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Charlestown Massachusetts USA 1931 stock footage and images

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Gertrude L. Thebaud schooner prepares and drills in Gloucester, Massachusetts for a forthcoming race.

Gertrude L. Thebaud schooner prepares in Gloucester, Massachusetts for a forthcoming sail boat race. Crewmen hoists sail aboard Gertrude L. Thebaud. The sailing schooner underway at sea. Captain Ben Pine at the steering wheel of the schooner.

Date: 1931, October 5
Duration: 1 min 31 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675075501
Major events of American history like the Boston Massacre, the independence and establishment of democracy.

A film about the role of African Americans in the history of America. A dramatization shows an African American priest tracing the history of America and the role of African Americans. The Granary Burying Ground in Boston. Pictures of the Boston Massacre. The Bunker Hill Monument (Monument Sq, Charlestown, MA 02129, United States) with soldiers in the foreground. A copy of 'Valley Forge'. Events leading to and after the independence of America. Men cut trees in a forest. Pictures related to the American Civil War of 1861. Ships in water as the war is fought. The Statue of Abraham Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial (2 Lincoln Memorial Cir NW, Washington, DC 20002, United States) in Washington DC. An African American couple in the countryside. A railroad track is seen.

Date: 1945
Duration: 3 min 25 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078144
Ford Commercial Airplane Reliability Tour at the Ford Airport in Dearborn, Michigan, on Sunday July 4th 1931

The start of the 1931 Ford Commercial Airplane Reliability Tour at the Ford Airport in Dearborn, Michigan, on Sunday July 4th 1931. Opening footage at forefront right shows the Gee Bee model E Sportster flown by Lowell Bayles to a fourth place finish. Forefront center-left is the Great Lakes biplane flown by Joeseph Meehan. A number of various aircraft are parked on the airfield, including an autogyro. Visitors on the airport ramp look at airplanes on display. The museum clock tower and other buildings at Greenfield Village are visible in the background. View looking outward from inside a hanger. A squadron of U.S. Army Air Corps Boeing P-12 pursuit airplanes parked in rows, with propellers all set horizontally. A light high wing monoplane takes off followed, successively, by two Ford trimotor passenger aircraft equipped with wheel pants. View of a biplane landing. A crowd standing in front of a hangar and several officials standing in the grass. People posing on the ramp with airport building in background.

Date: 1931, July 4
Duration: 2 min 44 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675066188
Men get employment at ship building plant and construction sites as steel mills expand activities

Newsreel titled "Full steam ahead for big business as jobless get work" shows men working at ship building plants, shipyards, and construction sites in Quincy, Massachusetts. Expansion of activities by Pittsburgh steel mills has provided jobs to unemployed during the Great Depression. Smoke pours from stacks and chimneys looking over a steel mill in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania.

Date: 1931, January 15
Duration: 40 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675038355
New England "smoke-eaters" play summer game of "hose-polo"

Summer game in Massachusetts, New England. Southboro residents play the polo game with a large ball and water hoses. Players move the ball with the pressure of water and try to make goals.

Date: 1931, September 14
Duration: 47 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675030767
Workers moving flour gunny bags from mill and on railway platform in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States,1931.

Machines seen inside a flour mill. Workers download flour gunny bags from a table. Workers moving flour gunny bags loaded on a hand cart on a railway platform.

Date: 1931, November 9
Duration: 32 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023802