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A girl being crowned as the Apple Blossom Queen in the United States
People gathered to watch the coronation of the Apple Blossom Queen in the United States. A man dressed as an apple is carried in a litter. Majorettes carry and unfold a huge American flag in front of a city or town hall. Men and women watch the ceremony from the lawn. A man crowns a teenaged beauty queen as the town’s Apple Blossom Queen. The man kisses the girl on the cheeks. The Apple Blossom Queen and others dressed in white gown pose under a cherry blossom tree. The beauty queen kisses an apple blossom branch and smiles. The Apple Blossom Queen sits on a throne in a float during the Apple Blossom Parade. A young girl eating candy while watching the parade. Girls wave from decorated floats as they pass by large crowds in a street.
US Army soldiers and heavy equipment transported by railroad trains in the United States, bound for war front in World War 2
Activities of the United States Army in the United States during World War II. A U.S. Army band from the 407th Engineer Battalion playing musical instruments and marching. U.S. Army soldiers board railroad trains at a railroad station for transportation toward the war front. A railway steam locomotive pulling train cars. M4 Sherman tanks are seen on them as well as M2A4 (Mae West) tanks sitting partially turned with their guns out of sight away from the direction of travel.Browning M1919 .30 caliber machine guns are seen in their extra turrets. Army trucks and other military vehicles are also aboard the supply trains. The supply train moves through American countryside. Two women seated under hair dryers converse about the war in a beauty shop or beauty parlor. U.S. troops on troop transport railroad trains at night. Interior of a train car. American soldiers read books, sleep, and some play dice. An African American porter watches the game. A chaplain speaks to the soldiers. Civilians buy newspapers at a news stand. Headline on newspaper reads "London Expects Invasion of Europe at Any Hour" (before the upcoming Normandy Invasion of France in June 1944.)
Women get treatments by the beauticians at the YWCA in Harlem, New York.
The Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) in Harlem, New York City. African American women work in a beauty shop. Women seated in chairs. The beauticians giving them cosmetic treatments. A beautician applies nail paint on a woman's nails during a manicure treatment. A woman shows her hair style from the beauty parlor.
McClelland Barclay makes sketch of model with most perfect features for American girl portrait in New York.
Illustrator makes sketch in a beauty event in New York. Models in different outfits lined up. Beauty impresario Walter Thornton helps the Illustrator McClelland Barclay to find models with most perfect features for American girl portrait. Barclay makes the sketch of a model.
A couple perform magic tricks at a café
Dramatized scenes: A well-dressed couple enter a fashionable café. The waiter assists the man and the woman to sit. The couple checks the restaurant menu, they make an order of boiled eggs and Welsh rarebit. The obliging waiter delivers their order. The couple break open their eggs, and two beautiful white chickens fly across the room. The diners then perform a similar trick with the Welsh rarebit just served. The man lifts the food cloche, and two beautiful white rabbits hop from the dish and are seen kicking and squirming as they are lifted to the floor.
Miss Martha Scott is crowned as Queen at the National Tobacco Festival. Scenes from the parade.
Celebration of the National Tobacco festival in South Boston, Virginia. Contestants for the Queen of Tobacco Festival walking through a tobacco field and picking tobacco leaves. They are holding a contestant up high on a platform shaped like a giant tobacco leaf, and picking tobacco leaves which they scatter on the platform as they walk. Colorful parade for the celebration of the festival. Contestants in decorated floats passing on the street. The first float seen features a giant cigarette held high over a girl contestant's head. Large crowd watching the parade. Buildings along the sides of Main Street in downtown South Boston, Virginia. United States Postmaster General James Farley crowns Miss Martha Scott as the Tobacco Queen. James Farley in a humorous shack is greeted by the line of contenders for the Tobacco Queen crown and kisses a number of them.