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Several men in suits stand alongside police officers as spectators at a police parade "...reviewing the turnout..."

A large group of General electric service shop employees. It seems that those in charge are standing in the back in suits and hats.

Bluecoats, armed with sawed-off shotguns, undergoing inspection by Lieutenant Harry Edwards, police drillmaster, and Lieutenant George Fritz, police director of traffic.

Mayor Bernard Samuel taps the Liberty Bell in celebration of D-Day

Newspaper articles describe the horrors of "sweatshops," a by-product of the Great Depression where children aged 14-17 years old are forced to work in deplorable conditions for sub-standard pay.

Bromley Mills factory, a textile manufacturing business.

Man wears face mask during 1918 Influenza epidemic. Caption: 'flu victim' is escorted into hospital in October, 1918. Influenza is still one of the most highly contagious diseases known to medicine."

Company-wide strike at the J.G. Brill Company, Philadelphia manufacturer of trams and streetcars.

The Lighthouse Boys Club in the Kensington area.

Striking workers and sympathizers pulling down trolley poles outside the the Apex Hosiery Company plant in Philadelphia.