AP Historical Hard Drive 2009

President Franklin D. Roosevelt appeared proud and happy as he left the commencement exercises at Groton School, Groton, Mass., where his son John was...

When President Franklin D. Roosevelt passed through Worcester, Mass., June 1, 1934, on his way to see his son graduate at Groton School in Groton he w...

U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt with members of the reviewing party on board the Cruiser Indianapolis off Ambrose Lightship in New York City, May...

Lined up in Military Army, the officers and sailors on the heavy Cruiser Indianapolis are shown, May 31, 1934 as they greeted their commander-in-chief...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt, commander-in-chief of the army and navy, with members of his family on board the reviewing Cruiser Indianapolis off A...

U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt as he left his town house in New York City, May 31, 1934 to proceed to the Indianapolis, which will serve as a re...

From left to right: Gov. B.B. Moeur of Arizona, Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace; and Homer Leroy Shantz, president of the University of Arizon...

It is chow time at the bonus camp at Fort Hunt, Virginia, seen May 14, 1934. (AP Photo)

The Rev. Selden Peabody Delany, former pastor for three years of the high Episcopalian Church of St. Mary the Virgin, is shown on board the liner Roma...

Stewart Donnelly, an international con artist, is shown, April 29, 1934. He was captured by police in France and said to have changed bills paid in ra...

This group was photographed in New York, April 28, 1934 when Arthur Stanley Eddington, eminent scientist, was the guest of honor at a luncheon of the...

C.M. Van Asch Van Wyck of Doorn, Holland, president of the world organization of the Young Women's Christian Association, is shown as she arrived on t...

John F. Curry, (center, wearing gray suit, white hair), leaves Tammany Hall in New York, April 20, 1934, after he was deposed as Tammany's chieftain b...

Rena MacDonald, of Boston, a member of the 1928 international team, breaking her own world record for the 8 pound shot put in the Women's National Ind...

Joseph A. McCann, left, who was relieved as warden of the Welfare Island Penitentiary in New York, following the recent prison vice and gang rule, lea...

Robert Cavanaugh, Chicago attorney, and his bride, dancer Bobbe Arnst, are photographed as they attended a society party for a Bellevue Hospital benef...

Photo shows Eugene L. Vidal, of the aeronautics branch of the department of commerce, shown at work in Washington, D.C., on March 30, 1934, upon the s...

Photograph of the crowd which gathered in front of the county court house at Hartford, Conn., on March 5, 1934. when Henry Johnson, a deckhand, was he...

The first swastikas being painted on the Reichswehr steel helmets, March 3, 1934. (AP Photo)

German Army uniform, March 3, 1934. (AP Photo)

Richard Whitney, the President of the New York stock exchange, shown as he told the house interstate commerce committee in Washington, on Feb. 22, 193...

Thomas Meighan, actor, and his wife Frances are shown upon their arrival in New York, Feb. 22, 1934, on the liner Manhattan. Mr. And Mrs. Meighan are...

Britain's Lord Privy Seal Anthony Eden, second right, with the British Ambassador to Berlin, Sir Eric Phipps, third right, leave the Foreign Office, i...

Britain's Lord Privy Seal Anthony Eden, fourth from left, arrived in Berlin, Germany, on Feb. 20, 1934, for talks with Adolf Hitler on disarmament. Br...

Granville T. Emmet, newly-appointed minister to the Netherlands, and Mrs. Emmet (her name not available) are shown on board the liner Washington in Ne...

Alfred Moran (left) and Alfred C. Flather, are shown above as they testified in Washington, D.C., Jan. 30, 1934 before the Senate Committee Investig...

Senator Hugo Black (D- Ala.) (left) chairman of the Senate Committee Investigating getting airmails contracts is shown in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 30,...

Prof. George F. Warren (right), one of President Roosevelt's principal money advisors, pictured with Senator Duncan U. Fletcher of Florida, Chairman o...

A mutually profitable exchange of trade and a common bulwark against the possibility of war were cited by William C. Bullitt, U.S. Ambassador to Russi...

President Franklin Roosevelt delivering his annual message on the State of the Union to a session of the Senate and House in the House chamber on Jan....

Dr. William Randolph Taylor, (center), botanist of the University of Michigan; Capt. G. Allan Hancock, (left), wealthy explorer and California Capital...

An election poster, seen Nov. 23, 1933, on an advertising pillar on a Berlin street is shown. Reichskanzler Hitler cutting the first sod to the Reich...

The Berlin Gas works have shown interesting demonstrations of new air protection news. Even after bombs were thrown into the earth ground, there are p...

German election pins are shown, Nov. 12, 1933. All citizens can wear these after leaving the polls in Germany. The pins cost 5 pfennig each and show...

New election posters are shown on a street in Berlin, Oct. 30, 1933. In these posters the opinion about the world troubles which Lloyd George publishe...

Scenes like this were familiar 15-old years ago-detachments of the German Reichswehr fording the over Oder River in upper Silesia, Germany, Sept. 29,...

Members of Camp George H. Dern in Virginia, one of the five Civilian Conservation Corps camps President Franklin D. Roosevelt visited, Aug. 12, 1933,...

Max Baer, heavyweight puglist, and his wife, Dorothy Dunbar Baer, starting life together again. She decided to drop her suit for divorce which was on...

Hurrying from the White House in Washington after cleaning up important business, President Franklin Roosevelt left Washington June 16, 1933 for his...

The sweeping measure to help business and increase employment through a big public works program was signed by President Franklin Roosevelt on June...

Abe Tompkins, organizer of the Richmond Unemployment Council, was arrested in Richmond, Virginia, Feb. 11, 1933, as he led marchers to the City Hall t...

Only six months old, the National Labor Board already has sent hundreds of thousands of striking workers back to their jobs and forestalled dozens of...

Senator Robert Wagner, chairman of the National Labor Board, witnessed the signing of an arbitration pact between workers and employees at unionized...

Roy A. Young of the Boston Federal Reserve Bank tells Senate banking committee on Jan. 19, 1933 that President Franklin Roosevelt's gold plan would b...

Bearing placards and signs, marchers paraded through the city to the capitol in Washington, Dec. 6, 1932, where their petition for the relief of unemp...

After having camped in Washington to present their cause to the president, the so-called unemployed hunger marchers trekked out of the capital, Dec. 6...

Bearing placards and signs, Washington marchers paraded through the city to the Capitol in Washington, Dec. 6, 1932, where their petition for the reli...

Hunger marchers, numbering 1,300 pass through Maryland near Cumberland on their way to Washington, Dec. 3, 1932. This group was later stopped by a cit...

Meeting of the New England contingent of Washington marchers in Union Square, New York, where they awaited arrival of the New York contingent before p...

Gertrude Haessler, 38, put up a battle with police in Washington, Nov. 24, 1932, when they tried to arrest her for creating a disturbance along with o...