United States President Franklin Roosevelt in meeting with lawmakers during the Great Depression. View of forest. A tree being felled. A Civilian Conservation Corps employee in tree after a part of it was felled. Logs being transported by train over long trestle bridge. Logs roll down to river. Civilian Conservation Corps employee surveys forest with binoculars.
Calendar shows March 1933, some days are encircled. United States President Franklin Roosevelt on his desk in the White House, signing the national law legalizing beer after a decade of Prohibition in the United States. View of the Cullen-Harrison Act (or the Beer Permit Act) signed by President Franklin Roosevelt. Workers clean up thick cobwebs in a brewery left untouched for 13 years. Men polish machinery used for brewing beer. Men shovel hops into tank. Worker operates brewery. Beer bottles cleaned and filled with beer through assembly line machine. Workers in beer bottling plant.
Worker brushes off a pair of horses and barrels of beer. Worker transport barrels of beer. View of Broadway in New York City. Party celebrating the legalization of beer and end of Prohibition in ballrooms in New York. Couples ballroom dance as musicians play music. Lavish celebrations by wealthy citizens. Celebrations in Chicago at end of Prohibition. Nurses walking. Workmen walking. Various Americans seen working in various industries manufacturing automobiles, hats. Woman operates machine. Man working on rotating machine. Workers welding. Men digging ditch. View of steam shovel bucket scooping up dirt. United States soldiers, likely at West Point, in regalia march with American flag. Warship at sea. Flag of United States. View of U.S Capitol dome. Image of smiling Franklin Roosevelt framed by U.S. Capitol dome, with stars motif.
Jewish refugees from Europe arriving in Palestine after World War 2. Crowd of people enter a railway car. Police guarding security check point made of sandbags outside train station as a convoy of military trucks carrying Jewish passengers pulls up. Jewish women and men climb down from back of a truck. An Arab shepherd tends his grazing goats as convoy of trucks passes on road behind him. Palestinian women and men in train platform. Sign above platform directs travelers to different platforms for Jerusalem and Haifa. Smiling Jewish families, including a small boy holding his father's hand, queue up at the railroad train station. People waving good-bye from train windows as train departs the station.
Rescue and response following the Irgun bombing of the Goldsmith Officers Club in Jerusalem on 1 March 1947. British Palestine military carry a casualty in a stretcher to a truck in front of debris of the officers club. British military patrol streets on foot and jeeps. British soldiers drive a Universal Carrier, also known as a Bren Gun Carrier, through the streets of Jerusalem. A bulldozer clears rubble from the destroyed Goldsmith Officers Club building. British soldier climbs ladder to rescue stranded men on top of building. A man smoking a pipe climbs down ladder after being rescued. British armored personnel carriers parked in front of ruins of the Goldsmith Officers Club British on King George Avenue. British soldiers search for suspects, marching a group of Jewish men down the stairs of a building. At tall British officer speaks briefly to an old woman while smoking a pipe. Jewish men and women suspected of having ties to the Irgun and Stern Gang are detained on a tennis court while others are searched for weapons.
United States soldiers talking together in Tehran, Iran during World War II. Outside hut with sign “Office of the Commanding General”, two United States soldiers talk to each other. Two soldiers saluted to each other as good-bye. Soldier enters the Office of the Commanding General before another soldier comes out. More soldiers talk outside the Office of the Commanding General, each good-bye end with salute. Signage says “Office of the Commanding General”.
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