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Coney Island, New York City, street scene

A street in Coney Island, New York City. People in the streets in the United States. A man rides a bicycle along a street. A banner suspended across the road reads: 'Lunch Room'. People on cycles, horse drawn surrey, and other modes of transport on the street. Many pedestrians stroll along the sidewalk, past large restaurant building.

Date: 1898
Duration: 31 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675065292
Thomas Alva Edison performs chemistry experiments at his laboratory in West Orange, New Jersey.

Thomas Alva Edison works in his laboratory in West Orange, New Jersey. The laboratory includes a machine shop, phonograph and photograph departments, a library and ancillary buildings for metallurgy, chemistry, woodworking and galvanometer testing. Edison works with some chemicals in his laboratory. He is performing an experiment.

Date: 1898
Duration: 27 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675065298
Celebrities participate in Third Liberty Loan Drive, in New York,and Washington DC, during World War I

View of nighttime fireworks during Third Liberty Bond Drive in World War 1. Two persons paste posters on buildings. Posters reads 'The Hun-his Mark', 'Blot it Out' with 'Liberty Bonds'. Another poster reads 'Lend-the way they fight, Buy Liberty Bonds to your Utmost'. Nurses in white uniforms parade, carrying American flags, in lower Manhattan, New York City. A military officer speaks to crowd from the front of the Subtreasury Building on Wall Street. An Army military band seated on the steps, plays for an assembled crowd. Former President, Theodore Roosevelt is seen waving his hat from a balcony overlooking the scene. Scene shifts to Washington, DC, where Hollywood movie star, Douglas Fairbanks, stands above the crowd, encouraging them to buy Liberty Bonds. His wife, Mary Pickford, wearing a large corsage of flowers, also stands above the crowd, appealing for them to buy bonds. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)

Date: 1918, April 6
Duration: 51 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675065355
Civilians cheer and welcome United States ships returning to the New York harbor with American troops.

United States Naval warships and carriers return with soldiers to New York. Crowds at New York welcome the soldiers in the harbor. They wave their hands and caps as the United States carrier arrives with soldiers on board. Soldiers walk down a ramp from the ship. Soldiers from another United States carrier disembark using a ramp. Musicians play musical instruments to welcome the soldiers. Musicians with the American flags. Soldiers disembark the ship and get into a boat train. Soldiers lean outside the window of the train. Friends and relatives of the soldiers wait at the station. The boat train reads 'From the "Rhine" to "Texas"'.

Date: 1919
Duration: 1 min 55 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675065366
Adult people gain knowledge about American history and government at the New York Adult Education Council in New York.

Opening scene shows office door of the New York Adult Education Council, (at 254 Fourth Avenue, in Manhattan, New York City). Next, two middle aged men dressed in older fashion style European shirts and ties, are seen sitting at a table and conversing with a man and a young woman (who appears to be an interpreter). Scene shifts to about a dozen people in a reading room. Several are consulting a large wall map of the United States. Others are reading brochures about the United States. Closeup of a woman engrossed in her reading material. A woman writes notes on a pad, as she peruses a book. A man, next to her reads a book about U.S. Presidents. Another man is seen reading a book about Gettysburg with an image of Abraham Lincoln on its cover. Three persons are discussing the wall map of America that is drawn to illustrate the manufacturing, farming, mining, ranching and myriad other characteristics and activities associated with various parts of America. Across the top of the map a label reads: "America - A Nation of One People from many Countries." A woman looks at a copy of the Declaration of Independence displayed on another wall. An employee, or volunteer, selects several small brochures from a shelf and gives them to a woman as she explains them to her. Closeups of people looking at books. Closeup of book shelf containing biographies of Daniel Webster; Abraham Lincoln; Lafayettte; Monroe; Theodore Roosevelt; Daniel Boone; and others. A woman's hand reaches for a copy of "Patriotic Songs of America" and a brochure on George Washington.

Date: 1941, January
Duration: 3 min 4 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675065922
Refugees being instructed about usage of telephone at the New York Adult Education Council in New York, United States.

An enactment about imparting education to immigrants and refugees who are new to America, at the New York Adult Education Council in New York, United States. A sign on a door reads "Committee for Refugee Education Inc." Adult Immigrant and refugee students seated in a classroom as a teacher instructs them about the proper use of a telephone. He holds up a telephone and questions the students about what it is and how to answer the telephone. Multiple takes are shown from different camera angles. Various articles on a desk and instructional signs on it read 'Fresh paint' and 'Smoking forbidden'.

Date: 1941, January
Duration: 1 min 51 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675065923