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During the Great Depression, people barter their things and gather on streets to trade without money in Washington DC
People exchange products in the United States during the Great Depression, trading without money. A man takes out a crate from a car and gives it to another man. Buildings in the background. People buying vegetables from a market. A board reads: 'Never Mind the Holiday We will trust you'. Other board reads: 'You don't need money. What you have got? We will take anything'. A man arrives in the market holding a guitar. He gives the guitar to another man and receives a thing. A vehicle passing on a street. People gather in a large number on the street. Some of the people gather inside a building.
Speed racers Sir Malcolm Campbell and Gar Wood break records in the United States.
New land and sea speed records are set in the United States. People gather in Daytona Beach, Florida. Sir Malcolm Campbell seated in his race car 'Blue Bird'. He drives the car on Daytona beach and sets a new record driving at the speed of 272 miles per hour. People cheer. Close view of him smoking a cigarette in the car after his speed run. Speedboat racer Garfield Arthur Wood seated aboard his speedboat 'Miss America' on the St Clair River near Detroit Michigan. He races the 5000 horsepower mahogany speedboat and wins the Harmsworth Trophy. Close up view of Gar Wood smiling after his race. From a November 10, 1958 newsreel recounting events 25 years earlier.
Involvement of the Tennessee Valley Authority during the Great Depression in the United States.
Recovery efforts from the Great Depression in the United States. (Footage largely from mid 1930's, produced in 1967). A farmer plows his field using oxen. Men and women work in fields. Price tags on food products. Officials of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration in an office discuss reforms to solve farming over production and low demand. Statue of Abraham Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial. The White House building. Scenes of dilapidated farms and fields overcome by drought and dust bowl conditions. Farmers sit outside their houses fatigued and exhausted. Faces of tired, fatigued farmers. A town meeting of farmers in a small town. Franklin Roosevelt with cabinet and other officals in early days of his administration. Floods in Tennessee Valley washing away farmland. Farmland scarred by erosion lines and trenches. The Tennessee Valley Authority builds dams and power plants in the Tennessee Valley and helps farmers reclaim and improve land. Farmers in a rural town listen to a Tennessee Valley Authority official present plans of development. Establishment of Rural Electrification Administration. Electric power lines set up in the rural areas of the United States. Franklin Roosevelt addressing the U.S. Congress in the Capitol. Scenes from voting centers and of a voting booth in an American town. Wendell Willkie addressing a crowd. U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt converses with an African American official (possibly in connection with signing of Executive Order 8802, the Fair Employment Act). Eleanor Roosevelt behind him, and Secretary of State Edward Stettinius, Jr. to her left. Eleanor Roosevelt speaking to group of African American children.
Jimmie Mattern takes off from Floyd Bennett Field, New York in his aircraft for a trip across the Atlantic.
Aviator Jimmie Mattern in Floyd Bennett Field, New York. Jimmie Mattern boards the aircraft and takes off for his trip across the Atlantic. Crowd watches as the young Texas pilot takes off.
Pope Pius XI performs the Orbis et Urbis Service at Basilica of St. John Lateran in Rome, Italy.
Pope Pius XI performs the Orbis et Urbis Service in Rome, Italy. A crowd of 150,000 pilgrims kneel and pray in front of the Archbasilica of St. John Lateran (Piazza di S. Giovanni in Laterano, 4, 00184 Roma RM, Italy). Pope Pius XI, wearing the Papal Tiara, conducts the religious ceremony. The pope blesses the crowd from the balcony of the Papal Archbasilica.
Washington Park Zoo monkeys after being set free at Island Resort in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Washington Park Zoo monkeys arrive at Island Resort in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Zoo monkeys set free on the island. They climb ladder and swim in the lake. Children watch the monkeys as they play. Monkeys in a small boat. The monkeys being set free from their cages and they roam in a playground.
