Scenes from the "The American Queen of Beauty ' pageant in New York City, United States, in October 1934. (The "Miss America" pageant was not held in 1934 due to Great Depression financial troubles that affected the pageant in 1933. This "American Queen of Beauty" pageant was sponsored by Madison Square Garden, and held only this one time, in 1934). Contestants in swim suits move around the judges. The judges consisting of experts are seated on the center of the stage. Helen Mack, who was Miss New York State, is seen being given the title of American Queen of Beauty after she defeated 3,000 girls from 30 states. She holds the silver winner's cup.
Chief Iron Whip introduces himself to the Native American Indian tribal council. He belong to tribe Sioux or the first nation people. Sioux have three main divisions: The Santee or Dakota who reside to the east of Dakotas, Minnesota and Northern Iowa; The Yankton or Nakota who reside in the Minnesota river area; the Lakota who are the western most Sioux. Chief Iron Whip uses Indian sign language to introduce himself.
Nutritious food for U.S. Army soldiers in the United States. Scientists undertake experiments in the University of Minnesota for the development of nutritious food for American soldiers during World War II. A woman monitors tubes in a laboratory experiment. University of Minnesota physiologist Dr. Ancel Keys, who heads the experiments, speaks seated at a table. He says that if a soldier has vitamins and no food he would still starve. He says that it is not vitamins or pills that imparts energy but nutritious food in a wide variety. Few men in a bread factory taking vitamin enriched flour and using it to bake bread for the soldiers. Men kneading dough and arranging it in a tray. A man keeping the tray in an oven. Two men beside the oven. One of the men takes the tray out from the oven with a gloved hand. Quartermaster Corps cooking fresh food for the soldiers. Menu for the soldiers is prepared by a nutritionist. A Quartermaster Corps soldier beside him. Vegetables, fruits, milk and eggs are purchased in vast quantities by army officers and civilian experts. Cattle moving in herds. Quartermaster Corps butchers seen at work butchering and hanging meat. The soldiers debone the meat and other food materials are dehydrated for easier shipping. Eggs are examined for dehydration, yolks are separated from the whites and put through a drier. Pure yolk powder is made. Vegetables go through equipment to maintain their color, taste and vitamin content. Men working at a quartermaster laboratory.
Scenes from 1934 movie about Westward Expansion of the United States at end of the 19th Century. View of San Francisco harbor with a steamer passing in the background. Inserted scenes from 1906 film of Market Street taken from a cable car headed toward the Oakland Ferry. It shows hectic uncontrolled vehicle and pedestrian traffic in the street. Change of scene shows current (1934) views of San Francisco from a vantage point above the city.
Members, of the 1934 U.S. Army Air corps Alaska Flight, patronizing local hotel and shops in Fairbanks, Alaska. A sign identifies the Nordale Hotel (Slate notes the extreme high cost of things in Fairbanks, Alaska, such as: 25 cents for a cup of coffee and one dollar for a haircut, much higher than in the lower 48 in 1934.) Some of the fliers eat at the lunch counter of a local tavern. One leaves the tavern and poses for the camera, in front of a barber shop. He holds up a silver dollar, and walks into the shop.
Followup to the U.S. Army Air Corps 1934 Alaska Flight. The U.S. Army Air Corps Photographic department processes and assembles the 60 rolls of film shot by the USAAC 1934 Alaska Flight during its aerial photo-mapping mission over 21 thousand square miles of Alaska territory. Photographic workers mount film onto large rolls and place them into developing solutions. Long strips of film are seen drying on rotating slatted drums.Oblique negatives placed in rectifying printer are transformed into vertical photographs. Workers develop the negatives. Developed single wing photographs. Composite five lens photographs ready for mapping.
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