Roosevelt Visits Denver

President Teddy Roosevelt is seen riding in an open car during a visit to Denver in this undated photograph.

Tombstone, Arizona

Bat Masterson and Wyatt Earp are pictured in Tombstone, Arizona in 1880.

The ENIAC Computer

In 1946, John Mauchly and John Presper Eckert invented the ENIAC I computer (Electrical Numerical Integrator And Calculator), a project that was sponsored by the American military. Replacing a bad tube in the computer meant checking its' 19,000 possibilities, as pictured above.

Eve Arden

This picture was autographed by the late actress Eve Arden in 1936 with a note of thanks to Bob Hope. Some of you may remember her popular television sitcom "Our Miss Brooks", where she starred as a high school teacher.

The 1919 Black Sox Scandal

In 1919, the Chicago White Sox were involved in what has been said to be one of the worst sports scandals in history, when they threw their World Series. The scandal inspired such movies as "Eight Men Out", and novels like "Shoeless Joe".

1954 Wheels

The 1954 Nash Metropolitan Hardtop 542

The Black Dahlia

Elizabeth Short is pictured after her arrest in Santa Monica on September 23, 1943 for underage drinking. She was 19 at the time.

On the morning of January 15, 1947, on a vacant lot in Los Angeles, the nude severed body of Elizabeth Short was found. A product of a broken home, the 23 year old woman had relocated to California from the East Coast in hopes of discovering fame and fortune. She led a somewhat troubled, sometimes mysterious life, culminating in her murder, which to this day, remains unsolved. The Black Dahlia nickname is believed to have originated from her hairstyle and black attire, others believe the media created it in order to sensationalize the murder case.

The Mother Road

A lonely stretch of old Route 66 winds through Arizona just south of Las Vegas. Route 66, built in 1926, stretches 2448 miles from Chicago to Los Angeles and was the major cross country route at the time.

"We Will Bury You!"

With the Cold War in full swing, Soviet leader Nikita Krushshev is pictured during his 1960 speech to the United Nations, banging his shoe on the table while threatening to bury us.

Sigmund Freud

One of the last pictures of Sigmund Freud taken in London in 1938, the year prior to his death. Freud had several procedures to repair his jaw as a result of his heavy smoking, but despite all the treatments, he smoked until he eventually succumbed of oral cancer at the age of 83.