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Harlem New York City USA 1937 stock footage and images

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Famed Sculptor, Augusta Savage, with students, at her Studio of Arts and Crafts, in Harlem, New York City.

The Augusta Savage Studio of Arts and Crafts on West 143rd Street in Harlem, New York City. Several African American artists painting as a model poses, on the floor. Augusta Savage enters the room and moves about looking at students' work and making suggestions. A sculpture session in the studio. The artists make sculptures of a man posing, as Augusta Savage visits them and gives advice. Sculptures of various poses. Artists work on sculptures. They make masks and take measurements. Group of Savage studio artists sketching an elephant in the zoo.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1937
Duration: 4 min 8 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675032262
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.

Location: Harlem New York City USA
Date: 1939
Duration: 2 min 38 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675035583
Works Progress Administration jobs at Bolling Field and in New York building give men construction jobs during great depression

Unemployed African American men and various skilled and unskilled workers get jobs through Works Progress Administration (WPA) during great depression. Men gathered near Quartermaster office at a Bolling Field construction project in Washington DC. Laborers assist in building and grading runways at Bolling Field military installation. Men clear large rocks and debris from a jobsite. Workers smooth and grade runways. A steam shovel moves earth and loads a truck. Scene changes to New York City where a housing demolition project is shown, with men dismantling housing to prepare new moderate income housing. Bricks slide sown a chute away from the building. Workers at Colonial Park in Harlem New York are seen building a new bath house to accompany a newly completed swimming pool (later Jackie Robinson Pool).

Location: Washington DC USA
Date: 1937
Duration: 1 min 44 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058298
People in a parade and office as well as residential apartments on Lenox avenue in Harlem, New York

A film about life of the African American people of Harlem in New York City during the Great Depression. A band plays in a parade. African American residents of Harlem walk in parade on Lenox Avenue. Aerial view of the parade. People watch parade from terrace of a building. A traffic policeman at work directing traffic on 7th Street. Automobile traffic and buildings on Seventh Street. People walking by touch the stump of a good luck elm tree known as the "Tree of Hope", located on Seventh Avenue (later renamed Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd.), between 131st Street and 132nd Street in New York City. The tree was cut down in 1934 with expansion work on Seventh Avenue (also called the "Boulevard of Dreams"). People wait to cross road. Elevated views of office and business buildings on 125th street. A crowded and busy sidewalk of pedestrians on 125th street. Government housing development on banks of Harlem river for a restricted lower income group.

Location: Harlem New York City USA
Date: 1938
Duration: 1 min 34 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675068254
Aaron Douglas and one of his large paintings in a museum in New York City.

Aaron Douglas is shown working on a large painting. He interacts with a lady and a man in a museum in New York City. African American painter, Aaron Douglas (May 26, 1898 - February 3, 1979), was an American painter and a major figure in the Harlem Renaissance.

Location: New York City USA
Date: 1937
Duration: 40 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675032306
Child artists examine paintings and art in a museum in New York City.

Child artists observing different art styles. Close up views of faces of African American children viewing art work. Various paintings can be seen in a museum in New York City, during the "Harlem Renaissance," including two paintings by Aaron Douglas from the "Aspects of African American" series: "The African American in an African Setting" and "From Slavery through Reconstruction."

Location: New York City USA
Date: 1937
Duration: 2 min 19 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675032313
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