Collections

Event: Vermont State Fair, 1941

Snapshot: Carrot Farming in Coachella Valley, CA - 1937

Snapshot: Trading in downtown Campton, KY - Sept 1940

Story: Bill Snyder and Hattie the Elephant in Central Park, NYC

Hattie (died in 1922) was an elephant in New York City's Central Park Zoo that in 1904 was described as the "most intelligent of all elephants". In 1911 she was described as "nearly human". She was purchased for $5,000 and trained by Bill Snyder who had trained elephants at Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. The elephant had been brought to New York from Ceylon in 1903 by Carl Hagenbeck. She died in November of 1922 at the Central Park Zoo after a week-long illness.

Snapshot: Life at the Blue Blaze Coal Mine in Utah, 1936

Story: An Afternoon at Coney Island, NY in 1910

Story: Making the B-25 Bomber at North American Aviation, Inc., 1942

Snapshot: Teddy Roosevelt's Summers at Oyster Bay

Snapshot: Pea Farming in California, 1936-1939

Snapshot: Destitute Farmers Visiting FSA Offices Seeking Relief Grants, 1937-1939

Snapshot: Making Turpentine in Georgia, 1937

Snapshot: Toy Yachts in Central Park, 1910