Miss Georgia Wilkinson paints pictures in Hot Springs, Arkansas. With a brush between her teeth Miss Georgia Wilkinson paints a picture of a woman. The woman seated in front of Miss Georgia Wilkinson. Deprived of the use of her hands since childhood she has drawn high praise from noted artists who have viewed her work.
An NRA (National Recovery Act) parade in New York during the Great Depression. American men, women and children including bank presidents and office boys parade on the Fifth Avenue. A crowd passes in review before NRA official Hugh S. Johnson, Governors of three states and other notables in a huge demonstration to pledge their support to U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt's National Recovery Act.
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 in a bread line.
Excavation of Herculaneum city in Italy to restore the ruins of the old capital. A project to uncover the ruins of ancient metropolis shows men digging with shovels. Freight cars used by workers. The men work around on old buildings in the area.
"Polar Bear" swimmers of varying ages swim in the icy waters of Lake Michigan in Chicago, Illinois. Men and women go into the frozen Lake Michigan. They use ice picks to dig holes through snow and ice into the frigid lake water. They laugh and splash water on each other while swimming
U.S. warships maneuver and practice gun fire in the Atlantic Ocean. Gun crew mans a deck gun on a warship. Sailors watch as a destroyer approaches at high speed with black smoke spewing from its stacks. Foredeck of a destroyer swamped by waves. Destroyer gun crew loads and operates forward deck gun on wet deck with safety lines drawn tight across railings. All except the gunnery chief are in foul weather gear. Battleship firing salvoes from heavy guns. View of line of battleships, from porthole on a battleship firing from its 3-gun turrets. More battleships firing salvoes from heavy guns.
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