The opening day of the 1929 baseball season in Detroit, Michigan. View of the large crowd in the stands at Navin Field. Ford Model A car parked by the stands inside the stadium. Detroit Tigers part-owner Walter Briggs talks to Tigers manager Bucky Harris on radio station WWJ. Henry Ford shakes hands with Harris and speaks into the microphone. Briggs and a Detroit player beside the Ford. A band, Tiger players, and the opposing Cleveland Indians march around the stadium. Ford and Briggs talking in the stands. Fords holds baseball, throws it out to unseen player on the field. The men talk and smile. Harris outside the dugout. Two other players sit inside the dugout. Several Detroit players stand just outside the dugout.
From a film titled "A better Ohio". Scenes of Great Depression period in the United States: Idle men, closed factories, men searching through trash, sleeping on sidewalk. Scenes of post depression recovery: Smoke from factories, lines of workers, ample food, happy families. Views of Works Progress Administration (WPA) projects in Ohio: Airstrip construction of runways at Cleveland Airport; construction of Dayton Airport runways and aerial view of the Dayton Airport area; pipe capping and sealing work at abandoned coal mines to prevent pollution of local water supply; remodeled orphanage in Defiance, Ohio, with orphan children playing on the grounds of the Defiance County Children's Home; repaired and updated buildings at the Home for Sailor's and Soldier's Orphans at Xenia, Ohio; newly built dairy farm at the Sailor's and Soldiers Home; Rebuilt wing of the old people's home for care of the elderly in Napoleon, Ohio; view of the newly constructed tuberculosis sanatorium in Toledo, Ohio (the William Roche Tuberculosis Hospital). Scenes of fast moving flood waters during flood of Spring 1936 in Ohio. Flood water rushing past flooded buildings. WPA -constructed dams, levees, and retaining walls are seen during building process. African American and white workers seen digging together with shovels on the project. New trees are planted at the sites.
Mayor Carl Burton Stokes, African American political leader in Cleveland, at the time of his election as Mayor of Cleveland on November 7, 1967. Views of his campaign headquarters and posters in it that read 'Stokes For Progress'. Men and women wearing Stokes hats. The crowd cheers at his mayoral victory. Newly elected Mayor Stokes addresses the crowd from microphone and receives constant applause and cheering. Audio of new Mayor Stokes speaking to supporters in his victory speech while scenes are shown of African American and white men and women citizens of Cleveland walking on streets of the city in typical late 1960's and early 1970's fashions. Scene includes pedestrians young and old walking and boarding a city bus. Mayor Stokes seen exiting a building and walking in Cleveland. Meeting in progress in Cleveland City Council chamber. Views of various City Council members including a number of African American council members. Mayor Stokes seated with U.S. President Richard Nixon and other big city mayors discussing the urban crisis.
A United States Army Air Force air show in Cleveland, Ohio. USAAF Generals standing outside a building. 'Administration' written on the top of the building entrance. USAAF General Carl Andrew Spaatz and a civilian standing on the steps of the building. A group of officers and civilians headed by General Spaatz come out of the building. General Hoyt Sanford Vandenberg accompanies General Spaatz down a walk towards a staff car. General staff getting into the staff car. Other officers walking down the steps from the building. General Curtis Emerson LeMay walks down the steps towards the staff car. A convoy of staff cars drives away. The cars go down a road headed by a motorcycle escort. General Spaatz walks up onto a ramp erected near the nose of a USAAF F-80 Shooting Star. An F-80 Shooting Star on display in the building. A speaker's stand erected near the airplane. The speaker introduces General Nathan Farragut Twining who rises and bows followed by General LeMay. Other notables including General Ira Eaker, Major General Elwood Quesada, Major General Benjamin Wiley Chidlaw, General Thomas S. Power, Major General Carbee Craigie, Spaatz and General Anderson. General Anderson standing on the speaker's stand opens the ceremony. A singer performs.
Views of Rockefeller Park in Cleveland Ohio. Rocky bridge between the river Rocky and Lakewood suburbs of Ohio. James A Garfield memorial mausoleum in Lake View cemetery. City of Cleveland, the first American city noted for plan of grouping its public buildings in 'Civic Center'.
Newsreel clip on the Chicago White Sox baseball team clinching their first American League pennant in 40 years in 1959. Clip opens with crowd filing into Cleveland's Municipal Stadium, which is decorated with a giant smiling Indian (the team's logo). Scenes from game: White Sox shortstop Luis Aparicio doubles into the right-field corner to score Bubba Phillips, who slides to beat a throw to home. (Note photographers standing just a few feet away from the plate.) Billy Goodman doubles to score Aparicio. Two fans in white shirts, smoking cigars, intently watch the game. White Sox manager Al Lopez, in dugout, waves a fielder over to a different position. Indians load the bases in the ninth inning. White Sox call on Gerry Staley to get final outs. Staley throws one pitch and Vic Power of the Indians hits into a double play, ending the game. White Sox players celebrate in the clubhouse, pouring beer on each other's heads. Player in hat does a goofy dance.
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