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Policemen arrest suspected anarchists and transfer them by ferry boat to Ellis Island

The Palmer Raids in the United States during the so-called "Red Scare" period. Police in New York City arrest men and women, suspected of being anarchists and radicals. Police wielding clubs raid their homes, arrest them and place them in police vans. The arrested suspects are taken to Ellis Island by ferry for deportation.

Date: 1919, November
Duration: 51 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675065207
Two women flappers flaunt tradition and get their hair cut in a barber shop, during the "roaring twenties,"in the U.S.

Two women walk on a city sidewalk in the U.S. in the 1920s. They enter a barber shop (which usually has only men for patrons). Both women have "bob" short hair styles that are a considerable departure from styles of a decade earlier. They sit in the shop and read a newspaper, as they wait for the barber to finish giving a man a haircut. A woman goes to the empty barber chair as she explains, to the barber, how she wants her hair trimmed. The barber begins to cut her hair.

Date: 1923
Duration: 30 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675065218
Popular American music and dance, during the "Roaring Twenties."

American composer, George Gershwin, performs solo passage on the piano (likely from Rhapsody in Blue). Gershwin at the piano accompanied by Paul Whiteman's orchestra, with Whiteman conducting. Paul Whiteman playing violin with several other violinists. A Harlem jazz band of African American musicians performing in a jazz club. Couples dancing the Charleston. Band members singing with megaphones as flappers and couples dance, including the Charleston dance.

Date: 1923
Duration: 1 min 17 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675065221
Illegal stills, hijackings, bombings, and other mafia or mob violence depicted in movie enactments

Movie portrayal of gangster activities during prohibition, in 1920s in the United States. Illicit liquor trade and gang warfare. Clandestine liquor manufacture. The illicit liquor is loaded onto a truck for transportation. Truck hijacking after truck carrying liquor smashes into a car blocking the road. Metal milk containers filled with liquor being machine gunned by a passing car. Two business establishments being bombed. Gangsters interrogating two men and threatening them while holding handguns. Faceless gangster in 1920s fashions (actor) fires revolver. A policeman with a gun firing at gangsters during a getaway.

Date: 1923
Duration: 1 min 34 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675065224
High Fashion in Paris. Haute Couture.

Wealthy women and Haute Couture in Paris, France. Hotel Ritz with taxis parked in front. Views of exclusive shops. Cartier, jeweler. Worth and Coty. Guerlain. Woman goes on buying spree, pointing at and buying things that attract her. Private fashion shows for wealthy women clients. Models show latest fashions in salons.

Date: 1927
Duration: 1 min 6 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675065230
People gathered at sidewalk cafe and buying New York Herald, Le Globe, Le Monde newspapers in Paris, France.

Patrons at a crowded sidewalk cafe on the Champs-Elysees in Paris, France. The Arch of triumph seen in background. Patrons dine, converse, and smoke cigarettes. Waiters serve the tables. On the sidewalks, a vendor sells "La Globe" newspaper; a boy wearing a "New York Herald" cap, sells papers; and another vendor sells "La Monde" papers. A large newsstand is also seen on the sidewalk.

Date: 1928
Duration: 31 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675065235