Explosion from bombing during the Marco Polo Bridge Incident at the start of the Second Sino-Japanese War. Sign at Marco Polo Bridge reads “Lu Know Kiao”. A train station near Marco Polo Bridge in Fengtai District, Peking, China. Imperial Japanese Army soldier uses binoculars while hiding in trench. A Japanese Sumida M.2593 (Type 91) armored car. Japanese troops fighting around Marco Polo bridge. The Japanese flag on mast of a battleship. Japanese battleship sailing to China. Japanese troops enter Nanking (Nanjing) after the Battle of Nanking. Soldiers in back of truck. Japanese biplane aircraft in flight. Japanese planes drop propaganda leaflets over Shanghai. Japanese planes dropping bombs. A Japanese newspaper with news on the Second Sino-Japanese War. Naval artillery crew firing guns. Japanese warships firing their guns in China. Japanese soldiers advance in battle. More bombers in flight.
Aerial view of Detroit, Michigan, late 1920s. Aerial view of the General Motors Building (Cadillac Place, 3044 W Grand Blvd, Detroit, MI 48202) by Albert Kahn located in the New Center area of Detroit.
During the German invasion of Poland during World War II, German army forces cross new temporarily built bridges. The troops are composed primarily of soldiers on foot, with horse-drawn supply wagons and some mounted cavalry. German troops crossing on a low and simply-made bridge with no guardrails. Debris in the water near the bridge. Horse-drawn wagons entering a different bridge. View of crooked rails on hastily-made bridges. A soldier on a bicycle rides up a muddy road beside a horse-drawn supply wagon. Another wagon ahead contains another bicycle. A third bridge is crossed. On the opposite bank, a wagon pulled by two horses speeds off the bridge, kicking up dust. A soldier runs behind. Horses run to pull wagons up a hill, and then slow at the top. The troops walk along a road.
Frank McLaughlin, director of the State Emergency Relief Administration (SERA), and Roy W. Pilling, Director of the Los Angeles County Relief Administration (LACRA), and other state and county officials in meetings at the Los County Headquarters on Flower Street to discuss the LACRA in Los Angeles, California. Relief workers and citizens during the Great Depression tend a State Emergency Relief Administration (SERA) community garden. They till the soil and plant seeds. Workers dig an irrigation ditch and hand weed the garden rows. Two men eat turnips grown in the field. Men load vegetables onto cart to be taken to the food division of the Surplus Commodities Warehouse for free distribution to hungry families.
African American young men and young women learn in various classes of Georgia State College, under the National Youth Administration (NYA) Center in Atlanta. Campus of Georgia State College at Savannah (later Savannah State University, 3219 College St, Savannah, GA 31404, USA). African American boys constructing the building of a Community Center. African American girls outside the Homemaking Center constructed by NYA boys. The girls play with a dog. African American girl learns cooking in kitchen. A girl is cutting cloth and another one is sewing clothes on a sewing machine. College age African American boys working in a shoe repairing workshop. A boy working on radio during a radio training workshop.
Commissioner of North Dakota, Gerridee Wheeler speaks on reproductive rights with a proposal of 'Reproductive Freedom' at the National Women's Conference in Houston, Texas (conference focused on equal rights for women, women's issues, and ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment). Several women delegates present at the meeting speak. One woman notes they are in favor of sex education, family planning, and reducing unwanted pregnancies. A woman rises against abortion and states that it is contrary to feminist principles that champion the less powerful. Another woman speaks about the importance of sex education for women and men, and for public health services for the sexually active. Another woman with an anti-abortion stance states that abortion on demand is an abuse of another minority in this country - the unborn children. Speaker at podium announces results of vote, stating that the Resolution for 'Reproductive Freedom' is adopted. American women cheer.
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