Hoover Collection (page 3)

A 1930s Advertisement For The Hoover. From The Literary Digest Published 1931

Herbert Clark Hoover, 1874 A

The Vacuum - A Masterpiece by H. M. Bateman
Page 1 of 4. Brilliant sequential cartoon by H. M. Bateman depicting a man asking his maid to have a go at a vacuum cleaner, only to find he sucks up everything in his path. Date: 1920

Al Smith, the Democratic party candidate for President in 1928, and Herbert Hoover, the Republican contender
PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN, 1928. Al Smith, the Democratic party candidate for President in 1928, and Herbert Hoover, the Republican contender

Cartoon on the Presidential election of 1928 between Herbert Hoover (left) and Alfred E. Smith
CARTOON: ELECTION OF 1928. Cartoon on the Presidential election of 1928 between Herbert Hoover (left) and Alfred E. Smith. Drawing, 1928, by Clifford Berryman

Teapot Dome Scandal, 1924
TEAPOT DOME SCANDAL, 1924. Bargain Day in Washington. American cartoon, 1924, by Ellison Hoover on the political corruption of the Harding administration revealed by Teapot Dome

PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN, 1928. Al Smith, the Democratic party candidate for President in 1928, and Herbert Hoover, the Republican contender

Kittens playing with a vacuum cleaner hose
Unusual Friends - kittens playing with a vacuum cleaner hose. 1950s

Group of cleaners who won the football pools, with cleaning equipment. Date: circa 1980s

The Hoover Dam (Boulder Dam), Nevada, USA -- construction phase, with the floor of the Black Canyon covered in concrete forms. Date: circa 1933

Smith - Alfred E - USA 1928
Alfred E Smith (1873 - 1944) - Governor of New York who unsuccessfully opposed Herbert Hoover in the US elections of 1928: seen here with his wife during the election campaign

Thomas Edison re-creates his electric lamp
Photograph showing (left to right): President Herbert Hoover, Henry Ford and Thomas Edison, at the re-creation of the lamp which magically awoke the World to a new brilliance fifty years before

Advert for Frantz Premier Electric Cleaner
A house-proud lady vacuums her home with the Frantz Premier Electric Cleaner. Date: 1917

Duchess of Marlborough at Relief Fund meeting
Consuelo, Duchess of Marlborough (nee Vanderbilt, later Balsan), presiding over a meeting of supporters of thee American Womens War Relief Fun at 41, Grosvenor Square in August 1914

Hoover Dam, Nevada, USA
Illuminated Railway and Intake Towers - Hoover Dam (Boulder Dam), Nevada, USA Date: 1939

Hoover Dam, Nevada, USA - Nearing completion
Hoover (Boulder) Dam, Nevada, USA - Nearing completion Date: 1935

Testing the Hoover Dam, Nevada, USA
Testing the Hoover Dam (Boulder Dam), Nevada, USA - view of the downstream face and the Power House. Date: 1936

CTF-015
California, Sierra Nevada Mountains, Twenty Lakes Basin, A tarn in the Hoover Wilderness area in Inyo National Forest. (Large format sizes available)

J. EDGAR HOOVER (1895-1972). American lawyer and first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Photograph, 1948

JOHN EDGAR HOOVER (1895-1972). American lawyer and public official. Photographed in his office as Director of the F.B.I. 5 April 1940

HOOVER: MEDICINE BALL, 1929. President Herbert Hoovers pet schnauzer Piney perched atop one of the presidents medicine balls in front of the White House in Washington, D.C

HERBERT HOOVER (1874-1964). 31st President of the United States. Hoover, as Secretary of Commerce, in a public demonstration of the first inter-city television broadcast, from Washington, D.C

TELEVISION, 1927. Walter S. Gifford, president of AT&T, speaking with President Herbert Hoover during the first public demonstration of inter-city television on 7 April 1927

LOU HENRY HOOVER (1874-1944). Wife of President Herbert Clark Hoover. Photograph, c1922

COWBOY BAND, 1929. Lou Hoover greeting a cowboy marching band from Simmons University in Abilene, Texas at the White House, Washington, D.C. Photographed on 5 March 1929

JOHN EDGAR HOOVER (1895-1972). American lawyer and public official. Photograph, 1924

LOU HENRY HOOVER (1874-1944). Mrs. Herbert Clark Hoover. Photographed in 1928

COOLIDGE & CABINET, c1925. President Calvin Coolidge and his Cabinet, including Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon (second from left)

Vacuum Cleaner at Work (b / w photo)
XJF106620 Vacuum Cleaner at Work (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (19th century); Private Collection; English, out of copyright

HERBERT HOOVER (1874-1964). 31st President of the United States. Photographed while head of the United States Food Administration, c1917

LOU H. HOOVER (1874-1944). Wife of President Herbert Hoover. Buying tuberculosis seals from a young representative of the American Lung Association. Photograph, 29 December 1917

US President Herbert Hoover
31st US President Herbert Clark Hoover (1874-1964). President between 1929 and 1933. Date: circa 1929

Picture No. 10747195
Cat - watching a vacuum cleaner Date:

Picture No. 10747194
CAT. Cat watching a vacuum cleaner Date:

President Hoover addresses joint session of Congress at bicentennial ceremony commemorating the 200th anniversary of the birth of George Washington 1932

Herbert Hoover, full-length portrait, seated on sofa, facing left 1929-30. Herbert Clark Hoover (August 10, 1874 - October 20, 1964) was the 31st President of the United States (1929-1933)

Presidents Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt ride together for the inauguration in Washington DC January 1932

President Herbert Hoover (1874-1964) 31st President of the United States of America (1921-1933). Full-length portrait of Hoover seated on a sofa, c1930

Lake Mead in Black Canyon, Boulder Dam
View shows Lake mead surrounded by the mountains of black Canyon. The Hoover Dam is in the forefront

Hoover (Boulder) Dam and Arizona Wing of Powerhouse
View shows the dam and powerhouse below. There are steep rock cliffs surrounding the powerhouse. Mountains are visible in the distance

Arizona Spillway, Boulder Dam
View shows the Arizona Spillway of Hoover Dam and the surrounding steep cliffs

Aerial view of arch-gravity dam on river, Hoover Dam, Black Canyon, Colorado River, Arizona / Nevada border, U. S. A
Aerial view of arch-gravity dam on river, Hoover Dam, Black Canyon, Colorado River, Arizona / Nevada border, U.S.A

Gas Meter Man
People You See: The Gas-Meter Man. From Teddy Bear (1 February 1964)

Low water levels at the Hoover Dam, Lake Mead, NV

Hoover Dam, Lake Mead, NV

Don t mind me, go right on working. President Herbert Hoover finds the prohibition furor unabated
PROHIBITION CARTOON, 1929. Don t mind me, go right on working. President Herbert Hoover finds the prohibition furor unabated. Cartoon by Rollin Kirby from the New York World, 1929

31st President of the United States. Photographed c1930
HERBERT HOOVER (1874-1964). 31st President of the United States. Photographed c1930

President Herbert Hoover caricatured in 1932 as a Prussian militarist in the B. E. F. News, a Bonus Army newspaper
H. HOOVER: CARTOON, 1932. President Herbert Hoover caricatured in 1932 as a Prussian militarist in the B.E.F. News, a Bonus Army newspaper

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