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Arizona United States USA 1958 stock footage and images

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American, Filipino and Mexican men, women and children work in farm fields, United States. Migrant farmers seeking work.

Clouds over barren and parched land during Great Depression. Expansive views of open western plains and distant mountains. Some cactus plants in undeveloped wide open areas in Arizona. A steam engine locomotive pulls a train in the distance. Hills, cattle graze. Elevated view of a man made Theodore Roosevelt Lake reservoir and the Theodore Roosevelt dam that created it, northeast of Phoenix Arizona. Farms, fields, trees and vegetation. Migrant farmers in overloaded cars and heavily loaded automobiles on a dirt road. A parked trailer. A loaded wagon attached to the car. Boxes of fruits and vegetables including lemons, sweet potatoes and oranges at very low prices. Children of migrant farmers playing together and milling about. Groups of migrant worker farmers looking for work and competing for work in Arizona with four crops a year due to warm conditions and water from dams. Cars with variety of western United States 1939 license plates. Filipino and Mexican immigrant farmers pick fruits and vegetables (lettuce) on a farm. Men work on an irrigated field. Narrator states that Filipino and Mexicans have the jobs because they are strong. They pick and load lettuce into trucks on a lettuce field. Men work at sheds at packing machines to pack the lettuce. Trucks loaded in the field. Mexican border on Rio Grande river valley: Men, women and children work in a field. Most are Mexican. They pick fruits and vegetables and load them into buckets and containers. A man supervises the workers. Women workers pick and sort produce on a field. A man with a loaded horse wagon. Men lift boxes of produce. Migrants work in a field.

Date: 1939
Duration: 4 min 36 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021574
Sight of unidentified flying objects over Luke Air Force Base in Arizona

Sight of Unidentified flying objects (UFO) over Luke Air Force Base in Arizona. Shows an unidentified object fly and leaves a trail behind.

Date: 1958, March 3
Duration: 46 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675039967
Landmarks and construction in growing Tucson Arizona; scenes from parades and rodeos in Arizona.

Scenes of the town Tucson in Arizona, United States. Old houses and buildings in the town. Late 1930s cars driving on a road in Tucson and parked outside a building. The Mission San Xavier de Bac is shown. The Pima County Courthouse with old cars parked in front. Views of campus buildings at the University of Arizona. Students on the campus of the university. Construction workers building new brick buildings in Tucson. This is constrasted with view of a Mexican worker mixing clay and straw to make Adobe bricks. The man presses the mixture into forms to make large bricks or blocks. Mexican American children sit by the side and watch him work. 1930s era cars drive on the streets of Douglas Arizona. Mexican mariachi street musicians wearing sombreros play guitars and sing. A city parade (possibly in Phoenix) heads down a street with a marching band and men on horses. Women and children watch the parade. A rodeo event in Phoenix is shown with men on bucking broncos and bucking horses.

Date: 1939
Duration: 2 min 46 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027895
Panoramic view of the Grand Canyon in Arizona, United States.

View of the Grand Canyons at the Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona, USA. Heavy cloud covers above the canyons. Panoramic, wide sweeping views of the Grand canyon area and nearby mountains and valleys. A group on mules moving on a path in the canyon and passing into a stone tunnel.

Date: 1942
Duration: 60 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Spanish
Clip: 65675050323
Davis Dam while under construction on the Colorado River; and irrigated farming and cattle operations in Arizona, United States

Construction operations in progress on the Davis Dam of the Colorado River in Arizona, United States. Cement bucket lowered by crane. Men building framing of dam walls. Mountains in the background. Irrigation ditches and pumps and wells employed on farm fields in Arizona. Large number of cattle on a farm and in a stockyard area. A very large stack of hay. Cattle breeding stock shown grazing on the open range and drinking from a river.

Date: 1939
Duration: 1 min 17 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027893
Establishment of Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, and its first launch of a ballistic missile.

Restrospective of the 1954 search for a suitable site for U.S. Air Force testing of ballistic missiles. Coastal area with ocean in the background. Officials look over charts, maps, photographs as they select the site for Vandenberg Air Force Base. In January, 1958, view of building with a sign that reads ' Headquarters, First Missile Division, Strategic Air Command, Vandenberg Air Force Base' Entrance of the headquarters as Major General David Wade walks out. U.S. Air Force officers and airmen attend missile training classes. Airmen work on assembly of Thor missiles . U.S. Air Force officers and airmen operate missile launch consoles in a launch control center. November, 1958, Thor intermediate range missile on a trailer being delivered to Vandenberg Air Force Base. Trailer backs up to the launch pad. December, 16, 1958, the Thor missile on launch pad venting gases. U.S. Air Forces officers at a launch console. The Thor missile is launched. RAF airmen watch missile in flight.

Date: 1958
Duration: 3 min 31 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675059981