Cleaning up after a serious flood in Rapid City South Dakota. Trucks parked outside a building in Rapid City, South Dakota. More trucks and bulldozers parked along dirt road. Traffic starting to appear on roads again.
Recovery and relief activities following deadly flood in Rapid City, South Dakota. Salvation Army Emergency Canteen truck arrives outside a building in Rapid City, South Dakota. More trucks arrive. Words on side of truck read 'The Salvation Area Emergency Canteen'. Truck loaded with food supplies. Men carry supplies out from the building and load into the truck. Sign on door reads 'Worker Entrance'. Two women walk away with a food sack.
Relief actions following flood in Rapid City, South Dakota. Mobile homes in Rapid City. Sign reads 'Housing and Urban Development Mobile Home Staging Area'. Mobile Homes in the background. Signs on home read 'HUD Disaster Area Rapid City South Dakota' and 'Federal Disaster Assistance'. Mobile Homes in area.
African American life in the American south, in South Carolina, United States, during the Great Depression. Houses at a distance. Vegetation on farmland. Hills covered with trees in the background. Man sits on a horse. A simple wooden house. Electrical poles in front of the houses. Stairs lead towards a building. Board on top of a shop reads "Alabama Lumber Co." African American men in front of the building. Curving railroad tracks.
African American life in South Carolina, United States, during the mid 1930s Great Depression. Two men walk past the Fireproof Building, a municipal county records building, at 100 Meeting Street, Charleston, South Carolina. A black woman wearing a coat and children seated on a park bench. Black men and women selling cut flowers and planting sprigs along a street side. Houses at a distance and a car in front. Cars move on the road. A fence or walk way with a sign "For white only" painted on it reflecting "Jim Crow" segregation laws.
View of the "Explorer I" Stratosphere Balloon with a Pressurized Capsule as it prepares for take off with three occupants near Rapid City, South Dakota. U.S. Army Air Corps personnel working with the National Geographic Explorers to prepare for launch. View of the balloon during its successful take off from the ground at the "Stratobowl" in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Aerial views from a nearby airplane of the Explorer I balloon in flight over wild natural terrain. Several views of a family in a living room gathered at console radio and other people gathered at radio to listen to reports about the balloon. View of radio announcers in studio during reporting. Next scenes show aftermath of crash. Men sort through wreckage of balloon and gondola. "Army Air Corps" written on part the wrecked pressurized Capsule. Wreckage of the balloon. Officials inspect the capsule and balloon fabric wreckage. (The crew parachuted safely to the ground shortly before the gondola crashed in Loomis, Nebraska.) View of crew members on the ground including Army Air Corps Captain Albert W. Stevens, Flight commander Major William Kepner, and Captain Orville A. Anderson, pilot.
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