Written on back: "Two eight section fireboxes for Texas & Pacific RR. Two eleven section fireboxes for Frisco Lines. One twenty section firebox for Western Maryland RR."
On back: "Central Station at 12th Street and Michigan Boulevard -- a Chicago landmark since 1893. Ground was first broken on June 4, 1892, and the building opened to the public April 17, 1893. It now serves three major roads: the Illinois Central,...
On back: "Amarillo, Tex. (Pop. 80,000). Administrative hub for 5526 miles of Santa Fe System lines; and important petroleum, cattle, tourist, and distribution center."
Text from back of image: "Miss Clara Johnson, United Air Lines stewardess, points to the special markings on the 200-mile-an-hour Boeing twin-engined transport which Col. Roscoe Turner and Clyde Pangborn flew in the 13,323-mile London-Melbourne...
Text from back of image: "A picture in flight of the new type all-metal low-wing twin-engined Boeing plane, world's fastet multi-motored plane, a fleet of which will soon be placed on United Air Lines' coast-to-coast passenger route this year....
Paper torn - cannot read fully - "News Editor - the attached photograph…interesting view from the Century of…." (shows United Air Lines steps with plane and locomotive)
Text from back of image: "Photo shows the Fairchild cabin monoplane, from which engineers of the Bell Laboratories, recently conducted successful tests of a new means of plane ground telephone inter-communication. Newspapermen aloft in the ship...
Text from back of image: "Cutting one third from present flying time between New York and the Pacific Coast, 20-hour coast to coast flying time was instituted June 11th by the United Air Lines. The new schedule also reduces the flying time between...
Text from back of image: "With high government officials in attendance, including Premier Benito Mussolini, a celebration was held recently marking the eleventh anniversary of the founding of the aeronautical branch of the Italian army. The planes...
Text from back of photo: 'Capt. Roscoe Turner, chief pilot for the Nevada Air Lines flew from the Grand Central Air Terminal, Glendale, California to Albuquerque, NM in five hours and 15 minutes. Immediately after refueling and breakfast the flyer...
Text from back of photo: 'Capt. Roscoe Turner, chief pilot for the Nevada Air Lines flew from the Grand Central Air Terminal, Glendale, California to Albuquerque, NM in five hours and 15 minutes. Immediately after refueling and breakfast the flyer...
Written caption: "Interior of top floor, right wing of B.F. Goodrich Co. Bldg 40, Akron, Ohio, showing restaurant gallery and 70-ft lines of sawtooth sash." From Air, Light and Efficiency (1917).
Illustration. Printed caption: "Penn State's official history began in February 1855 when the legislature passed a bill granting a charter to the Farmer's High School of Pennsylvania. On May 6, 1862 the name was changed to the Agricultural College...
Press Release in folder on back of image: "Truck hoods being produced on one of the press lines at The Budd Company's huge Hunting Park Plant. Company ships some 100 freight cars loaded with automobile body components every working day."
