Sculptress work on a sculpture of Diego Rivera's head at the Detroit Institute of Arts in Detroit, Michigan. Rivera at work on his industrial mural. Sculptress puts clay on Rivera's clay head. View of a figure in the mural. Rivera at work and spectators watch him.
Officials gathered to dedicate the Wright Memorial at Kill Devil Hills in North Carolina, USA. A wreath is handed up to two boys standing on a shelf around the memorial, paying tribute to the Wright brothers. A biplane flies past the memorial. Scene from an early flight of Wright Flyer II from approximately 1904, with Orville Wright at the controls. Some years later, a formation of U.S. Navy Martin PM-1 Navy Patrol Boat aircraft (biplane-style flying boats) in the skies over the American coast.
U.S. Coast Guard works to rescue victims of a flood in Greenwood, Mississippi. Men lower Coast Guard dory boats from a railroad car. Spectators watch as the men put dory boats in the water. Prisoners in striped clothes stack sandbags to control overflowing water of Yazoo and Tallahatchie Rivers. Submerged houses and trees. Residents flee in boats. Coast Guard officers aboard a boat in water. U.S. Army and Red Cross Fokker F.VII a aircraft in flight over the flood area. Aerial views of the flooded region.
Under the direction of City Manager George W. Welsh a new civic plan is introduced for unemployed men in Grand Rapids, Michigan, during the Great Depression. George W. Welsh poses. Unemployed men are employed on the Highway and Street Improvement projects for which they receive food and fuel as supplies from the municipal relief stations. Men work on road with shovels and use wheel carts. Exteriors of the Social Welfare Store. Supply bags in the store. Bottles of milk and bread are distributed to children.
Japanese Emperor Hirohito on horseback followed by other Japanese officers on horseback along Yayogi parade grounds in Tokyo, Japan. Emperor Hirohito reviews his cavalry, infantry and artillery.
Lodges covered with snow on a snowy mountain pass near Cumbres, Colorado. A narrow gauge train of the Rio Grande San Juan Extension (later the Cumbres and Tultec Scenic Railroad) plows its way through the snow of a Rocky Mountain pass near Cumbres. The locomotive engine of the train is equipped with a rotary snowplow that clears away the deep snow from the tracks. The train approaches two men waving.