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Salvation Army personnel serving coffee to military personnel during Operation New Life in Pennsylvania, United States.

Scene from Operation New Life and Operation New Arrival operations for Vietnamese refugees at Harrisburg International Airport (1 Terminal Dr, Middletown, PA 17057, United States) in Pennsylvania, United States. The Salvation Army truck serving coffee. A Pennsylvania State Police helicopter. The helicopter takes off. A sign on the truck reads: 'The Salvation Army'. Men serving coffee to the military personnel.

Date: 1975, May 27
Duration: 1 min 33 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675063237
WPA workers clean the debris from streets and rescue stranded citizens by canoes and rowboats in Pennsylvania.

Flood relief operations of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in Pennsylvania during the Great Depression. Damaged buildings and houses submerged due to flood water. Flood waters stand in Johnstown streets. Ruins on street. An inclined railway carries citizens up a hill. Workers clean the debris. Wrecked vehicles and debris on streets. Sign: ' Have Faith In Johnstown'. Debris and mud being cleaned from streets. WPA workers rescue stranded citizens by canoes and rowboats in Harrisburg: Trucks are loaded with canoes and rowboats arrive at a flooded area. Workers unload boats. Boats being rowed in flooded water. WPA workers rescue stranded citizens. Posh area of Pennsylvania submerged in flooded water. Flood water devastates houses, buildings and factories.

Date: 1936
Duration: 4 min 6 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675045142
Dwight D Eisenhower gives a brief speech on winning the Presidential election in the United States.

Voting Headquarters at a township in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. 'Cumberland Election' written outside the house. Dwight D Eisenhower along with his wife cast their vote. Voters stand in line to cast their votes in the ballot box. Richard Nixon seated with family members. President Eisenhower gives a brief speech on being elected as President of the United States.

Date: 1956, November 8
Duration: 2 min 4 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675064658
Passengers relax on the reclining chairs and use public telephone service during their railroad journey in the United States.

Luxurious facilities provided to the train passengers during journey in the United States. Train moves over the Rockville Bridge across the Susquehanna River above Harrisburg and Enola, Pennsylvania. Mountains in the background. Passengers relax on the reclining chairs during the journey. African American attendant or porter helps a woman to place her luggage. Child opens a push door. Women go to the washroom and apply makeup. Man uses the public telephone service. Woman and girl sleep in a master bedroom. Men work on the electrification speed operations at the power directed room.

Date: 1948
Duration: 2 min 10 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675073412
Bridges constructed by John Augustus Roebling in the United States.

A historical documentary about German born civil engineer John Augustus Roebling's early experimentation with wire rope suspension bridges in the United States. The biography of John Augustus Roebling by Hamiltion Schuyler. The Pennsylvania home of John Augustus Roebling. Aerial view of the railway lines across the Allegheny Mountains connecting Harrisburg to Pittsburgh. A suspension bridge over the Monongahela River in Pittsburgh. A steamer in the river. A suspension bridge spanning the Niagara River Gorge. A railroad on the bridge. A page of the biography shows the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge. Animation depicts the Brooklyn Bridge and boats in the East River. A statue of John Augustus Roebling. The George Washington Bridge spanning over the Hudson River.

Date: 1933
Duration: 2 min 37 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675067265
Scenes of American cities and workers in early 1900s and early motion picture film stars in America in the early 20th century

50th Anniversary of cinema, in 1944, recalls historic footage and movies from the early 1900s. Thomas Edison with Henry Ford together using a motion picture movie camera to create a movie. Mrs Edison displays Kinetoscope. Close-up view of Kinetoscope machine operating. View of vintage film images of lower Broadway in New York City in 1896 with busy traffic on streets of pedestrians, horses, and horse-drawn streetcar. Next scene shows Theodore Roosevelt and the "Rough Riders" (1st United States Volunteer Cavalry) in parade in New York City on return from Cuba after the Spanish-American War in 1898. Next is seen the inauguration parade for President Theodore Roosevelt on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington DC in 1905. Next series of scenes shows American women early in the 20th century. Women workers punching time clock at a factory. Women in dresses emerging from a building perhaps after a work shift circa 1900. An early beauty pageant circa 1910. Famous star actress and singer Lillian Russell in a movie scene. Actor William S Hart appearing in an early movie. Two well dressed women sitting in an early automobile as a man starts it up and drives away. Busy scenes of car and pedestrian traffic, and horse-drawn streetcars on Market street in San Francisco, California circa 1910. Silent movie stars Clara Kimball Young and Sidney Drew together in a movie scene. Famous movie star actress Pearl White in a daring stunt scene, and Ruth Roland performing a stunt leaping from a moving railroad train onto a rope ladder suspended from an airplane, and then riding on a railroad car careening out of control down a mountain side in an early Hollywood movie.

Date: 1909
Duration: 3 min 17 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675025370