AP Historical Hard Drive 2008

Johnny Farrell of Short Hills, N.J., pitches from a sand trap at the 18th Green in a practice round for the National P.G.A. championship tournament wh...

Miners adjust settling posts-support to mine roof,on April 29, 1937 at an unidentified Pennsylvania mine. (AP Photo)

A spectator where he once was Idol, the

Black SS crack elite shock troops are picture in their uniforms wearing gas masks during training to protect themselves in case of a poisonous gas att...

Some 16,000 railway workers are pictured saluting the Fuehrer Adolf Hitler after he spoke to them from the balcony of the Chancellery at the Wilhelmpl...

Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt, center right, shown being sworn in for his second term of office, Jan. 20, 1937, Washington, D.C. The rest of the group i...

Pictured at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California on Jan. 1, 1937, during grid classic between the panthers of Pittsburgh, and the Washington Huskiew;...

Marshall Goldberg, Pitt star halfback, is shown surrounded by a pack of Charging Washington huskies who are forcing him out of bounds in Rose Bowl gam...

President Laredo Bru, of Cuba, is visited by Col. Fulgencio Batista, army chief whose dispute with former President Gomez resulted in the ouster trial...

Col. Fulgencio Batista, Cuban Army Chief is shown at the head of his troops on a march through the hills of Pinar del Rio Province in Cuba, Dec. 21, 1...

Col. Fulgencio Batista, strongman of Cuba and leader of the Army stands with arms folded as he inspects his troop in Havana, Cuba, Dec. 21, 1936 while...

Vice-Chairman of the Palestine Royal Commission Sir Horace Rumbold, right, talks to his nephew, Second Lieutenant Rumbold of the Second battalion Quee...

Members of the Palestine Royal Commission leave from Victoria Station, London, on Nov. 5, 1936, enroute to Jerusalem. From left to right; Professor Re...

The Associated Press London photo distribution room is shown, Oct. 7, 1936. At right in foreground is L. Jones, distribution manager. (AP Photo)

This is a view of the corner part of the office at the Associated Press London bureau, in the newsroom, shown in this undated photo. At right is Elme...

The Associated Press London bureau newsphoto desk is shown, Oct. 7, 1936. From right are photo editors T.L. Sears, and Harold Hall. Worker at left...

The second game of the World Series got underway at the Polo Grounds in New York when President Franklin D. Roosevelt tossed out the first ball, Oct....

Guard of honour of Chancellor Adolf Hitler's Blackshirts, saluting the guests who participated in the National Socialist Convention in Nuernberg, Germ...

Kent Cooper, general manager of the Associated Press is shown, Sept. 1936. (AP Photo)

Kent Cooper, general manager of the Associated Press is shown, Sept. 1936. (AP Photo)

A bridge near here in Constantina, Spain bombed by loyalist troops, is put into service again by rebel Franco soldiers, and the first transport lorry...

Honor guards of the British Blue Jackets of the cruiser

Associated Press London bureau editor Oscar Leiding is shown, Aug. 1936. (AP Photo)

AP photographer Harry Biele is shown with his first production model of his photoelectric flash, July 27, 1936. (AP Photo)

Banners of the 53 nations participating at the Olympic games in Berlin, Germany, are flying in the wind on their poles at one of the main squares in...

J.C. Oldfield, editor of the Associated Press's London bureau, is shown July 17, 1936. (AP Photo)

A crowd of 17,000 saw Lou Meyers, thrice winner of the 500 mile race over the Indianapolis Speedway, defeat Babe Strapp, mid-eastern AAA champion, and...

Associated Press photographer Murray Becker of New York takes a general view picture of the scene at the 1936 Republican National Convention in Clevel...

Photo shows air view of Buenos Aires, on May 30, 1936, showing Plaza Congreso in Buenos Aires, Argentina. (AP Photo)

President Franklin D. Roosevelt is shown in his car, May 14, 1936. (AP Photo)

Former President Herbert Hoover shown as he lashed at the new deal in Fort Wayne, Indiana, on April 6, 1936 as an invader of private liberty and a cor...

The Federal governments colony, in Matanuska Valley, shown in the grip of a winter much milder than expected and comparable with the winters in the Mi...

Members of the Hitlerjugend - HJ (Hitler Youth) wearing uniforms and Olympic flags are parading in Berlin, Germany during the Olympic Bell ceremony Ja...

Anne Morgan, sister of J. P. Morgan Jr., shown as she visited the Senate Munitions Committee in Washington on Jan. 14, 1936, where her brother is the...

Babe Ruth retired sultan of swat, has his eye on the cup as he trys for a long putt. Ruth arrived on Jan. 9, 1936, for the winter season. (AP Photo)

Lorinda Ward, school teacher at the federal farm colony at Matanuska, is pictured with two young colony children, dressed in parkas, Dec. 21, 1935, re...

Miss Ruth Nichols, noted women flier, is show in this exclusive photograph being greeted by her father, Erickson Nichols, at the door of their home, f...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt is shown behind the wheel of his car at Warm Springs, Georgia, Nov. 23, 1935. (AP Photo)

Children in the federal farm colony at Matanuska, Alaska bundle up in their parkas and heavy shoes now that winter has come to the area, Nov. 19, 1935...

Tens of thousands of members of the SA, SS, NSKK -

Hundreds of Nazi flags of the German political leaders are pictured leaning against each other, during a parade during the Reichsparteitag (Empire Par...

Flag bearers lower their flags after members of a 1,400 strong Hitler Youth meeting laid a wreath at the Ehrenmal (Monument of Honor) located at Unte...

An unidentified departing group of colonists, discontented with the Matanuska Colony, boarded a train to return to the United States, Aug. 1935, Palme...

Johan Johnson, left, on the seeder, and Arthur Hack on the tractor, both Matanuska settlers from Minnesota, are shown seeding their new farm with oats...

Uncle Sams colonists from the Middle West are so happy with their new home in the Matanuska Valley that they can even smile on wash-day as they work a...

Settlers taken from their wasteland farms in the Northwest and sent to the Matanuska Valley are shown leaving the train to live in the tent-town of Pa...

Against a background of battleships awaiting orders to sail for war maneuvers in the Pacific, the U.S. transport St. Mihiel is pictured steaming away...

Following a long conference with German Chancellor Adolf Hitler, Anthony Eden, left, Britain's Ambassador to Berlin Sir Eric Phipps, centre, and Sir J...

Admirers greeting Babe Ruth when he arrived in St. Petersburg, Fla. on March 4, 1935 to begin training with the Boston Braves. The aging hitter hopes...

Famed New York Yankee Herman