Text from image 115: "Side Wheel Steamer "Mara" built in 1896 for Suzate & Witney, and used on Lake Maracaibo. Length 131'-0" Beam 25'-0" Depth 5'8" Engines 876 & 877 - 11 & 24 x 46"."
Text from image: "Side Wheel Steamer "Arapixy" built for Jose H. De Maronta, Brazil, in 1876. Length 140'-0" Beam 23'-0" Depth 8'-0" Engine 18" x 72"." Engines: surface condensing 18" diam., 42" stroke.
Text from image: "Side wheel Steamer "Gay Head" built for New Bedford, Martha Vineyard & Nantucket Steamboat Company in 1890. Length 201'-0" Beam 34'-0" Depth 11'-6" Beam Engine 50" x 10"."
Table of Contents: Reawakening Initiative; Are you a Hen or a Chameleon; Pontar and Better Roads; Sporting Arm; Charm of Color; An All-American Art; Ivory -- Yesterday and Today; Detonators for Blasting; Unprofitable Paint Trade Practices;...
We haven't figured out yet whether the Smith family and the Jones family have come to blows over the right of way or whether they have merely stopped to compare notes on their respective horseless buggies. At any rate, the sight of two such...
Freight cars are built on an assembly line, much like automobiles. Here the under frame of a new car is being constructed on the trucks and one side has been erected, with the other side and the ends ready to be hoisted into place.
New York City Government to aid slum clearance with hundred million dollars-Orchard Street is not the worst tenement street in the lower East Side slum district. There are about two square miles of tenements like these. Work with Federal funds has...
Six sided selling through informative copy on every side of the package is demonstrated in this series of four steps in DuPonts development of a package for cake. From a rather plain, cellophane-wrapped package (upper left), wherein the cake itself...
Six sided selling through informative copy on every side of the package is demonstrated in this series of four steps in DuPonts development of a package for cake. From a rather plain, cellophane-wrapped package (upper left), wherein the cake itself...
Hendrick discusses the problems he has had with the springs and the steps he took to fix them from installing a soft rubber bumper between the springs to having the lightest person sitting on that side of the automobile. Hendrick notes that the...
Written on back of image: "August 27, 1937. To: Frank Bromley: I am enclosing a print of a duplex printing machine. This is a 2-cylinder machine, with two colors on each side, or four colors on one side. As you can see it is geared together so the...
postcards; city & town life; neighborhoods; stores & shops; fire escapes;
on front of card: "Pell Street, Chinatown, New York City." on back of card: "China Town, New York City. Presents many strage sights and many a point of interest to the visitor who has a little leisure time to wander through the quaint streets and...
Caption: "Side by side with the most modern electrical installations such as the conveyor line in the background, the pick-the ancient symbol of the miner's art, still holds a place of prime utility."
