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Cuneiform tablet: fragment of a mathematical problem text

Cuneiform tablet: fragment of a mathematical problem text

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Cuneiform tablet: fragment of a mathematical problem text

Cuneiform tablet: fragment of a mathematical problem text

Mesopotamia Public domain photograph of archaeological object, Mesopotamia, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Illustrated arithmetic problem showing man stamping on fruit in rectangular tub and man standing in round tub, with mathematical equations and surrounding text]

[Illustrated arithmetic problem showing man stamping on fruit in recta...

Woodcut illus. and text in: Aritmetica / Filippo Calandri. Florence : L. Morgiani and J. Petri, 1492. Published in: The tradition of science / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1987, p. 234.

The Washington nautical problem

The Washington nautical problem

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Baillie, J.

The Mormon Problem Solved [Cartoon of Brigham Young telling Pres. Grant "I must submit to your laws - but what shall I do with these" (hundreds of wives and children); Grant replies: "Do as I do - give them offices"]

The Mormon Problem Solved [Cartoon of Brigham Young telling Pres. Gran...

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The Mormon problem solved - Newspaper, public domain, Library of Congress

The Mormon problem solved - Newspaper, public domain, Library of Congr...

Cartoon showing Brigham Young, with large group of wives and children, saying to Ulysses S. Grant, "I must submit to your laws - but what shall I do with all these!" Grant replying, "Do as I do - give them offi... More

Iron ship-building in the United States. The ship-yards of William Cramp & sons, of Philadelphia. How the Pennsylvania Central R. R. Co. has solved the problem of regaining our lost commerce. Iron ship-building and the west. Philadelphia, April

Iron ship-building in the United States. The ship-yards of William Cra...

Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 159, Folder 48.

A knotty problem / W.A. Babcock Photo, Utica NY.

A knotty problem / W.A. Babcock Photo, Utica NY.

Two old men seated on fence in field, one whittling a stick of wood.

map from "The Arctic Problem and Narrative of the Peary Relief Expedition of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia"

map from "The Arctic Problem and Narrative of the Peary Relief Expedit...

This image has been taken from scan 000189 from "The Arctic Problem and Narrative of the Peary Relief Expedition of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia". The title and subject terms of this image ha... More

The bicycle problem / Ehrhart. - Drawing. Public domain image.

The bicycle problem / Ehrhart. - Drawing. Public domain image.

Print shows a vignette cartoon depicting aspects of the cycling craze, such as "beneficial" or "injurious" to one's health, problems with trying to dress appropriately and being excluded if not, the concern tha... More

A problem in economics. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

A problem in economics. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

Old man seated with cobbler looking at shoe. Photo by Leo D. Weil. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shoemakers...; Aged 1896; Shoes; Occupations Cobbler; Shelf.

What to do with him is the problem

What to do with him is the problem

This illustration entitled "What To Do With Him Is The Problem", by cartoonist Clifford Berryman, which appeared in the Washington Post on September 18, 1898, depicts the growing concern over Anarchism. Berryma... More

Puck magazine cover - The lynching problem / Dalrymple.

Puck magazine cover - The lynching problem / Dalrymple.

Print shows a southern vigilante holding a rope with a noose and a "Sheriff" holding a paper that states "2000 dollars must be paid by the county, for each lynching. Law of South Carolina". An African American ... More

[6th Division mathematics class on a street paving problem]

[6th Division mathematics class on a street paving problem]

Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress). In album: "Public Schools - 6th Division."

Watchdog of senate folding room has 'crop control' of own. Washington, D.C., Dec. 3. Since 1900 John W. 'Happy' Deards has been foreman of the Senate folding room which carries with it the responsibility of guarding thousands of volumes of Senate records including congressional records, agriculture yearbooks, senatorial eulogies, I.C.C. reports and books on horses and cattle. He is now wrestling with the problem of finding space for the harvest of 1938 agricultural yearbooks--35,000 volumes--shown under his feet and all around him. Deards says the books on horses and cattle which the government published in 1892 are still the most in demand of any others in the huge collection

Watchdog of senate folding room has 'crop control' of own. Washington,...

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Praises work of TVA in combating disease. Washington, D.C., Nov. 15. Surgeon General Thomas Parran was the first witness today as the Joint Congressional Committee Investigating the Tennessee Valley Authority resumed it's public hearing at the Capitol. While praising the TVA for the work it has done in combating disease, Dr. Parran termed the south 'the nation's no. 1 health problem.' He said the south had the 'fewest physicians' per capita, the fewest hospitals, and the highest death rate

Praises work of TVA in combating disease. Washington, D.C., Nov. 15. S...

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South nation's No. 1 health problem Surgeon General tells congressional committee. Washington, D.C., Nov. 15. In this huddle discussing health problems facing the TVA are Senator Vic Donahey, democrat, Chairman of the Joint Congressional Committee Investigating the Tennessee Valley Authority, and Surgeon General Thomas Parran, right, who was the first witness as the Committee resumed public hearings today. While terming the south the national's No. 1 health problem, Dr. Parran praised the TVA for the work it has done in combating disease

South nation's No. 1 health problem Surgeon General tells congressiona...

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Ickes and Senator Guffey drop contributions in flood relief box at White House. Washington D.C. Callers on President Roosevelt today were reminded of the public's problem in the flood situation. A white enameled chest, about the size of a bread box, was put on a table in the lobby of the executive offices to receive flood contributions. Secretary of Interior Harold Ickes (left) and Senator Joseph Guffey, of Pennsylvania, pictured as they drop their contributions in the box

Ickes and Senator Guffey drop contributions in flood relief box at Whi...

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Appears before Senate Unemployment Committee. Washington, D.C., Mar. 14. Contending that the problem of providing for the poverty-stricken workers transcends state lines, Paul S. Taylor of the Univ. of California, outlined a program for federal assistance. The proposed program would provide grants in aid to states for general public assistance. The states would submit to the Social Security Board plans in which adequate provisions for non-residents would be included

Appears before Senate Unemployment Committee. Washington, D.C., Mar. 1...

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Auto strike problem brought to Washington for conference by Governor of Michigan. Washington D.C. In an effort to settle the strike of automobile workers in Detroit, Governor Frank Murphy came to Washington today to confer with Secretary of Labor Perkins and Labor Officials. This picture, made at the Labor Department after a six hour meeting, shows left to right: John L. Lewis, Head of the CIO; Secretary Perkins; Governor Frank Murphy; and James F. Dewey, Conciliator of the Labor Department

Auto strike problem brought to Washington for conference by Governor o...

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Simple solution of the Panama labor problem / Ehrhart.

Simple solution of the Panama labor problem / Ehrhart.

Illustration shows a frenzy of activity as many politicians and capitalists join the labor forces to construct the Panama Canal; Theodore Shonts, chairman of the Isthmian Canal Commission, is standing on the ri... More

A Bay State Problem - Political cartoon, public domain image

A Bay State Problem - Political cartoon, public domain image

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The subway problem. Map of Independent System, exhibit #1.

The subway problem. Map of Independent System, exhibit #1.

War Problem for the Washington Hostess

War Problem for the Washington Hostess

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The problem - Drawing. Public domain image.

The problem - Drawing. Public domain image.

"Strike" on bat. (DLC/PP-1932:0042). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: New York Herald, April 5, 1912, p. 5.

Suggestions For Solving the High Street Car Problem

Suggestions For Solving the High Street Car Problem

This illustration entitled, "Suggestions For Solving the High Street Car Problem", by cartoonist Clifford Berryman, which appeared in the Washington Evening Star on January 3, 1912, offers some possible solutio... More

A Packing Problem - Political cartoon, public domain image

A Packing Problem - Political cartoon, public domain image

This illustration entitled, "A Packing Problem", by cartoonist Clifford Berryman, which appeared in the Washington Evening Star on December 31, 1913, depicts Father Time wondering how to pack all of the major e... More

Why Not Apply the Santos Dumont Plan to the Transport Problem Until We Get Ships?

Why Not Apply the Santos Dumont Plan to the Transport Problem Until We...

This illustration entitled, "Why Not Apply the Santos Dumont Plan to the Transport Problem Until We Get Ships?", by cartoonist Clifford Berryman, which appeared in the Washington Evening Star on January 9, 1916... More

College and Universities - University of Wisconsin - Working a combat problem, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin

College and Universities - University of Wisconsin - Working a combat ...

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Colleges and Universities - Atlanta University - Atlanta University. A problem in building construction carpentry class. Det. No. 1

Colleges and Universities - Atlanta University - Atlanta University. ...

Date Taken: 1918 Colleges and Universities - Atlanta University Public domain photograph related to the United States in World War One, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

American Red Cross - Uniforms - In the operating room and in the wards, the war nurse wears this white utility apron. It is an unromantic apron, adopted to simlify the ever present French laundry problem; but it is a badge of service coveted, by thousands of untrained women

American Red Cross - Uniforms - In the operating room and in the wards...

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Colleges and Universities - Cornell University - Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. R.O.T.C. Listening to discussion of company problem

Colleges and Universities - Cornell University - Cornell University, I...

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American Red Cross - Headquarters & Buildings - Interior American Red Cross Hotel Paris. In these substantial, comfortable cots in new American Red Cross tent hotel at foot of the Eiffel Tower, American soldier in Paris finds solution of perplexing problem of sleeping quarters. For a franc a night a good clean cot is his and connected with the hotel is a recreation hut and canteen

American Red Cross - Headquarters & Buildings - Interior American Red ...

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Our problem is to feed our allies this winter by sending them as much food as we can [...]

Our problem is to feed our allies this winter by sending them as much ...

Text continues: ... of the most concentrated nutritive value in the least shipping space. These foods are wheat, beef, pork, dairy products and sugar. Our solution is to eat less of these and more of other food... More

American Red Cross - Uniforms - This is the nurses' uniform that wounded soldiers know best - the gray cotton crepe working uniform of the Red Cross Army and Navy Nurse, which makes its wearer "the best dressed woman in the world". Gray is an innovation used abroad made necessary by the laundry problem in France. The Red Cross brassard is worn only by nurses serving directly under the Red Cross

American Red Cross - Uniforms - This is the nurses' uniform that wound...

Photographer: Joel Feder American Red Cross - Uniforms Public domain photograph of nurses, hospital, medical care, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Public domain photograph of... More

College and Universities - University of Wisconsin - Skirmish Line Combat Problem

College and Universities - University of Wisconsin - Skirmish Line Com...

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Colleges and Universities - Atlanta University - Atlanta University. A problem in repair work

Colleges and Universities - Atlanta University - Atlanta University. ...

Date Taken: 1918 Colleges and Universities - Atlanta University Public domain photograph related to the United States in World War One, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

American Red Cross - I thru M - The members of the A.E.F. like jam so much that the girls at the American Red Cross canteen could not open the cans fast enough. Capt. S.A. Mitchell, A.R.C, knew of problem and invented a can-opener that can be worked and with very little effort and leaves no jagged edges to hurt tender hands. Capt. Mitchell is here demonstrating the use of it. As fast as they can be made they are forwarded to the various canteens

American Red Cross - I thru M - The members of the A.E.F. like jam so ...

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Rounding Up of Spies on the Western Front. We Had Solved the Problem

Rounding Up of Spies on the Western Front. We Had Solved the Problem

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New bicycle helps solve transit problem

New bicycle helps solve transit problem

Photograph shows a man posed with unusual bicycle; approximate in size and shape of a unicycle.

Trials of Transportation. Transportation is a big problem for a westerner in the East. Everything is slow. There are few automobiles, horses have been killed off in the war and oxen are entirely too slow. The American Red Cross workers in Constantinople solved the problem by employing Arab caravan from the base warehouse to the various docks along the water front. This picture shows one of the camels carrying supplies through the streets of the Eastern metropolis

Trials of Transportation. Transportation is a big problem for a wester...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC Paris Office. Data: All Div. June 1920. Group title: Transportation, Turkey. ... More

State of Oklahoma. Executive department. Proclamation. The needless destruction of property and life presents a problem for our deliberation that may well challenge the best thought and effort of every good citizen ... Therefore, I hereby design

State of Oklahoma. Executive department. Proclamation. The needless de...

Her Paramount Problem - Political cartoon, public domain image

Her Paramount Problem - Political cartoon, public domain image

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US Navy (USN) Lieutenant (LT) David McMillan observes the flight deck foul lines to ensure the safety of crews and landing aircraft as a USN F/A-18C Hornet, Strike Fighter Squadron 195 (VFA-195), Naval Air Facility (NAF) Atsugi, Japan, approaches to recover aboard the USN Aircraft Carrier USS KITTY HAWK (CV 63). LT McMillan is authorized to wave-off any landing aircraft with his remote control if any potential foul line safety problem occurs. The Kitty Hawk Carrier Strike Group is participating in the third annual Joint Air and Sea Exercise (JASEX) with the US Air Force (USAF) and US Marine Corps (USMC) in the Western Pacific. JASEX focuses on integrated joint training proficiency in...

US Navy (USN) Lieutenant (LT) David McMillan observes the flight deck ...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: [Complete] Scene Caption: US Navy (USN) Lieutenant (LT) David McMillan observes the flight deck foul lines to ensure the safety of crews and landing aircr... More

National Archives. Washington, D.C., Nov. 22. Preservation of documents has long been a problem in libraries and offices of record. It was once done by a process known as 'crepelining,' which consisted in placing coarsely woven silk over and under the paper to be preserved with the use of adhesive. The most modern process now used is called the laminating process and consists in sandwiching the document between two sheets of thin, transparent cellulose acetate. This is then placed between two highly polished metal plates and subjected to heat and pressure in a hydraulic press

National Archives. Washington, D.C., Nov. 22. Preservation of document...

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Mortimer L. Schiff, who conferred with Pres. Coolidge. Dec. 12 on the [reparations?] problem

Mortimer L. Schiff, who conferred with Pres. Coolidge. Dec. 12 on the ...

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[Mortimer] L. Schiff, who [conferred with] Pres. Coolidge, Dec. 23 [...] problem

[Mortimer] L. Schiff, who [conferred with] Pres. Coolidge, Dec. 23 [.....

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Secretary Wallace talks to 'little businessmen.' Washington, D.C., May 23. Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace told the American Retail Federation's Forum today that a flow of private capital into investment channels is essential before any real solution to the problem of agriculture surpluses can be found. Left to right: Louis E. Kirstein, Chairman of the Board of Trustees and Secretary Wallace

Secretary Wallace talks to 'little businessmen.' Washington, D.C., May...

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These men will study the problem of placing diesel engines in the shipping board vessels. Lft. to rt. around the table: A. Conti, Consulting Engineer to Adm. Benson; J.F. Nichols, Chief Engineer, Newport News Shipbuilding Co.; Adm. H. I. Cone, Asst. to Pres. of the Fleet Corportation, Chmn.; Adm. W. S. Benson; Capt. Chas. A McAllister, v-p Amer. Bu. of Shipping; William Francis Gibbs, Pres. Gibbs Bros. Inc.; and Maj. W. D. Styer, Engineer Corps, USA

These men will study the problem of placing diesel engines in the ship...

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Ranking members of House Ways and Means Comm. Left, John N. Garner of Texas, Democrat, and William R. Green of Iowa, Republican, both have difference ideas as to the solution of the tax problem

Ranking members of House Ways and Means Comm. Left, John N. Garner of ...

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Uncle Sam seeking way to improve theaters for talkies. How to improve theaters for talking motion pictures is a problem now being tackled by the Bureau of Standards. V.L. Chrisler of the Sound Section, who looks like he is imprisoned in stocks, is really studying the "echo effect" in this room and his body and the observing instruments are enclosed so as not to interfere with the tests. It has been found that cushioned seats in talking picture theaters aid in the absorption of the "echo effect"

Uncle Sam seeking way to improve theaters for talkies. How to improve ...

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The Presidency is Just One Problem After Another

The Presidency is Just One Problem After Another

This cartoon depicts President Herbert Hoover pondering his selection for the Supreme Court. Berryman Political Cartoon Collection

An Imminent Unemployment Problem

An Imminent Unemployment Problem

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Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish leaders meet in Washington to assist jobless. The problem of unemployment is not only economic, but ethical and moral as well, and responsibility for its solution rests upon the whole American people. President Hoover was advised today by a delegation representing three national church groups sponsoring the National Conference on Permanent Preventives of Unemployment, meeting in Washington this week. Heading the delegation to the White House were, left to right: Rabbi Edward L. Israel, chairman of the Social Justice Commission, Central Conference of American Rabbis; Reverend R.A. McGowan, of the social action department, National Catholic Welfare Conference; and James Myers, Industrial Secretary, Social Service Commission, Federal Council of Churches, 1/27/31

Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish leaders meet in Washington to assist ...

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Urge $10,000,000 Red Cross Relief Fund. President Hoover, as President of the American Red Cross, joins Judge John Barton Payne, chairman, in a special call for a $10,000,000 popular subscription to the Red Cross to be used for drought relief in 21 states. Payne has described the drought problem, accentuated by unemployment, as the "greatest peace-time emergency" the organization has ever faced. 1/14/31 [White House, Washington, D.C.]

Urge $10,000,000 Red Cross Relief Fund. President Hoover, as President...

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CANADIAN PRIME MINISTER ARRIVES AT WHITE HOUSE. PRIME MINISTER RICHARD B. BENNETT OF CANADA, ARRIVED AT THE WHITE HOUSE TODAY TO TAKE PART IN THE DISCUSSIONS ON THE COMPLICATED FOREIGN EXCHANGE PROBLEM. IN THE PHOTOGRAPH, L TO R: COL. JAMES ULIO, MILITARY AIDE; MRS. WILLIAM D. HERRIDGE, WIFE OF THE MINISTER FROM CANADA; MINISTER HERRIDGE; PRIME MINISTER BENNETT; PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT; AND CAPT. WALTER VERNOU, WHITE HOUSE NAVAL AIDE

CANADIAN PRIME MINISTER ARRIVES AT WHITE HOUSE. PRIME MINISTER RICHARD...

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Public Health leprosy leaves for Louisiana. Dr. H.E. Hasseltine of the Public Health Department leaves for the U.S. Marine Hospital at Carville, La., to give his aid on a leprosy problem there. 10/29/35

Public Health leprosy leaves for Louisiana. Dr. H.E. Hasseltine of the...

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A possible solution to the dust problem is irrigation. This farmer is pumping water from a well to his parched fields. Cimarron County, Oklahoma

A possible solution to the dust problem is irrigation. This farmer is ...

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Wooden sleds drawn by tractor bringing supplies from main road to project at Berwyn, Maryland. During the winter months tractors and mud sleds furnish the only method of getting from the main road to the project. Transportation was chief problem at the new construction

Wooden sleds drawn by tractor bringing supplies from main road to proj...

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Coal mine with strip mining dumps in background. A problem in destructive land use. Cherokee County, Kansas

Coal mine with strip mining dumps in background. A problem in destruct...

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Child labor legistlation "very necessary." Washington, D.C., May 18. Katherine [i.e. Katharine] Lenroot, Chief of the Children's Bureau, Department Labor, appeared before the Senate Commerce Committee today as hearing on three child labor measures opened today. Declaring that Child Labor Legislation is "very necessary" Miss Lenroot added "we ought to study the openings under recent Supreme Court decisions to reach a part of the child labor problem," 5/18/1937

Child labor legistlation "very necessary." Washington, D.C., May 18. K...

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First calculating machine presented to Smithsonian. Washington, D.C., March 31. An old macaroni box filled with an arrangement of wheels, rubber bands, meat skewers and staples which was the forerunner of the modern key-driven, multiple-order calculating machine, was presented to the Smithsonian Institution today. The scarred old box was designed and constructed by Dorr E. Felt, young Chicago mechanic, 52 years ago when he first started in to solve the problem of what is now the modern calculating machine. Mrs. Raymond J. Koch, (right) oldest daughter of the late inventor, is shown making the prsentation to Dr. Charles G. Abbot, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. In the center is Raymond J. Koch, 3/31/1937

First calculating machine presented to Smithsonian. Washington, D.C., ...

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Washington youngster solves parking problem. Washington, D.C., March 30. Transportation and no parking worries. Nelm Clark, 16-year old Washington youngster, solved this problem by combining a lawn mower motor with a set of motor cycle gears to make this unusual midget auto. Costing $60 to build the contraption weighs only 150 pounds--the weight is its main feature--and if you run out of gas you easily push it or tuck it under your arm and walk home, 3/30/1937

Washington youngster solves parking problem. Washington, D.C., March 3...

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Washington youngster solves parking problem. Washington, D.C., March 30. Transportation and no parking worries. Nelm Clark, 16-year old Washington youngster, solved this problem by combining a lawn mower motor with a set of motor cycle gears to make this unusual midget auto. Costing $60 to build the contraption weighs only 150 pounds--the weight is its main feature--and if you run out of gas you easily push it or tuck it under your arm and walk home, 3301937

Washington youngster solves parking problem. Washington, D.C., March 3...

A couple of old cars parked next to each other, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Title from unverified data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection on the negative or negative sleeve. Gift; ... More

Aid to refugees planned at White House. Washington, D.C., April 13. Experts on the refugee problem shown leaving the White House today after conferring with President Roosevelt, the group met with the President to go over preliminaries to an international conference to help political refugees form Germany and Austria, left to right; Prof. Joseph P. Chamberlain, New York, Asst. Sec. of State Messersmith, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, Henry Morgenthau, Reverend Samuel Cavert, New York, Reverend Michael J. Ready, Sec. of Labor Frances Perkins, and Lewis Kenedy, New York, 4/13/38

Aid to refugees planned at White House. Washington, D.C., April 13. Ex...

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Southeast Missouri Farms. Project manager talking over problem with client. La Forge project, Missouri

Southeast Missouri Farms. Project manager talking over problem with cl...

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Rail Labor Head discusses wage controversy with president. Washington, D.C., Oct. 31. George M. Harrison, President of the Brotherhood of Railroad and Steamship clerks, leaving the White House today after discussing with President Roosevelt the carriers wage controversy. Harrison told newsmen "the president wants railroad labor and management to take up the problem of developing a program of legislation for general rehabilitation of the railroad industry," 10-31-38

Rail Labor Head discusses wage controversy with president. Washington,...

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Secretary of Treasury Morgenthau lauds administration's new lending bill before senate committee. Washington, D.C., July 18. Secretary of Treasury Henry Morgenthau, seated, listens attentively while Edward H. Foley, treasury General Counsel, answers a question by the Senate Banking and Currency concerning the Administration's new lending bill. Morgenthau told the committee the bill was a "realistic approach to our economic problem." He urged prompt approval of it, 7/18/39

Secretary of Treasury Morgenthau lauds administration's new lending bi...

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Water seepage from newly irrigated land on top of bench, eroding the sides. A problem for the Reclamation Servive. Dead Ox Flat, Malheur County, Oregon

Water seepage from newly irrigated land on top of bench, eroding the s...

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Water seepage from newly irrigated land on top of bench, eroding sides. A problem for the Reclamation Service, Dead Ox Flat, Malheur County, Oregon. See General Caption number 67-I

Water seepage from newly irrigated land on top of bench, eroding sides...

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A humorous--and positive--approach to the problem of absenteeism is presented in this poster used by the production drive committee of the Chickasaw Ordnance Works, Millington, Tennessee. The poster was designed by an employee of the plant

A humorous--and positive--approach to the problem of absenteeism is pr...

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Tractors in the sugarcane fields, with the farm supervisor discussing the problem of cultivation after excessive rains with the foreman, who was chosen from among their own group by the members of the cooperative. Terrebonne Project, Schriever, Louisiana

Tractors in the sugarcane fields, with the farm supervisor discussing ...

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Running water in home of Mormon farmer living in Sana Clara, Utah. As these Mormon farmers live in communities the problem of running culinary water is easily solved. See general caption

Running water in home of Mormon farmer living in Sana Clara, Utah. As ...

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The problem of supplying the armies of democracy is borne by all those nations taking part in the fight. These are Chinese workers drilling in a Netherlands East Indies tin mine with American-made drills. For many years nearly all our tin has come from the Pacific area

The problem of supplying the armies of democracy is borne by all those...

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Making out income tax perplexing problem to Nevada senator. Washington, D.C., March 11. Political issues and congressional problems were forgetten today by Senator Pat McCarran, Democrat of Nevada, when he tackled his income tax report due in a few days, March 15 to be exact. A look of disgust and utter confusion is shown on the face of the senator as he dispatches sheet after sheet of the memos into the waste basket during the arduous task, 3-11-40

Making out income tax perplexing problem to Nevada senator. Washington...

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A potato attacked by bacterial wilt. In spite of many precautions this is still a great problem. Aroostook County, Maine

A potato attacked by bacterial wilt. In spite of many precautions this...

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A potato attacked by bacterial wilt picked up on a farm in Aroostook County. In spite of many precautions the disease is still a great problem. See print no. 42107 D

A potato attacked by bacterial wilt picked up on a farm in Aroostook C...

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Making out income tax perplexing problem to Nevada senator. Washington, D.C., March 11. Political issues and congressional problems were forgetten today by Senator Pat McCarran, Democrat of Nevada, when he tackled his income tax report due in a few days, March 15 to be exact. A look of disgust and utter confusion is shown on the face of the senator as he dispatches sheet after sheet of the memos into the waste basket during the arduous task, 3-11-40

Making out income tax perplexing problem to Nevada senator. Washington...

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Recommends CCC be made permanent. Washington, D.C., March 15. Robert Fechner, Director of the Civilian Conservation Corps, today recommended to the Senate Unemployment and Relief Committee that the CCC be made a permanent establishment. The present CCC authorization will expire July 1, 1940. Fechner said that, while he believed the present "distress" of unemployment would end soon, he was satisfied the country would face the problem of providing jobs for needy young men for several years, 3/15/38

Recommends CCC be made permanent. Washington, D.C., March 15. Robert F...

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Overcrowded Washington has made "curb service" popular to a point of necessity as the parking problem grows steadily worse. Washington, D.C.

Overcrowded Washington has made "curb service" popular to a point of n...

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"Captain" Mary Converse, instructing V-7 (candidates for United States Navy ensign commissions) students in use of sextant, compass and gyroscope and in navigation. A problem in charting a course takes shape; every member of the class is keenly interested

"Captain" Mary Converse, instructing V-7 (candidates for United States...

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Supervisor of home economics talking over problem with Hardesty family. Charles County, Maryland

Supervisor of home economics talking over problem with Hardesty family...

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Two Negro supervisors and borrower talk over the home problem. Saint Mary's County, Maryland

Two Negro supervisors and borrower talk over the home problem. Saint M...

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Newly-painted parking signs ordered in expectation of increased traffic problem in Childersburg, Alabama

Newly-painted parking signs ordered in expectation of increased traffi...

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Road leading up to bench land. Vale-Owyhee irrigation project, Malheur County, Oregon. While the higher bench land is not so fertile as that in the lower valleys, it is oftimes desirable to farm the bench land because drainage of irrigation waters does not constitute a great problem

Road leading up to bench land. Vale-Owyhee irrigation project, Malheur...

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Map of problem areas for Farm Security Administration camps in the United States, 1941

Map of problem areas for Farm Security Administration camps in the Uni...

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Fort Riley, Kansas. Jeeps of a mechanized cavalry reconnaissance unit in a smokescreen during a field problem

Fort Riley, Kansas. Jeeps of a mechanized cavalry reconnaissance unit ...

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San Antonio, Texas. From a position behind the "front lines", the airborne troopers were rushed to the objective on a split-second schedule to deliver the first blow in a carefully-planned offensive. A jeep is being loaded into a plane as part of this problem

San Antonio, Texas. From a position behind the "front lines", the airb...

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Fort Riley, Kansas. Watering the horses during a field problem of the cavalry

Fort Riley, Kansas. Watering the horses during a field problem of the ...

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Drawing a head. An apprentice gets the "range" on a drafting problem under individual instruction at a war arsenal. Thousands of young men are studying problems in plants scattered throughout the United States

Drawing a head. An apprentice gets the "range" on a drafting problem u...

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America's production chief. "You see, sir, it's like this..." A typical candid glimpse of Donald Nelson, Chairman of the War Production Board (WPB), as he explains an intricate problem to a visitor. Mr. Nelson has a methodical approach to work, weighing all sides of a problem before he makes a decision

America's production chief. "You see, sir, it's like this..." A typica...

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Fort Riley, Kansas. Delivering a message to a moving scout car during a field problem

Fort Riley, Kansas. Delivering a message to a moving scout car during ...

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Fort Riley, Kansas. Part of a machine gun brigade on a field problem

Fort Riley, Kansas. Part of a machine gun brigade on a field problem

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Fort Riley, Kansas. During a field problem of the cavalry

Fort Riley, Kansas. During a field problem of the cavalry

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Fort Riley, Kansas. Setting up a thirty caliber water-cooled machine gun during a field problem of the cavalry

Fort Riley, Kansas. Setting up a thirty caliber water-cooled machine g...

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Batavia, New York. Elba FSA (Farm Security Administration) farm labor camp. Group of migrants from West Virginia gathered outside recreation tent discussing the problem of getting something to eat. They have just arrived by train

Batavia, New York. Elba FSA (Farm Security Administration) farm labor ...

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New oversize trailer for war workers. Here's an answer to the problem of transporting defense workers to outlying industrial plants: It's the new oversize bus trailer made almost entirely of non-critical materials which held its Washington premier April 13. Hauled by an ordinary one-and-a-half-ton truck tractor, it holds 141 persons, and was designed and built by the Office of Defense Transportation and War Production Board (WPB) officials with the cooperation of private companies. Weight of the trailer is 12,000 pounds as compared with 17,000 pounds for a standard type 40-passenger city bus. The complete unit is fifty-five feet long

New oversize trailer for war workers. Here's an answer to the problem ...

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Fort Riley, Kansas. During a field problem of the cavalry

Fort Riley, Kansas. During a field problem of the cavalry

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Fort Riley, Kansas. Watering the horses during a field problem of the cavalry

Fort Riley, Kansas. Watering the horses during a field problem of the ...

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New oversize trailer for war workers. Note modern floating axle on the new oversize bus trailer which holds 141 persons and may be the answer to the problem of transporting war workers to outlying defense plants. Designed and built by Office of Defense Transportation and War Production Board (WPB) officials with cooperation of private companies, the trailer rolls on eight standard truck size tires, with the usual six tires on the power unit. The truck trailer unit as a whole is fifty-five feet long

New oversize trailer for war workers. Note modern floating axle on the...

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