Steel worker cuts an artillery shell casing in half and displays the cross sections. Newly fabricated 14 inch shells are moved by crane. A machinist files surface of a shell being turned. Shells being moved over rollers on plant floor. Loading powder into shells. Moving shells with motorized cart and chain sling.
Manufacture of ordnance material at Bethlehem Steel company plant in Pennsylvania during World War 1. Women check receptacles for holding artillery shells, in a caisson. Men load shells into caissons. A man wearing protective clothing and mask, spray paints a finished caisson. Men install small artillery field piece into its carriage and mate it with a caisson. Soldiers give the finished product an acceptance inspection. Yard of the plant filled with finished artillery carriages and caissons.
Manufacture of artillery guns at Bethlehem Steel company factory plant in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania during World War I. Rail yard of the steel plant. A poster of an American soldier with rifle standing on top of a tank. A 14 inch gun barrel nestled in an extra long railroad car. Sky filled with smoke pollution and steam spewing from stacks at industrial manufacturing plant.
Baltimore riots in the wake of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in April 1968. A busload of African American men, arrested during rioting in Baltimore, are bused to the Baltimore City Courthouse, on Calvert Street, where they unload, single-file, with hands held over their heads, and enter the courthouse, under armed guard by Federal (or Federalized) troops. A crowd of all white citizen spectators fill the sidewalks to watch the goings on. Brief closeup of soldier wearing helmet and carrying rifle with fixed bayonet. Soldiers form a cordon around the line of prisoners as they walk into the courthouse. Two civilian officials follow the prisoners into the courthouse. Closeup of a Baltimore City policeman holding a Remington 870 Police Magnum shotgun. He smiles for the camera. Army troops are in the background. Closeup of the bus with some prisoners at the windows (apparently having reboarded the bus). Army troops begin moving a small, mixed crowd of some African American and some white spectators away from the courthouse entrance.
U.S. military intervention during rioting in Baltimore in wake of Martin Luther King assassination. Sign on office door identifies 2nd Battalion, 325th Infantry Regiment. U.S. officers in their command center check a map of the city. Views of officers conversing in the command center. U.S. soldiers rest on floor of an armory: Some soldiers play cards. One soldier polishes his shoes. Few play basketball and one eats. An officer points at the map of the city.
A man in an overcoat and cap, walks along the Shaw neighborhood sidewalk of 7th Street NW, in Washington DC, on April 7, 1968 (Palm Sunday, and Day of National Mourning for Martin Luther King Jr. after his assassination). The man passes a Salvation Army store, and various storefronts including one selling home appliances, as he approaches the corner of 7th St NW and N St NW, Washington DC. Camera zooms in on front of Immaculate Conception Catholic Church across the corner at 1315 8th Street NW., where decorative palms are displayed on the church door. Camera moves close to church and pans up toward bell tower and down again showing parishioners leaving the church holding sprigs of palms. A priest in colored vestments greets individuals as they leave. On the sidewalk below the steps, two priests stand and also greet parishioners as they leave. Camera position returns to intersection of 7th St NW and N St NW, with view of the Seventh Street Savings Bank building at 1300 7th Street, then a part of the National Bank of Washington (that signage visible at top of the building's side facing N St NW.) Pedestrians walk by on 7th St NW., crossing N St NW.
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