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A girls soft ball team practice during their training in Hodges Field in Memphis, Tennessee.

Soft ball teams doing their training in Memphis, Tennessee. The girls of a soft ball team stand together. They practice in a field. A car parked in the background. A girl throws a ball and another one hits it. A board reads 'Hodges Field'. A girl catches the ball. A girl applies compact powder on her face and starts playing.

Date: 1938, March 23
Duration: 53 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033967
Newsreel titled 'King Cotton Holds Court' depicting a spectacular night parade by civilians in Memphis, Tennessee.

Newsreel titled 'King Cotton Holds Court' depicting a spectacular night parade by the civilians in Memphis, Tennessee. The civilians enjoy the ripening of their staple crop -- Cotton. Floats depict King Cotton and his Queen. The spectators hail the King. Several floats carry fancily dressed participants of the parade. One float catches fire and is engulfed in flames. Men point fire hoses at the fire.

Date: 1946, May 20
Duration: 1 min 4 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036132
People watch fireworks during night in Memphis, Tennessee.

Views of fireworks during night time in Memphis, Tennessee. Different kinds of fireworks over the river can be seen. A large crowd is gathered to view the fire show at the bank of river. Gathering turns out to pay tribute to Cotton.

Date: 1961, May 12
Duration: 58 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032763
Downtown Memphis Tennessee buildings, park, and port with river boats on the Mississippi River

The skyline and business district of Memphis Tennessee. A horse-drawn cart coming down a wide boulevard. Factories and various buildings. River boats with paddle wheels; and also barges at docks of the Mississippi River beside the city. Wording "US Mail" visible on the side of one river boat. Smoke billowing from the stacks of the steam ships. A little girl wearing a hat and feeding pigeons in a park.

Date: 1917
Duration: 1 min 29 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023079
The Harahan Bridge in Memphis, Tennessee.

The Harahan Bridge in Memphis, Tennessee. Railway track over the cantilvered truss bridge with a steam locomotive pulling train cars across the bridge. Armed guards in World War I era U.S. Army uniforms guarding the bridge as train approaches. A river boat passing underneath on the Mississippi River below the bridge . Men stand next to railway track.

Date: 1917
Duration: 45 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023081
Lucky Teeter and fellow daredevils crew perform stunts at show in Memphis Tennessee.

Stunt driver Lucky Teeter and his fellow daredevils amaze and thrill the crowds during a Memphis, Tennessee show. Teeter leapfrogs over a line-up of automobiles in his car, does a flip and bursts through a ring of fire. Instant rewind of several of the stunts. April 1938.

Date: 1938, April
Duration: 1 min 16 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675028782