# New York City (From an Elevated Railroad) / Cutting a Worm Gear for a Truck / Heroes of the Coast Guard / Bear in Woods and in Cage

New York City (From an Elevated Railroad) / Cutting a Worm Gear for a Truck / Heroes of the Coast Guard / Bear in Woods and in Cage 1916 Description The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: a. “Looking up Broadway from 69th Street.” Automobile traffic. Hippodrome. “Herald Square with Times Building in distance.” Point House, Hamburg American Building, Battery Place Station. “Battery Park and aquarium.” “Lower Broadway and Singer Building in distance.” “Washington Arch at the beginning of Fifth Avenue.” \[1916\] b. Single scene of factory interior with a worm-gear cutting machine in operation. \[1916\] c. “These pictures were secured with the generous cooperation of the captain and crew of the Life Saving Station at Muskegon, Michigan, on the shores of Lake Michigan.” U.S. Coast Guard Life Saving Station No. 269, Muskegon, Michigan. “Established on our coast line and on the Great Lakes at points where navigation is hazardous, the Coast Guard is ever on the alert to assist the shipwrecked sailors.” Lake vessel, ‘Bay State.’ “The ‘Station,’ light and airy, is always ‘Ship shape and Bristol fashion’ for here the men live the year around.” Exterior of station, crew’s quarters, communications room, dining area. “Every day is given over to boat drill, signal drill, patrol drill, etc., and furthermore every man keeps his house in order, there are no idle moments for a life saver.” Boat drill, signal drills with semaphore flags, patrol drill.…

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1916
- By: National Archives
- Genres: Education
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/fc-fc-6)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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