Burbank, California: Celebrating the harvesting of California’s 1930 grape crop, one of the largest on record, society girls of Burbank staged their open-air festival in the famous McClure Vineyards, during which they crowned the 1930 “Queen of the Vineyards” to rule over the $50,000,000 yield. Photo shows Wilma Smith, buried in grapes, eating a sample.
Three late 1920s-era cars and about 10 people apparently camping or picnicking perilously near the edge of the Palouse River Canyon in Washington State.
Oldriev’s new tricycle. Photo by Chas. W Oldrieve, 1882.
Du Mont engineer James A. Craig demonstrates a simple dialing procedure on a completely automatic “dial-direct” mobile two-way radiotelephone system in Clifton, New Jersey, on March 28, 1957. The system, presently used by the Richmond Radiotelephone Service, Inc., is manufactured by Allen B. Du Mont Laboratories, Inc., and is the first radiotelephone equipment to allow phone calls to and from vehicles to be relayed completely unattended through local telephone companies.
Nikola Tesla (1856-1943), naturalized American physicist, sitting in his Colorado Springs laboratory with his “magnifying transmitter” in 1899.
Surprised spectators look on in amazement as Miss Beth Pitt takes her pet fawn, Star Message, for a walk in midtown New York on November 16, 1942. Earlier in the day Miss Pitt paid a fine of $2 in court for letting her pet to roam free in Central Park.
An army Sikorsky R-5 helicopter undergoing record trials demonstrates its lifting power by carrying 17 persons and pilot aloft as female onlookers wave in Bridgeport, Connecticut, on January 10, 1946. During the tests, records were claimed for altitude speed and both altitude and speed with payload.
Commander Richard Byrd, wearing a specially designed leather helmet and mask, used during his flight from Spitzbergen over the North Pole and back. Commander Byrd and Pilot Floyd Bennett used a Fokker Plane, making the trip of 1,360 miles in little more than 15 hours.
Alfred Hitchcock meets Leo the Lion, 1957.
The uniform mob of smiling humanoid mice seen here were gathered for an early meeting of the Mickey Mouse Club in Ocean Park, California, circa 1930.
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