Amelia Earhart seen in leather flight coat, dons leather helmet and goggles for a photograph. She poses with Pilot Wilmer Stultz and flight mechanic, Louis Gordon. At daybreak the adventurers row towards Fokker F. VII b-3 tri-motored seaplane, and board for their first leg of transatlantic flight (to Trespassey, New Foundland). Their seaplane, named "Friendship," takes off and buzzes the port as they depart from Boston, Massachusetts. (Note: the Fokker seaplane was initially built for the Byrd Antarctic Expedition.)
U.S. Air Force officers consulting with General Electric executives about production of an American turbojet airplane engine, a month before receiving a prototype Whittle engine from Great Britain. Workers are selected for the project. Views of the GE plant at Lynn, Massachusetts. Project manager, Donald F. Warner, is seen at the Lynn MA factory discussing modifications from the Whittle design to correct problems with impellers and other parts.Views of affected parts. Person being fingerprinted as part of security actions.
Italian luxury ocean Liner SS Andrea Doria sinking off Nantucket Island, Massachusetts. Aerial view of the Italian Liner Andrea Doria lying sideways in the North Atlantic Ocean after its collision with SS Stockholm ocean liner. Photographers take pictures from aircraft window. SS Andrea Doria sinks. Cruise ship passengers being evacuated in life boats.
National Basketball Association (NBA) tournament final in Boston,Massachusetts . Large crowd of spectators gather at the stand for the final game. The game begins between Boston Celtics and Los Angeles Lakers. Spectators cheer the players. Boston Celtics score 42 points in the last period and beat the Los Angeles Lakers.
Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Entrance gates of Harvard University. University Hall as seen from gates. Students walk around as they move from one class to another. Ivy League students wearing preppy fashions. Students walk out of Harry Elkins Widener Library. Students sit on the steps of Harry Elkins Widener Library (1 Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States). Front facade of Emerson Lecture Hall. Students in the library.
Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Peabody Museum of Archeology and Ethnology. Students walk out of the museum. Student sit and talk on steps of a building. Sign reads "Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology." Interiors of the museum shows students and visitors looking at exhibit of Native American Indian artifact items and totem poles.