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View of Kalgan, capital of Chahar province, China on Nov. 20, 1935. (AP Photo/Mills)

Completing excavation of the main canal of Saratsi irrigation project in the province of Suiyuan province, China on Nov. 20, 1935. (AP Photo)

Main canal from headgates in the province of Suiyuan, China on Nov. 20, 1935. (AP Photo)

Emma Swift Hammerstein, 53-year-old widow of the theatrical impresario, leaves the Supreme Court with her attorney, Lorenzo C. Carlino in New York, No...

There is the gateway of the great wall which forms the northern entrance to the city of Kalgan, capital of Chahar province, China an July 23, 1935. (A...

Kalgan nestles among the hills at the fringe of the Mongolian plateau. Here is a typical Kalgan street on July 23, 1935. (AP Photo)

Many primitive methods of transportation are in use at the frontier city of Kalgan, where automobiles are seldom seen. This picture at a Chinese inn s...

Bridge across the river at Kalgan, Chahar province, China on July 13, 1935. (AP Photo/Mills)

Clifford Odets, playwright and liberal, who headed the delegation of 15 Americans that went to Havana, Cuba to investigate social and economic conditi...

Mongolian camels, chief means of transportation in the country, are seen, June 15, 1935. (AP Photo/James A. Mills)

A Mongolian caravanserai on June 15, 1935. Hundreds of huge cases of Army cigarettes are awaiting transportation while the camels are fed. (AP Photo)

Mongolian refugees fleeing before bandit hordes on the Mongolian plains, June 1, 1935. (AP Photo)

Lottie Kaufman Zukor, wife of Adolph Zukor, the motion picture producer, came into a Chicago Court to testify during trial of four persons accused of...

These two women were rounded up with five men under suspicion of being connected to several bank robberies, murder, and the kidnapping of John J. O'Co...

This man is not trying to scare his audience, but on the contrary he is a holy dancer of Mongolia on Oct. 14, 1932. Clad in a silken robe, embroidered...

Returned from a belated European Honeymoon, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and his wife, Joan Crawford, with Bill Baines, second from right, movie star, as the...

A portrait study of Douglas Fairbanks Sr. and his wife, Mary Pickford, perennial stars of the motion picture world shown June 25, 1932. "Doug" is atti...

"Death Valley Scotty," Walter Scott picturesque and wealthy resident of the California-Nevada desert country shown at a movie premiere in Los Angeles...

Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks are shown in Los Angeles on Feb. 10, 1932 with (left to right) Captain John Haga, First Officer Patrick Ryan, and...

Douglas and Mary Fairbanks aboard the 136-foot schooner-yacht Invader in Los Angeles on Feb. 10, 1932. (AP Photo)

Joan Crawford with her husband, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. in an unknown location on Nov. 27, 1931. (AP Photo)

Samuel Barrymore Colt, son of Ethel Barrymore and nephew of John and Lionel Barrymore, who makes his first stage appearance in a forthcoming motion pi...

S.L. Rothafel, whom the amusement world knows as "Roxy," is on board ship in New York, Oct. 29, 1931 when he returned from a business trip in Europe....

Richard Tauber, tenor, called the "Caruso of Germany," made his American debut in New York, Oct. 28, 1931 and was enthusiastically acclaimed. Many lea...

Richard Dix, motion picture actor, returned to Hollywood, Oct. 27, 1931 with his bride, Winifred Coe of San Francisco, and announced he was ready for...

Paul D. Cravath, who assumed his new duties as president and chairman of the Board of Directors of the metropolitan opera company in New York City on...

"Seventeen minutes to New York," said Death Valley Scotty in his first glance at wirephoto in California on Oct. 21, 1931. "What do I think about it?...

"Seventeen minutes to New York," said Death Valley Scotty in his first glance at wirephoto in California on Oct. 21, 1931. "What do I think about it?...

Walter "Death Valley" Scott, colorful mystery man of the desert, attending a Hollywood movie premier on Oct. 11, 1931. He is accompanied by Mrs. Rober...

A section of the large crowd of excited brokers gathered in Throgmorton street of London, United Kingdom, on Sept. 22, 1931, the second day of the Sto...

Vivian Duncan, "Eva" of the Duncan sisters, known in private life as Mrs. Nils Asther, wife of the film star, arrival in New York, Aug. 7, 1931, with...

Evangeline Love Brewster Johnson, wife of the conductor of the Philadelphia, Pa., symphony orchestra Leopold Stokowski, arrives in New York City from...

Jascha Heifetz, noted violinist and his wife, Florence Vidor, motion picture star, arrive in New York City, June 2, 1931 following a pleasure tour thr...

Douglas Fairbanks Jr. at a movie premiere in Hollywood, California on Jan. 24, 1931. Left to right: William Hains, Joan Crawford, Doug Jr. and Ivor No...

Ralph DePalma, of Los Angeles, California, veteran racer as he looked when he made his first appearance at the American Legion Ascot Speedway in Los A...

During the great depression, rioting farmers dumped cans of milk rather than sell for two cents a quart. In this image babies and small children of re...

Walter Brookins, from his present home in Los Angeles, California on July 25, 1930, noted aviation pioneer, recalls the day in 1909 he became associat...

Clerks in the office of Tobey and Kirk, broad street, New York, United States, read the ticker on Oct. 25, 1929, after one of the busiest nights in th...

The porter cleaning up the pile of ticker tape after the Wall Street Market had closed on October 24, exactly ten years to the day after the Wall Stre...

RUC officers look at the debris Sunday, August 16, 1998, following yesterday's bomb in Omagh town centre. The bomb exploded Saturday afternoon killing...

Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) officers look over the debris early Sunday August 16, 1998, left behind following Saturday's bomb blast in Omagh, Nor...

3 founders of Boy Scouts of America in 1916. Left to right: Ernest Thompson Seton, Lord Robert Baden, Powell Daniel Beard. (AP Photo)

With a crippled engine, Ralph DePalma of Los Angeles crosses the finish line at Indianapolis Speedway on March 10, 1915. Another engine failure had s...

Boy Scouts in 1915 learn all about tying knots 17 different kinds. Camps and groups were small in those days. (AP Photo)

Boy Scouts of America, White House, Washington on Feb. 3, 1912. (AP Photo)

First Banquet Boy Scouts in 1910. (AP Photo)

In this photo provided by the Library of Congress, the Confederate White House, home of Confederate leader Jefferson Davis during the Civil War in Ric...

In this photo provided by the Library of Congress, Maj. Gen. Irvin McDowell, officer of the Federal Army, shown sometime between 1860 and 1870, locati...

In this photo provided by the Library of Congress, reading the death warrant to Henry Wirz on the scaffold in Washington, D.C., on November 10, 1865....

In this photo provided by the Library of Congress, Hon. Alexander Hamilton Stephens of Georgia, vice president of the Confederacy, with African-Americ...