Image Table

Name: _____Audra Snow___________   Date: ___June 24,2005_____________

 

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Title/Summary/Date

Exhibition or Collection

Sound Clip

Of thee I sing: overture (George Gershwin)

I hear America Singing/ Patriotic Melodies

Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division Washington, DC 20540

Call number: Musicmasters5062-2-C

Sound Clip

Viola Besterman Interview Recording  

June 20, 2005

Audra Snow introducing the interview June 24, 2005

Recorded and Interviewed by: Audra Snow

 

Various Photographs of Viola Besterman were taken at Friendship Village near Pittsburgh PA.  Including the photographs taken from her apartment: photograph of a framed picture of her at age 21, her framed artwork, and other artifacts.

June 20, 2005

Photo taken by:

Audra Snow

 

Friendship Village,

Upper St. Clair, PA

 

Photograph of Pittsburgh taken from out of the Fort Pitt tunnels

June 23, 2005

Photo taken by:

Audra Snow

Pittsburgh PA

Smithfield Street Bridge, Spanning Monongahela River on Smithfield Street, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, PA

Jack E. Boucher, Photographer, May 1974. GENERAL VIEW TOWARDS PITTSBURG ACROSS ALLEGHENY RIVER, SHOWING SMITHFIELD STREET BRIDGE FROM THE SOUTHWEST.
HAER, PA,2-PITBU,58-8

Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record/Historic American Landscapes Survey

Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division Washington, DC 20540

Call number:

HAER, PA,2-PITBU,58-

Card number: PA0073

Three Sisters Bridges, Sixth Street Bridge, Spanning Allegheny River at Sixth Street, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, PA

 

 

Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record

Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division Washington, DC 20540

Call number:

HAER, PA,2-PITBU,78A-1

Card number: PA3659

Smithfield Street Bridge, Spanning Monongahela River on Smithfield Street, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, PA

Jack E. Boucher, Photographer, May 1974. TELEPHOTO VIEW OF NORTHEAST SPAN, LOOKING FROM THE WEST.
HAER, PA,2-PITBU,58-9

Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record/Historic American Landscapes Survey

Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division Washington, DC 20540

Call number:

HAER, PA,2-PITBU,58-

Card number: PA0073

Smithfield Street Bridge, Spanning Monongahela River on Smithfield Street, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, PA

GENERAL VIEW FROM SHORE, WEST OF ENTIRE BRIDGE
HAER, PA,2-PITBU,58-30

Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record/Historic American Landscapes Survey

Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division Washington, DC 20540

Call number:

HAER, PA,2-PITBU,58-

Card number: PA0073

Women in Industry.  Tool production.  Testing small diameter, high-speed twist drills, these women employed by a Midwest drill and tool company roll the drills down a slight incline to determine regularity of diameter.  It’s a job requiring patience and finger dexterity, and these young women possess those definite feminine propensities for just such work.  Republic Drill and Tool Company, Chicago.   1942 Aug.

Farm Security Administration- Office of War Information Photograph Collection

Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division Washington, DC 20540

Digital ID: fsa 8b07334

Call number: LC-USE6-D-005730

Card number: oem2002004323/PP

Women’s Policy Committee of the War Manpower Commission First meeting of the Women’s Policy Committee of the War Manpower Commission held on October 1, 1942.  The committee is to aid in mobilizing women workers for the war effort.  Standing left to right:  Miss Margaret A. Hickey, chairman; Mrs. Lowell Hobart, Mrs. Gladys Talbott Edwards, Miss Ruth Allen, Mrs. Maudelle Bousfield, Mrs. Sadie Orr Dunbar, Miss Jenny Matyas, Mrs. Blanche M. Ralston.    1942 Oct 1.

Farm Security Administration- Office of War Information Photograph Collection

Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division Washington, DC 20540

Digital ID: fsa 8b07009

Call number: LC-USE6-D-010807

Card number: oem2002009190/PP

Office equipment used by the War Production Board (WPB). Telegraph services for the Office of War Information (OWI), the War Manpower Commission (WMC), and the Office of Price Administration (OPA), as well as for the WPB, go through the Business Management Branch of the WPB's Administrative Division. This unit, which contains twenty-two teletype machines and eight receiving sets, sends out an average of 3,000 messages daily. 

1942 Feb

Farm Security Administration- Office of War Information Photograph Collection

Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division Washington, DC 20540

Digital ID: fsa 8b04041

Call number: LC-USE6- D-005753
Card number: oem2002004346/PP

Manning Office of War Information's "nerve center." A new field of employment was opened to Negroes recently when six colored girls were given skilled jobs in the Teletype room of the Office of War Information. The young women, trained by OWI at the American Telephone and Telegraph School in Washington, D.C., operate machines which receive and send official war information to all parts of the country. Miss Emma Brown is shown operating an ASR teletype machine in the News Bureau, OWI.   1943 Jan

Farm Security Administration- Office of War Information Photograph Collection

Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division Washington, DC 20540

Digital ID: fsa 8b05293

Call number: LC-USE6- D-007756
Card number: oem2002006262/PP

Washington, D.C. Telephone operators at the telegraph office

1943 June

Farm Security Administration- Office of War Information Photograph Collection

Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division Washington, DC 20540

Digital ID: fsa 8d30845
Call number: LC-USW3- 032335-E

Card number: owi2001031164/PP

Send your typewriters to war. At Universal City, California, Maria Montez, glamorous Latin-American movie star, and Gloria Jean, typical of young America in Hollywood, helped collect over one hundred typewriters for the Army, Navy, and Marines. Only machines manufactured since January 1, 1935 were commandeered; no portables were wanted. A telephonic dictation room is being set up whereby busy executives can pick up the telephone, dictate their mail to a centrally located room which insures prompt typing of their letters, and at the same time more correspondence can be handled with lesser number of typewriters
1942 Nov

Farm Security Administration- Office of War Information Photograph Collection

Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division Washington, DC 20540
Digital ID: fsa 8b04584

Call number: LC-USE6- D-006766
Card number: oem2002005295/PP

 

New York, New York. Composing room of the New York Times newspaper. Making up the sport page

1942 September

Farm Security Administration- Office of War Information Photograph Collection

Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division Washington, DC 20540

Digital ID: fsa 8d22747
Call number: LC-USW3- 009096-E

Card number: owi2001011679/PP

36th Medical Training Battalion, Camp Grant, Illinois; Major Thair C. Rich, M.T. Battalion Commander; Capt. Harold J. Reugh, M.A.C. Adjutant; Capt. Bruce N. Balding, M.C. Executive Officer

Panoramic photographs
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Digital ID:
  cph 3c16078 3c16079
Card number:
  pan1993004193/PP

Camp Beauregard, Louisiana

Panoramic photographs
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Digital ID: pan 6a30754
CARD number:
  pan1993003802/PP

I want you for the U.S. Army

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Digital ID:
   cph 3b52087
Card number:
   2002718900

Lake and Panther Hollow from across ravine, Pittsburgh, Pa.

Detroit Publishing Company Photograph Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Digital ID: det 4a24742
Card number:
  det1994002096/PP

East Park, Pittsburgh, Pa.

Detroit Publishing Company Photograph Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Digital ID:
   det 4a19423
Card number:
  det1994016712/PP

Georgetown Preparatory School. Boys from Georgetown Preparatory School horseback riding in Rock Creek Park I

Horydczak, Theodor, ca. 1890-1971. Theodor Horydczak Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Digital ID:
   thc 5a36619
Video Frame ID:
  LCPP005A-36619 Card Number:  thc1995006488/PP

Washington city north of Capitol in 1839

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Digital ID:
   cph 3b00672
Card number:
   2004662009

Carnegie Technical Institute [Carnegie Mellon University], Pittsburgh, Pa.

Detroit Publishing Company Photograph Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Digital ID:
   det 4a23339
Card number: det1994021034/PP