British race car driver Sir Malcolm Campbell driving his race car, the Bluebird, at Daytona Beach during what may have been his land speed record breaking 1932 run. Sir Malcolm Campbell. Campbell gained the world speed record on land and on water...
Oral history; Veterans History Project (U.S.); Video recordings; All-American Girls Professional Baseball League--Personal narratives; Baseball for women--United States; Baseball; Sports for women; World War, 1939-1945; Baseball players--Indiana;...
Delores White (nee Brumfield) was born was born in Pritchard, Alabama on May 26, 1932. Growing up, she got her start playing baseball with the school and neighborhood kids. Following tryouts in 1946 she was told by Mr. Carey that she was yet too...
Oral history; Veterans History Project (U.S.); Video recordings; All-American Girls Professional Baseball League--Personal narratives; Baseball for women--United States; Baseball; Sports for women; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives,...
Mary Moore was born in 1932 and grew up outside of Detroit, Michigan. She played ball with the boys in vacant lots in her neighborhood growing up, and met some of the Detroit Tiger players who lived in the area. She was recruited into the AAGPBL...
Sun-bath rooms on an unknown beach in Florida. Two women in the Angus family in sun coverups. 16mm film shot by D.J. Angus while on family trips in 1931 and 1932. [0:36]
Florida; Moving images; John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art; Sarasota (Fla.); Art museums--Florida
John Ringling, one of the five original circus kings of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus built a 21-gallery Museum of Art on 20 acres of waterfront property in Sarasota, Florida. The Florentine style building emulates the Uffizi...
Zion Canyon National Park is located near Springdale, Utah. In 1909 President Taft designated the area a national monument to protect the canyon under the name of Mukuntuweap National Monument. In 1918, the name was changed to Zion, and in 1919 the...
Moving images; Utah; Bryce Canyon National Park (Utah); Canyons
Bryce Canyon National Park is located in southwestern Utah. The area became a National Monument in 1923 and was designated a National Park in 1928. The canyon features include hoodoos, tall, thin spires of rock, within an amphitheatre-like...
Moving images; New Mexico; Chaco Canyon (N.M.); Canyons
Chaco Culture National Historical Park is located in northwestern New Mexico, between Albuquerque and Farmington. On March 11, 1907 Chaco Canyon was declared a national monument. In 1987, it was designated a World Heritage Site. The park preserves...
Moving images; New Mexico; Bandelier National Monument (N.M.); Frijoles Canyon (N.M.); Canyons; Cliff-dwellings; Pueblo architecture
Bandelier National Monument is located in Sandoval, Los Alamos, and Santa Fe Counties in New Mexico. It was designated a national monument in 1916. One of its principal features is Frijoles Canyon, containing ancestral pueblo homes and petroglyphs....
Moving images; Arizona; Petrified Forest National Park (Ariz.); Petrified forests
The Petrified Forest National Park is located in Navajo and Apache counties in northeastern Arizona. It became a national monument in 1906 and in 1962 was declared a national park. It is famous for its fossils, especially of fallen trees. 16mm film...
Moving images; Arizona; Theodore Roosevelt Dam (Ariz.); Dams
Roosevelt Dam is on the Salt River, northeast of Phoenix, Arizona. Construction began in 1903 and was completed in 1911. It was officially named after Theodore Roosevelt in 1959, and became a historic landmark in 1963. 16mm film shot by D.J. Angus...
Tuba City is located in Coconino County, Arizona. It is located within the Painted Desert. Directly to the southeast is the Hopi town of Moenkopi. The city is within 50 miles of the Grand Canyon National Park’s eastern entrance. It is famous for...
Moving images; Colorado; Mesa Verde National Park (Colo.); Pueblo architecture--Colorado--Mesa Verde National Park; Cliff-dwellings
Mesa Verde National Park is located in Montezuma County, Colorado. It was established as a national park on June 29, 1906 to protect the cliff dwellings built by the Anasazi. It was designated a World Heritage Site on September 6, 1978. 16mm film...