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Kennedy elected President. Kennedy seen in pre-election parade procession and greeting Eisenhower following election win.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy and his wife are cheered at a New York ticker tape parade on October 19, 1960, during the 1960 Presidential campaign. A large crowd gathered in New York City during a ticker tape parade for Senator John F Kennedy on October 19, 1960 near the end of the campaign. John F. Kennedy and his wife Jacqueline Kennedy in an open roof car wave and smile at the crowd. Views of Republican candidate Richard Nixon and his wife Pat Nixon campaigning. The scrolling text marquee on the New York Times building at One Times Square in New York flashes news of Kennedy taking lead in New Jersey on election night. Next scene shows United States President elect John F. Kennedy as he shakes hands with President Dwight Eisenhower on the steps of the White House.

Date: 1960, November
Duration: 28 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675056517
The Pan American Congress of Journalists see how cotton is harvested and used to make nitrocellulose film.

The Pan American Congress of Journalists visit Kodak in Rochester, New York to see cotton used in the production of nitrocellulose camera film. Views of women picking cotton. Cotton is baled and the bales are sent on conveyor to railroad yard. Bales are loaded onto a Southern railroad box car. Steam locomotive pulls train out of terminal yard. Map shows flow of cotton from the South to New York. At Eastman Kodak, view of cotton being processed into nitrocellulose film, also known as nitrate film for use in motion picture film cameras. View of perforation machine cutting perfs into motion picture film. Film is wound into rolls. Woman worker wraps each film roll in black paper for shipment. Pan American Congress members board a Mack 'Shock Insulated' bus for further travel.

Date: 1929
Duration: 2 min 42 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Spanish
Clip: 65675030521
Garment workers demonstrating, for improved working conditions, encounter resistance in Eastern U.S. cities

Clothing workers in a factory in the United States. Street scene in garment district of Midtown Manhattan, New York City, in 1912. Garment workers, and supporters of their labor rights quest for better pay and shorter hours, pose for a photograph. Workers display many signs expressing their needs, in English, Italian, Russian, Hebrew and other languages. Garment workers, of various specialties, gather in demonstration for better treatment. Employees of the Alfred Benjamins Company refute management's claim that they are satisfied with working conditions. They display a large sign on the sidewalk. Four-sided box signs are also seen (written in Italian and Hebrew). Mounted police move along a street as a foot patrolman arrests a protester. Photograph of lawyer, Fiorello LaGuardia. Garment workers at work in a sweat shop. A large group of young women garment workers marching in a labor rally or demonstration during a strike. Two signs are seen, one reading: "Why are we prohibited from picketing?" and the other, partly hidden, explains why they are striking. A contingent of uniformed policemen with night sticks, stand in front of a building in Baltimore. Smiling women stand carrying signs. One reads: "Our employers are powerful (because) they are organized.We shall be more powerful." Another reads,"We shall fight until we win." Many other signs express similar sentiments. Portrait photograph of 17 year old Ida Brayman, with caption reading: "Who was shot & killed by an Employer Feb. 5th 1913 during the great struggle of the Garment Workers of Rochester (New York)."

Date: 1913
Duration: 1 min 27 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036805
George Eastman holds garden party where he introduces Kodacolor film to notable guests.

George Eastman in a garden party (AKA the Kodacolor Party) at his home in Rochester, New York, on July, 1928. He uses a compact motion picture camera to photograph retired General John J. Pershing. He rewinds the camera. Closeup of George Eastman. At TC:00:22, inventor and industrialist, Hiram Percy Maxim, walks behind Eastman. Some of the guests, including Thomas Edison, pose informally for a picture. The smallest man, at right of the group is Dr. F.E. Ives, inventor of the trichromatic camera. To his right is W.G. Stuber, President of Eastman Kodak Company. Closeup of Thomas Edison hand cranking a motion picture camera on a tripod. Eastman and Edison walk across a lawn and then turn around and walk up some garden steps. Eastman showing Edison an amateur hand held color photograph camera through which Edison looks as Eastman adjusts it. Edison panning and taking still pictures with the camera. He smiles and returns the camera to Eastman. Closeup of Eastman conversing with a young woman. Standing behind Eastman is Kodak President, W.G. Stuber. Eastman and the woman smile and chat. Eastman turns and talks with Stuber, who then excuses himself as he leaves. The woman continues her conversation with Easton. Closeup of Eastman holding a cigarette as he talks with her. Change of scene shows George Eastman sitting by the fireplace in his home, reading a book.

Date: 1928, July 30
Duration: 1 min 58 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675063763
John F. Kennedy wins the Presidential election in the United States.

Presidential election of November 8, 1960. Voting for the 1960 Presidential election underway in United States. President Eisenhower arrives at a firehouse in Cumberland Township, Pennsylvania via helicopter to cast his vote. His wife, Mamie Eisenhower, also casts her vote. Senator John F. Kennedy and wife Jacqueline cast their votes at the Boston Public Library. Republican candidate Richard Nixon and wife Pat Nixon cast their votes in California. Republican Vice Presidential candidate Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. votes. Senator Lyndon Johnson is also seen voting. Ballots are fed into a ballot box marked 'Town of Barnstable' Kenned Kennedy with his wife and daughter appear before the press at the Kennedy compound in Hyannis Port Massachusetts as he leads the race for the White House. News that Kennedy is pulling ahead in the race is seen on a scrolling text marquee aka 'The Zipper' mounted on New York Times building at One Times Square in New York. A reported watches wire reports printing from Associated Press machines. Richard Nixon at a public meeting accepts his defeat and assures his support for Kennedy. Votes being counted and Kennedy wins the election. A man at a newsstand views the front page of the New York Mirror newspaper with headline, 'EXTRA KENNEDY!' 'John F. Kennedy after winning the election. He addresses a public meeting at Hyannis, Massachusetts with his wife by his side, and other Kennedy family members present on stage, including Joseph P. Kennedy Sr, Rose Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Edward Kennedy with Joan Bennett Kennedy, and the President-elect's sisters Patricia Kennedy Lawford, Jean Kennedy Smith, and Eunice Kennedy Shriver. John F. Kennedy accepts Nixon's greetings and talks about making a supreme effort to take America out of difficult times.

Date: 1960, November 9
Duration: 6 min 11 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675042264
Pedestrians wearing early 1960s fashions walk along Fifth Ave in New York.

Street scenes on Fifth Ave. New York City. A well dressed woman in early 1960s fashions waves at the camera while walking with a friend. Women walking past the Best & Co. department store at 641-645 Fifth Ave and E 51 St. A group of pedestrians cross E 51 St along Fifth Ave. Brief shot of two women walking in front of St. Patrick’s Cathedral (5th Ave, New York, NY 10022, United States). Men waiting to cross intersection next to a stopped Cowan truck. Feet and legs of men and women crossing the road. Pedestrians early 1960s fashions cross E 52 St along Fifth Ave in front of Doubleday.

Date: 1960, June 1
Duration: 1 min 16 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675079723