General view of Wilshire Blvd showing interesting points of importance. Lafayette Park is in the foreground, exclusive Town House right center and Bullock's Wilshire Hotel with tower, in left center. The Hollywood Hills are on the right with Santa...
On review at the key Utica, N.Y. Freight station is part of the New York Central System's fleet of new mechanized equipment for handling the transfer of "less than carload" mechandise freight. Among the latest devices drawn up beside a special...
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...
A controversy is developing in the ranks of TWA, The Lindbergh Line over the question are passengers in the Douglas airliners going to consume so much more food while flying that the cost of feeding them is going to show a sharp advance? The...
A salesman points out the advantages of a four door Ford Model A to a customer in this 1931 photograph taken in a typical showrrom of that period. Some 4,500,000 Model As were sold between late 1927 and the end of 1931.
The New York Central's Empire State Express clears the end of the station platform at Rochester NY on the way to New York City. Making its run in daylight in both directions, the Central's crack streamliner connects Detroit, Cleveland, Buffalo and...
DuPont's Kinston, North Carolina plant is one of two plants where Dacron polyester fiber is made. The other is located at Old Hickory Tennessee. Bothe Kinston and Old Hickory plants maintain a textile laboratory. The view here shows part of the...
DuPont's Kinston, North Carolina plant is one of two plants where Dacron polyester fiber is made. The other is located at Old Hickory Tennessee. Bothe Kinston and Old Hickory plants maintain a textile laboratory. The view here shows part of the...
Emory F. Ridlon, plant managers, points out features of the DuPont's new plant to members of newly appointed plant staff. Left to right are: Lloyd E. Horning, accounting superintendant, William C. Eddy Jr., manufacturing superintendent, Mr. Ridlon;...
Intermediate inspection of the substrate for DuPont's Corfam poromeric shoe upper material is one of the many quality control points in the manufacturing process at Old Hickory, Tennessee. At this stage, the substrate is inspected visually for...
Scale model of the DuPont Company's Experimental Station as it will appear when the $30 million expansion program is completed. Construction of the new facilities will enable the company to increase its fundamental long range research activities as...
Before and after testing, tires are completely dissected to determine strength characteristics and cord performance. Studies are carefully planned to give accurate performance data for individual plies and critical points of stress of body of tire....
Written on back of image: "The acid contacts the copper surface where diamond points have scratched the given part or color that goes on the roller being handled. All work up to this point has been preliminary to this final step. The actual...
on front of card: "Ten Sleep Inn. Ten Sleep, Wyoming." on back of card: "Ten Sleep, Wyoming On Black and Yellow Trail, U.S. No.16. Ten Sleep Inn is located in a fertile irrigated valley at the foot of the west slope of the Big Horn Mountains,...
on front of card: "The Swan Motor Court, 226 San Marco Ave., U.S. No. 1, St. Augustine, FLA." on back of card: "The Swan Motor Court. 28 Modern hotel rooms all with private baths. Individually controlled heat. Convenient to all points of...
Caption: "Flexible conveyor velts carry newly mined coal for great distances underground. Motor driven apparatus provide many other forms of conveyance. The cables and drums shown in the picture operate a drag line which carries coal down from the...
Caption: "Motor driven shaker screens accurately determine the percentage of over-size and under-size in the samples taken from nine points on each car."
1520 East Main Street (at East Franklin Street); Architects: Wilson, Harris, and Richards; Date built: 1901; On back: "This handsome railroad depot, with its imposing clock tower, was completed in 1900 [sic], and with the extensive viaduct system...
Text from back of image: "Miss Clara Johnson, United Air Lines stewardess, points to the special markings on the 200-mile-an-hour Boeing twin-engined transport which Col. Roscoe Turner and Clyde Pangborn flew in the 13,323-mile London-Melbourne...
