AP Historical Hard Drive 2008

John Brown, May 3, 1935. (AP Photo)

A ridge of sand covers a barn on a farm after a dust storm, April 13, 1935, Ok. (AP Photo)

Keeping the rails clear so trains could go through was one of the major tasks of rail road men in western Kansas during the dust storms. Here is a gro...

Trainmen in Western Kansas are hoping for relief from a dust storm which made operation of trains difficult. This picture shows a second engine trying...

Piled high by drifting winds, dust laid a thick film over Tripp and Gregory counties covering everything in its path, April 2, 1935, Northeast South D...

W.E. Allbright, farmer, shown plowing, as dust blew, in an effort to check soil erosion by wind, March 31, 1935, Hutchinson, Ks. He adopted the plan o...

A farmer in Garden City, Kansas, is shown March 30, 1935, with some of his livestock that starved to death. With the sand and grit blowing, it was im...

This is a rare old contemporary print,

This picture shows a barrier erected to keep back snowdrifts nearly covered by dust, Feb. 24, 1935, Colby, Ks. Piles of dust were scattered across Kan...

The town house of financier J. P. Morgan, in New York City shown lighted up for the huge party given by the banker for his debutante granddaughter,...

President of the Reichsbank, Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, centre left, with a collecting box outside the Bourse, Berlin, Dec. 8, 1934, during the National Day...

Alabama's right end, Don Hutson, Nov. 25, 1934. (AP Photo)

Alabama's right end, Don Hutson, Nov. 25, 1934. (AP Photo)

Max Baer advisers his 249-pound, 19-year-old kid brother to quit leading with his chin. The heavyweight champ in the ring on Nov. 8, 1934 at Los An...

French aviator and industrialist Louis Jacques Balsan and his wife, Consuelo Vanderbilt, the Duchess of Marlborough, are shown abouard the liner Rex o...

Bronx carpenter Bruno Richard Hauptmann, accused of the kidnapping death of toddler Charles Lindbergh, Jr., poses for mugshots at police headquarters...

Coach Leo

Some 30,000 boys of the Hitler Youth organization gathered at Tempelhof Field, Sept. 12, 1934, Berlin, Germany. They

Boxer Max Baer poses for Camera, September 11, 1934. (AP Photo)

Police try to keep crowds under control during a demonstration of the Fascist Blackshirts, foreground, while the Communists, over 100,000 strong, coun...

M. Venizelos, the ex-Prime Minister of Greece, arrives, Aug. 31, 1934 in London, accompanied by his wife, on a three or four weeks visit, during which...

An aerial view of the White House in Washington, August 25, 1934. (AP Photo)

Benito Mussolini as he appeared in the uniform of the Italian Bersaglieri during the latter part of the world war, Aug. 6, 1934 in Italy. (AP Photo)

The harbor at Honolulu, Hawaii is pictured July 7, 1934. President Roosevelt's ship the cruiser Houston is expected to tie up at pier two, foreground,...

The exciting moment just before referee Donavan stopped the great fight between Primo Carnera, the mountainous champion and Max Baer, the

Primo Carnera, pride of Italy, June 14, 1934. He defended his crown in a fifteen round bout in Madison Square Bowl in Long Island City technical knock...

Action during the Carnera-Baer fight, June 14, 1934 at Madison Square Garden Bowl, which Baer won on a technical knockout. (AP Photo)

Max Baer is examinated on June 8, 1934 as Primo Carnera sits beside him. (AP Photo)

??sooo-h, mamma, look. It???s the three Baers on a bicycle???. ??sQuite right, Cuthbert, and they ain???t out for no good???. Indeed it was the three...

??sooo-h, mamma, look. It???s the three Baers on a bicycle???. ??sQuite right, Cuthbert, and they ain???t out for no good???. Indeed it was the three...

Indeed it was the three big Baers--Buddy at the left, Papa, and Maxie--all out for a ride at brother Max's training camp, May 13, 1934 at Asbury Park,...

Adolf Hitler stands on a decorated podium at the airfield Tempelhof in Berlin, Germany, delivering a speech during the May 1, 1934 celebrations. (AP P...

Frank Shields is shown with the Mason-Dixon Tennis Trophy which he won after his final match with Bryan M. Grant at the 14th annual tournament in Whit...

Eastern State Penitentiary in Graterford, Penn., is shown, Aug. 25, 1934, the day of a fire and riot at the prison. (AP Photo)

John W. Davis, left, New York lawyer and former presidential candidate and Clark Howell, member of the Associated Press Board of Directors, and publis...

Sara Roosevelt, left, mother of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, sees off her sister Mrs. Delano Forbes, second from right, before she sailed for Euro...

Two members of Admiral Richard E. Byrd's Antarctic expedition, Granville P. Lindley, left, chief electrician, and Victor H. Czecaka, supply officer, a...

Art J. Smith, leader of the Khaki Shirts organization in Philadelphia, is photographed in the Queens County, Courthouse, in New York City as his trial...

Player and co-captain Joe Ferrara, coach Lou Little and assistant Coach Cliff Montgomery --all of the mighty Columbia University football team, are ou...

President Roosevelt chats with Postmaster-General, James A. Farley at Union Station in Washinton DC, just before the President left to begin his vacat...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Vinson Navy Bill, authorizing construction of the American Navy up to existing treaty strength in the execut...

Mr. and Mrs. John Monk Saunders, March 23, 1934. (AP Photo)

A fire-boat pours tons of water into the blazing hold of the steamer City of Montgomery in New York City, March 6, 1934. The steamer, listing badly fr...

This wedding group was photographed at the little country church at Oyster Bay, New York, after the wedding of Miss Grace Green Roosevelt, daughter of...

The right honorable Lord Marley, born Dudley Leigh Aman, chairman of the world committee to aid victims of German fascism, photographed as he arrived...

Junks float in China's Yangtze River, Feb. 2, 1934. (AP Photo)

Junks float in China's Yangtze River, Feb. 2, 1934. (AP Photo)

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Jack Buckler, star halfback of the Army team and All American candidate, scores the cadet's first touchdown against Notre Dame in the second quarter a...

The Baltimore Sun's Edmond Duffy cartoon,