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Dust Bowl of 1930s. Farmers abandoning their homes with their families

Lewis Thaddeus Nordyke, newspaperman and author, who lived through the Dust Bowl in Dalhart, Texas, recounts how some people "stayed and prayed" in hopes of rain, always looking forward to "next year." Views of drought stricken land and sand covered houses during dust bowl in Great Depression. Scenes of farmers packing up their families and abandoning their homes. Some wear handerchief masks over their faces to protect against dust. Families load belongings into the backs of towed carts and trucks, leaving their homes. (Between 1935 and 1939, 350 thousand people left their homes in the dust bowl. Many migrated west toward California.)

Date: 1936
Duration: 1 min 47 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032608
The good times of the 1920's turn into the difficult times of the depression in 1930s America

Documentary depicts the end of the 1920s good times in the U.S. ("Roaring 20s"), leading into the Great Depression. Mildred Unger, age 10, performs a wing walker charleston dance while out on the wing of a JN-4 "Jenny" airplane in flight over Los Angeles in 1926.Four girls dancing on the top of a building higher than those around it, in Boston, Massachusetts. Amusement park patrons riding a roller coaster. People out driving through a park in their automobiles. Patrons enjoying themselves at the Steeplechase amusement park in Coney Island, New York. A crane piling old cars in a heap at a junk yard. But following the Wall Street crash (stock market crash) of 1929, conditions change in America. Group of men, women, and children standing together, looking sad and dejected, poor and desperate, due to conditions of the Great Depression affecting families. Still photo of group of people receiving food assistance in a city. A man, woman, and baby, in a tent (probably migrant workers). The famous 1936 photo, "Migrant Mother" by Dorothea Lange, of migrant worker, Florence Owens Thompson, with two of her children in California. Men receiving food from a city soup kitchen. Dejected unemployed men.

Date: 1937
Duration: 1 min 32 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036811
The 1930s Great Depression and the administrations of Presidents Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt, in the United States

Hard times in the Great Depression led to formation of The Bonus Army. American veterans of World War 1 march on streets of Washington DC, carrying a large poster demanding immediate cash redemption their "bonus" service certificates awarded by Congress in 1924 (but not lawfully payable until 1945). Army Chief of Staff, General Douglas MacArthur, ordered by President Hoover, to clear the Bonus Army encampments, is seen standing in a street surrounded by several U.S. Army troops. People watch from sidewalks as a contingent of U.S. Army cavalry rides down the street. U.S. Army M-1917 tanks roll down Pennsylvania Avenue in July 1932. Bonus marchers and others watch from Lafayette Park in background. Scene shifts to the 1932 Democratic Party Convention in Chicago Stadium, Chicago, where delegates cheer after nominating Franklin D. Roosevelt as their Presidential candidate. Roosevelt seen waving from the podium. Migrant farm workers seen at temporary, dilapidated dwellings in close quarters, and sitting at a campfire, some with sad and desperate faces. Migrant farm workers' cars on the road, piled high with family belongings during westward migration. Migrants riding atop an open railroad freight car. Two men share a copy of the "Epic News" newspaper (published by supporters of Upton Sinclair and the End Poverty Movement in Los Angeles and central California). Narrator describes programs of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). Construction workers ignite demolition charges during construction of Boulder Dam (aka Hoover Dam and officially so-named in 1947). Glimpse of President Roosevelt at the site in an open car, for its dedication on September 30, 1935. Construction workers engaged in building the dam. Another shot of President Roosevelt in his open car. Towers being erected to carry electric power from the dam's hydroelectric generators. President Franklin D. Roosevelt smiling broadly at the formal dedication ceremony, September 30, 1935. Controlled discharges of water through the dam. Views of the Boulder Dam hydroelectric generating station. Oil well rigs or oil derricks at work during construction at night. People at work in fabric mills or textile mills, and in a print shop

Date: 1932
Duration: 2 min 20 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036812
Lion cubs spring at balloons when they are put to balloon test to reveal their ferocious nature, in El Monte, California.

Lion cubs during the balloon test in El Monte, California. A group of lion cubs in a den in El Monte. A bunch of balloons put into the den by animal psychologists, for the balloon test. The lion cubs watch the balloons in the air. The cubs spring at the balloons, revealing their ferocious nature. A group of cubs watching another cub pawing at a balloon and the balloon bursts.

Date: 1933, August 16
Duration: 60 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675055008
U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower, at the Cypress Point Golf Club, in a golf cart and practicing his golf shots

U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower at Cypress Point Golf Course Pebble Beach, California. The President gets in a golf cart and travels through the golf course. Photographers run along with his cart. President Eisenhower practices putting on a green. Trees in the background. People watch him putt. The photographers take photographs. The President joins a foursome to play. The other three men stand with their drivers and watch as the President Tees off. They walk through the course. President Eisenhower hits an iron to the green. The entry sign reads 'Cypress Point Club'. Cars drive through the club area and arrive at a building. A direction board reads 'seventeen mile drive Pebble Beach Lodge'. A sign board on the top of a building reads 'Del Monte Forest'.

Date: 1955
Duration: 2 min 51 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675073187
International Exposition in Treasure Island, San Francisco, California

Bay Bridge in San Francisco. Close-up view of American flag waving and fluttering in breeze on windy day. A ferry underway. Point of view from moving ferry boat as it approaches main Ferry Terminal in San Francisco, California. People travel by ferry to reach the Federal Theatre in Treasure Island for the Golden Gate International Exposition. Passengers talk and laugh on the ferry. Many views of men, women and children of all ages in typical 1930s clothing fashions. A boy wearing a capshields his eyes from the sun and looks up at seagull birds as they fly in the sky. Panoramic views of San Francisco city skyline and buildings in the City. Hills in the background in some views. People disembark from the ferry.

Date: 1939
Duration: 2 min 22 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675041894