Text from image: "The Washington Monument is built of stone contributed by all the nations of the earth to honor the founder of this republic. From Arlington, across the river, where sleep the men who died for freedom, it looks like a giant spike...
On back: "Electric Locomotive Number 4879, a GG-1, at the headend of a crack passenger train ready to depart Pennsylvania Station, New York. These locomotives powered many of the Pennsy's passenger and freight trains beginning in the '30's, then...
Oklahoman’s outfit when starting the migratory life. Conditions like this have prompted many communities to install sanitary migratory camps in the west.
Rudy Blesch, probably the most distinguished jazz authority in the country and author of many books on the subject, drops in on Editor Bill Grauer of the Record Changer Magazine to discuss old ragtime piano records. Blesch is at the present time...
Noon hour scene at the Commodore Music Shop where many record collectors spend their lunch hour. Business men, doctors, lawyers, writers etc. find a common ground in jazz record collecting.
The huge tail span of the Constellation-first Lockheed to have three fins. Lockheed is famous for its many twin tailed airplanes. The three tail arrangement not only keep over all height to a minimum for convenience in fitting into hangars the...
A typical group of Reading anthracite miners waiting to go on duty at the Alaska Colliery of the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company near Mount Caramel PA. Most of them are of the second and third generation of miners in PAs anthracite...
Baton Rouge, LA-WPA Adult Education. A night school class for Negroes. Not all are illiterate, but many have never progressed beyond the third or fourth grade.
Many Americans will soon have their first opportunity to enjoy genuinely low cost transportation with the arrival of the low price 1951 Kaiser. This is the automobile that was conceived by mandate of the motoring public and which became a reality...
An experimental train that is packed full of mechanical marvels, new as tomorrow interior decoration and many postwar features for the comfort and safety of passengers, has just been launched by General Motors, its designer, for a six months...
An experimental train that is packed full of mechanical marvels, new as tomorrow interior decoration and many postwar features for the comfort and safety of passengers, has just been launched by General Motors, its designer, for a six months...
Russell Patterson painting an advertising illustration in his studio in the Heckscher Building, NY. Mr. Patterson does big display ads which appear in monthly periodicals, giving much of his time to automobile ads. He is one of the foremost display...
Florence, Italy- A vase being painted its final design before going to the firing kiln. This work is often doen by young artists who have received instructions fromt heir father, as many as three generations working in the same factory at one time.
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...
Schenectady NY- How the M-7 tank killers built here are now spearheading the Allied rout of Rommel was described here today by Major General Russell L. Maxwell, Commander of US armed forces in the Middle East who directed US North African Military...
A seashore resort on the Atlantic Ocean, includes a two and one half mile stretch of beach, a 13, 000 foot long boardwalk and a nationally famous amusement park. Roller coasters, tunnel rides, fun houses, shooting galleries and hot dog stands are...
County committee of the AAA, representing the War Food Administration, have arranged for around 20 auctions this fall to help the Defense Plant Corporation move to farmers used tools, equipment and supplies that could not be moved successfully...
