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 States. There are hundreds of railway post offices, built and owned by the railroads, and rented to the bureau of transportation of the post office department. Called rpo cars and manned by hardworking transportation crews, they provide almost 500 million miles of valuable Service Every year. In addition to trains, today, Highway Post Offices help speed the mail to every corner of the country. These vehicles regularly travel established routes on fixed schedules. Working with fittings similar to a
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 their farms, they began moving other places looking for a new lands to live on. People who are in dire straits, one of the worsthit areas in the economy was agriculture. The Program Began under top well, who was one of the advisers to president Franklin Roosevelt to document the conditions under which people were living. This was back when we did not have television. We had radio but a lot of places did not have electricity, so they could not listen to the Radio Broadcasts to find out what was goin
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 office of war information blackandwhite photographs. And i had been working with those for a few years. There was not much emphasis placed on the color transparencies, because they were hard to handle. They were unique items. Theres only one of each. At the time, in the 1970s, it was really difficult to make a copy. It was very expensive to make a photograph. You had to make another print from the color transparency. People did not want to pay that extra money. So, these just sat on a shelf for
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 kevin flynn, 102 minutes, the fight to survive the twin towers. Jim dwyer and kevin flynn, native new yorkers, veteran newspapers writers and winner of many awards together and separate. Jim dwyer joined in 2001 as a reporter for metropolitan section. Prior to joining the times, mr. Dwyer was columnist and associate editor for New York Daily News and before that a columnist for new york news day and previously a reporter for the bergen record. Mr. Dwyer is coauthor of two seconds under the world
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 talking about the 9 11 commission report. That is, how was the event investigated . And were going to continue on with that on thursday this week. What we havent looked at and what you might think is in some ways not appropriate to look at are the dead. And the dead of this event, when you think about it, if you have thought about it very much, theyre in a rather unusual position visavis the dead of other either terrorist attacks or attacks by political regimes or armies on populations, and that is