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Federal government reimburses patrons of defunct Fon Du Lac Bank by cashing their accounts in full under FDIC guarantee

The U.S. Federal government in its first reimbursement action through the FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation) created through the Banking Act of 1933, during the Great Depression. Government reimbursing the patrons of the failed Fon Du Lac Bank in East Peoria, Illinois. Crowd gathered outside Fon Du Lac Bank in East Peoria, Illinois, waiting to get in. Man shaking hands with Mrs. Lydia Lobsiger, the first customer to receive her money back through the FDIC program. Banking customers receive one hundred percent of their deposit amounts. Women and men approach the counter and bank teller counts dollar bills to pay citizens. A young boy wearing a cap stands by the window. Bank teller examines his account book and then lays out coins for the boy. The child carefully slides the money off the counter, counting it as he goes.

Date: 1934, July 4
Duration: 1 min 1 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675022427
Lieutenant Commander Frank Monroe Hawks and his companion die in a Gwinn Aircar crash in East Aurora, New York.

Pilot Hawks dies in a Gwinn Aircar crash in East Aurora, New York. Lieutenant Commander Frank Monroe Hawks and his companion in the cockpit of a Gwinn Aircar. The aircraft taxis and takes off. The aircraft in flight over the town. It hits high tension wires and plunges to the ground. Men watch the damaged aircraft at the accident site. Trees in the background.

Date: 1938, August 24
Duration: 44 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675056259
Lieutenant Commander Scott Carpenter shows his family the Aurora 7 space capsule in Cape Canaveral, Florida

People clap and welcome astronaut Scott Carpenter in Cape Canaveral, Florida, following his successful Mercury-Atlas 7 mission. People seated on chairs. Photographers on wall capture the event. NASA Director James E. Webb speaks on stage. Astronaut Scott Carpenter shows the Aurora 7 space capsule to his children, his mother, Florence Carpenter, and his wife, Rene Louise (Price) Carpenter. People take photos. Scott Carpenter gets into the back seat of a car with his wife and mother. Scott Carpenter smiles.

Date: 1962, May 24
Duration: 2 min 12 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675024606
Crowds visit World's Fair's Century Of Progress Exposition in Chicago Illinois.

Thousands of people visit World's Fair in Chicago, Illinois. Many are young people, especially teenagers, taking advantage of a one-day reduction in admission prices to the fair. Crowd gathers at the Exposition called "A Century Of Progress." People wander all around . Tall buildings seen. Views of the crowds at the fair.

Date: 1934, April 4
Duration: 29 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675030589
A model of a coal mine set up in the Rosenwald Industrial Museum, shows the mining operations, in Chicago, Illinois.

Mining operations demonstrated in the Rosenwald Industrial Museum in Chicago, Illinois,. The Rosenwald Industrial Museum in Chicago. An elaborate full-size coal mine model set up in the museum. The equipment used for mining operations. Two men operating an equipment, to demonstrated the mining activities. The equipment works at the rock and drops the mineral deposits into a large tray. Men beside the equipment.

Date: 1934, January 15
Duration: 51 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675055013
A new parasol plane tested in Glenview, Illinois.

Pilot and a man watch a parasol plane before its first trial flight in Glenview, Illinois. Plane with a single umbrella like wing, takes off. Plane in flight. Plane lands.

Date: 1934, March 19
Duration: 42 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675055211