#jan. 11

The picket line in front of the Brass Rail restaurant on Seventh Avenue near 50th Street, January 11, 1942, which completed its third year. The AFL pickets wore out 7,264 pairs of shoes and marched 1,728,000 miles, according to union statisticians. The marching goes on as the restaurant management refuses to compromise on its demand that it retain the sole right to discharge employees for service it considers unsatisfactory; the strikers offered to submit the entire dispute to arbitration.

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Babe Ruth undergoing a stiff period of training in a New York gym preparatory to the coming baseball season, January 11, 1926. Many hours a day, the Bambino skips rope, punches the bag, runs, and swings a bat, all the while quenching his thirst with generous droughts of hot water. Babe is shown in a familiar pose, handling his bat.

7th Avenue & 45th St. on January 11, 1934. One could see Garbo in Queen Christina at the Astor Theatre, Carole Lombard and Paul Lukas in No One Man, Lew Ayres and Mae Clarke in The Impatient Virgin, or Bing Crosby and Marion Davies in Going Hollywood.

First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt attends a pageant honoring the contributions of Blacks in America, January 11, 1942. Mrs. Roosevelt speaks with some soldiers who attended or took part in the pageant, where she was the principal speaker.