Schoolboys of San Francisco lined up for inspection in front of their tents at the training camp at Manzanita, CA. This camp was formed exclusively for the school children of San Francisco and the bay cities. The purpose of this camp is to teach...
Cleveland OH- Photo shows a clam shell bucket filled with ore after it has been drawn from a lake freighter hold and about to transfer to railroad cards. Such a bucket will pick up from 12 to 17 tons of ore in one bite. The buckets load is weighed...
Shown here are two huge ore unloading machine which will serve the new coal and ore dock at Toledo to be formally opened on June 2 by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and the New York Central Railroad. Each of these machines is capable of unloading...
Williamson WV-Some three thousand coal cars, all empty, await termination of the coal strike at Williamson WV, center of one of the nation's richest bituminous coal fields. Loaded, these cars would hold approximately 150,000 tons of coal....
Communists hold an anti-conscription meeting in Union Square here today, before famed Tammany Hall, which may be seen in the background, bedecked with Roosevelt-Wallace signs.
Typed caption: Glitter from the 1920s inspired Nat Kaplan to make this short sparkle of a dance dress with beaded fringe at the hem. If Chanel had made a dress like this when she first shocked the world with short skirts 30 years ago, it might have...
Handwritten on back: "The Brandywiners present 'Patience,' 1947. Act II. Lieut. the Duke (C. Perry Streithof), Colonel Calverly (Major N. Travers,Jr.), Major Murgatroyd (Harry T. Decker). 'You hold yourself like this . . . '"
Text from back of image: "The new Navy airship ZR-1, to be the largest in the world, is now under construction at the Naval Air Station at Lakehurst, NJ, the photo above showing the frames of the giant ship now being assembled. The hangar is the...
An art nouveau promotional album for the biscuit company Lefèvre-Utile on the occasion of the awarding of a grand prize at the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris, the first to a French biscuit company. Each page is of heavy gray art paper with...
Hendrick writes about his order for a new automobile and includes suggestions for improving its design. Hendrick mentions that he is in an awful hurry to get hold of his new automobile and that he is ready to get rid of his horses and carriages to...
Bartender reading article - "An Old Fashioned Reminder...of the way to hold Public Goodwill: No Sales to Minors; No Sales After Hours; No Sales to Intoxicated Persons; No Sales to Objectionable Characters; No Noise or Disorder."
Spheres like these for storing synthetic urea represent working capital invested at Belle Works of DuPont Company at Belle WV. Called Horton spheres, after the inventor, they hold finished product until it is ready for shipment. A spherical form is...
The old method of unloading ore carriers on the Great Lakes. Hand shoveling the ore into buckets to be lifted from the hold and transfered to the docks.
Text from image: "Pusey and Jones contract 1095. U.S.M.C [U.S. Maritime Commission] 891. No. 3 Hold Tank Top to Underside of Shelter Deck looking to Starboard. April 12, 1944. U.S. Naval Conversion."
Letter to his father informing him of his new residence in Boston while he attends MIT. He also asks for more money on account of having to spend so much for schoolbooks and other supplies. William also mentions that he is concerned for his eyes...
Stockholm, Sweden: Some 3000 youths hold tochlight march from downtown section to U.S. embassy here Dec. 20th, celebrating the 10th anniversary of the founding of South Vietnam's National Libreration Front (Viet Cong).
10 men stand outside the du Pont house, at that time the Brandywine Club House. One holds a bicycle, two hold dogs. Written caption: "Brandywine Club House - residence of General Henry du Pont."
