Student cuts, saws and nails wood at a carpentry class. An instructor guides one of her students to fix the tail of a wooden dog
A simple wooden hut home with tin roof in rural Kentucky. Two boys bring buckets into the hut. A woman sits at a table and peels potatoes. One of the boys help her in preparing vegetables and adding them to a cooking pot. A boy in overalls adds coal or other fuel to a stove fire. (World War II period).
A man prints few papers on the printing machine. "ON OUR WAY" is printed on top of the paper. The print, dated 6th June 1942, belongs to Pine Mountain Guidance Institute.
Many people are drawing and painting near the bank of a river. A theater backdrop is being painted by artists, depicting a Native American Indian chief in a long white robe in front of a closed hatch. Students entering the mess hall at West Point. Wall of the mess hall of West Point Military Academy covered by mural painting depicting warriors of various times, a project of the WPA (Works Progress Administration) during the Great Depression. Students move towards entrance of a building. Final refining touch is given to a work of stained glass. Men and women artists working on sculptures in an art class or studio. Two men do a work of restoration at a museum. A man and a woman prepare fossil and animal skeletons for a museum exhibit.
Posters of various Federal Theatre presentations by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in the United States during the Great Depression. Posters of dramatic theater productions like Macbeth, Battle Hymn, Jefferson Davis, Taking the Air and The Mikado, at various theatres in New York and New Jersey. A painted truck of the Portable Theatre. A puppet show at the "Theatre of the Magic Strings". Children lined up at the theater entrance with the marquee seen announcing "Marionettes" and the box office area. Children laugh during the show with the marionette puppets. A performance of the Gilbert and Sullivan popular operetta Pinafore with actors singing on stage the song "For He Is An Englishman". Actors seen on stage for Sinclair Lewis play 'It Can't Happen Here'. A presentation of the William Shakespeare play "Macbeth" presented by an all African American cast (also termed "Voodoo" Macbeth).
Women are seen happily register to vote at the Boulevard Hair Cutter following passage of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution in the United States. Women are handed registration forms as they enter. The new women voters smile as they come out of the shop. Men are also smiling, standing outside the shop. A policeman stands guard while the women register to vote.
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