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A steam shovel used for excavating and loading French dirt cars is shown in Culebra Cut, Culebra, in the Panama Canal Zone in Dec. 1904. (AP Photo)

Dr. William S. Halsted, pictured with mallet in hand, operates on a patient as a medical staff assists him at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Md....

This is a facsimile of the Louisiana Purchase Treaty between the United States of America and the French Republic, shown on April 16, 1953. The treat...

This is an undated photo of a 1804 engraving on medallion of U.S. President Thomas Jefferson by artist Charles Julien Fevret de Saint Memin. (AP Photo...

A copy of the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union, the first constitution of governing the United States, is shown in 1963. The articles we...

Charles Darwin poses in a wicker chair in 1875 at an unknown location. (AP Photo)

Mohandas K. Gandhi, center seated, is surrounded by workers in his law office in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1902. Gandhi, the country's first law...

Jane Addams is photographed at Hull House in Chicago, Ill., in 1890. (AP Photo)

This general view shows the British Houses of Parliament from the Surrey side of the Thames River in London, England, Feb. 12, 1946. (AP Photo/Ron Oc...

The 1902 Army football team of the United States Military Academy (USMA) poses in West Point, New York. Sitting in a Cadet uniform, rear row, second...

This drawing shows the first steam engine train as it runs on the Sixth Avenue Line El in New York City in 1878. (AP Photo)

This is an undated photo of an 1898 illustration of Levi Coffin, center backround, and his wife, center foreground, assisting slave escapees in Indian...

Artist Pablo Picasso is shown with two of his latest sculptures,

This is an oil painting of Thomas Jefferson by Gilbert Stuart in 1805. (AP photo)

This is an undated photo of an etching depicting the claustrophobic living conditions aboard slave ships. This etching set guidelines to slavers that...

Lifeboats rescue surviving crewmen of the wrecked USS Maine after an underground explosion destroyed the battleship on the night of Feb. 15 as it was...

This is an undated photo of a daguerreotype portriat of Dolley Madison taken in 1848 by Matthew Brady. (AP Photo)

The cover title of a 16-page pamphlet, printed a few days after Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, is shown on April 21, 1942. The document contai...

This is a close up of John Hancock's signature on the Declaration of Independence, which was formally signed by 56 members of Congress beginning Aug....

This is an undated photo of a 1804 portrait of U.S. First Lady Dolley Madison by artist Gilbert Stuart. (AP Phtoo)

This is a general view of the Third Avenue Line El train tracks, looking north up the Bowery from Grand Street, in New York City, 1891. Note the cabl...

This is an undated photo of a 1797 portrait of U.S. Vice President Thomas Jefferson in Philadelphia, Pa. (AP Photo)

A facsimilie of the printed copy of Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation is shown on Feb. 2, 1938. The document, believed to be one of two or...

This is an 1878 view of the Third Avenue Line El train tracks, looking north up the east side of the Bowery, at Chatham Square in lower Manhattan, New...

Amos Alonzo Stagg, All-American from Yale University in New Haven Conn., is shown in 1888. (AP Photo)

This wood engraving shows women at the Cheyenne polls casting their ballots in a local election in Wyoming in 1869. Though the 19th Amendment, giving...

This is an undated photo of an 1880 illustration for the sheet music of Pirates of Penzance. (AP Photo)

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This is a photograph of the undefeated 1896 football team of the West Texas Military Academy at an unknown location. Douglas MacArthur is in foregrou...

This is an undated etching of pedestrians on Wall Street looking west in lower Manhattan, New York City, in 1866. (AP Photo)

This is an undated photo of a 1890 portrait of artist Claude Monet by TH Robinson

Knox College displays its banner supporting presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln as he speaks before a crowd during his fifth debate with Sen. Steph...

This is an undated photo of a poster warning

This wood engraving shows a session of the National Woman's Suffrage Association during a politicial convention in Chicago, Ill., in 1880. (AP Photo)

This is an undated photo of a 1800 portrait of Thomas Jefferson by artist Rembrandt Peale. (AP Photo)

This woodcut printed cover of the New York Detective Library shows how Jesse James was killed by his cousin Bob Ford in his home in St. Joseph, Missou...

This woodcut printed cover of the New York Detective Library volume one series of Jesse James stories shows Frank James, brother of Jesse, surrenderin...

This drawing shows American voters cast their ballots in a polling place in the election of 1860 at an unknown location. Abraham Lincoln was elected...

This close up of the U.S. Declaration of Independence. The image is taken from the engraving made by printer William J. Stone for the department of st...

This is an undated photo of an illustration called

This undated etching shows the British ship Guerriere, left, and U.S. naval vessel Constitution in an exchange of fire on Aug. 19 during the War of 18...

This is an undated photo of an 1806 portrait of Meriwether Lewis by artist Charles Julien Fevret de Saint Memin. (AP Photo)

Supporters gather at the home of U.S. president-elect Abraham Lincoln in Springfield, Ill., on the morning of Nov. 7, 1860. Lincoln and his wife are...

This is an August 1863 photo of the headquarters of the slave trading firm of Price, Birch and Co., in Alexandria, Va. (AP Photo)

This painting shows President Abraham Lincoln, right, receiving guests at his first reception in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C....

This is an undated photo of an illustration of Sutter's Mill located on the American Fork River in Coloma California. James Marshall discovered gold...

This is an undated photo of an illustration of pre-Civil war life depicting African men in slave pens in Washington D.C. circa 1849-1850. (AP Photo)

This is a 1786 portrait of Thomas Jefferson by artist Mather Brown. (AP Photo)

This is a 1821 portrait of U.S. President Thomas Jefferson by artist Thomas Scully. (AP Photo)

Helen Keller, left, at age 13, is photographed with her teacher, Anne Sullivan, in 1893 at an unknown location. Keller was nineteen months old when...