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Navigation in crescent city of New Orleans, United States.

Geographical map depicts location of New Orleans between Lake Pontchartrain and the Mississippi River. Elevated or low aerial view of some buildings in City of New Orleans. View of Levees that protect the city. Trains are ferried across rivers. View of paddle wheel steamships moving and anchored at port. A paddle wheel steamship named "Uncle Oliver" underway in the Mississippi River. Railroad train locomotive riding on a ferry boat en route and arriving at another port. A train locomotive and its attached trains drive off the ferry.

Date: 1929
Duration: 3 min 2 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675022219
Students sketch on canvases resting on easels in the Department of Fine Arts at Xavier University in New Orleans.

Education for African American students at the Xavier University of Louisiana (1 Drexel Dr, New Orleans, LA 70125, United States), a Catholic university for African Americans in New Orleans, Louisiana. Black students create paintings on canvases resting on easels in the Department of Fine Arts. Students are using Catholic paintings and sculptures as subjects. A black student sketching a portrait of Jesus Christ. Students honing their artistic skills. Two students making a sketch of an angel statuette. Male black students sketching some clay pots. An arts teacher sketches on a canvas to teach a student. Arts teacher demonstrates strokes on the side of the canvas. One student paint a portrait of a black female model. Female model smiles.

Date: 1940
Duration: 1 min 9 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070516
Slum areas in the city of New Orleans and African American students at Xavier University in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Xavier University, America's only catholic college for African American youth, in New Orleans, Louisiana. View of run down slum and tenement areas in the city of New Orleans in the 1930s Great Depression time frame. African American citizen moves outside the houses. A woman walks on a street with a bucket. Clothes hang from a string. Children standing on a road. Nuns pray in a church. A sign: 'Xavier' on a building. Exterior of a college building. African American college students seated outside the building read books. They leave the college building. African American man talks as he climbs down the stairs.

Date: 1939
Duration: 3 min 6 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070513
Men attach pontoons to Douglas World Cruiser in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.

Men attach pontoons to Douglas World Cruiser in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. Men give wreath to the pilot of world cruiser Lt Erik Nelson in New Orleans. Men examine pontoons. World cruiser stands on pier. Wreath placed on cruiser. Men lift aircraft tail and place barrels beneath it. Mechanics remove wheels and strut then attach pontoons. Major Martin Commander of the flight receives small United States flag. He unfolds it.

Date: 1924
Duration: 3 min 41 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675025916
A Mardi Gras parade in New Orleans, Louisiana shows a crowd of tourists and floats on a narrow street.

The Rex parade during Mardi Gras in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana. The parade shows various floats and a crowd marching through the narrow streets of New Orleans. Krewe participants from floats throw trinkets to spectators. Spectators catch Mardi Gras throws from passing floats. A crowd of tourists and floats move ahead. King Rex waving his scepter from his grand float.

Date: 1957, March 7
Duration: 55 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675047761
Andrew Higgins designs and supervises construction of boats in New Orleans, Louisiana.

A tribute to Andrew H. Higgins and his workers in developing and producing invasion boats in New Orleans, Louisiana. The Navy's need for landing crafts. Landing crafts at sea. Soldiers climb a cargo net. Landing crafts head towards a beach. Soldiers disembark from the landing crafts and move towards a sandy beach. Exterior of a building in New Orleans. Andrew Higgins works in his office. He talks over a phone. He makes a rough sketch of a sample boat. Andrew Higgins and his workers discuss and look at designs of an invasion boat. A Higgins tug boat at a canal. Higgins supervises construction of a boat. Ship builders work night and day. Navy officers get off from vehicles and meet Higgins. They inspect an LCVP (Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel). An army tank being driven aboard the LCVP. Higgins and officers board the LCVP. The ramp of the LCVP is closed. It gets underway at sea. It stops at a shore. Higgins and the officers disembark from the LCVP. They climb up a flight of steps and talk. Higgins receives rush orders from the navy. Ship builders at work. Workers build a boat. They assemble the parts of the boat and paint it. LCVPs are transported. Exterior of a boat building plant. Constructed LCVPs and ships. (World War II period).

Date: 1944
Duration: 8 min 53 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675071818