A preview via television of the National Automobile Show was held at Rockefeller Plaza, Nov. 10th, when 1,939 cars passed before the iconoscope television camera and were viewed through the receiving set on the 54th floor of the NBC building by...
A preview via television of the National Automobile Show was held at Rockefeller Plaza, Nov. 10th, when 1,939 cars passed before the iconoscope television camera and were viewed through the receiving set on the 54th floor of the NBC building by...
Admiral Du Pont sending via the steamer Massachusetts, two hundred-pounder rifle bolts (shells) and one forty-pounder recovered at Ft. Pulaskis, fired by sailors from the Wabash. He is sending them to Lammot for safe keeping and so not to alarm his...
Correspondence inquiring about the samples of powder sent via the "Wild Pigeon." The 1000 kegs of Hazard's powder, which arrived via the "Enterprise" was sold; however, they are having difficulty selling the canister powder.
Correspondence regarding the arrival of the "Crest of the Wave," which came via Falkland Islands due to losing a rudder in a heavy gale off of Cape Horn, and the selling of her shipment.
At the lumber yard of Church E. Gates Company, 152 Street and East River, NY, there is a system of roller and belt conveyors which take planks to all parts of the place. Here, the lumber comes from ships via a line of rollers. It is shoved off the...
Believe it or not, but this is the deck of a boat- The Crescent City- which left Detroit this week with 527 motor cars aboard, the largest single shipment of any one make of car ever to leave Detroit via water. The shipment was made by the Plymouth...
Bill of lading for five boxes of hard ware from Brugiere and Tessiere in Philadelphia to Aubin LaForest in Richmond, via Schooner Helena, Captain Pearson.
Bill of lading for four hogsheads of hard ware from Pater Bauduy in Philadelphia to Anthony Girard in New York, via Schooner Huntress, Captain John Montgomery.
Bill of lading for wrapping paper and cordials from Anthony Girard in Alexandria to E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company in Wilmington, Dlaware, via Sloop Richards.
Caption: "Wilkins to make undersea trip to Arctic regions -- Noted explorer leaves for coast to make final arrangements for submarine voyage to pole. Hadley Field, NJ: Photo shows: Sir Hubert Wilkins, famous explorer, with his pilot, Dutch...
Correspondence regarding the last ship (Superior) sailing from Londonderry to Philadelphia leaving in the fall of 1853. Letter ends with: "They must either come via Liverpool or not at all."
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...