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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
The 1928 National Convention of the Republican Party at Convention Hall in Kansas City, Missouri.

Herbert Clark Hoover at Republican convention for U.S. Presidential Elections,1928 in Kansas City, Missouri. Crowd gathered at the convention. Crowd carry posters of Hoover. Supporters of President Hoover gathered. Crowd waves the flag of United States. A lady carry poster reading New York. Democratic candidate Alfred Smith delivers a speech. Crowd applauds.

Date: 1928, June
Duration: 38 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675065246
Democratic Party convention of 1928 where Alfred Smith is nominated as the Presidential candidate in Houston, Texas.

Segment from a film on the early political life of Franklin D Roosevelt. Scenes of crowd and delgates at the Sam Houston Hall in Houston, Texas, during the Democratic convention of 1928. Alfred E smith, Governor of New York, is nominated as the Presidential candidate. He later persuades Franklin D Roosevelt's to run for office of Governor of New York. Scene of New York State Capitol, Albany, New York. Roosevelt was elected and is seen seated at a desk, as he arrives in Albany, for the first time. He is seen seated and conversing with Mrs. Herbert H. Lehman, wife of the Lieutenant Governor, at an inaugural ball. Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt is seen standing and chatting with others behind Roosevelt. Herbert Lehman is at the far right of the group, behind Roosevelt

Date: 1928
Duration: 1 min 12 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049729
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
Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s campaigning activities for the Democratic Party as Governor of New York

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) poses with fellow Democratic party mates Alfred E. Smith and John W. Davis. Crowds cheering during the Democratic Party National Convention in New York City. Supporters carry signs with the names of US states and territories such as Massachusetts, Florida and Vermont. Supporter in Democratic Party National Convention carry poster of Alfred E. Smith. View of 1928 Democratic Party National Convention in Houston, Texas. Supporters carry signs bearing the US states and territories names. Alfred Smith smiles and takes off his hat. Alfred E. Smith, Franklin D. Roosevelt and other Democratic Party officials meeting. View of New York State capitol building in background of Albany New York street scene. Franklin D. Roosevelt working on his desk as Governor of New York State. Franklin D. Roosevelt surrounded by supporters. Franklin D. Roosevelt speaks with supporters, including Mrs. Edith Altschul Lehman sitting on the armrest of his chair during the inaugural ball. Syracuse, New York State Fair motorcade. Franklin D. Roosevelt in Syracuse State Fair motorcade with his mother, Sara Delano Roosevelt. Franklin D. Roosevelt have lunch at an outdoor restaurant in Syracuse, New York.

Date: 1924
Duration: 2 min 7 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079076
The U.S. National stock market craze during the "Roaring 20's" before the stock market crash.

An office entrance in Tacoma, Washington. Sign at door reads: "A.R. Blair & Co. Importers." A man smokes and reads the Tacoma Daily Ledger newspaper in his office. He reads the page with New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) prices for Thursday, August 30, 1928. A sign '"George R. McCall & Company, Stocks and Bonds, with offices at New York, Buffalo, Chicago & St. Louis." A number of the company's clients sit in chairs and watch as the latest stock prices are posted on display boards. Men are shown on the telephone communicating stock orders to their brokers. Hectic activity is seen on the New York Stock Exchange with floods of orders to buy and sell shares. Stock exchange number boards lit up with numbers. Men are seen in various places hovering over stock exchange ticker tapes running fast out of ticker tape machines. Scene of fireworks in the sky at the end (alluding to collapse of the stock market and the "Crash" on Wall Street that precipitated the Great Depression).

Date: 1928
Duration: 2 min 6 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675065250