A doll contest in Long Beach, California. A line of little girls carrying their dolls in prams with numbers. One of the prams has a design inspired by the Red Cross and carries a doll with the United States flag. Girls pushing their prams to parade their dolls. A girl pushes her Red Cross-inspired pram with a patriotic boy doll. Two little girls cradle their dolls. A girl snuggles her doll. A child leads a small dog with a carriage carrying a doll attached to it. A boy carries his doll from its leg.
A beauty Pageant in Long Beach, California. Models from all over the world participate in the beauty pageant. Models from Japan, Canada, Argentina and Spain stand on decorative floats. Crowd cheers as decorative floats drive past them on a road.
Oil Refinery blast in Long Beach, California. Black smoke rises after the blast in an oil refinery. Fire fighters spray water on the blazing fire. Huge towers burn. Explosion at the Oil Refinery. Workers lift tin shades and clear debris.
Gold Cup regatta in Long Beach, California. Spectators gathered to watch the motorboat regatta. Skimmers compete for the Gold Cup. Boats powered by outboard motors race on river. Kenny Harmon in 'Miss Reno' skips across the line to finish first.
President Herbert Hoover and others leave for fishing grounds in Long Key, Florida. President Herbert Hoover and others walk to the dock. Party gets into Jeremiah Milibank's boat ' Saunterer' Men push the boat away from the dock. Boat with an American flag hoisted on it. President and others take to smaller boats to catch sail fish.
Factory workers at A-20 (Fighter-Bomber Army plane) engine line in Douglas Aircraft Factory, Long Beach, California during World War 2, supplying aircraft for the war effort. Women factory workers make adjustments to engines in a Pratt-Whitney engine line. Close up of a woman worker at work on an aircraft engine. African American workmen stack plexiglass parts for bomber aircraft gun or bombing sights. Ex-sailor works on wing of aircraft. Shirtless worker removes an aircraft tire from a rack of tires and rolls it by hand. Propaganda cartoon poster above the rack shows a frightened Hideki Tojo up a tree and reads 'Tokio Kid Say' and shows an attack dog below, keeping him in the tree, and wearing a collar that says, "Conservation," encouraging workers to conserve and use factory resources wisely for the war effort in order to beat the Japanese.
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