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Philadelphia Pennsylvania USA 1942 stock footage and images

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A drill to evacuate babies in case of an air raid from St. Vincent hospital to an air raid shelter in Philadelphia.

A drill to evacuate babies at a hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania during World War II. An air raid alarm being sounded as nurses carry babies out from a room at St. Vincent hospital for evacuation. Babies being handed over from one person to another, with nurses, nuns, and soldiers all participating in a line. Babies with tags attached to them being placed in a bus. Babies and nurses in a moving bus on the way to a safe facility. Babies at an underground air raid shelter play room. Nurses and nuns look after the children as they play.

Date: 1942
Duration: 1 min 10 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675059545
Aerial view of Philadelphia Navy Yard, surrounding industrial and suburban areas in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Aerial view of highway, river, industrial areas, suburban areas around Philadelphia Navy Yard in Philadelphia, USA. Aerial view of smokestacks emitting smoke, ships at dock, factory buildings, highway, vehicular traffic on highway and industrial areas. The last scene is the Westinghouse Electric plant along the Industrial Hwy. {Pa. Rte. 291) between Lester and Essington, Pa. The Rte. 37 trolley (streetcar) loop is also an aid to identification.

Date: 1948
Duration: 3 min 1 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675050349
Girls learn various subjects at the Bryn Mawr College for young women in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

On the Bryn Mawr College for young women in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. High altitude view of the city of Philadelphia Pennsylvania with its buildings, streets, and distant farms. Statue of William Penn on clock tower, buildings and farmlands of Philadelphia. A young woman enters the Bryn Mawr College after her high school. Warden shows her room to live. The girl in library and auditorium of the college. Students move inside the building for classes. A teacher and students in classes of English literature, psychology and Biology. A mouse dissected in biology lab. Girls during leisure hours at the college.

Date: 1948
Duration: 5 min 50 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036899
Passenger train arrives at Broad Street Station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Landmarks in Philadelphia. Passenger train arrives at Broad Street Station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Exteriors of the station shows pedestrians and automobiles on road. Traffic moves on road. Bellevue Stratford Hotel and the Pennsylvania Column. The Column shows Equestrian Statue, Revolutionary War hero. Philadelphia fire shows explosion throwing billows of smoke.

Date: 1918
Duration: 54 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675052549
President Franklin D Roosevelt addresses crowd in Philadelphia during 1940 presidential campaign.

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt at the Philadelphia Convention Hall and Civic Center (3517 Civic Center Blvd, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The President speaks from the podium and gives a political speech responding to what he characterizes as deliberate falsehoods promulgated by the political opposition.

Date: 1940, October 23
Duration: 8 min 47 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046215
Men point and discuss a scale model of the future Philadelphia city, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Scale model of future Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Man points at the scale model of Future Philadelphia. City planners discuss the model. A man walks through a pathway of the model. Blocks of the model are built so that they can spin 180 degrees to show an alternate plan for that block. Several blocks are spun to show different looks for the future of Philadelphia.

Date: 1947, September 8
Duration: 1 min 11 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675073037