Image shows the oldest catalogue of books published by Reclams Universalbibliothek (Recalm's Universal Library) from 1867. (AP Photo/HO)

Image shows a portrait of Karl Benz and a copy of the patent for the world's first car powered by a gas combustion engine, a three wheeler named

Franklin D. Roosevelt, standing, is seen with his mother and father, Sara Delano and James Roosevelt, circa 1900, in Hyde Park, N.Y. (AP Photo)

Image shows the very first functioning Diesel engine built by Friedrich Krupp in Essen, Germany, November 1897, delivering 20 hp at 170 rpm. It was ut...

A woodcut shows the lost ship Brig Mary Celeste in 1872. (AP Photo)

This rare photo shows the first kiss shown in the movies. It is a scene from Thomas Edison's film

Image shows Karl Benz, right, as he makes first test runs on the Ringstrasse in Mannheim, Germany, October 1885 with the world's first car powered by...

In the campaign of 1840 the Harrison Wing of the Whig party by a political maneuver beat Henry Clay (shown in sketch reading the tribune) out of the P...

Clara Barton, founder of the Red Cross, is seen in a portrait painted by Henry Inman in 1844. (AP Photo)

Henry Ford is seen on the Quadricycle, the first automobile he ever built in Dearborn, Mich., 1896. (AP Photo)

An illustration of the scene at the death bed of Abraham Lincoln in 1865. (AP Photo)

In 1775 the new American fleet first flew the Grand Union Flag, which consisted of 15 stars and stripes. Until then, the British flag was used most in...

Franklin Delano Roosevelt is seen at age 10, 1892. (AP Photo)

A Frank Leslie illustration depicting the Milk Strikes of the 1880's. (AP Photo)

This drawing shows fight action between heavyweight Jim Corbett, left, and John L. Sullivan in New Orleans in 1892. Sullivan, champion for more than a...