Browse Items (757 total)

A job call for openings in the shipyards packs the Ship Scalers Union Hall. Job calls, which used to occur twice daily, now average less than once a week.

The job placement board was full of sympathetic offers from papers and several representatives from prominent papers were on hand for interviews, but people were rather distracted for that sort of thing on this day.

Thousands of unemployed persons flocked to San Diego where facilities like the City Rescue Mission served 550 meals a day to the dispossessed. Photographer Dave Gatley said the newly jobless 'want to survive, and they held onto their dreams of…

Members of an underwater hockey team scramble for the puck during a game.

The odds of a of twins both living to be 100 years old are 700 million to one according to Guinness Book of World Records. Elizabeth Brown English and her twin sister, Lucy Brown Coleman beat those odds as they turned 100 this year.

A large turtle with a small turtle sitting on its head.

Tina Turner plays to a crowd at Bumbershoot, Seattle's fall festival.

Contemplative pose, serene portraiture, Kathleen Turner, rising young actress, star of 'Body Heat' and 'The Man With No Brains.'

A squirrel runs towards a large tree.

A freshly cut Christmas Tree is carried from Dozen's Christmas Tree Farm in South Windsor Connecticut.