Famous passengers aboard ocean liner SS Manhattan (later USS Wakefield during World War II) in the United States. Flashbacks show the USS Manhattan being christened by Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt on 5th December 1931. It is seen being launched from New York Shipbuilding Corporation in Camden New Jersey. View of maiden voyage on 10th August 1932, with passengers boarding the ship. It leaves a port for her first trip to Ireland, England, Germany and France. Couples dance aboard the deck of the SS Manhattan. Passengers including Babe Ruth, Jimmy Walker, Glenn Cunningham, and aviator Douglas Corrigan ("Wrong Way Corrigan") seen aboard the ship.
Architects of important landmarks dressed as their designed buildings at Beaux- Arts Ball. They include, left to right, Leonard Schultze as the Waldorf-Astoria, William Van Alen as the Chrysler Building, Ely Jacques Kahn as the Squibb Building, Ralph Walker as the Wall Street Building, Arthur J.Arwine as a low pressure heating boiler, A. Stewart as the Fuller Building and Joseph Freelander as the Museum of the City of New York. They each wore a helmet-like construction of the building they had designed (23 January 1931).
Collision of New York bound express passenger railraod train with local train at Readville, Massachusetts. The trains collided at the crossing derailing the cars of opposite train and leaving 50 people injured. Low visibility due to snow blamed for disaster.1931.
The Hamburg-American line flagship, New York.The North German Lloyd De Luxe Liner Columbus being assisted by tug boats as it makes its way in the icy waters of New York harbor heading out on a cruise to the West Indies. Another ocean liner at the Hamburg-American Line piers in Manhattan, New York City. View from deck of the Columbus, as it departs New York harbor, passing the Statue of Liberty. Interior of the Columbus, showing a common room, large salon,luxurious stateroom,outdoor lounge with wicker furniture, and central stairway area. Several women and a man pose by the ship's swimming pool. They enter the pool and swim. Two men practice putting on a small golf green,aboard the Hamburg-American liner, SS Reliance, while other passengers sit on deck chairs and relax, reading and conversing. The ship's daily newspaper, dated January 11, 1931, announcing that the North is gripped by zero weather, but the temperature on the Reliance is 84 degrees Fahrenheit. Women passengers playing quoits on deck, and posing on a sundeck. The Captain of the SS Reliance plotting courses for the ship. View from aloft, of the ship. A woman and man passenger, in bathing attire, relaxing in a cabana chair on deck.
Inaugural ceremony of Albion College in Albion, Michigan. Visitors and guests leave a building. Three men in academic robes converse. Academic officials in robes pose. A procession of girls, faculty members and students in academic robes. A band leads a parade down the main street of the business district. A sign on a building reads 'Bullens Big Busy Store'. Men in robes enter an auditorium. Two men talk and shake hands on campus grounds.
American aviator Hillig and Hoiriis take off for a trans Atlantic flight from Mineola, New York. Otto Hillig and Holger Hoiriis stands beside a Bellanca, a high wing monoplane. Hillig stands up in the cockpit as he waves before leaving for a flight from New York to Denmark. A sign on the cockpit reads 'Bellanca 3003 Transatlantic flight, Liberty, New York, to Copenhagen, Denmark. Owner : Otto Hillig, Liberty, New York; Holger Hoiriis, pilot'. Bellanca aircraft takes off.
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