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Puerto Rico 1941 stock footage and images

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Men do wood work in Puerto Rico under NYA

Men do wood work under National Youth Administration in Puerto Rico. Furniture like chairs made by them. Men work on machines at a factory.

Date: 1941
Duration: 1 min 15 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675058634
Coconuts are picked and husked, bananas picked and sugar cane cut and gathered in Puerto Rico.

View of coconut palms in Puerto Rico. Man climbs up a coconut tree and tosses coconuts on the ground. Coconuts ate gathered and loaded onto a cart. Men husk coconut shells using an upright steel blade. Banana trees. Men collect bunch of bananas and load them on donkeys. Sugarcane plantation. Flowers over the crop. Sugarcane crop is harvested. The crops is loaded on bullock carts.

Date: 1941
Duration: 2 min 46 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029922
View of Monkey island in Puerto Rico, operated by the School of Tropical Medicine and Columbia University.

View of Monkey island in Puerto Rico, operated by the School of Tropical Medicine and Columbia University. Group of monkeys eat, play and jump on tree branches. Monkeys take bananas from a basket and eat.

Date: 1941
Duration: 1 min 18 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029923
Devastation from Calimano Theater fire in Guayama, Puerto Rico, and rebuilding efforts.

Scene of several buildings including the Calimano Theater, wrecked due to a fire. Newspaper headline states that youth from the National Youth Administration (NYA) extinguished the fire at the Calimano Theater. Scene of fire fighters in Puerto Rico arriving on scene, hooking up fire hoses, and spraying water. A sign reads "National Youth Administration U.S. Coast Guard project". Young men at work reconstructing buildings. Scaffolding in front of a building and a man pulls a wheelbarrow behind him. Sign on building reads, "Departamento de Sanidad. Laboratorio Central de Rayos 'X' " (World War II period).

Date: 1941
Duration: 1 min 23 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675058633
Plumber and painter work at headquarters post of San Juan in Puerto Rico under NYA

A sign reads Headquarters post of San Juan. Plumber and a painter work under National Youth Administration in Puerto Rico. Painter paints a military board. Various boards painted by him. A man does wood work.

Date: 1941
Duration: 52 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675058636
Governor of Puerto Rico Horace M Towner, Colonel George H. Estes, and other officials welcome Charles Lindbergh in San Juan.

Aviator Charles Lindbergh visits San Juan, Puerto Rico. A huge crowd awaits his arrival at an air field. Lindbergh's plane 'Spirit of Saint Louis' lands and taxis. Men move towards the plane as it comes to a halt. Closeup of the 'Spirit of Saint Louis'. Several officials stand near the airplane as Lindbergh prepares to leave the cockpit. Among them is George H. Estes, Jr., Commander of U.S. Troops in Puerto Rico. ( He held rank of Brigadier General, in 1918, but now wears peacetime rank insignia of Colonel.) Others greeting Lindbergh include Puerto Rican government officials and civilians, who watch as Lindbergh climbs out of the cockpit. Lindbergh poses with Governor of Puerto Rico, Horace M Towner, and other officials.

Date: 1928
Duration: 1 min 6 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675031389