AP Historical Hard Drive 2002

U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt sits at the head of a mess table for lunch at Camp Fechner in Big Meadows, Va., one of the five Civilian Conservatio...

This is a downstream view of the Hoover Dam showing the immense concrete blocks rising from the bedrock of Black Canyon's floor, which will be the cor...

The incomplete concrete piers of New York's Triborough Bridge are shown while construction work has stopped due to lack of funds in Aug. 1933. (AP Ph...

Wiley Post waves from an open car during a tickertape parade in his honor up Broadway from Battery Park to City Hall, where he will be greeted by the...

Wiley Post climbs out of the cockpit of his Lockheed Vega monoplane, Winnie Mae, after completing the first solo flight around the world at Floyd Benn...

Australian Jack Crawford is shown in action in the final round of the men's singles in the All England Lawn Tennis Championship at Wimbledon, England,...

Col. Charles A. Lindbergh flies his low-wing Lockheed monoplane over Long Island in a test flight on July 7, 1933. Lindbergh and his wife will carry...

Wiley Post takes his plane Winnie Mae of Oklahoma on a test flight over New York City, July 4, 1933. Post is preparing for his transatlantic flight....

Walter Hagen, right, and Gene Sarazen pose on board the liner S.S. Aquitania arriving at Southampton, England, June 21, 1933. Hagen and Sarazen are w...

A steel bucket holding eight cubic yards dumps the first load of concrete for the foundation of the Hoover Dam on the floor of Black Canyon in Boulder...

J. Pierpont Morgan, Jr., standing, center, is joined by the Van Sweringen brothers at the Senate Banking Committee inquiry into J.P. Morgan and Compan...

J.P. Morgan talks to one of his associates during the Senate inquiry into the J.P. Morgan and Company in New York City, June 5, 1933. (AP Photo)

Italy's Premier Benito Mussolini, on horseback, salutes as he reviews troops in Rome, Italy, June 2, 1933. (AP Photo)

J.P. Morgan, center, is shown leaving the Senate Banking Committee, which is investigating J.P. Morgan and Company, at the conclusion of the fourth da...

This general view from the top of the skyride looks south over the hundreds of concessions and exhibition buildings at the World Fair Grounds in Chica...

Inspired by a speech of the Reichsminister of Propaganda Goebbels, German students gather around a huge bonfire to throw

Sir Oswald Mosley and members of his British fascist 'Blackshirts' watch the review of Italian fascists by Senor Mussolini, in the Via Dell Impero, Ro...

Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini, left, and British fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley watch a march of Italian fascists in the via Dell Impero,...

U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt holds onto his aide Capt. Walter Vernou, right, as he walks out the front door of the executive mansion and greets P...

A delegation of women, joined by some men and children, pledge themselves to fight the prohibition laws as they stand in front of the Lincoln Memorial...

Over 1,800 recruits line up for their noon-day meal at the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) camp at Fort Slocum, N.Y., on April 9, 1933. The federa...

A crowd gathers on Broadway to celebrate the repeal of prohibition after midnight in New York City, April 7, 1933. A beer keg is held aloft at right....

A crowd gathers as kegs of beer are unloaded in front of a restaurant on Broadway in New York City, the morning of April 7, 1933, when low-alcohol bee...

Robert Fechner of Massachusetts, assigned to the big task of directing the 250,000 man conservation corps recruited for outdoor labor in the forests,...

American novelist Zane Grey, known for his writings of the American West and non-fiction books on fishing, is shown in April 1933. (AP Photo)

U.S. first lady Eleanor Roosevelt, right, enjoys a horseback ride in Rock Creek Park in Washington, D.C., March 21, 1933. (AP Photo)

Gene Sarazen, left, Tommy Armour, center, and Walter Hagen are shown during the Florida year-round club open golf tournament in Miami, Fla., March 6,...

Frances Perkins, Industrial Commissioner of New York State, speaks in favor of unemployment insurance measures at a joint legislative hearing on worke...

U.S. president-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt, seated, is shown with his mother, Sara, in their home in Hyde Park, N.Y., on Feb. 25, 1933. (AP Photo)

Franklin D. Roosevelt is shown on Feb. 15, 1933. The location is not known. (AP Photo)

Cuba's dictator and President Gerardo Machado y Morales, right, toasts Milton S. Hershey, U.S. producer of chocolate, after presenting him with the bl...

U.S. President Herbert Hoover poses with one of the five sailfish which he caught on his vacation trip in Florida waters aboard the presidential boat...

John F. Kennedy, 16, second from right, front row, is shown in a team photo of the junior football team at Choate School in Wallingford, Conn., in 193...

The Airflow DeSoto six passenger, four-door sedan, is shown in 1933. (AP Photo)

This is a close up of the poster created in 1933 for the XI Summer Olympic Games to be held in Berlin, Germany, in 1936. (AP Photo)

New York Jews gather on the promenade across the walkway of the Williamsburg Bridge on the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur in 1933. The bridge links Br...

August A. Busch, Sr., center, son of the founder of the nation's largest brewery, and his two sons, Adolphus III, left, and August Jr., seal the first...

Mao Tse-tung, leader of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), addresses a conference of representatives of the poor peasant leagues from eight counties i...

Babe Didrikson stands in a diving pose at the edge of a swimming pool at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., Dec. 30, 1932. (AP Photo)

U.S. President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt is shown at Warm Springs, Ga., on Dec. 5, 1932. (AP Photo)

A 150-foot granite memorial to the first airplane flight made by Wilbur and Orville Wright in Dec. 1903 is shown following a dedication at Kitty Hawk,...

Orville Wright, left, and Capt. W.J. Tate are shown at the dedication of the Wright Memorial at Kitty Hawk, N.C., Nov. 19, 1932. Wright, the survivin...

Fredric March acknowledges the applause during dinner of the 1931-32 Motion Picture Academy Awards at the Ambassador Hotel in Hollywood, Ca., Nov. 18,...

Gov. Franklin Roosevelt, D-N.Y., shows his wife Eleanor Roosevelt one of the many wires of congratulation he received for his overwhelming victory at...

Republican Vice-Presidential candidate Charles G. Curtis is shown in Nov. 1932. (AP Photo)

U.S. President Herbert Hoover addresses a crowd of 30,000 assembled at Rayburn Plaza near the Railroad Station in Philadelphia, Pa., Oct. 31, 1932. T...

Women turn out in large numbers, some carrying placards reading

James M. Curley, Mayor of Boston, is shown with Democratic presidential candidate Franklin D. Roosevelt during the presidential campaign in Boston, Ma...

Albert Gates, right, of Chicago, Ill., presents Walter Hagen with a $1,000 check after Hagen won the St. Louis Open Golf Championship in St. Louis, Mo...

Governor of New York Franklin D. Roosevelt receives a 5-minute ovation after addressing a crowd of 25,000 in the civic auditorium in San Francisco, Ca...