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Detroit-Toledo-Ironton railroad and Wellston, Ohio
Steam locomotive of Detroit, Toledo and Ironton Railroad billows steam as it pulls a long freight train along track beside a river. Four railroad men gather around a small utility rail car. They load tools into it and one climbs into it as the other three push it along the track. Downtown street scene in Wellston, Ohio. Several persons walk on sidewalk in front of the Wellston Post Office. Soldiers Monument seen on Broadway Street,in background. A traffic circle with Civil War cannon and cannon balls on display in the center. A family posing on the porch of a home. One of the men wears overalls over his shirt and tie. Painter in overalls stenciling the DT&I logo on a freight car.
City scenes of Jackson, Ohio and of Detroit Toledo & Ironton railroad operations
Scenes of downtown, Jackson, Ohio. View of the Jackson County Courthouse on Broadway Street, completed in 1858. The Globe Iron and Furnace Company works with steam rising from it. View from moving railroad car of the Detroit Toledo & Ironton line, as it passes by wooden buildings and the Jackson train station. DT&I steam locomotive and coal car parked under water tower. Operator lowers tube into the back of coal car and services it with water. Next it is serviced with coal from a hopper.
Unemployed get work under Works Progress Administration projects in Chicago, Illinois
'A better Chicago'. Unemployed men on the streets during the Great Depression. They sleep on the streets and stand in queues and relief lines in Chicago, Illinois. A young man asks another man for work and is rejected, but the other man gives him a coin to help him. Unemployed and hungry men digging through trash cans and sleeping on park benches and in doorways. Whistles blow at factories representing work starting again and available jobs. Men look up from relief lines and head to factories for new jobs. Men grabbing shovels and digging in the ground. Men working at steel factories. Smoke pouring from smoke stacks at factories. Men in pay line at factory to receive payment from cashier office. Happy men and women lifting up a young smiling child. Views of racks of milk bottles and full bread racks. Children slide down a slide into a swimming pool. Boys and girls playing on playground equipment and smiling. A family of a man and womand and two children walking together. Men working on sewage infrastructure projects in the Chicago area. View of projects underway to develop lakefront areas of Lake Michigan. Skyline and skyscrapers of Chicago seen in the background. View of the Field Museum and workers inside constructing fossil and zoology displays. Men working in construction to build and improve runways and tarmac areas at Chicago Municipal Airport (Midway International Airport). A plane taking off overhead above the workers building a runway. Low, roadside view of 1930s cars going by on road near Lincoln Park extension project area. View of Chicago city skyline buildings in the background. Men work at planting trees and expanding the Lincoln Park with an extension. Men with excavating machines and tractors work at the site of the former Chicago 1893 World's Fair (World's Columbian Exposition), transforming the area into the new 500 acre Jackson Park. Construction workers build a new Field House at Wilson Park. An old building is demolished to make way for a new housing development named after Jane Addams. Men building new low income housing apartment buildings for poor families on the site.
A zoo constructed under Works Progress Administration projects in Chicago, Illinois
People enter a zoo constructed under Works Progress Administration project in Chicago, Illinois, during the Great Depression. People look at the ducks in a pond and chimpanzees eating ice cream. Men and women painters work to paint a large mural on a theatre stage or band shell. It depicts a Native American Indian Chief in a long white robe.
A service station to check cars under Works Progress Administration projects in Chicago, Illinois
Scenes of car accidents and car crashes in the 1930s. A 1930s sedan plunging off of un unfinished roadway; several scenes of cars crashing into each other. A car plunging off of a cliff and smashing into a cliff wall as it falls. A train crashing into a car parked on railroad train tracks. Views of smashed cars in wrecks. Service stations set up under Works Progress Administration project in Chicago, Illinois during the Great Depression to check cars for mechanical defects and safety problems, in order to reduce incidents of accidents. WPA workers in a work coat labeled "CPD" check cars at an annual safety inspection station. A worker applies a sticker to the inside right windshield of a car certifying that it passed the inspection. Views of Chicago landmark buildings in the background.
Grain elevators demolished under Works Progress Administration projects in Chicago, Illinois
A grain elevator burns in a fire near Chicago during the Great Depression. The complex of buildings in flames. A huge tower at the site, in flames, and falling into a river. Men demolish old derelict buildings that are fire hazards, under Works Progress Administration project in Chicago, Illinois. Children play at a playground after demolition of old buildings. A group of boys playing baseball or softball at a newly cleared lot.
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