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A group of soldiers are trained in mountain climbing at Seneca Rocks during WWII.The back of the photo reads:"Some of Uncle Sam's soldiers will be able to vie with the best of the Swiss mountain climbers. A new phase of strenuous ground training for combat units really gives our fighting men something to sweat about. High up in West Virginia's mountains, men of the U.S. Army get a short tough course on how to overcome obstacles no matter how high. When the men complete the short period of training they're tops in their field. Under the best tutors and instructors in the art of scaling walls of sheer rock, they learn all there is to know about cliffs and mountains- except yodeling.PHOTO SHOWS: The going gets tougher and tougher the higher they get. Here a group of soldiers leave the thicket to begin the hard climb over sheer rock to reach the peak of Seneca Rock."

46057. U. S. Soldiers in Training at Seneca Rocks, W. Va.

IDNO:
053541
Title:
U. S. Soldiers in Training at Seneca Rocks, W. Va.
Date:
1943/08/23
Description:
A group of soldiers are trained in mountain climbing at Seneca Rocks during WWII.The back of the photo reads:"Some of Uncle Sam's soldiers will be able to vie with the best of the Swiss mountain climbers. A new phase of strenuous ground training for combat units really gives our fighting men something to sweat about. High up in West Virginia's mountains, men of the U.S. Army get a short tough course on how to overcome obstacles no matter how high. When the men complete the short period of training they're tops in their field. Under the best tutors and instructors in the art of scaling walls of sheer rock, they learn all there is to know about cliffs and mountains- except yodeling.PHOTO SHOWS: The going gets tougher and tougher the higher they get. Here a group of soldiers leave the thicket to begin the hard climb over sheer rock to reach the peak of Seneca Rock."

46058. USS West Virginia (ACR-5)

IDNO:
053543
Title:
USS West Virginia (ACR-5)
Date:
ca. 1915
A naval band welcomes Vice Admiral Henry A. Wiley aboard the U.S.S. West Virginia, a super-dreadnought in commission during WWII.

46059. Vice Admiral Henry A. Wiley Boards the U.S.S. West Virginia

IDNO:
053544
Title:
Vice Admiral Henry A. Wiley Boards the U.S.S. West Virginia
Date:
ca. 1938
Description:
A naval band welcomes Vice Admiral Henry A. Wiley aboard the U.S.S. West Virginia, a super-dreadnought in commission during WWII.
Caption reads, "Captain Thomas J. Senn, U. S. N., who has been placed in command of the new battleship U. S. S. West Virginia, the largest ship of itS kind in the U. S. or any other navy. The ship was placed in commission at the Norfolk Navy Yard, December 1."

46060. Captain Thomas J. Senn of the U. S. S. West Virginia

IDNO:
053545
Title:
Captain Thomas J. Senn of the U. S. S. West Virginia
Date:
1923
Description:
Caption reads, "Captain Thomas J. Senn, U. S. N., who has been placed in command of the new battleship U. S. S. West Virginia, the largest ship of itS kind in the U. S. or any other navy. The ship was placed in commission at the Norfolk Navy Yard, December 1."
Caption reads, "Pearl Buck, the only woman ever to win both the Pulitzer and Nobel prizes in literature, poses with her four adopted daughters at her home in Perkasie, Pa. They are, from left, Cheico, 16; Johanna, 15; Henriette, 18; and Theresa, 17. Henriette is of German-American origin, the other three of Japanese-American origin. The thing closest to the 73-year-old author's heart is the foundation named after her. Its purpose is to raise $10 million to care for some 300,000 unwanted children fathered by American soldiers."

46061. Pearl S. Buck with Adopted Daughters, Perkasie, P. A.

IDNO:
053546
Title:
Pearl S. Buck with Adopted Daughters, Perkasie, P. A.
Date:
1965/03/02
Description:
Caption reads, "Pearl Buck, the only woman ever to win both the Pulitzer and Nobel prizes in literature, poses with her four adopted daughters at her home in Perkasie, Pa. They are, from left, Cheico, 16; Johanna, 15; Henriette, 18; and Theresa, 17. Henriette is of German-American origin, the other three of Japanese-American origin. The thing closest to the 73-year-old author's heart is the foundation named after her. Its purpose is to raise $10 million to care for some 300,000 unwanted children fathered by American soldiers."
Joe Parisi, a suspected member of the mafia group Blackhand Society, sits with a child on his lap.

46062. Joe Parisi, Alias Joe Parrish

IDNO:
053547
Title:
Joe Parisi, Alias Joe Parrish
Date:
ca. 1915
Description:
Joe Parisi, a suspected member of the mafia group Blackhand Society, sits with a child on his lap.
Mugshot of Blackhand group member Tony Fiarenteona.The back of the photo reads:Department of PoliceThomas Leyland, ChiefWheeling, W. VaName - Tony FiarenteonaAlias -Crime - Black HanderAge - 31Born - ItalyTrade -Read - Write - Married -Height- 5ft 7inWeight - 160Hair - BlackEyes - Brown, CrossedBuilt - StoutFace -Complexion - Mid DarkOfficer - ClancyDate of Arrest - Oct 25-15, Bellaire ORemarks -

46063. Tony Fiarenteona, Wheeling, W.Va

IDNO:
053548
Title:
Tony Fiarenteona, Wheeling, W.Va
Date:
1915/10/25
Description:
Mugshot of Blackhand group member Tony Fiarenteona.The back of the photo reads:Department of PoliceThomas Leyland, ChiefWheeling, W. VaName - Tony FiarenteonaAlias -Crime - Black HanderAge - 31Born - ItalyTrade -Read - Write - Married -Height- 5ft 7inWeight - 160Hair - BlackEyes - Brown, CrossedBuilt - StoutFace -Complexion - Mid DarkOfficer - ClancyDate of Arrest - Oct 25-15, Bellaire ORemarks -
Mugshot of Blackhand group member Frank Cingotti. He is smiling.The back of the image contains sections in which to fill out identifying information on the subject. The filled out sections read:Name, Frank CingottiCrime, Felonious wounding with intent to kill. (W.Va)

46064. Frank Cingotti, W. Va

IDNO:
053549
Title:
Frank Cingotti, W. Va
Date:
ca. 1915
Description:
Mugshot of Blackhand group member Frank Cingotti. He is smiling.The back of the image contains sections in which to fill out identifying information on the subject. The filled out sections read:Name, Frank CingottiCrime, Felonious wounding with intent to kill. (W.Va)
Small portrait of a man in a striped suit.The back of the photo reads:"il mio cognato l'aro dello mio cuoreGennaro di Spenna.A. Lupant"

46065. Gennaro di Spenna

IDNO:
053551
Title:
Gennaro di Spenna
Description:
Small portrait of a man in a striped suit.The back of the photo reads:"il mio cognato l'aro dello mio cuoreGennaro di Spenna.A. Lupant"
Photo of a man in a necktie and bootcovers.The back of the photo reads:"Alisifound in original trunk?"

46066. Man smoking by a building

IDNO:
053552
Title:
Man smoking by a building
Date:
ca. 1915
Description:
Photo of a man in a necktie and bootcovers.The back of the photo reads:"Alisifound in original trunk?"
The back of the photo includes a descriptive caption that reads:"New York, November 14- Pearl Buck, Novelist, being awarded the Howells Medal for fiction at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Arts and Letter here today. Robert Grant, member of the Academy, is making the award. The Howells Award was established in honor of William Dean Howells, novelist, and first awarded in 1925."

46067. Pearl Buck Wins Medal For Fiction

IDNO:
053553
Title:
Pearl Buck Wins Medal For Fiction
Date:
1935/11/14
Description:
The back of the photo includes a descriptive caption that reads:"New York, November 14- Pearl Buck, Novelist, being awarded the Howells Medal for fiction at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Arts and Letter here today. Robert Grant, member of the Academy, is making the award. The Howells Award was established in honor of William Dean Howells, novelist, and first awarded in 1925."
Photograph from "The Hardwood Bark," a periodical journal published by the W. M. Ritter Lumber company in the interest of its employees.This image is on a page with several other photos titled "In Hazel Creek Woods." The caption for this photo reads:"1. D. M. Cuthbertson, Woods Superintendent, and J.W. Fischer, Mill Superintendent, both of whom ought to know better than to try to PUSH over one of Hazel Creek's finest. "

46068. Cuthbertson and Fischer In Hazel Creek Woods

IDNO:
053554
Title:
Cuthbertson and Fischer In Hazel Creek Woods
Date:
1923
Description:
Photograph from "The Hardwood Bark," a periodical journal published by the W. M. Ritter Lumber company in the interest of its employees.This image is on a page with several other photos titled "In Hazel Creek Woods." The caption for this photo reads:"1. D. M. Cuthbertson, Woods Superintendent, and J.W. Fischer, Mill Superintendent, both of whom ought to know better than to try to PUSH over one of Hazel Creek's finest. "