First Row: M.E. Walthall, Penn. Coal Co. -- I.L. Gilkyson, W.E.&M. Co. -- Paul Spencer, United Gas Imp. Co. -- Thomas Cooper, W.E.&M. Co. -- Walter M. Gorham, Henry Lewis & Co. -- Frank Stern, Day & Zimmerman -- H.C. Albrecht, Phila. Elec. Co. --...
Military officers; Uniforms; Navies; Sailors; Daggers & swords
Uniform regulations for officers and enlisted personnel in the United States Nave and Marine Corps. Includes thirteen color plates and two black and white plates depicting uniforms, swords, and badges of rank.
In anticipation of the trend toward increasingly heavy air cargoes, United Air Lines launched the nations first high speed all cargo air service from New York to Chicago early this year. United officials predict that flying freight cards such as...
Civil action no. 49 C 1071, filed June 30, 1948, United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division, brought under Section 4 of the Act of Congress, July 2, 1890, entitled "An act to protect trade and commerce...
Organizations; Shipping; Fund raising; Correspondence;
Form letter from President P. H. W. Ross of the National Marine League of the United States of America to all of the organization's members requesting an increase in donations to aid American shipping ventures.
United Steelworkers legislative aides call on Senator George A. Smathers of Florida. Left o right: Frank N. Hoffman, USW Legislative director; Sen. Smathers, Charles L. Cowl, USW legislative representative in Florida.
Aircraft; Air mail service; Airline industry; Airplanes;
Boeing 40-B2's of this type carried mail and passengers between San Francisco and Chicago in 1927 on the 1,918-mile route of Boeing Air Transport, a predecessor company of United Air lines which marks its 25th anniversary this year. Payload of the...
This tri-motored Boeing 80-A, shown flying over Chicago, seemed a veritable "winged marvel" when introduced to air travelers in 1928 on the Chicago-San Francisco route of Boeing Air Transport, a predecessor company of United Air Lines
Chile's nitrate sustains United Nations' food supply-also used for munitions. Pedro de Valdivia, Chile- First pictures of the world's greatest deposit of natural nitrate! Chile's contribution to the United Nations' all-out mobilization of food and...
Received in Dec. 1924-from L.A. Faragher-Shows United Parcel Service, Los Angeles.-"In order to get this little one-pound parcel to its purchaser on time it was sent out by a special delivery car at a cost of $4.85, although the company received...
Delano CA- Walter Reuther (center) president of United Auto Workers, leads a line of striking grape pickers here on 12/16. The grape pickers are attempting to gain union recognition with the support of the UAW.
First official tests of transmitting of photographs by radio from Europe to the United States. Another marvel of the age became fact when photographs were transmitted from England to the United States by radio by the Radio Corporation of America...
The first practice flying saucer may turn out to be this plane that will carry 100 passengers at speeds of 600 miles per hour. Six pivoting jet engines mounted around the edge of the plane will life it and land it almost vertically with downward...
