Breguet 14 A.2 bombers parked in a row in Clermont, France during World War I. American ground crewmen mounting 155mm bombs under the wing of a Breguet 14 A.2 bomber. U.S. soldier fuses a 155mm bomb. Airman in Breguet 14A.2 bomber winds up bomb release mechanism and looks into a sighting instrument. A bar with pegs on it turning in the wing of Breguet 14 A.2 bomber. Officer closes the hatch of the wing. Officers hold 115mm, 115 long, 115 short and 75mm shells in hand. (World War i; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Hawaiian crowd gathered around Iolani Palace (364 S King St, Honolulu, HI 96813, United States) in Honolulu for Hawaii's Statehood celebrations. Flag hoisted on Iolani Palace building. Flags atop long ladders. 25th Infantry Division plays band. Locals hold flags in hand. The Hula girls advance on stage to dance. Soldiers stand with cameras in hand.
Birch Canoe builder with his wife paddles a self built canoe in North of United States. He soaks a large piece of cedar for the frame. The Canoe builder cuts the cedar log into long strips. He lights a burner and places wooden strips into it. The heated strips are then bent over the lower side of a canoe form. Man removes bark from Birch tree and joins them. Wooden form is placed in the center of birch bark sheets. They bind the Canoe with root strips, sewing them on. They affix gunwales and clamp the pieces in place. They paint pitch containing charcoal onto the seams. View of the man canoeing in his hand-built canoe.
Los Angeles County Relief Administration (LACRA) workers build a 24 mile long Bell sewer, 12 deep in Los Angeles, California. They dig and brace the sides of the trench using pounded stakes. They add a gravel bed and then lay pipes into the trench. Engineers gather to inspect the pipe, led by LACRA chief engineer Ralph Smith. By hand, workers operate a giant pump handle with a massive hook on the end, which pulls massive timbers from deep buried positions along the line of the trench.
Depicts industry and modernization coming into rural Appalachia in the early 1900s. A steam locomotive pulling a long line of train cars moves along the mountain side, leaving a trail of smoke in the Appalachian Mountain, near Smyth County Virginia. Man, woman and children wave at the coming train. Cow grazes in field. A steam shovel excavating a site. Vehicles drive past on a dirt road newly carved into a mountain side. Two men sawing a tree with a two-person saw. The tree falls. Horse carries wooden logs from the forest area. Logs being milled into lumber pieces at a saw mill. Giant saw blade spinning and cutting the wood. Factories with smoke spewing from chimneys. Rural coal mine buildings, some up high on stilts. A man operating an electrically powered, belt-driven lathe to turn lumber into round handles for tools. A rural preacher with a bible at an outdoor site, preaching in front of a corn field. Slates indicate that he is preaching against worldly education, and in favor of biblical learning only. reaches to people. A stone on a building with the words, "Marion Junior College. 1873." The preacher waving the bible in his hand. A teenage boy seated in a rocking chair on a porch reading a book.
Health care services for Appalachian Mountain residents in the area of Campbell County, Tennessee. Woman straps saddle on horse and mounts it. She rides horse on dirt road, carrying a sick or injured child. She arrives at a building and another woman carries the child into the health facility. Another nurse on horseback picks up an infant child from a concerned Appalachian resident to take to the clinic. Group of men carry a child on a stretcher up a long flight of stairs to a health center. 1930s automobiles navigating rough mountain roads to get to patients. Women arriving by car at a white building atop a hill.
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