The Atlas LV-3A/Agena B rocket on a launch pad at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, United States. SAMOS 3, a U.S. Air Force first generation photo surveillance satellite, aboard the Atlas LV-3A/Agena B. The rocket blows up. Smoke columns rise as the rocket catches fire. Several views of the smoke rising. Electrical towers and lines in the foreground. The launch pad as seen through the smoke. (Note:One of the pad umbilicals did not properly detach at liftoff, cutting off electrical power to the Atlas. The booster fell back through the launch stand and exploded. SLC-4E was fully repaired in only nine weeks and hosted Samos 4's launch two weeks after that.)
An industrial dispute in Kansas City, Missouri. Women garment workers walk in front of shops. A police vehicle in the foreground. The police stands in front of the shops. Automobile traffic in the background. The protesters wearing banners eat and drink.
A labor dispute in New York City. Striking elevator operators cheer their leaders. A leader addresses striking building service employees. Protesters including college girls from Hunter College who come out of a building holding banners. A child enters a tiny elevator (designed for groceries and small goods) and is hoisted up to his apartment manually by an operator. The boy's mother greets him there beside the kitchen icebox and helps him to exit the mini elevator. The mother kisses the child. A man treats the foot of another striking protestor after he developed blisters on the picket line. A man with a shotgun at a building acts as a strike breaker. Demonstrators are taken by police from a building. Police cars on a street. The demonstrators are taken away into the police cars. Some of the demonstrators hold signs like "Dillinger Gone...Bellinger going going (gone)". (The sign is comparing Frederic Coudert Bellinger, a building resident who was organizing tenants against the striking workers, to the infamous bank robber John Dillinger.) Bellinger had also shown up in tin hat and with a shotgun, and another protestor sign said, "Office of Tin Hat Bellinger". Another sign variant was, "Bellinger goes up and down, Picket goes round and round."
The 100th anniversary of the Alamo's fall in San Antonio, Texas. People gathered at the Alamo, a Roman Catholic mission and fortress compound. Catholic monks and priests at the ceremony. The priests stand near a stage. A band plays. Aerial view of the people gathered. Aircraft in flight. Officials stand and talk. Interiors of the fortress. People watch the displayed articles. Aerial view of skyscrapers and the automobile traffic.
Measures to avoid chicken stealing in Georgetown, Washington DC. Chickens on a field in a poultry farm. A farmer feeds the chickens. A board at the poultry farm reads ' Thieves Beware this poultry is marked & registered'. A sheriff marks pullets with ink to avoid stealing. An ink mark found on a chicken at a farm. A car parked in the background. The sheriffs enter a poultry farm. Sheriff or police escort a chicken thief to jail along with the stolen chicken. They open a jail cell door to lockup the man and the chicken in the jail cell. Hen at the jail cell window.
The Sunset Limited passenger train enroute from New Orleans to San Francisco, in 1915. The railroad train running on the tracks.
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