Jack Dempsey, former boxing heavyweight champion, makes ice cream cones from a big ice cream cone, possibly the world's largest one, for orphan children of Protestant Home in Brooklyn. Children eat coned ice cream. Jack Dempsey and an orphan child eat coned ice cream.
U.S. army recruits two giant boys one is six feet five inches tall where as the other is six feet six inches tall at Fort Totten. Both boys are recruited for the 62nd Coast Artillery. Two average soldiers of the 62nd Coast Artillery pose with the two tall boys. Both tall boys lift the two soldiers. A soldier gets up on the car. The two soldiers take measurements with a tape of the tall boy. The tall boy lifts one of the soldiers.
Blaze of fire sweeps over the dry grass and shrubby undergrowth in Farmingdale. Aerial view of the fire that threatens the homes of the community residents. Thick smoke billows upwards.
Employment for African Americans in the Great Depression provided by Works Progress Administration (WPA) Projects in New York, United States. Unskilled workers gather at construction site. Workers work at improvement projects. They pick rocks and put on truck. Crane in the background. Worker on picker, it picks mud and put it on dumper. Workers work on road and drive leveler, dumper on site. Workers on WPA housing demolishing project break down old houses and construct comfort sanitary apartments. Skilled workers work on swimming pools and bath houses at Colonial Park.
Employment for African Americans in the Great Depression provided by Works Progress Administration (WPA) Projects in New York, United States. African American students in an adult school write in a note book. Teacher writes on blackboard. Young men and women learn Spanish from a volunteer from Nation Youth Administration. Boy learns work of a lab assistant and work on a machine. Men and women learn clerical work of filing, checking and new work as abstraction. A woman learns typing.
Employment for African American citizens provided by Works Progress Administration (WPA) Projects in New York, United States, during the Great Depression. Rehabilitation program for African American women. Women in household or housekeeper training school learn cooking, making salad and baking. Woman sprinkle salt on salad and pull out a plate from oven. Women learn to make bed. They spread sheet over bed and cover pillows. Women in health education program learn first aid for children. Nurse demonstrates to fold child in a blanket with a dummy. Woman gives food. Women in a sewing room work on sewing machine. Man and woman put clothes in boxes.