The New York world's fair of 1939 - 1940. People gather on the fairgrounds. Streamline train on display. People watching the railroad train. AT&T building, United States Steel building, Westinghouse, Goodrich, Chrysler, General Motors and Ford buildings in view. Entrance to Ford building. Statue of Mercury. Interiors of the entrance hall. People watch various displays. A couple looks at Ford, Lincoln, and Lincoln Zephyr cars outside the building. They look at Henry Ford's first gasoline-powered engine on display. Crowd look at a huge mobile mural by Henry Billings. They move through hall as they look at exhibits. They watch the main exhibit-'Ford Cycle of Production'. The steps involved in the production process of Ford being displayed at the fair
United States Post Office Department operations seen in New York, Boston, and Philadelphia. A postal office employee operates the Pneumatic tubes system for tranporting mail pieces. He lifts a cylindrical container and places in into a Pneumatic tube for transit.
Many of the historic American flags, including the Grand Union flag, the flag with Pine Tree, red and white stripes and the flag with rattlesnake on it (Don't tread on me). The present flag of the United States of America consists of 13 equal horizontal stripes of red alternating with white, with a blue rectangle in canton bearing 50 small, white stars. The Statue of Liberty on Liberty Island holding a tablet which reads 'July IV, MDCCLXXVI', the date of American independence in Roman numerals. The other hand of the Statue holds a torch. Views from under the torch arm; the torch, itself; the feet and a chain. Waves crashing on rocky shores.
View of Christ Episcopal Church (now Christ and Saint Luke's Episcopal Church, 560 W Olney Rd, Norfolk, VA 23507, United States) at 560 West Olney Road, Norfolk, Virginia. (The church is notable because, the Very Reverend Harold Dobson-Peacock, Dean of this church was an innocent participant in a hoax perpetrated by Norfolk boat builder, John Hughes Curtis, during the search for Charles Lindbergh's kidnapped son. Curtis fabricated a story about being contacted by kidnappers who held the child on a yacht. His hoax put officials and Lindbergh, himself, in a fruitless search for the phantom boat.)
Coast Guard flying officers, in dress blues, pose in front of a Douglas RD "Dolphin" amphibian aircraft, near hangar number 7, at Floyd Bennett Airfield in New York, United States.
Lynda Johnson at the christening of a vessel at the Brooklyn Navy Yard in New York, United States. U.S. President Lyndon Johnson's daughter Lynda Bird Johnson is accompanied by her sister Luci Baines Johnson at the christening of a vessel in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Several Naval Officers with Lynda Johnson. Two vessels in view. Officers aboard the vessel. Lynda Bird Johnson with her sister and a Naval Officer aboard the vessel. Lynda Johnson presides over the christening of the troop transport. The guests at the ceremony seated as they witness the event.
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