Close-up views of hands of various workers performing jobs and tasks in the 1920s. Female hands working on typewriter. View of hands of a woman operating a manual typewriter. Hands of a man who is busy stacking, shuffling, and stapling papers with a large stapler. Hands of a man putting papers, post, or mail into mail slots in a mail room operation. A restaurant waiter carrying a tray on his shoulder. Hands at work washing windows and using a small squeegee tool to clean the windows. Hands operating the lift mechanism for a Haughton elevator in a building. View from inside moving car of hands on steering wheel of car as it parks.
Female American pilot Jacqueline Cochran tests a fighter airplane. An aircraft lands at an airfield. Jacqueline Cochran smiles and waves from the cockpit. Crowds gathered under the control tower to watch Cochran’s flight. Cochran performs aerial stunts taking off from a platform on top of a moving car. A man on the ground demonstrates a wingsuit with flaps on his arms like wings. A parachutist jumps off from an airplane. Two white parachutes open in midair. Parachutist lands on the ground.
An African American artist teaches a class. Mrs William E Harmon and others at the Spanish African American art exhibition along with Pastor Argudin y Pedroso. Malvin Gray Johnson lights his pipe and begins painting. Sculptor William Ellisworth Artis teaches a student who is creating a dolphin-inspired piece. Photographer James Latimer Allen takes photographs using a large format camera on tripod. Painter Richard William Lindsey watches students painting in a class.
A woman doing sculpture work in United States. Hands cleaning window. Hands holding color palette. Paintings. Woman painting while standing. A man sees and paints. Hands of William Ellisworth Artis at a sculpture. Hands painting.
An African American artist prepares a sculpture of a man in United States. Hands clay modelling. Brushes in a box. Hands painting. Clay models of an African American man and a woman. A painting at a wall. Late Malvin Gray Johnson paints while smoking cigar.
Painting of a ship in United States. Men work. Hands place painting.