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African American child cleans a car with a cloth in South Carolina, United States.
African American life in South Carolina, United States. Front of a 1936 Plymouth P2 car. A Black child cleans the 1936 Plymouth P2 car. African American child smiles while wiping the car. Black child uses cloth for cleaning. Houses in the background.
Aviators Howard Hughes and Amy Johnson after record-setting flights to Los Angeles, California and Cape town, South Africa, respectively.
American aviator and businessman Howard Hughes having lunch at a restaurant in Chicago on May 14, 1936. Other people sitting and standing behind him. Hughes stands up from his seat. View of propeller on his Northrop Gamma 2G airplane being started. Hughes has his goggles on his head and takes off toward California. View of Union Air Terminal (2627 N Hollywood Way, Burbank, CA 91505, United States) in Burbank, California. Hughes steps out of plane in Los Angeles after 8 hours flight. In next scene, aviator Amy Johnson, CBE, wife of Jim Mollison, emerges from her Percival Gull Sixplane. G-ADZO, in Cape Town, South Africa on May 7, 1936 after a record-setting four day and sixteen hours flight from London. A large crowd waits to see her. People greet her with flowers. Johnson is seen among the large crowd and smiling and waving to the crowd. Scenes in clip are from a 1961 newsreel recounting events roughly 25 years prior.
Great flood of the Potomac River near Washington DC after heavy rains add to melting of ice and snow
The working of weather bureau in the United States. Snow covered shores of the Potomac River at Great Falls, west of Washington DC, following 15 inch snowfall in February 1936. Two people walking on a high snow covered bluff near the Great Falls. The frozen Potomac River, covered with ice. View of the Memorial Bridge spanning a totally frozen Potomac River, with the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument in the background. Views of the river carrying chunk of snow and ice as a thaw begins the breakup. Man photographs a woman next to a guard rail at the Potomac River, covered in chunks of thawing ice and snow. Frozen ice chunks flowing under the Memorial Bridge. Narrator describes flood beginning with heavy rainwall in Shenandoah River valley on March 17 and March 18, 1936. Scenes of Western Union Telegrams detailing reports of rain in the west from various towns in the Shenandoah foothills. One from Romney , West Virginia notes rainfall of 5 inches.
Jesse Owens and other Olympic athletes aboard SS Manhattan and disembarking from the ship in Hamburg, Germany.
Famous passengers aboard ocean liner SS Manhattan bound for Hamburg Germany. The USS Manhattan underway at sea on July 15, 1936 en route to the 1936 Olympics. Athletes play a shuffleboard game aboard the ship. Jesse Owens, an American track and field athlete, Glenn Cunningham, and other famous persons aboard the ship. The passengers disembark from the ship in Hamburg. They are welcomed by German officials.
Cincinnati Reds baseball team members disembark from a Pan American flying boat, in Miami, Florida
The Cincinnati Reds baseball team disembarks from a Pan American Sikorsky S-40 flying boat in Miami, after a flight from Puerto Rico, March 1936. Players in Reds uniforms climb off boat. Sign on flying boat reads "Pan American Airways System." Players toss and lightly hit baseballs on a field near the shore. Close up of Reds pitcher Paul Derringer (#25). (NOTES: This was one of the first times a baseball team traveled by air. The Reds held part of their spring training in San Juan in 1936.)
Soviet steamer Soyuz Vodnikov returns to the Soviet Union after facing attack by fascist Spanish Nationalist forces.
Soviet Russian steamer Soyuz Vodnikov, also spelled SojusVodnikov (later renamed Kreml’ during 1938), returns to the Soviet Union. Shot up and damaged parts are seen on the deck of the motor tanker ship due to a fascist attack. (The ship had been moving supplies from the Soviet Union into Spanish Morocco, and, on November 13, 1936, it was chased and detained by Spanish Civil War Nationalist forces at Ceuta harbor, on suspicion of delivering arms to the Republican loyalists. It was freed on November 17, 1936, after which it went to Terneuzen, Netherlands for repairs, and then on to the Soviet Union.) The ship is seen nearing a Soviet harbor. Soviet officers on board inspect the ship. The crew members are given a warm welcome on their return. The crew arriving on the harbor dock are welcomed with flower bouquets and hailed for their bravery.
