La Guardia and Wagner Archives:
The La Guardia musical family in Prescott, Arizona, in 1896. L-R, Gemma La Guardia, Fiorello, two unidentified girls, Richard La Guardia, unidentified boy, and Achille La Guardia, who was a U.S. Army band leader.
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Interpreters at Ellis Island in 1908. Fiorello La Guardia is in the top row at left.
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Mayor Fiorello La Guardia with his son Eric at a baseball game, circa 1941.
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Fiorello La Guardia, left, poses in front of a Caproni bomber with Italian air force officers in Foggia, Italy, 1918.
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Fiorello La Guardia in 1910, aged about 27.
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Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia is in the back seat of the car during a motorcade in St. Louis, April 1938.
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Mayor La Guardia watches a baby being weighed at a child health station in Brooklyn, May 1939.
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Fiorello La Guardia greeted by children as he landed in Rome at the start of his tenure as head of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, July 1946.
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Mayor Fiorello La Guardia meets Lou Costello of Abbott and Costello, circa 1942.
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Mayor Fiorello La Guardia addressing the Teamsters Union during their strike, 1938.
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Mayor Fiorello La Guardia with his family at Newark Airport, 1936.
La Guardia and Wagner Archives:
Marshal Tito with Fiorello La Guardia and other United Nations officials in Yugoslavia, July 1946.
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Fiorello La Guardia, director-general of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration in Yugoslavia, July 1946.
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Mayor Fiorello La Guardia relaxing at Gracie Mansion with guests, circa 1945.
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Fiorello La Guardia at Borinquen Field in Puerto Rico, 1946.
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Mayor Fiorello La Guardia poses with local people during a tour of the Grand Canyon, April 1935.
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Major Fiorello La Guardia of the U.S. Army Air Service leaving the hospital in Italy in 1918 after an injury.
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Capt. Charles Chandler in 1911 in a Wright brothers Model B airplane at the U.S. Army aviation field in College Park, MD.
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Orville Wright, the pilot, and Lieut. Benjamin Foulois make final preparations for test flight of U.S. Army airplane No. 1 in 1909.
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Mayor Fiorello La Guardia with U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace at a meeting of Brooklyn grocers to explain the plan to distribute surplus food using food stamps, 1940.
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Army airplane No. 1, built by the Wright brothers, at Fort Myer, Virginia, September 1908.
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When the privately owned BMT subway line was taken over by the city on June 1, 1940, Mayor La Guardia put on a motorman's cap and drove the first train.
La Guardia and Wagner Archives:
Franklin Delano Roosevelt driving his custom-made, hand-controlled 1936 Ford Phaeton in Hyde Park, NY, with Mayor Fiorello La Guardia seated behind him, and Eleanor Roosevelt in the front passenger seat, August 27, 1938.
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Mayor Fiorello La Guardia cuts the tape at the opening of the new 6th Avenue subway at West 34th Street, December 1940. The subway cost a nickel.
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Mayor Fiorello La Guardia prepares to go and look at a fire, circa 1938,
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Candid picture of Mayor La Guardia entering City Hall.
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Mayor La Guardia speaking at the Court of Peace at the World's Fair in Queens, May 1939.
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Mayor Fiorello La Guardia sits in the cockpit of a TWA airliner at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn, November 1934.
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Fiorello La Guardia, age about 16 (2nd from left), with members of the U.S. Army band directed by his father, 1898.
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Douglas 'Wrong Way' Corrigan, center, was feted after he took off from Floyd Bennett Field for California and, in defiance of the authorities, flew non-stop to Ireland, July 1938.
