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This Saturday is Museum Day. Over 1,450 museums across the country are offering free admission.

View the list of participating museums and get your free tickets.

Image description: Jockey Clarence Turner sits on Stromboli, a chestnut gelding who won over 60 races between 1913 and 1918. This photo was taken between 1910 and 1915.
Photo from the George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division

Image description: Jockey Clarence Turner sits on Stromboli, a chestnut gelding who won over 60 races between 1913 and 1918. This photo was taken between 1910 and 1915.

Photo from the George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division

Learn more about his life and how he earned his nickname.

Image description: Mrs. John Rogers Jr. campaigns for the right to vote sometime between 1910 and 1915. This photo was taken by the Bain News Service.
View other Bain News Service photos showing life in the 1910s.
Photo from the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division

Image description: Mrs. John Rogers Jr. campaigns for the right to vote sometime between 1910 and 1915. This photo was taken by the Bain News Service.

View other Bain News Service photos showing life in the 1910s.

Photo from the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division

Image description: This photo from around 1956 shows models posing in a showroom at the Alix factory in Miami, Florida.
Photo from the State Archives of Florida

Image description: This photo from around 1956 shows models posing in a showroom at the Alix factory in Miami, Florida.

Photo from the State Archives of Florida