Women sewing clothes for needy families as a part of the WPA program (Works Progress Administration) in Ohio United States during the Great Depression. Close up views of the women seamstress workers as they sew. Young children play with toys and engage in play activities in a nursery school or preschool built for children of working and needy mothers by the WPA. Children work with tools and hammers on projects. Children play in a wooden frame play house. Boy and girl children on swings in the nursery as a teacher watches over them. Smiling children wash up with soap and water using wash basins. One boy jokes and bumps against the girl beside him. The boys and girls lay down on cots for nap time. A boy and a girl sleeping during a nap at the school. Life Guards attend life- saving instructional classes on a beach. Lifeguards rescue a woman from the water and bring her to safety. Men put up a policeman cut out image with sign stating "Slow. School" as a safety measure near a school. People at the improved Toledo Zoo. Families look at a wall built from salvage material in the zoo. Families and children watch a monkey move across a rope ladder at the zoo. A group of monkeys in a pond. The WPA Symphony Orchestra performs in the open band shell amphitheater at the Toledo Zoo (the Zoological Park Amphitheater, Toledo, Ohio). WPA Orchestra with musicians employed through federal funds, are seated on the stage as they perform. Families indulge in swimming and relax in a community swimming pool in Ohio. A young boy climbs a fountain in the pool to take a closer look.
Ranchers give hot oil bath to sheep in Le Grand California, to have a high quality wool. Men clean up the big sheep yard. Views of flock of sheep in a yard and grazing in the field. Bathing the sheep in hot oil is suggested as punishment for the violators of the 'Blue Law'.
Indiana Society of Chicago organize various events annually in Lake Forest Illinois Chicago. Participants enjoy rooster derby and balloon race. Cartoonist John T McCutcheon with his wife and son John plant the tree. Author Robert Sidney Smith, creator of Andy Gump, runs a foot race. Man and a woman with a rooster.
Busy street scene in downtown Buffalo, New York, with Niagara Square and the McKinley Monument in background. Pedestrians, cars, buses, and police directing traffic. Delegates from Pan American Congress of Journalists arriving in buses to observe grain flour mills in operation in Buffalo, New York. The buses cross over railroad tracks in an industrial factory area. Scene changes to farmers working in wheat fields, primarily in the American plains and west areas, and using threshing machines in wheat harvesting. Animated map depicts transportation of wheat across the United States for processing, with some being shipped on the Great Lakes to Buffalo for processing. Giant ships and tugboats in harbor area beside wheat processing mills in Buffalo. Views of wheat grain being emptied from ship holds with shovels on ropes being used to push wheat toward exit area. Grain elevator with wheat funneling downward. Slate notes (in Spanish) that the wheat is then converted into flour for the bread of the nation. View inside wheat processing plant in Buffalo as industrial machinery with belt drives converts the wheat to flour.
American Civil War veterans pay tribute to Abraham Lincoln in Springfield Illinois in United States. View of decorated tomb of Abraham Lincoln. Thousands of aged veterans in their Civil War Union Army uniforms gather in Oak Ridge Cemetery near the tomb of Abraham Lincoln. Governor Louis L Emmerson and other dignitaries attend the event. Governor Emmerson is seen in conversation with one of the aged veterans. Most of the veterans wear hats with the "G.A.R." symbol (Grand Army of the Republic, a Union military veterans and fraternal organization). One of the Union Civil War veterans shown is an African American soldier.
USS Shenandoah destroyed tragically in Ava Ohio. The giant airship ZR-1 crashed due to cyclonic storm. Ripped and torn into three pieces killing several crew members. Front part of the airship crashed at Ava while middle part and tail of the ship fell at Sharon 10 miles away from Ava in Ohio.
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