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View of levees, homes along with the construction of a canal and boats at a dock in New Orleans, United States.

The city of New Orleans in the United States. View of levees and homes. Rowboats in the New Basin Canal (the first canal in the city, running between Lake Pontchartrain and uptown New Orleans). Construction workers seen building the Industrial Canal between the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain. A crane picks up beams, scaffolding and shoring on the side of an excavation. Boats at a dock. A sign reads 'Bienville Street landing'.

Location: New Orleans Louisiana USA
Date: 1923
Duration: 1 min 22 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675067370
Navigation in crescent city of New Orleans, United States.

Geographical map depicts location of New Orleans between Lake Pontchartrain and the Mississippi River. Elevated or low aerial view of some buildings in City of New Orleans. View of Levees that protect the city. Trains are ferried across rivers. View of paddle wheel steamships moving and anchored at port. A paddle wheel steamship named "Uncle Oliver" underway in the Mississippi River. Railroad train locomotive riding on a ferry boat en route and arriving at another port. A train locomotive and its attached trains drive off the ferry.

Location: New Orleans Louisiana USA
Date: 1929
Duration: 3 min 2 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675022219
Statues of General Albert Sydney and General Beauregard in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Statues in New Orleans, Louisiana. Boats, dredges, piers, and buildings along Bayou St. John. An equestrian statue of General Andrew Jackson at Jackson Square (Andrew Jackson Equestrian Statue, Jackson Square, New Orleans, LA 70116, United States). Metairie Cemetery (5100 Pontchartrain Blvd, New Orleans, LA 70119, USA). A statue of General Albert Sidney Johnson of the Confederate Army. A streetcar on St. Charles Street and a residential area. An equestrian statue of General Pierre Gustave Toutant-Beauregard.

Location: New Orleans Louisiana USA
Date: 1917
Duration: 1 min 18 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675066846
1937 Ohio Valley flood scenes, with major loss of property and life in the United States.

Damage caused by 1937 flood in the Ohio Valley area of the United States. A heavy loss of property due to a flood. Supplies being unloaded from trucks for the people. People being rescued from the areas affected by flood. Men aboard boats moving through buildings on the edge of the Ohio River that are submerged in water. Men moving a wooden casket. Destroyed houses and buildings in the areas. Flooded streets. A weather vane blowing briskly in wind. Narrator details how the weather bureau forecasts the weather and offers the information to help prevent losses from such disasters. Automatic typing machine records weather instrument readings. View of newspapers being printed at a printing press. A radio tower. People gather near injured flood victims. People lined up on the street to get supplies. Scenes of floodwaters below Memphis where flooding was effectively contained. Water rushing under the then new Bonnet Carre spillway of Lake Pontchartrain near New Orleans. Man opens a book published in Lisbon in 1605, now in the Library of Congress, written by Gabriel Lobo Lasso de la Vega, reporting on the exploration team of De Soto on leaf 300 of the book. De Soto's group, in 1543, reported on the flood they saw below current day Memphis, extending over 20 leagues of land, covering the tops of trees, but not overrunning the homes of the Native Americans who build shelter atop high poles. A view of submerged homes in the 1937 flood are shown as the narrator laments that more modern people did worse than the Native American Indians.

Location: Ohio River Valley United States USA
Date: 1937, January
Duration: 4 min 1 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675062901
Ruins of the Old Spanish Fort and two men sit with legs in the stockade in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Scenes from the city of New Orleans in Louisiana, United States. Ruins of the old Spanish Fort at the Bayou St. John on Lake Ponchartrain, also sometimes called Fort St. Jean or Fort St. John, or Fort San Juan del Bayou. Tourists walking in the old fort area, and view of an old cannon in the fort grounds. Exterior view of the city arsenal at 615 St. Peter Street directly behind the Oabildo. The arsenal is on the site of a former Spanish prison. It was war designated in 1915 to be the relic department of the Louisiana State Museum, and dedicated as a "Battle Abbey." View inside the arsenal, where two African American men are seated on the ground with their legs in the stockades or stocks to demonstrate their operation.

Location: New Orleans Louisiana USA
Date: 1923
Duration: 1 min 11 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675067364
The military career of General Dwight D Eisenhower from 1926 to World War II

Film starts showing Dwight D. Eisenhower's diploma as honor graduate of the Army Command and Staff School, in 1926. Image of Major Eisenhower (in civilian clothes) Narrator says he was assigned to France, to prepare a guide book on American battlefields in Europe. Image of Eisenhower as a member of General Douglas MacArthur's staff in the Philippines, where MacArthur was Commander-in-Chief of the Philippine army. Glimpse of headquarters building there. MacArthur in his office helping the Commonwealth of Philippines work out a plan for its military defense. Image of Lieutenant Colonel Eisenhower in 1939, serving as Executive Officer of the 15th Regiment, at Fort Lewis, Washington, View of the Regiment's Headquarters building. Scene shifts to 1940, showing German forces invading Holland and Belgium. German tanks are seen in action. German Junkers 87 Stuka dive bombers and Heinkel 111 bombers drop bombs. President Franklin D. Roosevelt is seen as Congress passed the Selective Service Act draft in the United States. Views of Lt. Col. Eisenhower as Chief of Staff of the Army 3rd Division and later as Chief of Staff of the Ninth Corps. Next, he is seen as Chief of Staff to General Walter kreuger, who in 1941 led the Third Army in the most realistic maneuvers held by American troops (The Louisiana maneuvers). Views of American troops engaged in those maneuvers. Image of Eisenhower as a Brigadier General. Views of the Pearl Harbor bombing on December 7th 1941.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1941
Duration: 3 min 0 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033591
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