Workmen wearing hard hats rig catwalks for the Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco. The first footways being laid between the towers of the huge new Golden Gate Bridge rising 750 feet above San Francisco Bay.
Ruins in Hiroshima, Japan after World War II. The entrance to a Savings Bank which is set up and doing business in a light wooden structure built inside the shell of the original bank building. A Japanese man pulls a cart along a road which has been partially cleared. A man walks through debris of a collapsed building. A Japanese man cleans away rubble from his property, preparatory to planting his garden and erecting his new home. A Japanese telephone maintenance man repairs lines on a telephone pole. A group of Japanese children collects sea shells near a bridge along the fringe of Motoyasu River.
Citizens and United States soldiers walk along the streets in Tokyo, Japan on New Year Day (OshÅgatsu) 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.
Robert C. Weaver announced as the new Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in Washington D.C. Exterior of the White House. Dignitaries gather in the White House as the announcement is made. President Lyndon Johnson makes the announcement. People applaud after the announcement.
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