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Removal of coal from coal mine in early 1920s United States
Industrial Geography of the United States regarding mining of anthracite coal. Mule- pull cars loaded with coal chunks. Coal mine workers push the car onto a shaft. Machine with cable spindles roll on the cable. Coal car elevates up and dumps the coal into conveyor.
Breaking and sorting coal chunks in a coal mine in the United States in the early 1920s
Industrial Geography of the United States regarding mining of Anthracite Coal. Big coal chunks go into a machine. Workers handle the coal pieces. Workers work to keep out slate and shale. Coal sorting machines at work. Coal dumped into bogie. Steam engine train takes coal away.
Activities of U.S Merchant Marines and American ships underway in the United States in the 1920's and 1930's.
The legislative and maritime history of the U.S. Merchant Marines in the period between World War 1 and World War 2. Newly launched German, Italian and Japanese ships underway at sea. Ships including the German liner Bremen and the Italian Ocean liner Rex are seen underway. People gather at a dock. American ship underway in heavy seas with waves crashing over. Point of view shot at heavy seas from deck of a ship. A man works in a ship radio room. A man watches through binoculars and uses a sextant. Sailors row a small boat with oars in heavy seas. A sailor decorated by officials of the Merchant Marines. Dock workers and ship construction workers at a shipbuilding yard in the United States working on building new ships. American liners are seen undereway including: SS Washington off shore of New York City skyline and skyscrapers, SS Manhattan also off shore of Manhattan, the SS Lurline, the SS Mariposa, and the SS President Hoover (named for Herbert Hoover) underway at sea. The U.S. flag fluttering from a flag pole. The text of the declaration of policy under the Merchant Marine Act of 1936 is shown.
Life of African American farmers in southern United States in the early 1920s.
Rube Collins, African American tenant farmer in the American rural south, at work as he sharpens his tools. Hannah, his wife, draws a bucket of water from well. Obe, one of his sons, is holding a rifle or shotgun which he inspects. A woman feeds poultry. A child sits on stairs and eats. People engaged in farming in the fields. They use a tool, possibly a hoe, clearing space between planted rows of a crop, possibly cotton. They leave the fields. African American children play in front of a simple farmhouse or cabin, with one out building. A man plays violin and a older woman sits next to him in a rocking chair. Children wearing no shoes dance in the dirt in front of the house.
Army Air Service bombing and other practice operational activities during the 1920s in the United States
Several Keystone LB-5s (triple tails) and LB-5As (double tails) move across an airfield, circa 1928. Test bombing of captured German battleship, Ostfriesland, in 1921. Smoke arises due to bombing. A formation of four Martin NBS-1 bombers over the former USS Alabama (BB-8), in the Chesapeake Bay, on September 23, 1921. A white phosphorus bomb explodes atop the ship raising a huge white cloud. One of the Martin bombers flies low over the water drops a smoke curtain. (World War II period).
Aerial view of city of Chicago, Illinois in the United States; 1920's Chicago skyline (1926)
Aerial view of Chicago, Illinois. Aerial view of buildings and skyline in Chicago. Aerial view of Boston Store building and North American building in Chicago. Smoke arises from the buildings. Curtiss Amphibian flying boat in low fly-by to right.
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