A documentry 'The Story of a Mexican Gusher' visualizes different stages in oil production in Mexico. A political map of Mexico shows Tampico and the distance between Tampico and New Orleans. Men cut through jungles, cross rivers and make roads to bring equipment into the Mexican oil region. Men cut trees in a jungle using machetes and axes. Men at work in an open area. Smoke rises in the background. A barge goes across a river. A jeep on a road built in a jungle. An oil company's railroad. Men work on the company pipeline near the railroad. A camp hospital in a jungle clearing to the south of the Panuco River. Cable tool method of drilling is practiced. Men do 'spudding in' by drilling a hole. Machinery in operation. After the spudding in a cable is 'hitched on' to a 'walking beam'. Men lower a casing at Ebano to drill out oil. A derrick. Oil is discovered at 800 feet and bubbles up from oil well. Two oil workers completely covered in oil work with the oil well equipment.
African American artists in sculpture, photography, painting, sketching, etching, writing and on antique in the United States. A sign reads ' Whitney Museum of American Art'. Exteriors of the museum. People go inside the building. A car parked in front of the building. An art display inside the museum. People view the art exhibition. They move up stairs.
Artist illustration of Sara Delano Roosevelt, mother of future United State President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, reading from a book. A page from a Roosevelt heirloom Dutch Bible turns to show an illustration of Sara Roosevelt holding Franklin Roosevelt as a baby circa 1882. The page turns to show a photograph of Franklin Delano Roosevelt as a young child. Another page turns to show a picture of Franklin Delano Roosevelt as a boy wearing a sailor collar shirt. Image of Franklin Delano Roosevelt wearing a miniature sailor suit, fashionable children’s wear during the 19th century.
Hispanic businesses of Harlem, New York City around 1940. Signs in Spanish on stores and shops of community from Cuba and Puerto Rico, along 5th Avenue in Harlem, New York City, including "El Siglo" books and perfumes store, and the "Casa Siegel" furniture, record, and electronics store at 1393 5th Avenue, New York City, near the corner of 115th Street (owned by Sidney Siegel). Exterior marquee of the "Hispano" movie theater. View of the storefront for the "C. Mediavilla Licores " liquor store. A resident leans out of a window above shops. View of the "Garcia & Pena" clothing store at 1357 5th Avenue, New York City.
Officers training at artillery school in the United States. View of the Fort Sill Field artillery school, Oklahoma. Officers look through binoculars during their gunnery training class. They learn service and firing techniques on field. They learn techniques of rocket bombardment. They learn to fly aircraft and phenomenon of meteorology. They release weather balloons. At Fort Scott, Kansas, officers load coastal guns and are trained about destroying sea borne assets. At Fort Bliss, Texas, officers learn antiaircraft techniques. Long range rocket is launched at the White Sands Proving Grounds.
Central park in New York. People on boats in the central park pond. New York skyline and trees in background. People walk on bridge over the pond in Central park. Bethesda fountain designed by Emma Stebbins with female winged angel on top and four cherubs representing Temperance,Purity,Health and Peace at bottom. People sit in garden banking the pond.
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