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Harlem New York City USA 1916 stock footage and images

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Views from train operating on the Harlem elevated railway in New York City

View from front car of a train moving on the Harlem "L" (elevated train) uptown New York City. Another train heading the opposite direction comes around a sharp curve and passes the camera train. View of fairly empty street below, seen from the camera train moving slowly on the elevated railway.

Date: 1916
Duration: 1 min 25 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675035687
Railroad tracks and vehicles on road in Harlem, New York City.

Views of parkway in Morningside Heights, uptown New York City. Luxurious buildings line the roadside. Several cars drive on the highway. A double-decker bus, filled with people on its upper deck, drives along the road. It displays a sign at its front reading: "5th 11E 57th St." A Mercedes-Benz logo appears on the front of the bus. Camera shifts to view from front of a train moving on the Harlem "L" (elevated train). It follows a track descending beneath the upper level line and continues, merging with another line descending from the highest level. All the lines now run beneath bridges over the railroad. A train approaches from the opposite direction entering beneath the bridge structures. the camera train continues toward a station where a passenger waits on the platform.

Date: 1916
Duration: 1 min 16 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675035689
Bars, restaurants and night life in Harlem New York.

Nighttime scenes in Harlem, New York. Count Basie's bar at 132nd St. and Seventh Ave. in New York's Harlem. Neon sign at Big Wilt's, an African American nightclub (2294 7th Avenue New York City). Apex Beauty School stands above Big Wilt's. Neon lighted signs and marquees read "Moondog with Ace and the Kings.", The Harlem Moon bar and grill. Signs read "Barbecue" , "Chop Suey" , and "Chow Mein" Jim Moon Chinese restaurant. A sign reads "Join now NAACP Applications available here". Facades of Bermuda Bar and Silver Rail bar. Rates of fish, shrimp and chicken are displayed at the Gilmar Self Service Food Center in Harlem.

Date: 1969, February
Duration: 2 min 1 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675035565
Exteriors of Cuban and Puerto Rican stores and shops in Harlem, New York City, United States.

Hispanic businesses of Harlem, New York City around 1940. Signs in Spanish on stores and shops of community from Cuba and Puerto Rico, along 5th Avenue in Harlem, New York City, including "El Siglo" books and perfumes store, and the "Casa Siegel" furniture, record, and electronics store at 1393 5th Avenue, New York City, near the corner of 115th Street (owned by Sidney Siegel). Exterior marquee of the "Hispano" movie theater. View of the storefront for the "C. Mediavilla Licores " liquor store. A resident leans out of a window above shops. View of the "Garcia & Pena" clothing store at 1357 5th Avenue, New York City.

Date: 1939, July
Duration: 51 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675074861
Achievements of African Americans in art, literature, music science, and medicine in the United States, in the late 1930s and 1940s.

A film about achievements of various African American men and women citizens in the United States. A statue of Booker T. Washington, founder of Tuskegee University in Alabama. View of African American scientist and inventor George Washington Carver, as an elderly man, working with another scientist in a laboratory. African American judge of New York city court. African American explorer Matthew Henson is seen looking at a globe (he was with Admiral Peary planting the American flag at the North Pole in 1909), and an unnamed African American surgeon at work in an operating room in New York. Next scene shows famous "father of the blues" musician and composer W.C. Handy (William Christoper Handy) smiling. Next is seen the financier and publisher of the Amsterdam News, Dr. C.B. Powell (Clilan Powell) greeting three uniformed African American women during a World War 2 war bond drive, and handing them a check (close up is shown) for 25,000 dollars, dated January 4, 1942, for the war bond drive. It is from the account of the Victory Mutual Life Insurance Company which Dr. Powell also owned. The check is signed by C.B Powell and Philip M.H. Savory (Dr. Savory was co-owner of the New York Amsterdam News). The next scene shows Elise Johnson McDougald, better known as Gertrude Elise Ayer, who was the first black full-time public school principal after the consolidation of New York City schools in 1898. She was also a noted woman writer during the Harlem Renaissance. She is seated in her office at her desk, likely in P.S. 119 in Harlem, since this is approximately year 1945 and she was at P.S 119 at that time. Her name plaque is visible on the front center of the desk. Principal Ayer smiles as a woman delivers a document to her. Next is seen the African American historian, author, and professor, Lawrence D. Reddick, serving in his role as the curator of the Schomburg Collection of African American Literature. In an art studio is seen the famous "Harlem Renaissance" African American sculptor and painter Charles Alston, at work on a sculpture. Next scene shows the famous African American contralto singer, Marian Anderson, receiving a bouquet of flowers and smiling after a performance. This transitions to a view of African American orchestra conductor Dean Dixon leading an orchestra in a performance of Beethoven's 9th Symphony. Several views of different sections of the orchestra performing under Dixon's direction. Clip closes with brief shots of campuses of several historically black colleges and universities in the United States like Howard University, Hampton, Tuskegee, Fisk, Prairie View. A football game underway in one of the colleges, and view on the field as quarterback throws a pass.

Date: 1945
Duration: 1 min 53 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078146
African American children receive lunch and boys ride scooters at day camp in Harlem, New York City.

Milk and sandwiches distributed to African American children at Harlem Day Camp in Harlem, New York City. The children stand in a line and receive food and drink. Sign on building reads, "Childrens Aid Society of the City of New York." A group of African American boys ride scooters on the street. View of exterior of the Harlem Boys Club building.

Date: 1939
Duration: 2 min 38 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675035583