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Harlem New York City USA 1938 stock footage and images

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Views of life in Harlem, New York City, circa 1938.

A film about life of the African American people of Harlem in New York City. Scenes of Harlem, New York City, at dusk and nighttime during the Great Depression. Elevated train carrying passengers uptown to Harlem. Commuters coming out of subway station. Kids gathered on the sidewalk. Actor, Ossie Davis, early in his career, is seen at a lunch counter talking to another man. Couples in an upscale restaurant. Exteriors of various ball rooms. African American people dance, including Whitey's Lindy Hoppers and other dancers performing at the Savoy Ballroom. Couples talk. African American high-society debutantes and young couples in formal dress dance to ballroom music. Several girls tap dancing at Smalls Cabaret as jazz musicians play instruments including saxophone and drums. A man enters an apartment building at night. Aerial view of Harlem at night.

Date: 1938
Duration: 3 min 8 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675068255
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.

Date: 1938
Duration: 1 min 34 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675068254
People do their respective jobs and people at a market place in Harlem, New York, during the Great Depression.

A film titled 'Life in Harlem' about life of the African American people of Harlem in New York. Buildings in Harlem. A horse drawn carriage on road. People near their houses. A man pulls a loaded push cart. A boy comes out of a house for his work as a shoe shine boy. Policemen move out of a police headquarters building for their duty in the streets. A sweeper works on a subway. African American man wearing suit and hat eats a sandwich. A crowded sidewalk with pedestrians and a news stand. An address sign for West 145 Edgecombe Avenue. An apartment building. Views of more wealthy areas of Harlem and Schubert Hills. Women come out of a building. Awning for the Park Lincoln building with street address 309. A woman in elaborate fancy dress and hat walks under awning and enters a waiting car as a doorman holds open the door of the taxi cab for her. Two young women bicycle on road. People shopping at open air food market with vendors and push carts on upper 8th Avenue. A man reads newspaper as he sits and has his shoes shined by a shoe shine man. People at door ways of houses.

Date: 1938
Duration: 3 min 45 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675068252
Churches of Harlem and East Harlem in New York City.

A big building in Harlem, New York City. Rain and snow are falling. Bethel Gospel Pentecostal Assembly (2 E 120th St, New York, NY 10035) at Harlem, New York City. The New York Ephesus Seventh-day Adventist Church (101 W 123rd St, New York, NY 10027, United States). The Ebenezer Gospel Tabernacle Baptist Church (227 Malcolm X Blvd, New York, NY 10027, United States). The Religious Training Institute of America's board informs about the courses and timings at institute and information to contact Reverend P.G. Neil. A Schaefer beer billboard advertisement shows woman named Marva Revis, the Miss Beaux Arts winner of 1963, holding two 6-packs of beer and reads "... When you're having more than one". Views of Mount Olivet Church (201 Malcolm X Blvd, New York, NY 10027). Moore's Temple. Saint Mary's Catholic Church. A Jewish synagogue entrance is also seen, with Hebrew words at the entrance door.

Date: 1963
Duration: 2 min 6 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675035551
Two New York City policemen observe busy street corner and African-American pedestrians in Harlem, New York City

New York City policemen standing on a busy street corner in Harlem, New York City. Policeman stands behind truck of bottles. Two policemen in Harlem, New York City stand on street corner as African-American pedestrians pass by. One of the policemen wipes his nose with tissue. Two African-American women chatter near the policemen. The two policemen observe the automobiles and pedestrians in busy Harlem street.

Date: 1935
Duration: 1 min 3 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675078406
African American children having food and playing at a camp in Harlem, New York City.

African American children at a camp in Harlem, New York, United States. Children's Aid Society of the city of New York and Boys Club conduct a day camp in Harlem, New York. Children seated on a ground. Counselors give milk and sandwiches to the children. The children have their food. seated on the ground. The children enter a building. Buildings along the sides of a street. Other children on scooters, playing on the street. A sign on a building reads: 'Children's Aid Society of the city of New York' and 'Harlem Boys'.

Date: 1935
Duration: 2 min 38 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675063279
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