AP Historical Hard Drive 2009

U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt (in launch) looks over the schooner Benham off Campobello Island, New Brunswick, August 14, 1939 where the cruise...

President Franklin Roosevelt (center) on August 10, 1939 at his Hyde Park, N.Y., home as received from the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis...

Twenty-five thousand warm meals and many thousands of pieces of bread were served daily by the

Attorney General Frank Murphy, right, and former Attorney General Homer Cummings, left, were called to the White House on August. 7, 1939 in Washingto...

Philippine official sees bill signed at the White House, August. 7, 1939 in Washington when U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed into law a bil...

Francis Sayre, new high commissioner to the Philippines, shakes hands with U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt in the executive office, Washington, Augu...

In a surprise ceremony at the White House, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt pinned a distinguished service medal on the lapel of Admiral William O...

A special derrick on the gun car hoists the big shells to the gun breech for charging, July 27, 1939. German sources described the shell as ?nearly as...

U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt sitting in an auto looking at plan of finished library, July, 24, 1939. (AP Photo)

Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt watching, the president signing a deed at Hyde Park, N.Y., July 24, 1939 giving to the government the title to 12 acres of land...

R. Connor architect for U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, signing deed, Frank Walker, Treasurer of the F. D. R. Library and Matthew, attorney of the...

View of pastoral spot on the Roosevelt family estate at Hyde Park, N.Y.,, July 23, 1939 is the site for a federal archives building which will house 6...

New roads have enabled many miners to leave the coal camps, and to settle on subsistence homesteads in Dickenson County, Virginia, seen July 15, 1939....

U.S. President D. Roosevelt, just one of 20,000 Washingtonians who attended the first of a series of summer concerts by the National Symphony Orchestr...

Bob Feller, the Cleveland fire ball hurler is shown turning on the heat as he relieved Detroit???s Tommy Bridges in the sixth inning of the all-star g...

Bob Feller, the Cleveland fire ball hurler is shown turning on the heat as he relieved Detroit???s Tommy Bridges in the sixth inning of the all-star g...

King George and Queen Elizabeth joined President Roosevelt's family in worship at the President's home church, St. James Episcopal, at Hyde Park, N.Y....

An anti aircraft detachment parading before Adolf Hitler and Prince Regent Paul of Yugoslavia in Berlin, June 2, 1939. (AP Photo)

Papa Maxie Baer had a time explaining to son Maxie, Jr., June 2, 1939 how he happened to get that black eye in his bout the night before with Lou Nova...

Papa Maxie Baer had a time explaining to son Maxie, Jr. June 2, 1939 how he happened to get that black eye in his bout the night before with Lou Nova...

An Anti aircraft detachment parading before Adolf Hitler and Prince Regent Paul of Yugoslavia in Berlin, June 2, 1939. (AP Photo)

Here?s how Maxie Baer looked after Lou Nova, the Alameda, Calif., flash, slugged him into submission in the 11th round of their battle in New York, Ju...

This is a bowling room which can be also used during air raids. This room is installed at the Reichsluftschutzschule (school for the training of the A...

Here is a corner of Germany?s first ?Reichsluftschutzschule,? a school for training of the air raid precaution corps, May 22, 1939 at Wannsee, near Be...

Jewish women staged a march to the British Government offices on May 22, 1939 in Jerusalem, to protest against the British government???s proposals fo...

To the accompaniment of cat-calls shouted by pickets outside the workings, workers are shown entering one of the coal mines near Harlan, Kentucky, on...

But the aroma of spring flowers is lost upon these marchers. They?re members of the Hitler youth movement, gas masks in an air raid precaution corps a...

This overhead shot of the finish of the Kentucky Derby in Louisville, May 6, 1939, shows Johnstown winning by six lengths. Challedon finished second;...

First of the European royal families to be entertained by President Franklin D. Roosevelt at his Hyde Park home were the Crown Prince and Princess of...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt, left, and his party arrive at the New York World's Fairgrounds, April 30, 1939, the vanguard of what was expected to...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt, right, and Crown Prince Olaf of Norway are shown as they drove to the Hyde Park, N.Y. estate of the president, April...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt and first lady Eleanor Roosevelt were ten minutes late in welcoming Denmark's Crown Prince Frederik and Princess Ingr...

Flanked by Boy Scouts, President Franklin D. Roosevelt opened New York's $160,000,000 World's Fair, April 30, 1939 with an address in which he said Am...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt, third from right, and first lady Eleanor Roosevelt, third from left, greet members of the Norwegian royal family in P...

Besides rocking the cradle, this German mother must know how to protect her baby in case of a gas attack. This picture shows the mother wearing a gas...

Using a new chromium-plated telegraph key mounted on crystal-clear plastic, President Franklin D. Roosevelt sent a message from his White House office...

Speaking from the South Portico of the White House in Washington, President Franklin D. Roosevelt told Red Cross convention delegates that the agency'...

Hungarian troops advancing through Ruthenia cross the frontier into Slovakia, April 20, 1939. Hungarian and Slovakian officers are shown meeting at Gr...

With 40,000 troops, hundreds of tanks mobile guns and other motorized pieces of equipment taking part, Berlin Staged her greatest military Review, in...

Parade of the new parachute troops, who participated in a public parade for the first time, April 20, 1939. (AP Photo)

President Franklin D. Roosevelt speaks before the National Parole Conference in the East Room of the White House, criticizing the use of parole power...

Five-year-old Ila Ruth Firebaugh, daughter of a deceased ex-service man, sits on the desk of President Franklin D. Roosevelt as she presents him with...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt appealed to the National Parole Conference in Washington to cooperate with the U.S. in strengthening the prisoner paro...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt, seated, is seen shortly after he read his

The new budget director, Harold Smith, with right hand raised, is sworn in at the White House in Washington, April 15, 1939. From left to right, Pre...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt speaks to members of the annual Pan-American Board, April 14, 1939, in Washington. (AP Photo)

President Franklin D. Roosevelt is shown during the annual Pan-American Day, speaking to the governing board of the Pan-American Union in Washington,...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt visited Mount Vernon, Va., the ancestral home of George Washington and paid tribute to the first president on the 150t...

V.I. Chebithes, supreme president of the Order of Ahepa, and members of the Supreme Lodge were received by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, seated, at...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt waves to children from the White House in Washington, after he returned from Warm Springs, Ga., April 10, 1939. Pres...