Cartographic and Audiovisual Records.

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Cartographic and Audiovisual Records.

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Cartographic records (241 items) consist of maps of the United States and of individual States, showing distribution of mineral deposits, locations of mines, and graphic statistical data relating to economic aspects of the mining industry, 1908-44; maps of the world, showing petroleum marketing systems and distribution of oil reserves, 1919; a map of the United States, showing natural gas pipelines and plants, 1929; and maps of the United States, showing production, by State, of metallic ores and bituminous coals, 1928-29. Audiovisual records include photographs (100 items) of Chemical Warfare Service tests of war gases and gas masks at the American University Experiment Station, Washington, D.C., 1917-18. Motion pictures, 1913-39 (235 reels), relate to mining methods, processing, use of nickel, silver, lead, iron, copper, aluminum, magnesium, sulfur, clay, asbestos, carborundum, and sillimanite, 1919-38 and ca. 1943; coal mining methods, 1919-38; oil well drilling and petroleum refining chiefly in the United States and Mexico, 1923-36; drilling rocks and quarrying sandstone, granite, and limestone for portland cement, 1915-31; automobile manufacturing and assembly, including explanations of internal combustion engines and automobile lubrication, 1926-36; manufacturing, testing, and using dynamite, electric detonators and meters, safety glass, spark plugs, steel, storage batteries, valves, and watches, 1922-38; employing steam, water, and electric power, 1922-28 and ca. 1943; and using the oxyacetylene torch, 1922 and 1938. There are films used in Bureau safety and health education programs concerning industry, 1913-17; gas, fires, dust explosions, handling equipment, and excavating in coal mines, and shoring, blasting, handling equipment, and loading ore in metal mines, 1914-30; oil well fires and oil industry safety, 1923-24; carbon monoxide poisoning, 1928; rescue and first aid, 1915-31; traffic, 1924 and 1937; and sanitation in mining towns. There are films about the natural resources and scenery of Arizona and Texas, and national parks, including Yellowstone, Yosemite, Grand Canyon, Rocky Mountain, and Shenandoah, 1925-55. Also included is news coverage of the Royalton, IL mine disaster, 1914; the testing of railway guns at Fort Story, VA, 1929; and of President Franklin D. Roosevelt aboard the U.S.S. HOUSTON, arriving at Cartagena, Columbia, 1934.

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