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Every minute of every day, one of americas 600 Railroad Companies rolls a train out of a terminal. Ever on the move over the greatest network of rails on the road, trains carry people, goods, and mail. Mail by rail helps tie together the business economy, the free press, and the human relations of this great country. For a few pennies in postage, great industries, publishers, small businesses, and just plain people hire Postal Transportation Service on every railroad crisscrossing the United Sta...

Career, and a look at the American Indian Museum Photography collection. In 1939, newlyreleased color film to photographers working for the u. S. Government. American history tv visited the library of congress to meet curator Beverley Brennan and not about the collection of images documenting the Great Depression and world war ii. In 19 thirties, the United States experienced an economic depression and an agricultural disaster. It was a great drought. People were not able to make a living on the...

Color photographs from the 1930s and 1940s. They started as an experiment with color film. Kodak was just putting its color film on the market. Sent it out to photographers at institutions to give it a try, to see if they could create a market for it. The pictures were free. So they were appealing to newspapers, magazines, publishing agencies, book publishers. That kind of thing. I was familiar already with the black and white photographs. There are about 171,000 Farm Security administration and...

Street y offered here on the west side for adults with flexible schedules and a little bit of time for leisure learning. Today we welcome you to the 29nd street y series in partnership with timestalks called tuesdays with the times featuring noted New York Times journalist and authors. Our tuesdays with the times series, as well as all of our daytime lectures a foumpl for issues that affect us all. Todays discussion focuses on a topic that is greatly in our conscious. We welcome james dwyer and ...

Jonathan marwil teaches a class on how the victims of 9 11 terror attacks are remembered, a photograph from a 9 11 victim falling from the north tower of the World Trade Center. Okay. Lets begin. So far what they have been focusing on, first of all, was the film, the images in the film done by two brothers, French Brothers 9 11. So we have looked at what . Images of the buildings and noticeably images of firefighters because they were the main focus of the film. And then last week we started tal...

Space museum hosted this event. It is about an hour 20 minutes. Well, good evening. Im chris brown the Deputy Director of the Smithsonian National air and space museum, and it is my pleasure to welcome you to tonights ge aviation lecture. Since 1982 this lecture series has spotlighted more than 140 of the biggest names in modern aviation history. Like all of our Public Programs this lecture is presented free of charge. This is possible, thanks through the generous support from ge aviation. Priva...

9 11 terrorist attack. She also discusses her decision to leave the cia to become an fbi special agent, focusing on chinese counterintelligence. The International Spine is ian recorded this event in. February good evening everyone and thank you for coming out to the International Spy did. Because im crisscrossed an executive director of the International Spy museum. Tracy joined the cia officers officer, fbi special agent, now author, tracy walder. Tracy joined the cia straight out of college an...

Museum director, gives us a tour showcasing the forts history, through the colonial area to its completion in 1834. And its role in the civil war. Welcome to fort mineral, located here on the very Pleasant Place we call Point Comfort, actually we call it old Point Comfort, and thats been that way for a long long time. It was here that over 400 years ago, 400 years of history have occurred. Some would say even thousands of years. Right outside the museum, happily named because youre actually the ...

Social media. Follow us at cspan history. In 1939, Eastman Kodak company gave newly released kodachrome color film to photographers working for the u. S. Government. American history tv visited the library of congress to meet Beverly Brannan to learn about the collection of color images documenting agricultural life and war production during the Great Depression and world war ii. Beverly in the 1930s, the United States experienced an economic depression and an agricultural disaster. The great dr...

The library has a collection of color photographs from the 1930s and 1940s. They started as an experiment with color film. Kodak was just putting its color film on the market. Sent it out to photographers at institutions to give it a try, to see if they could create a market for it. The pictures were free. So they were appealing to newspapers, magazines, publishing agencies, book publishers. That kind of thing. I was familiar already with the black and white photographs. There are about 171,000 ...