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Panorama of wreckage along waterfront in Galveston Texas, United States, following hurricane of September 8,1900.

Panorama of hurricane damage to waterfront in Galveston in Texas, United States. A large schooner lies on its side in the harbor. Several boats seen in water. Black smoke from a smokestack of a boat. Several men standing on the docks. Erected tents seen.

Date: 1900, September 8
Duration: 60 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675040602
Dr Philip Hauser briefs George Stone on development of various aspects of U.S. census from 1790 to 1900 in United States,1960.

George Stone and Dr Philip Hauser at the presentation of U.S. census. Map of U.S. with an area marked on it appears. Figures of population of 1970 appear on the marked area. On its side 6 questions required for census are seen. A slide with Census 1900 appears on the screen. An official with a gun is seen riding a horse in a forest. He meets a Native American Indian and writes his family details for the census.

Date: 1960
Duration: 3 min 30 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675023755
European immigrants enter the United States through Ellis Island circa 1900

European immigration to America from 1880 to 1914. Elderly European immigrants recall their experiences to interviewers in 1975, between montages of still photo images circa 1900: Pictures of immigrants after they reach America. Faces of immigrants with sad look. Old men with long beards. Large number of immigrants waiting for immigration check at Ellis Island. Immigrants walk with heavy luggage and crying children. Immigrants seek passage. Special officers hired to communicate with immigrants easily.

Date: 1975
Duration: 3 min 30 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039772
Advances in early 1900's transportation and workers' living conditions in New York City, United States

'Wheels of Fortune' depicts how the inter-development of the automobile and the public road system (1897-1927) caused the growth of suburban areas. View of two men as they ride a tandem bicycle for two on a city street. A horse carriage approaches a house. A woman gets off and climbs the steps to a house. Women on bicycles in the countryside wearing late 1800's early 1900's fashions. They stop to look at blossoming trees by the roadside. Next scene shows workers seated outside a factory. They eat lunch from packed dinner pails. View of high density tenements and slums of New York City with laundry hanging on clotheslines and the Brooklyn Bridge can be seen in the distance. View of railroad tracks running immediately beside closely packed tenement buildings of New York City residents.

Date: 1927
Duration: 2 min 0 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675031458
Damaged plantation homes after Civil War, barren land, and African American family migration

Activities around the Mississippi river in the United States in the early 1900s, in areas still affected by the Civil War. Text of General Robert E. Lee's announcement about surrendering the Army of Northern Virginia, April 10, 1865. Image of flames and fire burning a town or city. United States Civil War aftermath in the South. Scenes of several different empty and burned down plantation homes in the southern United States. View of the barren land and effects of erosion. Poor African American family with many things in a horse drawn wagon, walking on foot during migration to a new area of the United States in the north or west. View of the Mississippi River as seen from a moving boat at water level.

Date: 1937
Duration: 1 min 53 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032220
View of docks at Galveston in Texas following disastrous Hurricane of 1900

Birds eye view of docks at Galveston in Texas, United States, following the disastrous hurricane of September 8, 1900. Ruins on dock front visible. Heavy equipment and ships damaged or destroyed. Several people seen. Tents erected are seen.

Date: 1900, September 8
Duration: 1 min 9 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675040598