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Demonstrators fill streets in Manhattan, expressing anger over unemployment and lack of public assistance during the Depression

Huge crowd of people fills New York City street during the Great Depression, in 1930. Some carry signs reflecting economic woes. One reads:"$25.00 a week for UNEMPLOYED."Others read: "No work, No rent;" "Down with Vagrancy Laws;" and "Join Unemployees Council." Scene shifts to Police arriving and arresting a woman and a man whom they escort into a Paddy Wagon. Police advance toward group of demonstrators, outside City Hall, holding signs. One reads: "Vote Communist." Another reads: "Food and Clothing for Unemployed," and one reads:"Fight the Speed UP SYSTEM." One reads: "We demand unemployment insurance."Several women are in the group, which retreats as the police move toward them. One man is lifted by others, above the group, in front of an entrance to the City Court. He stands on rung of an iron fence by the sidewalk. Defiant demonstrators exchange words with police officer. More signs are seen reading: "Down with Fake Employment Agencies" and "Down with Police Brutality." The crowd moves along, some taunting the policemen as they pass. A phalanx of several policemen press against the demonstrators. A woman, with a sign, falls to the ground and another helps her up. Scene shifts to an intersection of Manhattan streets, completely blocked in all directions by cars and demonstrators.

Date: 1930, October 16
Duration: 1 min 18 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675069017
Activities of U.S Merchant Marines and American ships underway in the United States in the 1920's and 1930's.

The legislative and maritime history of the U.S. Merchant Marines in the period between World War 1 and World War 2. Newly launched German, Italian and Japanese ships underway at sea. Ships including the German liner Bremen and the Italian Ocean liner Rex are seen underway. People gather at a dock. American ship underway in heavy seas with waves crashing over. Point of view shot at heavy seas from deck of a ship. A man works in a ship radio room. A man watches through binoculars and uses a sextant. Sailors row a small boat with oars in heavy seas. A sailor decorated by officials of the Merchant Marines. Dock workers and ship construction workers at a shipbuilding yard in the United States working on building new ships. American liners are seen undereway including: SS Washington off shore of New York City skyline and skyscrapers, SS Manhattan also off shore of Manhattan, the SS Lurline, the SS Mariposa, and the SS President Hoover (named for Herbert Hoover) underway at sea. The U.S. flag fluttering from a flag pole. The text of the declaration of policy under the Merchant Marine Act of 1936 is shown.

Date: 1942
Duration: 2 min 21 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675062737
The Tammany Hall, City Hall and Municipal Hall of the City of New York City.

The buildings, architecture, and busy streets of Lower Manhattan, New York City. The Tammany Hall (44 Union Square E, New York, NY 10003, USA), City Hall (City Hall Park, New York, NY 10007, United States) and the Manhattan Municipal Building (1 Centre St, New York, NY 10007, USA). Pedestrians and cars in Lower Manhattan. 1934.

Date: 1937
Duration: 1 min 23 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675035827
Traffic on Fifth Avenue in New York City, New York, United States

Cars, buses, taxi cabs, and other vehicles on Fifth Avenue, in New York City. Sign boards of show-rooms in the street. Several other buildings in the background. Pedestrians cross the street. Several pedestrians stand on the paved roads. United States flag on buildings. A man loads goods into a truck. Midtown Manhattan views, including New York Public library. Uniformed policemen directing traffic of various 1930's and 1940's cars and automobiles, from center of street.

Date: 1946
Duration: 3 min 42 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675041739
WPA laborers work at various development programs in New York City, United States.

Works Progress Administration (WPA) projects in New York City during the Great Depression. Aerial view of New York City as a plane flies by and clouds part to show Manhattan island below. Buildings and skyscrapers of New York City as seen from river and harbor views, with some ships and tugboats seen. Trucks on roads of Governor's Island at tip of Manhattan. An older home seen under renovation and reconstruction. View of the Brooklyn Navy Yard with WPA workers busy building and improving new roads and shops and warehouses near the docks. A bulkhead construction project is shown at Sheepshead Bay in Brooklyn, to reclaim land from the waters of the Bay. The work includes construction of a new Boulevard and sanitary and sewer system improvements. View of the front entrance of the Beaux Arts style Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House on Bowling Green at the tip of Manhattan. Pedestrians and WPA workers are seen in front of the building. WPA laborers on an unidentified Manhattan street (with elevated railway running in background) are busy removing old street car rail lines from the streets, in sections, and loading them into truck beds to haul away. Large public swimming pool and bath house construction projects are shown, influenced by city planner and avid swimmer Robert Moses (scene possibly shows McCarren Park pool - note archway seen under construction). WPA workers are seen building the new East River Drive, including highways, walks, and flanking parks. Construction workers seen building the roadway, with the Williamsburg Bridge in the background. A model of the project is shown with the new drive from Grand Street to 14th Street. Camera pans down from the Empire State Building to show the roof of the New York Public Library teeming with WPA workers as they remove the old corroded copper roof and replace it with a new metal roof. View of busy Manhattan streets below the workers, including a street car passing by.

Date: 1936
Duration: 3 min 4 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675062811
President Franklin D Roosevelt with his wife and cabinet office holders at U.S. Navy armada parade, New York City.

United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt his wife Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt, and with with his newly appointed Cabinet and Admiral William Standley aboard the Cruiser USS Indianapolis (CA-35) to view U.S. Navy maneuvers. Views of U.S. battleships, the carrier USS Lexington (CV-2) and other ships in sea. Office holders like U.S. War Secretary George Dern, Secretary of Navy Josephus Daniels and others can be seen. Biplane aircraft in a flight formation over the naval fleet as it passes New York City. A gathering of people watches fleet; A U.S. flag can be seen. Views of New York City skyscrapers on Manhattan Island in the mid 1930s.

Date: 1934, May 30
Duration: 2 min 44 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032719