Block and tackle arrangement used to lay concrete blocks for the construction of a water tunnel in United States. Concrete blocks on a car. Workers use block and tackle to remove pre-cast concrete lining block from a car on rails and attach it to the erector arm of block and tackle system. The erector arm swings around towards the ceiling of the tunnel and lowers the block on the ground. Several blocks are removed in this manner.
Airplanes parked on a field at Ford Airport in Dearborn, Michigan,United States. Spectators along the edge of the field. Some people look from the roof of the hangar. Some people near the planes. A Ford Tri-Motor loaded. The Museum clock tower which is a replica of the Independence Hall in Philadelphia is seen in the background
Ford Tri-Motors assembled. Pictures taken from a moving overhead crane. Workers work in an assembly area. A worker climbs up portable stairs to move on the wing of a plane. Workers lift motor onto a plane with a crane. Workers lift sections of wing into place. A man checks controls in the interior of a cabin. Rear view of the interior of the plane. The man walks through the passenger section of the plane. View of motor. Workers work on the motor.
Date Culture in Iraq by the United States Department of Agriculture. Local man climbing palm tree to get the ripe Sayer variety of dates from the palms in Mesopotamia, Iraq. Dates purchased from the natives are transported from the gardens by boat.
Arab women in shed grade and pack the dates. Roller slides used for moving date boxes. Testing machine for packing seeded dates. Dates are pressed into a solid pack with the help of another date press. Nailing tops on boxes. Workers give expression to their gaiety in an Arab war dance.
Loading packed date boxes on native boat for transportation to steamer and further to New York. One progressive exporting company experiments in adaptation of Arab labor to modern machinery and factory procedures in Basrah, Iraq. View of the Tigris River near Baghdad.