AP Historical Hard Drive 2007

D.W. Griffith, left, joins entertainers from the silent film era at the Associated Cinema Stars dinner-dance on August 26, 1936 in Los Angeles, Calif...

Henry Wisniewsky of the New York Knickerbockers slides head first and safely into first inning of the old time game played August 13, 1936 at the Polo...

American Jeese Owens runs in 21.1 seconds to win his elimination heats in the Olympic 200- meter dash during the Berlin Olympics, August 8, 1936. He...

Max Schmeling, former heavyweight champion who knocked out Joe Louis in their fight in New York last June of 1935, is shown as he debarked at Lakehur...

The enterants in the Olympic Marathon as they Circled the track at the Olympic Stadium in Los Angeles August 7, 1936 before starting their run through...

The gold seekers who rushed to Colorado after John Greory found yellow metal near Central City in the seventies built well when they constructed this...

Joe Caneva, left, photographer, and Alan Gould, sports editor, shown as they sailed, July 15, 1936 on the SS. Manhattan, with members of the American...

Photographed is the Womens Swimming Team as they sailed July 15, 1936 on the Manhattan for Berlin and the Olympic Games. Left to right are; Edith Mobr...

Reuben F. Brown, Asst. Supt., of sewers, is shown in his gas mask and specially equipped boat as he began to explore a six mile section of sewer line...

President Franklin Roosevelt dedicates the memorial to George Rogers Clark on the banks of the Wabash River, Vincennes, Ind., June 14, 1936. (AP Phot...

Edward J. Nell, Associated Press war correspondent, poses for a photo in Ethiopia, May 21, 1936. Nell, with the insurgent armies in Spain, died Jan. 2...

Boxer Joe Louis, right, of Detroit, and his trainer, Jack Blackburn; do their morning six-mile run at training camp at Lakewood, N.J. May 16, 1936....

A scene at Vassar college April 22, 1936 as more than 1,000 students joined in a demonstration against war. They marched about the campus, then gather...

J. Edgar Hoover, left, Chief of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and C.R. Fine, right, a Miami boat captain, stand with a five-four sailfish caugh...

Actor Franchot Tone and his bride, Joan Crawford, white dress; are shown on the left as they attended the annual Screen Actors Guild ball at Los Ange...

Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt is seen, seated, with the new Federal Reserve Board, in Washington, Feb. 3, 1936. From left to right, standing: Joseph Br...

Famous writer H.G. Wells, after purchasing a ticket for the New York Press Photographers' ball from Ethel Merman, singer and film actress, right, he...

The body of actress Thelma Todd is examined by Capt. Burt Wallis of the Los Angeles Police homicide squad, in the motor car where it was found, in Los...

Joe Louis' arm is raised in New York ring after the sensational bout with the veteran Paulino Uzcudun of Spain before a crowd of 20,000 on December 13...

Professor Frederic Joliot and his wife Madame Irene Curie-Joliot, are pictured in their hotel room in Stockholm, Sweden, Dec. 9, 1935. The couple are...

Radio announcer Graham McNamee is shown in a photo in 1936. (AP Photo)

Arna Bontemps, author of

Charles A. Davila, Romanian minister to the United States, is pictured aboard the liner Europa on arriving in New York en route to Washington, D.C., N...

Max Baer,left, former heavyweight champion of the world will enter ring to face Joe Louis, at right, on September 24, 1935 in New York City. The two...

The tale of the tape, filled in here on picture of Max Baer, left, and Joe Louis at weighing in ceremonies at state athletic commission office. Th...

Joe Louis, the Brown Bomber from Detroit, at center in robe, has a

Elden Auker, one of the Detroit Tigers starting hurlers, Sept. 18, 1935. His specialty is the

Henry S. Morgan, son of J.P. Morgan, who returned from abroad yesterday to assume his new duties as a partner in the investment banking firm Morgan, S...

An old wooden crucifix, which is worshipped by the pious peasants when they want good crops or other good fortune, is shown in the province of Transyl...

Joe Louis, center, stands ready as Primo Carnera hits the canvas for the second time in their sixth and final round at the Yankee Stadium in New York...

Four views of the famous Altar of Heaven in Beijing, June 17, 1935, where, in the days of the Chinese Monarchy, the Emperor, who was styled

View of the lovely lake within the Imperial Winter Gardens in Beijing, June 17, 1935. The surface is carpeted with superb water lilies, and is crosse...

Looking across the roofs of Peiping (Beijing) China, June 17, 1935. On the left is one of the many great concrete gateways that guard the ancient capi...

One of the busiest streets in the capital city of Peking, (Beijing) China, June 17, 1935. (AP Photo)

A view of foreign business quarter of Peiping, (Beiking) China showing a number of the leading banks, June 17, 1935. On the extreme right is shown a p...

View of legation quarter, Peiping (Beijing) from top of hotel Des Wagon-Lits. in the distance, June 17, 1935. On the right is shown the renowned Forb...

One of the concrete Bulwarks, Center that kept Peiping (Beijing) from occupation by the Japanese. A short distance to the right are the headquarter an...

Upton Sinclair, founder of the Epic Movement, sits with his wife Mary, at a California gathering of the Labor Temple in Los Angeles, May 19, 1935. F...

From left, H. Norman Swartzkopf , N.J. police head, prosecutor Anthony Hauck, Jr. , of Hunterdon County; Todd Folsom, assistant to J.Edgar Hoover, Att...

Author Upton Sinclair outlines his plans for capturing the democratic party at the EPIC,

This is an inscription that is to be seen on the roads in the city of Hersbruck in Bavaria, Germany, April 5, 1935. It says:

The renowned Temple of Heaven in Beijing, long regarded as one of the most sacred shrines in China, seen here April 3, 1935. (AP Photo)

Otis Moore, manager of Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt's farm at Warms Springs, Ga., holds

Tade Styka, Polish artist whose portrait of actress Marion Davies was barred and later restored to a Venetian exhibition, arrives in New York aboard t...

Pictured here is Detroit Tigers' batting star, Hank Greenberg, who's shown going through his practice session March 17, 1935 at Tampa, Fla. (AP Photo...

Rear Admiral George C. Day, dressed in overalls and cap, points into the lifeboat as, from left, Commander C.B. Platt, Capt. W.P. Robert and Capt. N.H...

Bomb case suspect George Rogers is shown in this photo taken in an unknown location, March 16, 1935. (AP Photo)

Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxembourg, centre, with her husband Prince de Bourbon-Parma, left, depart from Cairo for a holiday in Luxor, escorted by A...

Attorney General Homer Cummings, left, is shown as he greets J. Edgar Hoover, head of the FBI, right, at a meeting of all employees of the Department...

Russian leaders, from left to right: Lazar Kaganovitch, G.K. Orjonikidzie, Anastas Mikoyan, Kliment Voroschilov, Josef Stalin, Vyacheslav Molotov, an...