Artist Frida Kahlo, with her husband, Diego Rivera, during the painting of his industrial mural in the Detroit Institute of Art. She is seen on a scaffold by an unpainted area, talking to a workman below. Later, she sits on the scaffold next to Diego Rivera, as he paints in this same section. She makes notes in a pad. She descends a ladder from the scaffold, throwing her note pad to an associate below, before coming down. View of the entrance gate of the room.
Families working in Ford garden plots provided by the Ford Motor Company. Men cultivating and tending crops in rows. A man carries loaded basket through the field. A signboard reads 'Ford garden Plots'
Captain James A Mollison during the World's First 2 way Transatlantic Hop. Captain Mollison boards his small Puss Moth airplane for his return trip from Mineola, New York.. He shows his 10 shilling note before boarding the airplane. The aircraft taxis and takes off from a runway.
A marathon swim championship held by the Canadian National Exposition in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Participants jump into water to start the championship. Margret Ravior of Philadelphia wins the world's 10 mile swimming classic for the third time. Spectators cheer during the competition. Mrs. Evelyn Armstong of Detroit wins the second place. May Looney of Warren is third and Dorothy Nalevaiko of Glen Cove comes in the fourth position. Margret Ravior seated after the championship.
Jacques Piccard sets a new height record in Dubendorf, Switzerland. Piccard and Max Cosyns set off for a balloon trip to study the effects of cosmic rays. Jacques Piccard looks out from an all metal globular gondola. The balloon with the gondola sets off for its flight in the upper stratosphere. Piccard speaks with an officer before the flight. Photographers take pictures.
Thousands of workers get back to work in the United States. A group of workers works on equipment inside a machine manufacturing plant in New Jersey. The workers welding inside the factory. Workers collect onions from fields in Kenton, Ohio. Workers increase the production of washing machine in Chicago.