Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania after the Pittsburgh flood of 1936 (March 17-18, 1936). Workers cleaning up debris at 610 Stanwix Street in front of the Joseph Horne Co. department store building. Men tossing debris on a truck and shoveling debris out of the street. A large flood water pump emptying water onto the street. Policeman with a ruler pointing to a plaque mounted to the store's corner at Stanwix Street and Penn Ave. that reads “HIGH WATER, MARCH 15TH 1907”. The police officer then points to new high-water mark on the pillar which is much higher.
A U.S. four-stack destroyer flanks the Presidential Yacht, Mayflower, as it steams, carrying Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, followed by a motor launch, in New York City on Christmas Day, 1918 a month after the end of World War I. The next scene shows the USS Pennsylvania (BB-38),with ship's company lining her decks and her forward three-gun turrets turned to port. Next sequence is take from a small boat circling the Pennsylvania from bow to her port side, where two small boats are seen. In a separate scene, a motor launch pulls up to a gangplank at starboard side of the Pennsylvania. Scene shifts to the USS Texas (BB-35) steaming, followed by other battleships. Final scenes show warships anchored,one belching heavy black smoke. A U.S. Cruiser. (World War i; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
A collegiate football game between the Navy Midshipmen and Pittsburgh Panthers of the University of Pittsburgh in the United States. The game starts. Spectators seated in the stands as they watch the match and cheer. James Traficant is quarterback for Pitt as they defeat Navy. The score board reads Navy 14 and Pittsburgh 28.
A film titled '144 cars stored in space for six! Novel device intended to relieve traffic parking problems' Cars parked vertically at a parking in East Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania. Cars being driven into cages and then lifted by elevators to be parked vertically.
"Smiles" O' Timmons, who has lost and arm and a leg, climbs a ladder at the Annual Firemen's Convention in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and then performs stunt in which he dives from a height of 100 feet into a small pool containing water only 4 feet deep.
Steel workers arriving for work as the new Carnegie-llinois steel company plant (subsidiary of U.S. Steel) opens in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Officials inspect the plant. First operations of rolling hot steel begin. Workers entering plant. View of hot steel being rolled out and cooled.
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