AP Historical Hard Drive 2009

= Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek and Madame Chiang, also known as Soong Mei-ling. having a picnic lunch on the country outside Nanking, China, May 5, 1...

A squad of Hitler Youth look at the architecture in one of the inner courtyards at Marienburg, Germany, on April, 27, 1937. This ancient castle has be...

This is the first picture of the crash of a takeoff are that ended the round-world flight of Miss Amelia Earhart in Honolulu, Hawaii on March 25, 1937...

Australian troops march along the road on their way to the Seymore Military Camp, near Melbourbe on Mrach 9, 1937. (AP Photo)

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Two years ago, the husband of this woman died and she took up his work as sharecropper to support her four children, ranging in age from 4 to 14. Illy...

Shown from left to right are Senators William G. McAdoo of California, Key Pittman of Nevada and Robert F. Wagner of New York, all Democrats, who conf...

Still seeking clues in the Lindbergh case, Anna Hauptmann, widow of Richard Bruno Hauptmann, is shown after her arrival to Albany, N.Y., Jan. 6, 1937,...

That gnawing pain in little Jun Taylor???s stomach is a signal it???s dinner time. And Clar Bell, his sister, is looking hopeful on Dec. 23, 1936 in M...

Bruno Richard Hauptmann, kidnapper of Lindbergh baby, is shown in his cell in Flemington, N.J., Dec. 19, 1936. (AP Photo)

J. Edgar Hoover, chief of the bureau of investigation in New York, Dec. 15, 1936, as he Led (25) G-men and 100 police in a siege of an apartment house...

Actress Greta Garbo, far left, is shown in a scene from a comedy film early in her career, 1936. (AP Photo)

Ann Cooper Hewitt, sterilized Heiress, shown on the witness stand in the trial of Drs. Tilton E. Tillman and Samuel G. Boyd in San Francisco on August...

Mrs. Cooper Hewitt in black with veil over face being arranged as first Criminal Court Jersey City, New Jersey on July 1, 1936. (AP Photo)

Even to the last, Bruno Richard Hauptmann, perhaps the world???s best known carpenter of the day, drew a crowd. The picture shows the ??sGallery??? th...

Anna Hauptmann, widow of Bruno Richard Hauptmann, buries her face in a handkerchief as she leaves her home in New York for the crematory to receive th...

Young Manfried Hauptmann was cared for at the home of the Rev. D.G. Werner, spiritual adviser to Bruno Richard Hauptmann before his execution in New Y...

Moser in a fight to the end to save her husband from the electric chair, Mrs. Anna Hauptmann leaves her Trenton hotel, April 4, 1936 a widow, to retur...

Smilingly, little Manfred Hauptmann perches on the front seat of an automobile to go out for a ride, April 4, 1936 in New York. Last night his father,...

Mrs. Anna Hauptmann leaving the Stacey Hotel, April 3, 1936 to make a last minute plea before Gov. Harold Hoffman on behalf of her husband before bein...

Women reporters as they strain their necks and ears at the door of Mrs. Bruno Richard Hauptmann at the Stacey Trent Hotel, immediately after Mrs. Haup...

Mrs. Bruno Anna Hauptmann leaving Trenton hotel, April 3, 1936 for dash to Flemington, where she swore to a Hunterdon county complaint charging Paul W...

A view of crowd at entrance to state???s prison as Bruno Richard Hauptmann went to his death in the electric chair for the kidnaped Lindbergh baby???s...

Lloyd Fisher, Bruno Richard Hauptmann???s attorney leaving the prison, April 3, 1936. (AP Photo)

Lloyd Fischer, attorney fpr Bruno Richard Hauptmann, being searched by police before entering the death house to visit Bruno, April 3, 1936. (AP Photo...

Here???s exterior view of New Jersey death house shortly before Bruno Richard Hauptmann died in electric chair. Police formed line along prison wall....

Bruno Richard Hauptmann, convicted murderer of the Lindbergh baby, is shown shortly before his execution in April 1936. (AP Photo)

If stay of execution had not been granted, Bruno Richard Hauptmann would have been dead when Gov. Harold Hoffman read dramatic letter written by convi...

Crowd presses around as Anna Hauptmann leaves state???s prison in Trenton, N.J. in automobile, March 30, 1936, after seeing her husband for probably l...

Cross marks spot near a Hunterdon County road on March 29, 1936 at Mount Rose, New Jersey, where body of kidnapped baby Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr. was...

Mrs. Bruno Hauptmann, wife of the condemned slayer of Charles A. Lindbergh Jr., leaves the New Jersey State Penitentiary at Trenton, Marc 25, 1936 aft...

This is a reproduction (with name eliminated) of the official state invitation sent out by Col. Mark Kimberling, principal keeper of the state peniten...

Nazi storm troopers ceremoniously celebrated the German remilitarization of the Rhineland and Repudiation of the Versailles Treaty in a colorful demon...

Britain???s most sensational murder case in recent years continues to hold the interest of the country and at the third day???s hearing on March 4,19...

On an official mission from the German Government to discuss the possible establishment of a transatlantic air service between United States and Germa...

Ann Cooper Hewitt (left) and a companion, Miss Florence Slavich, as they appeared in court on Feb. 4, 1936 in San Francisco when police inspector Geor...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt is pictured as he signed commissions for the new Federal Reserve Board, Feb. 3, 1936 in Washington. The members, stand...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt grins as he finishes the day???s work, Jan. 31, 1936 in the White House in Washington. It was the president???s 54th...

Franklin D. Roosevelt is shown, Jan. 30, 1936. (AP Photo)

A motorized detachment of Adolf Hitler's crack S.S. bodyguards train for a show parade, in Deutschlandhalle, Berlin, on Jan. 24, 1936. (AP Photo)

Ann Cooper Hewitt (left) is shown in court on Jan. 23, 1936 in San Francisco where she testified on the sterilization operation she says was performed...

Speaking at a state meeting of the National Emergency Council in Newark, President Franklin D. Roosevelt praised federal works projects as ??suseful,?...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt is in a conference in Newark at the meeting of the National Emergency Council which he addressed, Jan. 18, 1936. With...

Dr. Robert G. Stone, medical director of the Trenton State Hospital, who will be one of the three doctors to witness the execution of Bruno Richard Ha...

This is a copy of the reprieve signed by Gov. Harold Hoffman of New Jersey, postponing the execution of Bruno Richard Hauptmann, convicted of the kidn...

A face that had been worried and wearied a few moments before was lightened by this smile as Mrs. Bruno Hauptmann, her three-year-old son in her arms,...

Old time Notre Dame Football stars discuss the ??sGood old days??? at the Annual Testimonial Banquet given the 1935 squad by the Notre Dame club of St...

Attorney General David T. Wilentz (center), who conducted the prosecution of Bruno Hauptmann, is shown with Col. Norman Schwarzkopf (left), head of th...

Assistant District Attorney August Fourtner, left, announced on Jan. 10, 1936 in San Francisco the he will issue warrants charging Mrs. Maryon McCarte...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt, left, accompanied by Gus Generick, his personal bodyguard, center, greets Vice President John N. Garner at the $50 a...