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Fitchburg Massachusetts USA 1931 stock footage and images

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Two young divers demonstrate their newly invented diver's helmet in Fitchburg, Massachusetts.

Young men invent a diver's helmet in Fitchburg, Massachusetts. Young men help two divers get into their newly invented contraptions. The contraptions built with old boilers and cycle pumps. The two divers enter a water body as others around watch. A man holds onto the tubes attached to the two contraptions. They use cycle pumps to supply oxygen to the men under water. The divers emerge onto the water surface.

Date: 1931, September 3
Duration: 1 min 3 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058052
Train collision at Readville Massachusetts in the United States

Collision of New York bound express passenger railraod train with local train at Readville, Massachusetts. The trains collided at the crossing derailing the cars of opposite train and leaving 50 people injured. Low visibility due to snow blamed for disaster.1931.

Date: 1931
Duration: 1 min 6 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675023623
Girls run during the annual hoop roll in Wellesley, Massachusetts.

Annual hoop roll in Wellesley, Massachusetts. Participants stand in formation to form digits 1931 on Severance Green. Severance Dorm buildings in the background. Girls run. Trees along the sides of a street. The girls run during the competition.

Date: 1931, May 4
Duration: 1 min 1 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070441
Colonel Bernt Balchen on rescue operations.

Colonel Bernt Balchen flies off to rescue the survivors of SS Viking vessel. The vessel was rocked by explosion about eight miles off the Horse Islands. It caught fire during shooting of film The Viking. 23 March 1931.

Date: 1931, March 23
Duration: 52 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675023630
Philip Hauser briefs George Stone on U.S. census from 1820 to 1931 in USA; also some Wall Street depression scenes

George Stone and Dr Philip Hauser at the presentation of U.S. census around 1960. A slide of U.S. map appears on the screen. 1820 and population figures are marked on part of the map inhabited at that time. The reasons for the increase in the population are discussed by George Stone and Dr Philip Hauser. In the next slide census figures of 1830 appears. Concern for the handicapped lead to including of deaf, dumb and blind category in this census is shown. Dr Philip Hauser shows cartoons appearing in newspapers of that time to George Stone. In the next slide, census figures of 1850 and 7 classes of occupation of people are seen. A percentage representation of various occupations in the population is given in the next slide. The stress on accuracy of 1850 census is seen in the next slide. A comparison of number of occupations of males and females from 1840 to 1870 is shown in the next slide. Census of 1930 is mentioned in the next slide. 1931 is shown as a Special Unemployment Census. Newspaper headlines about stock market crash is seen. Around clip timecode 8:13 are images of Wall Street New York Stock Exchange floor near time of stock market crash. Wall Street region in New York City filled with people and views of lines or queues for homeless, unemployed, or food during the Great Depression.

Date: 1929
Duration: 9 min 20 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023756
An art gallery exhibition of painter Paul Smith's hoax paintings in Boston, Massachusetts.

An art gallery exhibition of painter Paul Smith's paintings in Boston, Massachusetts. Experts observe various creations of the painter and give high reviews despite fact that the painter created them as hoaxes.

Date: 1931, February 5
Duration: 34 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675036002
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