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U.S. President Richard Nixon tours the proposed Gateway National Recreation Area in New York and New Jersey

Presidential tour of proposed Gateway National Recreation Area in New York and New Jersey. U.S. President Richard M. Nixon, standing in front of the Presidential Aircraft at Newark Airport, Newark, New Jersey, with Governor William Thomas Cahill, of New Jersey, Governor Nelson Rockefeller, of New York, Mayor Kenneth Allen Gibson, of Newark, and Mayor John Lindsay, of New York City. The President's helicopter maneuvering over the proposed Gateway National Recreation Area. President Nixon speaking about the project in Hangar 14 at Newark Airport, Newark, N.J. Seated on the stage are: Governor Cahill, Secretary of Interior, Rogers C.B. Morton, Governor Rockefeller, Mayor Gibson, and Mayor Lindsay. The President shakes hands with the Governors and Mayors after concluding his remarks.

Date: 1971, May 10
Duration: 51 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675073772
Workers manufacture Edison nickel-iron batteries at the Edison Storage Battery Company Building in West Orange, New Jersey

Manufacturing Edison batteries (also known as nickel-iron battery or NiFe battery) in West Orange, New Jersey, United States. View of the Edison Storage Battery Company Building (177 Main Street, West Orange, New Jersey, USA), the manufacturing facility for Edison batteries. Smoke emanates from vats. Motorized ceiling rack carries cylinders receiving nickel flake via electro plating. Aerial view of battery tube steel manufacture. Factory workers working in assembly lines to assemble batteries. The workers pack batteries for shipment. The four main parts of an Edison battery- negative plates (steel), container (steel), electrolyte (alkaline), and positive plates (steel)- on display. The steel positive plate and perforated steel tube which hold Nickel Hydrate on display. A finger touches the carbon steel ribbon that runs through a perforating machine to create battery tubes. A pen points to the perforation of the carbon steel ribbon. Machines nickel plate steel ribbons. Man places reels of steel ribbons in a tub. Men pushes the tubs into an automatic machine. A machine winding steel ribbons into tubes. Closer view of the steel tube showing its spiral pattern. Hand holding a steel tube. The manufacturing of nickel flake by an electro plating process. Metal sheet cylinders lifted out from vats of nickel. The cylindrical rolls of metal sheet are lowered to alternating vats of copper and nickel. Man unfolds a nickel-copper sheet. A machine cuts the nickel-copper sheet into small pieces. The copper in the nickel-copper pieces is chemically dissolved in a electro plating vat. The positive tubes are loaded with alternate layers of nickel hydrate and nickel flake. Man fits the tubes into a metal mold. Nickel hydrate and nickel flakes are fed into a machine. The man takes off the metal mold, taking the tubes. Cross section of a steel tube. Steel rings on a machine. Man counts the 8 steel rings of the tube. A woman mounts the tubes and presses them into a permanent position in a nickel-plated steel grid. A finished positive plate. A man mounts positive plates on the pole piece. He screws them into place. View of the negative plate, showing its perforated steel pockets holding iron oxide. Machines fold the perforated steel ribbons into Negative Pockets. A worker inserts Negative Pockets into a metal mold. A machine fills the Negative Pockets with iron oxide. Worker mounts the Negative Pockets in a nickel-plated steel grid. A machine secures the Negative Plates by a pressure of 120 tons. The Negative Plates are equidistantly spaced on the negative pole piece. Worker assembles the positive and negative plate groups together. A woman inserts additional insulation between each plate. The container is made of a nickel-plated steel sheet folded and welded to form one piece. Workers carefully inspect and insulate the assembled elements before the elements are permanently sealed in the container. Workers wearing goggles fill the finished battery cells with alkaline solution. Man closes the Filler Cap of the battery cell. Two terminals are seen on top of battery cell. Quality control inspectors check the finished products. A Weston DC voltmeter. A man dips battery cells into an insulating preservative compound. He places the battery cells in trays. Another man connects the cells in trays.

Date: 1926
Duration: 14 min 5 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675080178
View of Union Square in New York City, United States in the early 1900s

View of Union Square in New York City. Traffic of cars, trucks and horse carriages on busy street. People walk on street. Tram drives past people on street. Bus on which is written 'Broadway' drives on street in Union Square.

Date: 1915
Duration: 58 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675025360
New York City in the early 1900s. Trolley cars on Broadway at Union Square. Times Square as seen from Times Building.

Broadway and Union Square in Manhattan, New York City on 8 July, 1903. Trolley cars move on tracks. Passengers get off and on the trolleys or street cars. Broadway and 42nd Street viewed from the newly constructed Times building. The newly constructed Astor Hotel visible below with flag flying over its roof.

Date: 1903, July 8
Duration: 28 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675073418
FBI training film about three boys struggle for vertical social mobility in Madison, New Jersey.

Training film about factors influencing vertical social mobility and class in the United States. Shows classic 1950s roles of husbands, wives (as homemaker or housewife) and children growing up in the family. Three boys named Guilford Ames,Theodore Eastwood and David Benton from different classes (upper class, middle class, and lower class) in Madison, New Jersey. Families of various races gather at the viewing window of a hospital nursery. Babies in cribs seen in the nursery. Three boys stop in front of Madison High School to converse following their graduation. Their parents greet each other as well. Scenes of boys at home after graduation. First, the boy from the upper class, Guilford, speaks to his parents in their living room, with a maid present. Middle class boy, Ted, at the dinner table with his parents and sister. Lower class boy, Dave, with extended family to celebrate graduation. Dave pumps gas at an Amoco gasoline station. He wears a white t-shirt and baseball cap. "Amoco no lead" is seen on the gas pump or petrol pump. Guilford, dressed in a suit and driving a 1956 Cadillac, pulls into the Amoco service station and talks to Dave. At his father's office, Guilford shakes hands with Ted. Ted in a suit walks in downtown Madison, New Jersey while thinking. In New York, Ted works at the art department in an advertising firm. Ted draws an advertisement for a refrigerator at his desk. A door with a sign on it, "Art Department, Theodore Eastwood, Director" Ted with other men at a golf course wearing latest mens golf fashions. Ted tees off at the golf course. Ted arrives home at the Convent Station, New Jersey railroad station. Many 1950s American automobiles seen in the car parking lot. He talks to a woman sitting in a convertible and to her husband, Guilford. At the Amoco gas station in Madison, Dave, now dressed in a mechanic's coveralls, shakes Teds hand. Close up of identification card for a baby at a hospital. The card reads "Benton Baby" and has an image of a stork on it. Nurse takes baby from mother in a hospital bed and puts the baby in a crib. She rolls the baby crib into the hospital nursery.

Date: 1957
Duration: 11 min 55 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675026701
Early 20th century America footage; establishment and early circumstances of the U.S. Department of Labor

Film opens with view from a building overlooking President Woodrow Wilson's Inauguration Day parade along Pennsylvania Avenue, on March 4, 1913. A large contingent of U.S. Army West Point cadets march in forefront of the parade. Spectators line the sidewalks. Several stand atop buildings. Outgoing President, William Howard Taft is seen in his office signing a bill establishing the U.S. Department of Labor. Closeup of the bill and Taft signing it. Scenes of traffic and pedestrians in New York City. Some of the pedestrians appear to be wealthy class. Crowded early 20th century city streets filled with various horse drawn carriages together with bus traffic and early automobiles in chaotic confusion. A double decker bus with open top and sign "Fifth Avenue" and lower sign "To 22nd Street Only" operates in busy traffic on 5th Avenue beside horse drawn carriages and other motorized vehicles. Glimpses of women working in a factory; Men pouring molten metal into molds; Women punching time clocks as they leave a factory. Newly arrived immigrants at Ellis Island, New York City circa 1910 or during first 10 years of the 1900 decade. View of the Statue of Liberty. Women working in a textile factory. Men tapping a furnace in a steel plant. Pushcarts and peddlers at market lining the curb in a Jewish neighborhood of New York City (possibly lower east side). Brief view of pioneer Labor leader Samuel Gompers, founder of the American Federation of Labor. He hold a walking stick and doffs his hat. Sketches illustrating scenes of labor-related violence. Department of Labor sign being affixed to its location. A horse and wagon, representing the first assets of the new Department. A group of persons illustrative of the employees in the Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Date: 1913, March 4
Duration: 2 min 39 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675063339