The 1932 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois. New York Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt with his daughter Anna Roosevelt and granddaughter Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Dall (sometimes known as Sistie) outside a building circa 1930. Roosevelt holds a cane while leaning against a column and plays with his grandson using the cane. People gather in the convention hall for the 1932 Democratic National Convention. Roosevelt addresses them, speaking of the need to "break foolish traditions" and "to win in this crusade to restore America to its own people." The people applaud.
Brothers John and Kenneth Hunter fly over the Sky Harbor airport,Northbrook, Illinois, in their Stinson SM-1 airplane,"The City of Chicago," preparing to land after a record-setting endurance flight lasting from June 11 through July 4, 1930. They are forced to discontinue their flight due to oil filter and leak problems. Huge crowds are gathered around the Sky Harbor Club House as they fly overhead. Aerial view of the their Stinson SM-1, with "The City of Chicago" painted on its fuselage. The crowds rush across the grassy field and past other airplanes at the airport, as the Hunters plane touches down.But the brothers continue taxiing until they reach a hangar. The brothers are seen with local airport officials near the hangar where they parked. John, covered in oil, that spewed in the cockpit from a broken oil pressure gauge, poses next to two women.The brothers pose together.They set a new endurance record of 553 hours and 41minutes, supported by inflight refueling from their brothers, Albert and Walter, from another Stinson SM-1 airplane (not shown).
Workers work on various machines at Western Electric Company to manufacture telephone in Chicago,Illinois. Presses,planes,drills and mining machines in operation at the plant. Wires being stranded.
Workers assemble telephone parts at Western Electric Company in Chicago,Illinois. Manufactured telephones being inspected by workers at the plant.
Betty Jane Kolar, a 6-year old girl performs hypnotism, in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, United States. Betty Jane Kolar, a 6-year old girl, holds a rabbit by its ears and lays it down on a small table, in a garden. The girl performs hypnotism on the rabbit. The rabbit lies still on the table.
A Mid-West Dog show in Chicago, Illinois. Owners hold leashes of Saint-Bernard and other large dogs. A dog sticking out its tongue. Terriers such as Bull Terriers and Wire Fox Terriers join as contestants. Women with bulldogs. A little girl sits beside a bulldog. Wire Fox Terriers and Chow Chow on leash. A black poodle at the dog show looks up and sticks its tongue.
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