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Scenes of Category 5 hurricane and devastation in Florida Keys, during Labor Day weekend 1935

Hurricane scenes and damage in the Florida Keys from the strongest hurricane ever to strike the United States, making landfall in the Florida Keys on September 2, 1935. It had a pressure reading of 892 millibars. Massive winds blowing and bending palm trees. Vehicles damaged. Derailed train on railway track.

Date: 1935, September 2
Duration: 14 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675043317
The 1930s Great Depression and the administrations of Presidents Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt, in the United States

Hard times in the Great Depression led to formation of The Bonus Army. American veterans of World War 1 march on streets of Washington DC, carrying a large poster demanding immediate cash redemption their "bonus" service certificates awarded by Congress in 1924 (but not lawfully payable until 1945). Army Chief of Staff, General Douglas MacArthur, ordered by President Hoover, to clear the Bonus Army encampments, is seen standing in a street surrounded by several U.S. Army troops. People watch from sidewalks as a contingent of U.S. Army cavalry rides down the street. U.S. Army M-1917 tanks roll down Pennsylvania Avenue in July 1932. Bonus marchers and others watch from Lafayette Park in background. Scene shifts to the 1932 Democratic Party Convention in Chicago Stadium, Chicago, where delegates cheer after nominating Franklin D. Roosevelt as their Presidential candidate. Roosevelt seen waving from the podium. Migrant farm workers seen at temporary, dilapidated dwellings in close quarters, and sitting at a campfire, some with sad and desperate faces. Migrant farm workers' cars on the road, piled high with family belongings during westward migration. Migrants riding atop an open railroad freight car. Two men share a copy of the "Epic News" newspaper (published by supporters of Upton Sinclair and the End Poverty Movement in Los Angeles and central California). Narrator describes programs of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). Construction workers ignite demolition charges during construction of Boulder Dam (aka Hoover Dam and officially so-named in 1947). Glimpse of President Roosevelt at the site in an open car, for its dedication on September 30, 1935. Construction workers engaged in building the dam. Another shot of President Roosevelt in his open car. Towers being erected to carry electric power from the dam's hydroelectric generators. President Franklin D. Roosevelt smiling broadly at the formal dedication ceremony, September 30, 1935. Controlled discharges of water through the dam. Views of the Boulder Dam hydroelectric generating station. Oil well rigs or oil derricks at work during construction at night. People at work in fabric mills or textile mills, and in a print shop

Date: 1932
Duration: 2 min 20 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036812
Power poles, power lines, transformers, radio towers, gases and connections are tested at Nevada site in the U.S.

Operation Cue (part of Operation Teapot) nuclear test preparations at Nevada test site in Nevada, United States. Views of Nevada site. A sign of civil defense and 'Operation Cue' written on a vehicle of civil defense. A woman exits the vehicle and enters the headquarter building of the 'Civil Defense Operations'. Interior: A Civil Defense staff member working. He talks to personnel. The Civil Defense staff member shows her prospective of entire lay out and models of the system. Men work on constructing shelters and structures. An engineer goes in a corner room of a basement. A man climbs down a power pole. Power poles, power lines and transformers are tested. Transformer substations are tested. Radio towers are tested. In a test house a radio transmitter is used for broadcasting. Liquid petroleum and natural gases are tested. All connections are checked. Installation of equipment is checked. A 18000 gallon supply tank is sprayed. A storage house on the test site.

Date: 1955
Duration: 5 min 3 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675072219
American Contralto, Marian Anderson, performing in the United States, beginning with Town Hall debut in New York City

Audience enters the Town Hall in New York to hear a recital by Marian Anderson on December 30, 1935. Curtains are opened. Marian Anderson stands beside a pianist on the stage. Audience applauds. She sings while the pianist plays. Marian Anderson bows to the audience. Curtains are closed. Two assistants help Marian sit in a chair because she has been performing with a broken ankle. View of the streets in the District of South Philadelphia., Marian's native hometown. Marian's mother Mrs Anna Anderson at her home. Shots of members of the Union Baptist Church passing an offering plate to raise money to aid Marian Anderson. Marian Anderson talks with manager Sol Hurok in dressing room. Marian Sings during another concert. Crowd applauds as she finishes. View of the New York Times showing name of Marian Anderson in the roster list of great American artists. Montage shows Marian's concerts cards, awards received by Marian from city foundations, the Philadelphia Bach Award of 10,000 dollars in 1941. Marian performs outside at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC, USA on Easter Sunday April 9, 1939. Thousands in attendance at the concert as she sings My Country Tis of Thee.

Date: 1935, December 30
Duration: 7 min 4 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050270
Test houses and mannequins lined up outside houses at a test site in Nevada, United States.

Operation Cue nuclear bomb test preparations at Nevada test site in Nevada, United States. Types of houses to be tested include single story buildings without basement, two story buildings with basement, 8 inches concrete buildings reinforced by steel and single story buildings with walls and roof joined by steel nuts. 55 hundred foot line and a house similar to the one which had been tested. Men unload a truck. Mannequins are carried into the house. Mannequins lined up at the test site. Several men lining them up. One mannequin has no arms.

Date: 1955
Duration: 1 min 44 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675072220
Civil Defense observers inspect test homes blown by an explosion at a test site in Nevada, United States.

Operation Cue nuclear test at Nevada test site in Nevada, United States. A man in a construction hat walks amidst rubble caused due to a nuclear test explosion. Civil Defense personnel at the blast site to inspect. Ruins of a two story building. An undamaged test house reinforced by concrete blocks. A partially damaged two story frame house. A protective basement room is inspected. Ruins of a house destroyed in the nuclear blast.

Date: 1955
Duration: 1 min 10 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675072223