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John Coolidge studies for his exam and listens to a radio in his room at Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts.

U.S. President John Calvin Coolidge's son John Coolidge at Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts. John Coolidge seated on a chair and reads a book during his exams. He makes notes and studies. He operates a radio and listen to it. He trims grass in a garden. Buildings in the background. John along with his landlady Lindsay and other students.

Location: Amherst Massachusetts USA
Date: 1926
Duration: 1 min 35 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675068980
The good times of the 1920's turn into the difficult times of the depression in 1930s America

Documentary depicts the end of the 1920s good times in the U.S. ("Roaring 20s"), leading into the Great Depression. Mildred Unger, age 10, performs a wing walker charleston dance while out on the wing of a JN-4 "Jenny" airplane in flight over Los Angeles in 1926.Four girls dancing on the top of a building higher than those around it, in Boston, Massachusetts. Amusement park patrons riding a roller coaster. People out driving through a park in their automobiles. Patrons enjoying themselves at the Steeplechase amusement park in Coney Island, New York. A crane piling old cars in a heap at a junk yard. But following the Wall Street crash (stock market crash) of 1929, conditions change in America. Group of men, women, and children standing together, looking sad and dejected, poor and desperate, due to conditions of the Great Depression affecting families. Still photo of group of people receiving food assistance in a city. A man, woman, and baby, in a tent (probably migrant workers). The famous 1936 photo, "Migrant Mother" by Dorothea Lange, of migrant worker, Florence Owens Thompson, with two of her children in California. Men receiving food from a city soup kitchen. Dejected unemployed men.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1937
Duration: 1 min 32 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036811
George Edward Pendray launches The American Interplanetary Society's first liquid fueled rocket from Staten Island in New York, United States.

The American Interplanetary Society's first liquid fuel rocket is launched from Staten Island in New York, United States in 1933. George Edward Pendray of the AIS, and his associate preparing for the launch. The 7 1/2 foot rocket is placed on a stand. Other men look on. The rocket, fueled with gasoline and liquid oxygen, takes off. Its fuel tank overheats and explodes moments after takeoff and the rocket crashes to the beach below. (From a November 10, 1958 newsreel recounting events 25 years earlier. The world's first successful liquid fuel rocket was launched by Robert Goddard in Auburn, Massachusetts, on 16 March 1926. This film records the first such attempt under auspices of the American Interplanetary Society, in 1933. )

Location: Staten Island New York USA
Date: 1933
Duration: 40 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675077065
Breaking,lifting and transfer of sandstone at Buckeye Sandstone Quarry in Amherst Ohio.

Buckeye Sandstone Quarry in South Amherst Ohio. A worker seated on a cart run on tracks. Workers drill into the sandstone with a drilling machine. Workers hammer large nails into the sandstone to break a small block. The broken block is chained and hooked to be lifted with derricks. The blocks are loaded onto a tram and transferred to the mills. Long tramway in the mills with piles of sandstone lying around. Electric cranes are used to move the stones. Interiors of the saw mills shows driving mechanism.

Location: Amherst Ohio USA
Date: 1915
Duration: 5 min 17 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675030498
U.S. President John Calvin Coolidge and Mrs. Coolidge on a launch underway at sea in Boston, Massachusetts.

U.S. President John Calvin Coolidge, Jr. at Boston Harbor, Massachusetts. The President and the First Lady walk down a gangplank to board a launch. Other passengers in the background. The President and First Lady Grace Coolidge aboard the launch underway in Boston Harbor. The U.S. flag on the bow of the launch. Brief view from shore of a group of civilians looking out toward the USS Mayflower PY-1 presidential yacht (the destination for the Coolidge launch). Next scene shows a car in front of a house. A man walks out of the building and sits in a car.

Location: Boston Massachusetts USA
Date: 1926
Duration: 1 min 14 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675068979
The start and the finish of the U.S. Army Air Service Pan American Goodwill tour in 1926-1927

Glimpses of airplanes and crews that made the Pan American Goodwill flight that covered 22,000 miles to 21 Central and South American nations, in 1926. Aerial view of hangars and runway at kelly Air Base, Texas, as one of the five Loening OA-1 Amphibious aircraft takes off from the runway on Dec. 21, 1926.The five aircraft seen in flight over a city, are: The New York, with crew: Maj. Herbert Dargue and Lt. Ennis Whitehead; The San Antonio with crew: Capt. Arthur McDaniel and Lt. Charles Robinson; The San Francisco with crew: Capt. Ira Eaker and Lt. Muir Fairchild; The Detroit, with crew: Capt. Clinton Woolsey and Lt. John Benton; and The St. Louis, with crew: Lt. Bernard Thompson and Lt. Leonard Weddington. President Coolidge presenting the pilots with with citations for the Distinguished Flying Cross at Bolling Field, Washington, D.C., on May 2, 1927, at the opening of the Pan American Air Commission Conference.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1926
Duration: 20 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033860
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