Street sign shows 5th Avenue and East 51st Street, in Manhattan, New York City. Pedestrians walk on the sidewalk on the Fifth Avenue. Double-decker bus of 5th Avenue Coach Company on the street. Fashionable shops shown include Best & Co.and Black, Starr & Gorham. Mannequins dressed fashionably. Silver and china and fine glass articles on display in shops. A woman stands and looks at several items on display. A man and boy look at model sail boats in shop window. Flowers in a flower shop. Cars move along the street.
Post-war views of damage from USAAF bombing of Yokohama, Japan, during World War 2. Steel skeleton of a burnt out warehouse, at a harbor. Interior of the bomb damaged warehouse. Buildings in the background. Damaged ships and damaged warehouses. Japanese men wheel a load of lumber on a two-wheel cart. A burnt storeroom. A Japanese sign lying in the rubble. Wreckage of a cannery and damaged area of cranes at the docks.
Smoke rising from bombing at rail yards in Ploesti (Ploiesti) Romania,during World War 2. View of tank cars and petroleum storage tanks in the rail facilities. A locomotive sitting on a track partially obscured by heavy smoke blowing across the scene. Smoke coming from trains of tank cars that have been bombed.Firefighters training hoses on flames and black smoke rising high into the air. Firefighter silhouetted against the flames as he climbs a ladder next to embankment bringing a hose to train on the fires.
An shellback initiation ceremony aboard a United Stated Coast Guard liner in the Atlantic Ocean. Coast guard personnel on the deck of the ship. The sailors in trunks. The beginning of the initiation rites by experienced sailors. The sailors who are crossing the equator line the first time, go through the ceremony. One sailor is seated in a chair on a platform on the deck. Several sailors around the platform. Water is splashed on the sailors with a hose. A sailor dressed as a woman. The sailor is toppled into a pool of water by two other sailors. Few sailors dressed in different costumes sit on the deck. A high ranking seamen, dressed as King Neptune accompanied by his wife Queen Amphitrite, and the Court officiates the initiation ceremony. The coast guards lined up. The sailors portraying King Neptune and Queen Amphitrite walk past them and go on to the platform. The pollywogs, sailors who are crossing the equator first time, are locked in pillories.
View of the Old Executive Office Building in Washington DC. Library of Congress building. Trolley tracks in the street. Court of Neptune sculptures and fountains at the Library of Congress (101 Independence Ave SE, Washington, DC 20540, USA).
Vertical panning views of the Washington Monument, completely enveloped by scaffolding, during cleaning and replacement of lightning rods, in 1934.
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