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Dogs parade at a dog show in New Jersey.

Dogs parade with their handlers at a youth week pet show in Asbury Park. Different variety of dogs at the show, paraded by girl and boy owners. Judges discuss. Winner dogs, Great Dane and Dachshund crowned.

Date: 1957, August 26
Duration: 44 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040132
New Recreation facilities at Palisades Interstate Park in New York and new club house at Bethpage State Park

Works Progress Administration (WPA) building projects during the New Deal effort of the Great Depression: Palisades Interstate Park along the Hudson River in Fort Lee, New Jersey. A group of teenage boys hiking in the park. Groups gathered at a picnic area. Boys and girls playing outside of a new bath house building beside the park beach. View of the Perkins Memorial Tower built in honor of the former chairman of the Palisades Interstate Park Commission, and a wide view of the Palisades Interstate Park Administration Building still under construction. Scene changes to Bethpage State Park in Farmingdale New York, as 1930's cars drive in front of a newly built club house to discharge passengers. A uniformed door man stands by. Women golfers and men golfers play on the new 18 hole golf course in the park which requires no membership.

Date: 1937
Duration: 47 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675064813
U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Tampa and life boats save many lives as Ocean liner SS Morro Castle, burns at sea.

Role of United States Coast Guards. A luxury liner, SS Morro Castle burns at sea as smoke rises from it. United States Coast Guard Cutter Tampa (WPG-48) underway to rescue the people on board the liner. A 75 foot long patrol boat underway to reach the burning vessel. Men aboard life boats. Men swim in the sea as lifeboats rescue them. Men swim towards the beach where beach patrol men save their lives. Smoke rises from the burning ship. USCG Cutter Tampa seen towing the SS Morro Castle after the disaster (but the hawser then broke and the Morro Castle drifted aground). Remains of the charred vessel aground at Asbury Park, New Jersey.

Date: 1934, September 8
Duration: 3 min 6 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049567
Scenes of the SS Morro Castle luxury cruise ship burning at sea, and of rescue of survivors on New Jersey coast.

(Sound present only at end of clip beginning around 3:10 mark). Scenes of Ward Line ship, the SS Morro Castle engulfed in fire during its return to New York from Havana, Cuba. Coast guard boats, fishing smacks, big liners stand by to rescue travelers. Local citizens and police assembled on the coastline to retrieve the dead and nurse the wounded. Scenes of grief stricken and shocked survivors including men, women, and children. Some scenes from rescue ships which included the SS Andrea F. Luckenbach, the SS Monarch of Bermuda, and the SS City of Savannah. Three survivors recount their stories (sound is present at this point in the clip, starting around 3:10 mark).

Date: 1934, September 8
Duration: 4 min 11 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675023615
Contrast of living conditions in New York City; children playing, cars parked and people sit outside their houses in New York City.

Elevated views and busy street views of automobile and pedestrian traffic on streets of New York City in the late 1930s. A streetcar stopped in the street. A roadside news stand. Children walking to school. Children exiting a school bus to go to school Two boys wrestle as a group of boys encourages them. Girls play a game like "London Bridge is falling down." Scene changes to a farm field with a farmer plowing a field with his tractor. A farmer cuts crops with a sickle. Scene changes again to a neighborhood with nice homes and two girls play skipping rope at a house. A woman prepares toast in a toaster. Vegetables and food items in refrigerator. Scene changes to dense urban tenements and scenes of relative poverty in New York City. Elevated view looking out over dense tenements and apartment homes. Two young women sit on sleeping cots on a rooftop 1930s cars parked on a narrow street among crowded city dwellings, and and people sit outside their houses. Kids playing "stoop ball" throwing a ball against steps of their dwelling. A poster reads "Yellow Jack". Children play.

Date: 1939
Duration: 4 min 57 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675035672
Unemployed get work under Works Progress Administration projects in Chicago, Illinois

'A better Chicago'. Unemployed men on the streets during the Great Depression. They sleep on the streets and stand in queues and relief lines in Chicago, Illinois. A young man asks another man for work and is rejected, but the other man gives him a coin to help him. Unemployed and hungry men digging through trash cans and sleeping on park benches and in doorways. Whistles blow at factories representing work starting again and available jobs. Men look up from relief lines and head to factories for new jobs. Men grabbing shovels and digging in the ground. Men working at steel factories. Smoke pouring from smoke stacks at factories. Men in pay line at factory to receive payment from cashier office. Happy men and women lifting up a young smiling child. Views of racks of milk bottles and full bread racks. Children slide down a slide into a swimming pool. Boys and girls playing on playground equipment and smiling. A family of a man and womand and two children walking together. Men working on sewage infrastructure projects in the Chicago area. View of projects underway to develop lakefront areas of Lake Michigan. Skyline and skyscrapers of Chicago seen in the background. View of the Field Museum and workers inside constructing fossil and zoology displays. Men working in construction to build and improve runways and tarmac areas at Chicago Municipal Airport (Midway International Airport). A plane taking off overhead above the workers building a runway. Low, roadside view of 1930s cars going by on road near Lincoln Park extension project area. View of Chicago city skyline buildings in the background. Men work at planting trees and expanding the Lincoln Park with an extension. Men with excavating machines and tractors work at the site of the former Chicago 1893 World's Fair (World's Columbian Exposition), transforming the area into the new 500 acre Jackson Park. Construction workers build a new Field House at Wilson Park. An old building is demolished to make way for a new housing development named after Jane Addams. Men building new low income housing apartment buildings for poor families on the site.

Date: 1937
Duration: 3 min 47 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058516