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After learning that one of her sons has fallen on the job, Rosie, a member of the Kahnawake Mohawk Nation, describes how she manages the fear she feels as the mother of two ironworkers.

Kahnawake Mohawk ironworker Walter Beauvais how the height of the World Trade Center affected even the simplest factors in its construction. The taglines, two ropes used to guide the iron as it was raised, were rendered unusable by the distance they…

Kahnawake Mohawk ironworker Randy Horne talks about his experiences working on the WTC from the basement to the 72nd floor.

Kahnawake Mohawk ironworker Peter Stacey tells the story of returning to the WTC with his family as a tourist. He reflects on the pride he feels as a contributor to the towers' construction.

Kahnawake Mohawk ironworker Peter Stacey describes walking a high beam for the first time.

Kahnawake Mohawk ironworker Peter Lafleur describes how he got his job at the WTC construction site and his experience of helping to build the first 20 floors.

Kahnawake Mohawk ironworker Kyle Beauvais describes his tactics for dealing with the danger of walking high beams.

Having worked for years as an artist and teacher, Akwesasne Mohawk Brad Bonaparte returned to ironworking in 1999. He describes what brought him back and what his first few months on the job were like as he tried to relearn the trade…

Akwesasne Mohawk ironworker Brad Bonaparte has lost many family members and friends to construction-site accidents. Remembering these losses and some of his own close calls, he explains how he deals with his ever-present fear of falling.

Bill Oakes discusses his dedication to preserving the Mohawk language and the reason many of his family members have lost the ability to speak it.

This Philco radio spot from 1940 features Bing Crosby.

This spot introducing a program called "The Phantom Spoilers" includes an ad for Majestic radios. It was broadcast in the 1930s.

This ad for Brunswick radios and musical piece (typical of what would be recorded for Brunswick sets) was broadcast in the 1930s.

The Stewart-Warner radio advertised in this 1930s radio spot was designed for the "sensational new metal tubes."

This radio ad from the 1930s promotes Columbia stereophonic high-fidelity phonographs.

Business on Radio Row was booming starting in the 1920s. This advertisement for the RCA-Victor Model 108 radio is an example of the types of sound one might have heard blasting from stores in the 1940s. In the 1960s, Radio Row was demolished ot make…

This radio ad for "modern age" radios by Atwater Kent was broadcast in the 1930s.

Bill Schneck, whose father opened the first radio distributorship on Cortlandt Street, Radio Row, describes how his father got the idea.

Bill Schneck talks about the public's first reactions to radio and describes his father's sales technique.

Bill Schneck talks about Atwater Kent, a wealthy industrialist who began manufacturing top-of-the-line radios and who knew his father.