Citizens and United States soldiers walk along the streets in Tokyo, Japan on New Year Day (Oshōgatsu) of 1946. Japanese women and children dressed in kimonos walk along a sidewalk. Some Japanese men and women are also seen wearing face masks. They are wearing face masks during winter influenza season. A woman wearing a surgical mask and fur coat glances at the camera as she walks by. Japanese women and children walking along the streets.
Allied troops participate in a victory parade in Rangoon, Burma towards the end of World War II. The troops of the United States, British forces of Australia, New Zealand and China are gathered on a grassy field. They stand in formation and parade on the field. An artillery gun is fired in honor. Dignitaries review the parade.
Under the direction of City Manager George W. Welsh a new civic plan is introduced for unemployed men in Grand Rapids, Michigan, during the Great Depression. George W. Welsh poses. Unemployed men are employed on the Highway and Street Improvement projects for which they receive food and fuel as supplies from the municipal relief stations. Men work on road with shovels and use wheel carts. Exteriors of the Social Welfare Store. Supply bags in the store. Bottles of milk and bread are distributed to children in a bread line.
Cardinal Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli being acclaimed as Pope Pius XII in Vatican City, Rome. Rites being performed at Saint Peter's Basilica in Rome to mark the passing of Pope Pius XI. The new Pope stands in a balcony with other dignitaries. Pope Pius XII wearing the papal tiara. Bells ringing in the Vatican. View of Saint Peter’s Basilica and Saint Peter’s Square. Italian women and a boy wearing black kneel in prayer at Saint Peter’s Square. Altar servers and Swiss Guards leading a procession inside the Saint Peter’s Basilica. Pope Pius XII carried on the sedia gestatoria blessing the crowds. Pope Pius XII seated while being flanked by the papal flabella (ostrich feather fans) in the balcony of Saint Peter’s Basilica. A priest crowns Pope Pius XII with the papal tiara. Pope Pius XII blesses the large crowd gathered in Saint Peter’s Square (00120 Vatican City) to greet him.
A celebrity arrives at Chicago Municipal Airport,, aboard a United Airlines DC-3 Mainliner in its recently established service between New York and Chicago. He is the only person seen deplaning. As he steps from the plane, he is greeted by a number of persons, including a woman to whom he gives his autograph.
New bar gadgets being exhibited by models in 1930s clothing and hair style fashions, in Chicago, Illinois. The cocktail bar gadgets being exhibited by models in designer costumes. Two women seated on chairs. A woman arrives and serves them cocktails from a unique cylinder bar cabinet. They sample snacks from a cocktail platter. They drink from small shot glasses. Two models put on heavy mitts on their hands and then shake cocktails in large shakers. One model is wearing an enormous bowtie. Three women seated on floor enjoy beer from a small keg. One model pours them beer and they toast and drink the beer. Models sip wine wearing unusual cocktail dresses.
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