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California gold discovery site at American River at Coloma; view of reconstructed, period-authentic gear of gold miners

View of hill side at Coloma, panning down to water of the American River, site of gold discovery by John Marshall in 1848, that led to the "gold rush." Close up view of panning for gold and filtering screens in use. Elevated view of wooden viaduct on hillside that transported water. Reconstruction interior view of a gold miner's office or dwelling, with gear and belongings of the mid 1800s period in the American west. A covered wagon parked outside. Saddles and harnesses hanging from rafters in a wooden building. Reconstructed studio of photographer Peter Britt, with various portrait photographs on the walls, and an area for subjects to sit, with a backdrop, for photographs. View of an authentic camera from the period.

Location: California United States USA
Date: 1966
Duration: 3 min 3 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675075462
Franklin D. Roosevelt helps Americans to recover from the Great Depression in the United States.

Great Depression scenes and recovery efforts in the United States. U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt inaugurated as President on March 4, 1933. Scenes of Roosevelt and outgoing President Herbert Hoover leaving the White House together in a top-down convertible limousine before the ceremony. Roosevelt at the U.S. Capitol building during the inauguration ceremony as President of the United States. Roosevelt delivering the famous line in his speech, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." Jobless American men wait in unemployment relief lines to get work or jobs. Men in a bread line. Unemployed man with a large sign "Will take any job." Scenes of families migrating in the United States, with vehicles filled with belongings. Families and children suffering poverty and in makeshift camps and tenement dwellings during migration (usually migration west). Troops and bands march with American flags on Constitution Avenue during the Roosevelt Inauguration parade. Exterior view of U.S. Capitol Building framed by tree limbs. Men in an office empty heavy mailbags filled with letters (presumably to congress and senate). Government officials at a long table working on emergency banking laws in March of 1933. Scene of people flooding into a bank and making a run on the bank to retrieve deposits. President Roosevelt signs Emergency Banking Act in his office on March 9, 1933. View of White House lawn and White House. The CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) is created to put unemployed young men to work on various conservation projects. CCC boys and men working on planting trees with pick axes and mattocks. Men and women in line to sign up for Emergency Work Relief programs. Officials write down the information for each worker as they are put to work in a variety of projects. Women and men, including white and African American men are seen getting assigned to work projects. A sign "USA Work Program WPA" advertising a suspension bridge work project of the Works Progress Administration in Los Angeles, California. People build roads, bridges and post offices. Cable fed out of a large spool as construction of a suspension bridge is shown. People work in factories. Close up views of railroad train locomotive wheels as they start moving and the train on tracks near factories. Various factory scenes including smokestacks, groups of workers entering factory for work shift and closeup view of a steam whistle blowing to mark the start or end of a work shift. A coal mining operation. Automated tools dig coal in shaft. Two coal miners take a break and eat. Crane hoists material at mine. A steel factory and hot molten steel pouring from a ladle.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1933
Duration: 6 min 17 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675044176
Coal miners play cards, smoke cigars, rest, and protest in coal pit mine during sit down strike in Wilsonville, Illinois.

Coal miners in a sit down strike in Wilsonville, Illinois. Large crowd of civilians gather on street in front of mine entrance. Miners going down coal mine lift. Coal miners on sit down strike in the coal pit. Some miners play cards. Some smoke cigars and others rest. Close ups of coal miners. Miners protest.

Location: Wilsonville Illinois USA
Date: 1937, May 24
Duration: 42 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675073024
Zinc miners tamp dynamite in drill holes at zinc mine in Franklin,New Jersey.

Miners drill holes to place dynamite inside a stope at zinc mine in Franklin,New Jersey. Shift boss inspects the holes and orders miners to place proper amount of dynamite. A miner prepares to tamp dynamite with a drill steel bar. The boss stops him and instructs him to use a wooden tamping stick instead. Miner breaks the wooden stick. Fellow miner uses steel bar to tamp the dynamite and causes an explosion. Injured miner with his face covered with gunpowder.

Location: Franklin New Jersey USA
Date: 1914
Duration: 4 min 0 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675028927
Zinc miners light dynamite fuses at zinc mine in Franklin,New Jersey.

Zinc miner wearing acetylene head lamp tamps fuses in dynamite drill-holes at zinc mine in Franklin,New Jersey. Shift boss instructs the miner to take off his head lamp. The miner puts back on his lamp as the boss leaves. Miner's head lamp lights a fuse that results an explosion. Two miners light dynamite fuses and exit the stope. Fellow miner switches the 'Danger' sign before leaving.

Location: Franklin New Jersey USA
Date: 1914
Duration: 2 min 39 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675028928
Zinc miners work on an open-cut of the zinc mine in Franklin,New Jersey.

Zinc miners work on an open cut at the zinc mine in Franklin,New Jersey. Miners use ropes and wear safety harnesses while working. A miner uses no safety and is instructed to use a rope and belt. Miner unfastens his safety harness. Loose ground slides and the miners fall. Miner wearing a safety harness survives the accident.

Location: Franklin New Jersey USA
Date: 1914
Duration: 3 min 53 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675028931
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