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Equestrian statue of General George Henry Thomas by John Quincy Adams Ward in Thomas Circle Washington DC.

Equestrian statue of General George Henry Thomas by sculptor, John Quincy Adams Ward, in Washington, DC. It was erected in 1879, at Thomas Circle, where Massachusetts Avenue, Vermont Avenue, 14th Street, and M Street, NW, converge. The National City Christian Church can be seen on the circle, in the background.

Date: 1949
Duration: 16 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675044868
Public safety projects being constructed and developed by WPA workers to build better cities in Massachusetts, United States.

Works Progress Administration (WPA) projects to build better cities in Massachusetts, United States during the Great Depression. Testing of steering ability by a test operator provided by WPA. Traffic signs and street lights being erected by WPA workers. City's elevated system being constructed by them. Methods of preventing silicosis among granite workers being tested at Quincy. Breeches buoy rescue practice being conducted by the Coast Guard on Cape Cod.

Date: 1937
Duration: 1 min 59 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675045139
Men get employment at ship building plant and construction sites as steel mills expand activities

Newsreel titled "Full steam ahead for big business as jobless get work" shows men working at ship building plants, shipyards, and construction sites in Quincy, Massachusetts. Expansion of activities by Pittsburgh steel mills has provided jobs to unemployed during the Great Depression. Smoke pours from stacks and chimneys looking over a steel mill in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania.

Date: 1931, January 15
Duration: 40 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675038355
Orville Wright raises a flag and dignitaries including Quincy Gillmore, Edward Andrew Deeds present in the United States.

The 40th Anniversary of the Wright brothers first flight in the United States. A picture of Ohio Governor Judson Harmon presenting a medal to the Wright brothers and people in a stadium arranged to form a flag. A flag being raised. The Wright brothers and other dignitaries surround a flag pole. Aviator Orville Wright raises a flag. A gun salute in front of Air Material building. Aviator Orville Wright, General Quincy Gillmore and U.S. Army Colonel Edward Andrew Deeds present.

Date: 1943
Duration: 2 min 12 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675068450
Shakedown cruise of Destroyer Escort, USS Frament (DE-677) during World War II

Destroyer Escort,USS Frament (DE 677) is commissioned during World War 2. Lieutenant Commander S. T. McAdam, Jr., in command, reads his orders to crew assembled on deck. Tug boats move the ship away from the pier. DE-677 underway in shakedown cruise.Officers review daily plans for shakedown cruise. General Quarters alarm is sounded and crew mans battle stations. Gun crews at 1.1 inch, 40mm, and 3 inch guns. Crew members positioned to launch depth charges ("ash cans") , torpedoes, and to fire "hedge hogs" (clusters of bombs). Navy aircraft tows a canvas sleeve target for crew to practice fire against. Antiaircraft gun crews shoot down target.

Date: 1943 15
Duration: 2 min 55 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675022982
Dignitaries grouped in front of the Wright House and Orville Wright with others at dedication of a memorial in the U.S.

The 40th Anniversary of the Wright brothers first flight in the United States. Conference members grouped in front of the Wright House. Orville Wright surrounded by a group. The group enters the house. Aviator Orville Wright, General Quincy Gillmore and U.S. Army Colonel Edward Andrew Deeds with others enter a Colonel Deed's aircraft "The King Bird" for trip to Washington DC. The aircraft taxis for a take off. Delegates posing in a group in Washington DC. Orville Wright in whose honor the conference was held. United States President John Calvin Coolidge, Jr. and United States Secretary of Commerce William Fairfield Whiting present. The group at Kitty Hawk in North Carolina. Orville Wright removes a cover from a stone memorial. Pigeons are released. A plaque commemorating the first successful flight of an airplane.

Date: 1943
Duration: 4 min 5 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675068451