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Lunch atop a Skyscraper (New York Construction Workers Lunching on a Crossbeam) is a photograph taken atop the steelwork of 30 Rockefeller Plaza, during the construction of the Rockefeller Center, in Manhattan, New York City, United States.
The photograph depicts eleven men eating lunch, seated on a girder with their feet dangling 840 feet (260 meters) above the New York City streets. The photograph was taken on September 20, 1932, on the 69th floor of the RCA Building during the last months of construction. According to archivists, the photograph was in fact prearranged. Although the photograph shows real iron workers, it is believed that the moment was staged by Rockefeller Center to promote its new skyscraper. Other photographs taken on the same day show some of the workers throwing a football and pretending to sleep on the girder. The photo appeared in the Sunday photo supplement of the New York Herald Tribune on October 2.
Ownership
The glass negative is now owned by Branded Entertainment Network, who acquired it from the Acme Newspictures archive in 1995. The negative was broken into five pieces in 1996.
Author
Formerly attributed to "unknown", and often misattributed to Lewis Hine, it was credited to Charles C. Ebbets in 2003. By 2012 the Corbis corporation had officially returned its status to unknown although other sources continued to credit Ebbets. Alternative candidates include Hamilton Wright Jr., William Leftwich and Thomas Kelley.
Gleaming new Burlington "Twin Zephyrs" at Chicago, 4-16-35. A recent swap meet find- credited as an Acme Newspictures photo. The Fourth Quarter 1984 issue of Burlington Bulletin has a similar picture, whose caption was:
"Prior to the inauguration of Twin Zephyr service, the Q exhibited or operated the 9901 and 9902 together on several occasions. The pair is posed in Chicago Union Station prior to the official christening ceremonies on April 15, 1935."
Purchased B&W print, Acme Newspictures photo..
[Alice Marble playing tennis at Forest Hills; composite of eight photographs illustrating her serve and backhand]
1937.
1 photographic print.
Notes:
Acme Newspictures, Inc. photo.
No. 408938.
New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection.
Subjects:
Marble, Alice,--1913-1990.
Tennis--New York (State)--New York--1930-1940.
Format: Montages--1930-1940.
Photographic prints--1930-1940.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication. No copyright registration or renewal found in U.S. Copyright Office, 2017.
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c15631
Call Number: NYWTS - BIOG--Marble, Alice
Another news paper shot of LT's RM1768 on fire at Marble Arch on 30th July 1966 after the fluid flywheel had caught alight. The bus was very badly damaged in the fire.
Marine Corp Memorial Iwo Jima with Washington DC in the distance
Pulitzer Prize Winner Joe Rosenthal Dies
By JUSTIN M. NORTON
The Associated Press
Monday, August 21, 2006; 6:17 AM
SAN FRANCISCO -- Photographer Joe Rosenthal, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his immortal image of six World War II servicemen raising an American flag over battle-scarred Iwo Jima, died Sunday. He was 94.
Rosenthal died of natural causes at an assisted living facility in the San Francisco suburb of Novato, said his daughter, Anne Rosenthal.
"He was a good and honest man, he had real integrity," Anne Rosenthal said.
His photo, taken for The Associated Press on Feb. 23, 1945, became the model for the Iwo Jima Memorial near Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. The memorial, dedicated in 1954 and known officially as the Marine Corps War Memorial, commemorates the Marines who died taking the Pacific island in World War II.
The photo was listed in 1999 at No. 68 on a New York University survey of 100 examples of the best journalism of the century.
This was not the historic flag-raising that Rosenthal captured on film. Once the original flag was raised on that summit, a larger flag (96 by 56 inches) was taken from one of the landing craft. Photographer Rosenthal immediately realized the purpose of this second flag and closely pursued its bearer. Sgt. Michael Strank, Cpl. Harlan Block, Pvt. Franklin Sousley, and Pvt. Ira Hayes carried the colors up the hill. As they reached the summit, commanding officer Lt. Harold G. Schrier ordered that the second flag be raised and the first flag be lowered. Sgt. Strank found a second length of pipe and fastened the larger flag to it. Seeing that the four men were having trouble raising the flag on the rugged terrain, two men standing nearby -- Pharmacist's Mate 2nd Class John H. Bradley and Pvt. Rene A. Gagnon -- came to their aid. As the six men struggled to raise the colors, Rosenthal snapped the the picture, which has been called the single most famous photograph ever taken, and for which he was awarded the coveted Pulitzer Prize.
"What I see behind the photo is what it took to get up to those heights the kind of devotion to their country that those young men had, and the sacrifices they made," Rosenthal once said. "I take some gratification in being a little part of what the U.S. stands for."
He liked to call himself "a guy who was up in the big leagues for a cup of coffee at one time."
The picture was an inspiration for Thomas E. Franklin of The Record of Bergen County, N.J., who took the photo of three firefighters raising a flag amid the ruins of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. Franklin said he instantly saw the similarities with the Iwo Jima photo as he looked through his lens. Franklin's photo, distributed worldwide by the AP, was a finalist in 2002 for the Pulitzer Prize in breaking news photography.
The small island of Iwo Jima was a strategic piece of land 750 miles south of Tokyo, and the United States wanted it to support long-range B-29 bombers and a possible invasion of Japan.
On Feb. 19, 1945, 30,000 Marines landed on the southeast coast. Mount Suribachi, at 546 feet the highest point on the island, took four days for the troops to scale. In all, more than 6,800 U.S. servicemen died in the five-week battle for the island, and the 21,000-man Japanese defense force was virtually wiped out.
Ten years after the flag-raising, Rosenthal wrote that he almost didn't go up to the summit when he learned a flag had already been raised. He decided to up anyway, and found servicemen preparing to put up the second, larger flag.
"Out of the corner of my eye, I had seen the men start the flag up. I swung my camera and shot the scene. That is how the picture was taken, and when you take a picture like that, you don't come away saying you got a great shot. You don't know."
"Millions of Americans saw this picture five or six days before I did, and when I first heard about it, I had no idea what picture was meant."
He recalled that days later, when a colleague congratulated him on the picture, he thought he meant another, posed shot he had taken later that day, of Marines waving and cheering at the base of the flag.
He added that if he had posed the flag-raising picture, as some skeptics have suggested over the years, "I would, of course, have ruined it" by choosing fewer men and making sure their faces could be seen.
Standing near Rosenthal was Marine Sgt. Bill Genaust, the motion picture cameraman who filmed the same flag-raising. He was killed in combat just days later. A frame of Genaust's film is nearly identical to the Rosenthal photo.
The AP photo quickly became the subject of posters, war-bond drives and a U.S. postage stamp.
Rosenthal left the AP later in 1945 to join the San Francisco Chronicle, where he worked as a photographer for 35 years before retiring.
"He was short in stature but that was about it. He had a lot of nerve," said John O'Hara, a retired photographer who worked with Rosenthal at the San Francisco Chronicle.
O'Hara said Rosenthal took special pride in a certificate naming him an honorary Marine and remained spry and alert well into his 90s.
Rosenthal's famous picture kept him busy for years, and he continued to get requests for prints decades after the shutter clicked. He said he was always flattered by the tumult surrounding the shot, but added, "I'd rather just lie down and listen to a ball game."
"He was the best photographer," said friend and fellow Pulitzer Prize winning photographer Nick Ut of The Associated Press, who said he spoke with Rosenthal last week. "His picture no one forgets. People know the photo very well."
Ut's 1972 image of a little girl, naked and screaming in agony as she flees a napalm bomb attack during the Vietnam War, stoked anti-war sentiment. But Rosenthal's iconic photo helped fuel patriotism in the United States.
"People say to me, yours is so sad. You see his picture and it shows how Americans won the war," Ut said.
Rosenthal was born in 1911 in Washington, D.C.
He took up photography as a hobby. As the Depression got under way, Rosenthal moved to San Francisco, living with a brother until he found a job with the Newspaper Enterprise Association in 1930.
In 1932, Rosenthal joined the old San Francisco News as a combination reporter and photographer.
"They just told me to take this big box and point the end with the glass toward the subject and press the shutter and `We'll tell you what you did wrong,'" he said.
After a short time with ACME Newspictures in San Francisco in 1936, Rosenthal became San Francisco bureau chief of The New York Times-Wide World Photos.
Rosenthal began working for the AP in San Francisco when the news cooperative bought Wide World Photos. After a stint in the Merchant Marine, he returned to the AP and was sent to cover battle areas in 1944.
His first assignment was in New Guinea, and he also covered the invasion of Guam before making his famous photo on Iwo Jima.
In addition to his daughter, Rosenthal is survived by his ex-wife Lee Rosenthal, his son Joseph J. Rosenthal Jr., and their families.
On the Net:
More on Rosenthal:
www.newseum.org/warstories/interviews/mov/journalists/bio...
"Close call for U. S. Carriers" 7 Nov, 1944
Pacific Fleet : Two escort carriers ( CVE's ) in the battle of the Philippine Sea maneuver themselves out of trouble. The flight deck crew in foreground is rushing to launch fighters as the CVE in the background zig-sags it way through salvos from a Japanese cruiser. US Navy Photo.
Credit Line ( ACME Photo ) Photo by Acme Newspictures Inc, New York City
President and Mrs. Calvin Coolidge disembarking the USS Memphis at Key West upon arrival from Cuba, January 17, 1928. Photo by ACME Newspictures. Gift Tim Grosscup.
The largest fireball ever rises from “Crude Awakening” and illuminates (after the torching of a 90-foot-plus art piece) the Playa at the 2007 Burning Man counterculture festival in ‘Black Rock’ City, State of ‘Nevada’ in the western United States of America on 02nd September 2007.
Burning Man is an annual art festival and temporary community based on radical self expression and self-reliance in the 'Black Rock' desert of the State of 'Nevada,' U.S.A.
Web link to the Official Web Site : www.burningman.com/
Thousands of revellers cheered as the annual Burning Man counterculture festival climaxed with 02 spectacular pyrotechnic shows on the northern 'Nevada' desert. Fireworks erupted as the 40-foot-tall wooden figure known as "The Man," the festival's signature effigy, went up in flames Saturday, the 01st, night and fell to the ‘Black Rock’ desert, 120 miles north of ‘Reno,’ which is nicknamed as "The Biggest Little City in the World"......The other spectacular show was “Crude Awakening.”
The eclectic art festival was to end its weeklong run Monday, the 03rd September, after the burning of more artwork Sunday, the 02nd, night including the "Temple of Remembrance."
Photo with courtesy of Mr. Terry Schmitt, Florida, the United States. Mr. Terry Schmitt works as a photographer for the United Press International (UPI) Newspictures.
More on the Net :
Burning Man's green focus raises concerns of corporate contracts (inclusive of Festival Photos)
Several miles from ‘Black Rock’ City, the temporary town created annually in the ‘Nevada’ desert, celebrants approaching 2007 Burning Man counterculture festival can see the wooden effigy glow bright green in the night. What they can't see from the distance is a sheet of panels 50 yards from the Man powering the ghostly glow. ‘Renewable Ventures,’ a San Francisco alternative energy company, donated the solar generator, and the firm's presence on the desert floor - along with other companies given exclusive contracts to show off their clean-tech wares - is stirring controversy.
www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/09/02/MNKD...
Also :
'Burning Man' gets religion
washingtontimes.com/article/20070903/NATION/109030051/1001
Source of Photo :
www.breitbart.com/image.php?id=iupiUPI-BRC2007090236_001&...
Flooding in East Potomac Park on October 19, 1942 - in the foreground is the Washington Tourist Camp, then being used by the government for war-related work.
U.S. Air Force photo via Acme Newspictures - stamped with the address of the latter's DC bureau at 1013 13th St., NW.
View of the guns on the Battleship USS New Jersey BB-16 as workmen at the Boston Navy Yard strip the ship before it sails to Hampton Roads Va., along with the USS Virginia BB-13 to serve as targets for the Army Air Corp. photo dated summer of 1923, a United Newspictures Inc. photo
This was the pose I was probably trying to emulate in the last slide. Dad was a war correspondent in the European Theater, 1944-45, working for Acme Newspictures, which later was absorbed into UPI. Dad has an Acme-issue medium format roll-film Kodak Medalist in his hands. I have a letter from him to his boss back in New York evidently replying to the question, "How do you like the Medalist?" It turns out he didn't like it as well as his big Anniversary Model 4x5" Speed Graphic, which he wrote he could work faster, especially with film packs.
From Mike Eckman: [The] Kodak Medalist rangefinder camera [was] made in 1944 by the Eastman Kodak company out of Rochester, NY. This camera is considered by many to be the pinnacle of American camera manufacturing. Other highly regarded Kodak cameras were actually made in Germany, but not this one. This is a 100% American made camera made for the US military during World War II. It is one of the very few cameras that were manufactured and sold during the war making it the only camera in my collection from the year 1944. It has a well built Ektar lens that is extremely sharp even by today’s standards, and a mirror-less prism based rangefinder for incredibly accurate focus. The Kodak Medalist is considered by many to be the most sought after antique American camera ever made.
Film Type: 620
Format: 2-1/4 x 3-1/4 (aprx 6x9 cm)
Lens: 100mm f/3.5 Kodak Ektar coated 5 elements
Focus: 3′ 6″ to Infinity
Type: Coupled Rangefinder
Shutter: Kodak Supermatic No. 2 Leaf
Speeds: B, 1 – 1/400 seconds
Exposure Meter: None
Battery: None
Flash Mount: None
A young woman protesting against the Bulgarian government.
I choose a relevant newspicture each month at the 15th to redraw. Original photo by Valerina Petrova.
This is a file photo that newspapers used in reporting the invasion of the Philippines by the Japanese in Dec. 1941
Text on the back is:
Dec. 11, 1941
WHERE JAPS ARE REPORTED TO HAVE LANDED IN THE PHILIPPINES.
Coastal road of south of Vigan, Philippines, where, according to dispatches from Manila on Dec. 10, Japanese parachute troops landed and captured Vigan. The Philippine constabulary is said to have reported the landing.
Credit line (Acme)
Acme Newspictures, Inc.
I have seen this picture of 1941 Intramuros posted to the Internet before but this one is much higher resolution.
This is an Acme Newspictures Inc picture. Copyright of this image is not determined for certain although any copyright has probably expired. If indeed it is copyrighted it will be owned by:
CORBIS
902 Broadway
New York, NY 10010
web site: www.corbisimages.com
Everett Fire Department, Washington. Six Rescued from a boat that capsizes in Possession Sound at Everett's Harborview Park. Read Everett Herald Article July 5, 2011.
Check out the new homepage for the AJM STUDIOS Northwest Police Department! Visit the Northwest Law Enforcement Association. Visit the Northwest Law Enforcement Association Homepage. 2011.
Lunch atop a Skyscraper (New York Construction Workers Lunching on a Crossbeam) is a famous black-and-white photograph taken during construction of the RCA Building (renamed the GE Building in 1988) at Rockefeller Center in New York City, United States.
The photograph depicts eleven men eating lunch, seated on a girder with their feet dangling 256 meters (840 feet)[1] above the New York City streets. The men have no safety harness, which was linked to the Great Depression, when people were willing to take any job regardless of safety issues.[1] The photo was taken on September 20, 1932 on the 69th floor of the RCA Building during the last months of construction. According to archivists, the photo was in fact prearranged.[1] Although the photo shows real construction workers, it is believed that the moment was staged by the Rockefeller Center to promote its new skyscraper.[1] The photo appeared in the Sunday photo supplement of the New York Herald Tribune on October 2. The glass negative is now owned by Corbis who acquired it from the Acme Newspictures archive in 1995.
Formerly attributed to "anonymous", it has been credited to Charles C. Ebbets since 2003[2][3] and erroneously to Lewis Hine. The Corbis corporation is now officially returning its status to anonymous although most sources continue to credit Ebbets.[4][5][6][7]
There have been numerous claims regarding the identities of the men in the image. The movie Men at Lunch[8] traces some of the men to possible Irish origin, but the director plans to do further interviews to follow up among others claims from Swedish relatives.[9] -Wiki-
Everett Fire Department, Washington. Six Rescued from a boat that capsizes in Possession Sound at Everett's Harborview Park. Read Everett Herald Article July 5, 2011.
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Mrs. Geronima Pecson and daughter Urduja, Manila, Philippines, Nov. 4, 1947
Mrs. Pecson is running for the Philippine Senate on the Liberal Party. If elected Nov. 11th she will be the first popularly elected woman senator in this part of the world. Her husband is Judge Potenciano Pecson of the court of the instance.
Photographer Bert Brandt, Acme Staff Correspondent
ACME Newspictures, "Acme Photo
This is an old press photo emanating from Newspictures Inc of 42nd Street New York City but of a London location. On the back of the photo is written the following " When A.G.Holman opened a petrol station on London Road, Hounslow several months ago he fed three wild pigeons he found nearby. Now the pigeons arrive every morning, spend the day with Holman and then fly off toward Ealing at nightfall. The pigeons have enlarged their local acquaintanceship to include neighbourhood children. Photo shows two of the pigeons on one of the station's pumps."
ACME newspictures
Washington Bureau
Collaborationist Who Needed "Protective Custody"
Paris -- This collaborationist who lost his pants to an angry group of Parisians is shown being saved by the F.F.I. and taken into their protective custody.
Credit: ACME photo by Bert Brandt for the war picture pool
Date: 8-28-44
Photo prise à l'angle de la rue de Rivoli et de la rus de l'amiral Coligny, avec, en arrière plan, le départ de la rue du Louvre, dans le 1er arrondissement de Paris.
de nos jours:
www.flickr.com/photos/mlq/11203379183/in/pool-hier-aujour...
Organizers begin a funeral service at the Lincoln Memorial August 6, 1946 while demonstrators march to join them at the site following the mass lynching of four African Americans in Monroe, Georgia and three others in various parts of the south.
More than 50 organizations joined together to stage the rally including the Washington Committee of the Southern Conference for Human Welfare, the American Veterans Committee, the AFL and CIO labor federations, the National Negro Congress, Allied Veterans, and the NAACP.
The Atlanta Daily World estimated that 15,000 people took part in the march and rally.
The march down Constitution Avenue was led by coffins representing the victims. Three African American amputee veterans in wheelchairs draped in black followed the coffins after a rally at 9th and Constitution Ave NW.
Marchers wore black armbands and moved down the street to sound of muffled drums.
They heard speakers call for a federal anti-lynching law and call for indictments against Sen. Theodore Bilbo (D-Miss.) and Gene Talmadge, Democratic nominee for governor of Georgia. The speakers charged that these white leaders incited the violence.
The four slain in Georgia were Roger and Dorothy Malcolm and George and Mae Dorsey who were killed July 25, 1946 near Monroe, Georgia. The two women were sisters.
The four were traveling with white farmer Loy Harrison when the auto was stopped at gunpoint by an unmasked white mob. Harrison had come to Monroe to pick up Roger Malcolm who had made bond for stabbing and wounding his white employer on July 14.
As the men were led out of the automobile, one of the women recognized one of the lynch mob. The mob then took the women also. The men were bound and the mob fired three volleys of bullets into the four victims. More than 60 shots were fired.
The killings set off a round of demonstrations and demands for passage of a federal anti-lynching law. Despite the brazen nature of the crime, no one was ever prosecuted for the killings and no federal anti-lynching law was passed.
For more information and additional images, see flic.kr/s/aHsk2KEUC5
The photographer is unknown. The image is an ACME Newspictures photograph held in the DC Public Library Washington Star Collection c Washington Post.
Rockerfeller Center | "Lunch Atop a Skyscraper" 28/04/2015 20h00
A photo of a photo at the ground floor of the Rockefeller Center near the exit. This photo is world famous and my series is not complete without this photo, of a photo. All credits are for Lewis Hine, the photographer.
Lunch Atop a Skyscraper
Lunch atop a Skyscraper (New York Construction Workers Lunching on a Crossbeam) is a famous black-and-white photograph taken during construction of the RCA Building at 30 Rockefeller Center in Manhattan, New York City, United States.
The photograph depicts eleven men eating lunch, seated on a girder with their feet dangling 256 meters above the New York City streets. The men have no safety harness, which was linked to the Great Depression, when people were willing to take any job regardless of safety issues.[1] The photo was taken on September 20, 1932 on the 69th floor of the RCA Building during the last months of construction. According to archivists, the photo was in fact prearranged. Although the photo shows real construction workers, it is believed that the moment was staged by the Rockefeller Center to promote its new skyscraper. The photo appeared in the Sunday photo supplement of the New York Herald Tribune on October 2. The glass negative is now owned by Corbis who acquired it from the Acme Newspictures archive in 1995.
Formerly attributed to "unknown", it has been credited to Charles C. Ebbets since 2003 and erroneously to Lewis Hine. The Corbis corporation is now officially returning its status to unknown although sources continue to credit Ebbets.
[ Source: Wikipedia - Lunch Atop A Skyscraper ]
New York Bureau.ACME Photog Gets Hugs And Kisses.France -- Wildly enthusiastic French girls greet ACME Newspictures Photographer Bert Brandt with hugs and kisses as he entered Paris with the first group of liberating forces. Brandt’s pictures of the freeing of the French capital, along with other ACME photographers’ photos, were the first to reach the United States..Credit: ACME photo by Bert Brandt, War Pool Correspondent.Date: 8-30-44
Organizers begin a funeral service at the Lincoln Memorial August 6, 1946 while demonstrators march to join them at the site following the mass lynching of four African Americans in Monroe, Georgia and three others in various parts of the south.
More than 50 organizations joined together to stage the rally including the Washington Committee of the Southern Conference for Human Welfare, the American Veterans Committee, the AFL and CIO labor federations, the National Negro Congress, Allied Veterans, and the NAACP.
The Atlanta Daily World estimated that 15,000 people took part in the march and rally.
The march down Constitution Avenue was led by coffins representing the victims. Three African American amputee veterans in wheelchairs draped in black followed the coffins after a rally at 9th and Constitution Ave NW.
Marchers wore black armbands and moved down the street to sound of muffled drums.
They heard speakers call for a federal anti-lynching law and call for indictments against Sen. Theodore Bilbo (D-Miss.) and Gene Talmadge, Democratic nominee for governor of Georgia. The speakers charged that these white leaders incited the violence.
The four slain in Georgia were Roger and Dorothy Malcolm and George and Mae Dorsey who were killed July 25, 1946 near Monroe, Georgia. The two women were sisters.
The four were traveling with white farmer Loy Harrison when the auto was stopped at gunpoint by an unmasked white mob. Harrison had come to Monroe to pick up Roger Malcolm who had made bond for stabbing and wounding his white employer on July 14.
As the men were led out of the automobile, one of the women recognized one of the lynch mob. The mob then took the women also. The men were bound and the mob fired three volleys of bullets into the four victims. More than 60 shots were fired.
The killings set off a round of demonstrations and demands for passage of a federal anti-lynching law. Despite the brazen nature of the crime, no one was ever prosecuted for the killings and no federal anti-lynching law was passed.
For more information and additional images, see flic.kr/s/aHsk2KEUC5
The photographer is unknown. The image is a Washington Daily News photograph distributed by Acme Newspictures. Courtesy of the D.C. Public Library Washington Star Collection © Washington Post.
Acme Newspictures
July 31, 1937
Bike Trailer -- A boon to boys who like to go camping is the bike trailer, which is manufactured by a Cleveland firm. Made of plywood, almost as light as cardboard, the big box on wheels rolls smoothly along behind a bicycle, requiring little extra efforts on the part of the cyclist camper. It contains mattress, blanket and light camp equipment. When opened up it is large enough to sleep a six-footer. The open end is protected by screens to keep out insects. Canvas curtains may be pulled over during a storm.
This is a file photo that newspapers used in reporting the invasion of the Philippines by the Japanese in Dec. 1941
Text on the back is:
Dec. 28, 1941
JAPS BOMBS FIRE ‘OPEN CITY’ OF MANILA
Japanese subjected this undefended ‘open city’ to murderous bombings yesterday, and today great fires crackled through the historic buildings of Manila’s ancient walled city. Preliminary survey showed 37 civilians killed in attack, which came only 30 hours after Gen. D. MacArthur formally declared the capital an open city. Here is a view looking down Escolta Street, in the city’s shopping center.
Credit line (Acme)
Acme Newspictures, Inc.
This is a file photo that newspapers used in reporting the invasion of the Philippines by the Japanese in Dec. 1941
Text on the back is:
Dec. 27, 1941
FIRE SWEEPS THROUGH MANILA’S WALLED CITY
Fire was reported to be sweeping the ancient walled city in the heart of defenseless Manila today after Jap planes rained bombs on the thickly populated district. Colleges, churches, and government building were threatened by the flames, which quickly got out of control in several sections. The Walled City area had a population 100,000. Built in the 16th Century by the Spaniards, the walled city was called Intramuros, and housed the irreplaceable buildings, religious and governmental, which are the heritage of the Filipinos.
Credit line (Acme)
Acme Newspictures, Inc.
Everett Fire Department, Washington. Six Rescued from a boat that capsizes in Possession Sound at Everett's Harborview Park. Read Everett Herald Article July 5, 2011.
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"Mrs. Iola Swinnerton Warren, who suffered the illness known as myositis ossificans after inoculation for typhoid following a Florida hurricane, watches her husband Theron V. Warren and little nephew Herbert Taylor trim Christmas tree."
Chicago Dec. 23, 1944.
(Acme Newspictures photo.)
Bristol's new £27m museum "M Shed" opens today! The crains in the harbour shall be performing a waterfront spectacle to celebrate the museum's opening at 12 noon.
Pictures are available from yesterday's press opening from London News Pictures:
user: london
pass: newspictures
16.06.2011
Everett Fire Department, Washington. Six Rescued from a boat that capsizes in Possession Sound at Everett's Harborview Park. Read Everett Herald Article July 5, 2011.
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Casa Marina Beach. Left to right, Mrs. J. B. Austin, Atlanta, Mrs. J. B. Rowe, Chicago, Miss Mabel Sharpeley, Key West, Miss Mary Phillips, Key West, Mrs. Westcott Toole, Miss Mary Williams and Miss Illma Garthside. Acme Newspictures. 15 February 1927. The Scott DeWolfe Collection.
United Airlines, NC13304
Jackson Township, Porter County, Indiana
Date: October 10, 1933
Source Type: Photograph
Publisher, Printer, Photographer: Acme Newspictures (#CT 212726)
Postmark: Not Applicable
Collection: Steven R. Shook
Remark: This particular United Airlines Boeing 247 possessed a registration number of NC13304; it entered commercial service on April 7, 1933, and was the fourth production Boeing 247. On October 10, 1933, the airplane crashed on the Jackson Township farm of James Smiley (Northwest Quarter of Section 15, Township 36 North, Range 5 West; southeast of the intersection of 400 East and 1000 North) while on a transcontinental flight from Newark, New Jersey, to Oakland, California. The airplane was on its Cleveland to Chicago segment when it exploded en route at approximately 9:00 pm. Eyewitnesses stated that they saw the airplane in flames at an altitude of 1,000 feet and that a second explosion occurred after the airplane had crashed to the ground.
Investigators of the disaster, including the U.S. Bureau of Investigation, found that "...the tragedy resulted from an explosion somewhere in the region of the baggage compartment in the rear of the plane. Everything in front of the compartment was blown forward, everything behind blown backward, and things at the side outward.... The gasoline tanks, instead of being blown out, were crushed in, showing there was no explosion in them."
Those involved with the investigation concluded that crash had been due to a bomb, with the explosive agent believed to be nitroglycerin. The historical significance of the NC13304 crash is that it is thought to be the first proven act of air sabotage in commercial aviation. Despite a very intense investigation, no suspect has ever been identified or charged in this bombing, and the case remains unsolved.
The following information is provided on the back of this photograph:
AIR LINER BURNS AND CRASHES NEAR GARY INDIANA
SEVEN PEOPLE ARE THOUGHT TO HAVE BEEN KILLED WHEN AN AIR LINER BURST INTO FLAMES AND CRASHED IN THE WOODS NEAR CHESTERTON, IND, TWELVE MILES FRO GARY, IND, OCT. 10. THE PLANE, CARRYING FIVE PASSENGERS, ON THE REGULAR TRIP FROM CLEVELAND TO CHICAGO, HAD REPORTED BY RADIO JUST A FEW MINUTES BEFORE THE CRASH.
10-10-33
Copyright 2014. Some rights reserved. The associated text may not be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without prior written permission of Steven R. Shook.
In the presence of a group of Navy officials, the first sail is hoisted on Old Ironsides, The 134 year old Frigate, U.S.S. Constitution, at Boston, Mass., Navy Yard where she is being recontructed. Work is being rushed to have this histroic vessel recommissioned by July. Here's how Old Ironside looked after the sail was hoisted.
Your Credit Line must Read ( ACME ) May 31 1931
Photo by ACME Newspictures, Inc 220 East 42nd St. New York City
Everett Police Department, Washington. Six Rescued from a boat that capsizes in Possession Sound at Everett's Harborview Park. Read Everett Herald Article July 5, 2011.
Check out the new homepage for the AJM STUDIOS Northwest Police Department! Visit the Northwest Law Enforcement Association. Visit the Northwest Law Enforcement Association Homepage. 2011.
Everett Fire Department, Washington. Six Rescued from a boat that capsizes in Possession Sound at Everett's Harborview Park. Read Everett Herald Article July 5, 2011.
Check out the new homepage for the AJM STUDIOS Northwest Police Department! Visit the Northwest Law Enforcement Association. Visit the Northwest Law Enforcement Association Homepage. 2011.
Everett Fire Department, Washington. Six Rescued from a boat that capsizes in Possession Sound at Everett's Harborview Park. Read Everett Herald Article July 5, 2011.
Check out the new homepage for the AJM STUDIOS Northwest Police Department! Visit the Northwest Law Enforcement Association. Visit the Northwest Law Enforcement Association Homepage. 2011.
ACME Newspictures - 1941. On Guard In Israel. The young women who are pioneeri the development of the Jewish nation in Palestine are also taking an active part in the country's defense. This handsome dark-eyed young woman is an Air-Raid Warden.
Everett Fire Department and Police Department, Washington. Six Rescued from a boat that capsizes in Possession Sound at Everett's Harborview Park. Read Everett Herald Article July 5, 2011.
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ACME Newspicture showing flooding across the state of Alabama on 26 March 1929. The business in center was the Bauer-Dooley Battery Co., they sold battery's, gas, oil and Philco Radios, it was located at 1 South Broad St at the intersection of Broad and Dauphin Streets on the northeast corner.
Acme Newspictures of New York
A police officer wrestles a demonstrator to the ground March 26, 1932 while breaking up a peaceful demonstration protesting Japanese army atrocities in Manchuria
The protest took place near the Japanese Embassy at 2514 Massachusetts Ave. NW in Washington, D.C..
Police attacked the 30 demonstrators with clubs, fists and blackjacks while staff at the Japanese chancery watched from the roof and windows.
The protestors resisted and knocked down several of the police, including one who was hospitalized as a result of the confrontation. One of the demonstrators, Joan Hardy, was knocked unconscious during the fight.
When International Labor Defense attorney Bernard Ades went to seek their release at the Third Precinct station, Superintendent of the Police Pelham Glassford expelled him from the station.
Glassford had ordered the arrest of the demonstrators for parading without a permit, even though they were on the sidewalk and not blocking traffic. Some of the demonstrators were also charged with assault
The Japanese army invaded Manchuria on the mainland in November 1931. Chinese forces resisted until February of 1932 when they were defeated. Guerilla warfare continued until the end of World War II in 1945. Reports and photos of Japanese bombing of civilians and shooting of unarmed survivors caused revulsion around the world at the expansion of the Japanese empire.
The Japanese invasion of Manchuria is regarded as the opening salvo in what became World War II.
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The photographer is unknown. The image is an ACME Newspictures photograph obtained via an Internet sale.