Aircraft parked at a Los Angeles, California airport that is undergoing expansion. Horse pulled earth-moving carts carve new runways. Los Angeles County Relief Administration (LACRA) workers construct two runways at the airfield.
Library card at a Toy lending "library" reads 'Toy Loan Exchange'. At the Manchester School, Los Angeles County Relief Administration (LACRA) workers issue these cards to track toys given to needy children during the Great Depression. Boy seated on bench with a girl, tries to fix a doll's head. A LACRA worker exchanges the doll for a new one.
Doroteo Arango Arambula, nicknamed Pancho Villa, with his troops in Mexico during the Mexican Revolution. Villa wearing a 3 piece suit, posing with his men. Villa and his men mount horses and ride through a town. General Pancho Villa converses with other people. Views of Columbus, New Mexico after raid by Pancho Villa's men. Dead men and horses on ground. Villa's followers in Torreon, Mexico, mounted on horseback and posing for camera.
The efforts of the TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority) to improve the lives of rural communities in the Tennessee Valley. Newly laid road in a rural area, with a 1930s era car driving on it. City "problems" being brought to rural areas due to electrification and new infrastructure: Car parked in front of a log cabin with a sign beside the stone chimney that advertises offerings including fast food, reading "Dix's Cabin. Beer on tap. Wines. Liquors. Hot Dogs & Hamburgers." A different store with sign "Brown's Parkside Bar & Grill. Wines. Liquors." Another sign there reads "Parkside Grill Comfort Station."
Advances in education due to developments from the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Visitors at the Blount County Fair see a school exhibit with a sign "15 Years of Progress in Rural Education." It displays a small one room school house in 1920, and then the new expanded school in 1935. It shows a "how we did it" area depicting cooperative efforts of the school board and citizens. A school boy standing near the display at the fair. A stack of canned produce in jars.
Drawings depicting efforts of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) to unify rural churches of all denominations in common efforts to improve the lives of citizens. Exterior views of rural church buildings. A man riding inside an open elevator, entering a construction site. Men building new buildings at a construction site. A building with sign "Community Building." Men seated in front of the community building with a banner behind them advertising an upcoming 'Dog Show'.
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