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Red Cross members fill information cards at the International Red Cross Agency in Geneva, Switzerland.

International Red Cross in Geneva, Switzerland. Red Cross members fill information cards seated at table. Board in the background reads 'Tri Du Courrier". Officials read and fill the cards. Man places cards in order. Alphabets A-Z and Red Cross on the wall. Exterior building of Palais Du Conseil General. Traffic on road outside the building. Board at the entrance reads 'Agence Centrale Des Prisonniers De Guerre'.

Date: 1939, December
Duration: 3 min 0 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675064210
American Ernest J Swift, James T Nicholson and Wayne Chatfield Taylor in the office in Geneva, Switzerland.

American Red Cross Delegation in Geneva, Switzerland. Ernest J Swift, Vice Chairman of American Red Cross in charge of foreign operations; James T Nicholson, National Director of American Junior Red Cross and Wayne Chatfield Taylor, Under Secretary of Commerce working in the office. They look at map of Europe. The three officials walk on bridge with lakes, quays and mountains in the background.

Date: 1939, December
Duration: 1 min 9 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675064211
American Arnold Rorhold and Donald De Rouge in a meeting in Geneva, Switzerland.

League of Red Cross Society in Geneva, Switzerland. View of the Rue De Athenee building with a Red Cross flag on the building. Red Cross nurse gets into the building. Officers of the Secretariat of the League, American Delegation member Arnold Rorhold, Secretary General of Norwegian Red Cross; Donald De Rouge, Secretary of the League discuss important issues in the office. Poster on the wall reads 'Indian Red Cross Society'. Red Cross employees work inside hall of Palais Du Conseil General.

Date: 1939, December
Duration: 3 min 13 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675064212
Carpenters make emergency airlock at St. Clement Dane's Grammar School in London, England during World War II.

Workers make emergency airlock at St. Clement Dane's Grammar School in London, England during World War II. The School adapted as a gas decontamination depot. Workers knock out window blocks. Carpenters working with Hammersmith Hospital in the background. Workers chiseling out bricks. They plaster emergency airlock vent. Two school boys enter the room with evacuation kits in hand.

Date: 1939, August
Duration: 2 min 5 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675064232
Workers remove stained glass from windows and place sandbags at Canterbury Cathedral in Kent, England (WW2)

Workers place sandbags around Canterbury Cathedral (Cathedral House, 11 The Precincts, Canterbury CT1 2EH, United Kingdom) in Kent, England during World War II, as protection against enemy German bombing. Workers fill sandbags to place them around the Cathedral. They remove the famous stained-glass windows. The crowd watches them. Workers place sandbags in front of the windows.

Date: 1939, August
Duration: 2 min 14 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675064233
'Emergency Conservation Work' shows development of parks and Civilian Conservation Corps at work in the United States.

Film 'Emergency Conservation Work' shows development of the National Parks system in the United States. Images from early 1930s in the United States with idle and quiet factories, mills, and smokestacks due to unemployment and Great Depression. Factory with a board that reads 'Closed' on it. Unemployed workers stand in line at the gates of the General Employment Agency and gather around bulletin boards at the agency. Young men of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) at a meal with heads bowed in prayer, and then standing in a line at the start of a work day. CCC workers digging in a field. Several sign boards seen including: Edisto State Park developed by U.S. department of Interior; CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) camps SP-3 Poinsett Co. 421; Myrtle Beach State Park Emergency Conservation Work; Co. 262 CCC Camp Florida SP-3; Old Lodge Camp SP-15.

Date: 1939
Duration: 1 min 26 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675064309