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People get employment, development of canals, roads and airports under the WPA projects in Missouri, United States.

WPA Development works in Missouri, United States during the Great Depression. Smoke stacks of a factory under halt. Depressed and discouraged men in public places of Missouri. Under the Works Progress Administration (WPA) projects, people work in agricultural farms and in factories. People lined outside a shop to purchase milk and eatables. Girls play in a park. A happy family. Streets paved in St. Louis and county roads surfaced. Gravel quarried by labors. The Joplin airport graded and surfaced by horse drawn rollers.

Date: 1937
Duration: 3 min 1 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036887
Underground water survey for farmers and repair of sewers by Works Progress Administration Projects in Missouri, United States.

Development works under the Works Progress Administration (WPA) Projects in Missouri, United States. A Missouri farmer uses an ancient divining rod to search for underground water. Geological survey of underground water by experts, under WPA project during the Great Depression. Survey machines and experts work in a field to test the availability of underground water in the field. equipment drill tube wells. Experts in a laboratory test the minerals and salts in available water. Public health improvement works in St Louis. Construction and repairs of sewers by workers. New built homes in the area.

Date: 1937
Duration: 2 min 3 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036892
United States President Harry Truman and British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill at Westminster College in Fulton Missouri

United States President Harry S. Truman and British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill speak at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri. The speakers recognize College President Franc L. McCluer and Missouri state Governor Phil M. Donnelly. President Truman praises Churchill. Prime Minister Churchill addresses the assembled intellects and dignitaries at the meeting in his "Sinews of Peace" address. Truman says Churchill "Is a great Englishman. But he's half American." During this famous speech which became known as the "Iron Curtain speech," Churchill thanks the college for giving him an honorary degree. He describes the times as "anxious and baffling." He says the U.S. "stands at the pinnacle of world power" and that it has an "awe-inspiring accountability to the future." With a "sense of dutydom, and anxiety lest you fall below the level of achievement... Opportunities here now, clear and shining for both our countries."

Date: 1946, March 5
Duration: 5 min 52 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036536
United States President Harry S Truman with his wife and daughter at his residence in Independence, Missouri.

United States President Harry S. Truman seated with his wife, Bess Wallace, and daughter Mary Margaret in Independence, Missouri, after his successful election as President, in 1948. The Trumans read congratulatory telegrams and letters lying on a table in front of them. President Truman speaks to his wife and daughter. Truman with his family outside his house in Independence, Missouri. They look at flowers in the garden. Mary Margaret picks off a flower from a bush. Harry Truman looks on and smiles. Margaret gives a flower to her mother. Mrs. Truman admires flower from her daughter. Harry Truman wraps his arms around his wife and daughter, speaking with them.

Date: 1948
Duration: 2 min 21 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675063661
Nisei, the second Japanese generation in U.S. involve in various works after released from relocation home during World War II.

Relocation of Japanese ancestry people, in United States due to security reasons, during World War II. Military Police guard with rifle at the entrance of Japanese-American internment camp in Missouri. Nisei, the Japanese of second generation in United States, at various works and profession after released from the relocation centers. Nisei farmers work in sugar beet field. A couple leaving the center gets its details checked by Military Police official and gets in a bus. A family released from an evacuation home. Details of evacuees read by an officer. Nisei work at corn field in Illinois, mechanical machines. Nisei nurse at a hospital aids a woman. Nisei man drives tractor, work on machines, feeds chicken, work in potato farms, with printing machines, at candy factory. Nisei women work making dolls, in garment factory, break eggs for military supply and stitch flags. A Nisei at a book binding factory shows his salary check.

Date: 1944
Duration: 5 min 11 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675037156
American voters head for the polls to vote in the 1944 Presidential Elections during WWII

Sign saying “No loitering or electioneering between this point and the poll”. Long line to election poll in the United States during World War II. 1944 American voters wait in line on the street to vote. Woman, wearing a Tartan patterned headscarf and fur coat, waits outside. Cowboys gallop with their horses to the polling station. Man, wearing cowboy hat, gets off from his Ford Model-T car. Worker walks out to the street. A truck with workers on open-cargo area. A woman walks in an empty city street. View of crowd outside Bronx Beacon Laundry at W 169th Street Bronx NYC. People enter a house used as a polling station with a huge tree in front. View of different kinds of buildings used as polling stations for the 1944 United States Presidential Elections. Including the Barbara Fritchie House ( 154 W Patrick St Frederick, MD 21701) “Bridgeport High School” engraved in front of Bridgeport Central High school (44 Lyon Terrace Bridgeport, CT 06604 ) now Bridgeport City Hall. United Stastes voters wait in lines outside polling places. Two women eating biscuits together as they wait in line. A stylish woman, wearing a matching leopard print cocktail hat and scarf, smiles. A man, wearing cowboy hat, waits in line. A group of nuns, belonging to the Sisters of the Holy Cross (CSC) Congregation, waiting to vote. Man, with mustache and fedora, looks slightly up. View of American Red Cross volunteer. Americans forming a long line to the polling station to vote. A woman sits as she waits for her turn to vote. African-American voters waiting in line to vote. Woman, wearing a polka-dotted headscarf, glasses and overalls, waits in line. Men waiting in line in the suburbs. Americans wearing thick coats waiting in line to vote.

Date: 1944, November 7
Duration: 1 min 33 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079033