Construction of Agriculture Department buildings on Pennsylvania Avenue and the Capitol building. Proposed construction of Departments of Justice buildings, Government's Archives building and the Interstate Commerce Commission buildings on the plan. American Troops parade. Capitol building in background. General John Joseph 'Black Jack' Pershing leads the parade. President Herbert Hoover and Chief Justice William Howard Taft review the inaugural parade.
First transcontinental non stop flight from New York to San Diego in United States. Dornier Do X flying boat takes off with 169 passengers from water. Pilots of first transcontinental non stop flight were Lieutenant Oakley G Kelly and John A Macready. Passengers sit in passenger plane. Cameraman at work inside plane.
Russian and British Trade unionists stand at the steps of Hamilton House in England. Colonel John Ward, Member of Parliament and Mr WA Appleton Secretary of Federation of trade unionists receive Russian Trade Unionists. They stand in front of the building shake hands, talk and pose.
The "Human Liberty Bell" composed from 25,000 Officers and men at Fort Dix, New Jersey during World War 1, by photographers Arthur Mole and John Thomas who took them from an 80 foot tower with a large format camera. The U.S. Government contracted Mole and Thomas to create a number of such photographs as a morale booster during world war 1. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Liner USS George Washington on the Atlantic Ocean after its departure from Hoboken, New Jersey, bound for the Paris Peace Conference after World War 1. One of the ship's officers looks through binoculars. Two ships in the background (one is likely the USS Pennsylvania BB-38 which accompanied the flotilla). President Woodrow Wilson looks through binoculars. Standing behind him is Rear Admiral Cary Grayson, who was also the President's physician, Two women talk to a man on ship. John W Davis looks through binoculars, a woman stands beside him. The woman looks through binoculars. Robert Lansing, U.S. Secretary of State stands on ship wearing a hat and bowtie and looks around. French Ambassador Jean Aderian Antoine Jules Jusserand sits and talks with two women. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Frank Sinatra Junior, the son of singer Frank Sinatra, is kidnapped in California. View of Harrah's casino in Lake Tahoe, Nevada. Sign on casino advertises George Jessel and the Mary Kay Trio, along with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, Helen Forrest, Pied Pipers, Sam Donahue, and Chas. Shavers. Frank Sinatra Jr performs at Harrah's casino in Lake Tahoe along with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra. Room no 417 of the motel in Lake Tahoe from where he was kidnapped. John Foss at the press conference about Sinatra Junior's Kidnapping. Policemen at road lock. Policeman stops a Volkswagen beetle in the snow. Closeup of Frank Sinatra as narrator comments on ransom instructions issued by the kidnappers. Sign identifying Bel Air. People gathered where Frank Sinatra Junior was released a few miles from his home. Closeup of him with mother Nancy Barbato and sister, Nancy. He talks to reporters about his feelings during kidnapping. Reporters ask questions from his mother, who replies and ask them to end their questioning.
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