View of the White House. President Herbert Hoover converses with Charles A. Lindbergh in the White House garden. Standing with Lindbergh is his mother, Evangeline Land Lindbergh, and his wife, Anne Morrow Lindbergh. Charles and Anne Lindbergh pose for a photograph, with President Hoover. Vice President Charles Curtis stands behind them.
Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, in an open car, with his father, Richard E.Byrd, Sr., his wife, Marie (Donaldson Ames) Byrd and his son, Richard, in front of Union Station, in Washington, DC. Admiral Byrd conversing with President Hoover, in the White House garden, as the President presents him an award, from the National Geographic Society, recognizing his achievements in Antarctic exploration.
Soldiers Garden Party held for disabled veterans of World War I. One thousand attended. U.S. President Herbert Hoover and the First Lady Louise Henry Hoover enter the South lawn of the White House, where they walk amongst and meet disabled war veterans assembled there. Later the President and First Lady stand and greet disabled veterans who are brought past them in wheel chairs pushed by nurses. They greet a war veteran lying on a stretcher. A veteran on crutches meets the President and the First Lady. Many of the disabled veterans suffered loss of limbs, including one who lost all except his right arm.
The Republican National Convention, meeting in the Chicago Stadium, Chicago, Illinois, renominates President Herbert Hoover and Vice President Charles Curtis as their standard bearers in the next election. Flag-waving delegates celebrate. Hoover prepares to address the convention. Posters of President Hoover and Vice President Curtis are displayed prominently by the speaker's podium.
Making Crucible steel in Bethlehem Steel company plant, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania,during World War 1. View of the crucible steel shop. Men, each known as a "puller out " reach in with tongs and extract the crucibles from a furnace, below, raising them to the shop floor. The crucibles are then moved by dollies to the" teemers" who use their tongs to swing the crucibles toward the molds. View of Open Hearth furnace being tapped into a large crucible and poured from crucible into molds on mill floor. Large hot steel ingots being moved on rail flatcars pulled by locomotive. Many flat cars of ingots standing in steel mill yard. Hot ingots on rail cars being rearranged by large overhead cranes. Men look at and discuss an enormous steel forging on a rail car. Overhead crane moves iron ore and coke in the stockyard of the Bethlehem plant. A veritable mountain of iron ore in the background.
Manufacture gun barrels in Bethlehem Steel company plant, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, during World War I. A large steel ingot being machined on a milling machine. A huge cylinder of steel being turned on a lathe. Continuous heavy chip being removed by tool bit with lathe operating under relatively low speed and high depth of cut. Gun barrels being bored in a machine shop.
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