The 1932 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois. New York Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt with his daughter Anna Roosevelt and granddaughter Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Dall (sometimes known as Sistie) outside a building circa 1930. Roosevelt holds a cane while leaning against a column and plays with his grandson using the cane. People gather in the convention hall for the 1932 Democratic National Convention. Roosevelt addresses them, speaking of the need to "break foolish traditions" and "to win in this crusade to restore America to its own people." The people applaud.
Safety measures to be undertaken while working. Boxes are loaded in a hand truck in the United States beside a warehouse. The boxes fall on a passerby due to being carelessly loaded on the hand truck. A worker carefully lines up the boxes on the truck. Inside a factory plant, a worker rolls up the sleeves of his shirt before operating a large drill press in the factory. View of a large platform machine being operated by a giant pulley. A foreman views the pulley and the worker stops the machine. The pulley is disengaged and a man approaches with safety barricade pieces to place around the pulley while it is worked on. Slate indicates, "Cyanide is valuable in treating steel, but it is dangerous to the eyes. Use goggles and be safe. A worker working without goggles is then seen near a furnace. He covers his face with his hands and runs away from the furnace. A maintenance worker partially disassembles and then attaches a new guard over a large grinding wheel in a factory.
Interior of a chemist laboratory, pharmacy, or apothecary. Young men and women chemists working in the laboratory. Various instruments and equipment kept on tables and in racks. Pharmacists stand at separated booths preparing prescription drugs using mortar and pestle. A woman approaches a pharmacist and presents a prescription note from a doctor, which the chemist views.
Occupational training for recovering and disabled U.S. soldiers in the United States after World War 1. Exterior of a building. A vehicle driving past on a street. Trainees in an automobile shop. Man with crutch under arm fixes an electrical outlet. Veterans participate in a orchestra and band rehearsal. Other men working. They install electrical wiring in a building under construction.
Vocational school instruction for young men in the United States. Instructor issues instructions by phone to a boy, wearing a headset, who operates electrical switches on a switchboard or circuit board, in response. Two boys wearing headsets, sitting at table holding what appear to be interlinked radio components. One boy manipulates dials, as if tuning the radio. Camera pans the right where components including what appear to be stacked capacitors are being activated. A young man using a telegraph key or morse code key to transmit a message. Boys in a machine shop or factory where machines are belt-driven from a common drive shaft overhead (out of sight). Closeup of one boy turning a metal part on a lathe. He makes measurement with calipers as the work progresses.
Coal mining in the United States. Miners operate a manual coal drill. They use picks and crowbars to break coal from a coal seam. The miners load coal cars with hand shovels. They ride the loaded coal cars. A miner shoes a mule. A powerful steel cable hauls the cars to the surface. Loaded coal cars raised to the top of the elevator. They are emptied into a chute.
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