Alaskan scenes recorded by photographer with the 1934 USAAC Alaska Flight. Typical Alaskan houses with plants around them. Flower and vegetable gardens. View from vehicle moving along dirt road with small evergreen trees on the sides. A man standing by U.S. Post box, where sign identifies office of Billy Root's Midnight Sun Transportation Company and reads: "for information just step inside and ask MAX."
Cargo ship docked at harbor in Eddystone.Workers and officials assist in lifting a locomotive engine with use of special cranes. The logo Christen Smith clearly visible on cranes. Engine gets docked on special ship carrying cargo of locomotives for the Chilean Railways.1934.
Daredevil driver takes turn at high speed and flips his car. Paramedics rush at the crash. Daredevil biker jumps out of flaming inferno. View of heavily crowed Memphis Stadium. Demolition head on collision between stunt cars at high speeds. Injured driver taken away by paramedics in ambulance. Wrecked cars pulled out of stadium by towing trucks.November 1934.
Aftermath of the June 27, 1934 explosion that occurred at the J.A. Denn Powder Company in the Hawks Prairie region of Lacey, Washington (8 miles east of Olympia, Washington). Thurston County authorities survey the wreckage of the destroyed factory. Rubble and debris strewn at the site. Smoke rising from some of the debris. Officials examine a shoe with its sole torn away.
Dignitaries and people gather at the NSDAR Memorial to the Pioneer Mothers of the Covered Wagon Days in Lexington, Missouri. The memorial (one of 12 identical ones) was established by the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), and created by sculptor August Leimbach. Harry S. Truman, then Missouri's director for the Federal Re-Employment program (part of the Civil Works Administration), and President of the Old Trails Association, speaks to Mrs. John Trigg Moss, Chairman of the National Old Trails Committee. Mrs. Moss, in 1927, had designed the memorial that was sculpted by Leimbach, and dedicated in 1928. View of "Madonna of the Trail" inscribed on the main statue. Harry S. Truman, who later in 1934 was elected Senator of Missouri, holds up two miniature bookend models of the statue, which are being given to him as a gift for serving as President of the Old Trails Association. (Truman had also delivered the keynote address at the statue unveiling 6 years earlier). View from behind the statue with the Lexington Bridge, a seven-span truss bridge on Route 13, crossing over the Missouri River.
Wellesley College girls boat, an eight-oar shell, is seen running on the water as the Wellesley women's team practices for competitive crew racing in 1934.
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