Old versus modern (now vintage) telephone trucks in the United States. A truck trailer loaded with telephone poles driven through a wooded region. Two men on the truck. A few men unloading a telephone cable from a wheel cart. A truck with telephone line laying equipment in a wooded region. Men on the truck. A man beside the truck. Trees on both sides of the road. A modern updated telephone truck of the mid 1920's with mechanical devices fitted on to it be used in laying lines.
Bell System telephone building in the United States. Bell System telephone building with the Bell System emblem on the top right corner of the building. A drawing which shows activity inside the building. View of technicians at work inside the building at various devices. Several women seated in a row operating different telephone lines and switchboards. A few instructors beside the women switchboard operators.
Iraqi military units in Mosul, Iraq. Cavalry troops moving in a formation. Officers leading the cavalry units salute. Soldiers holding guns marching in formation. Cavalry maneuvers during a review by the representatives of the League of Nations on a visit to settle a dispute between Iraq and Turkey.
League of Nations representatives in Mosul, Iraq. A market place in Mosul. Several civilians moving about in front of buildings on a street. People crossing a river on a boat. A jeep on the boat. People at a harbor. The jeep moving on the harbor among people. A cluster of houses on a hill side. The representatives of the League of Nations, on their visit to settle a dispute between Iraq and Turkey, in front of a building. The houses on the hill side. A market place. Several civilians walking in the market. Boats moving in the river.
Admiral Richard E. Byrd and aviator Floyd Bennett, in Spitzbergen, Norway, being congratulated by other expedition members, after ostensibly making a round-trip flight to the North Pole and back, in their Fokker F.VII trimotor airplane named: " Josephine Ford."
Animated map illustrates the flight course of Lieutenant Commander Richard Byrd and pilot Floyd Bennett, as they return to Kings Bay, Spitsbergen, Norway, from the North Pole, aboard their Fokker F-VII Tri-motor airplane, the "Josephine Ford." Pilot Floyd Bennett is photographed (by Byrd) in full arctic gear, at the controls of the airplane. View from the cabin of the Kings Bay encampment below. View from the ground, of Byrd and Bennett's Fokker aircraft, as it flies over the mooring mast of the Norwegian airship Norge. Next, steam issues from the ship's horn on the funnel of the SS Chantier, as she welcomes the aviators back from the Pole. Expedition team members wave and toss their hats in joy, as the aircraft approaches to land. The Fokker on final approach, with huge snow mountains behind. It touches down in front of the Norge airship hangar (between the hangar and the bay) and turns left, to taxi.