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Upper Darby Pennsylvania USA 1930 stock footage and images

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Young children get presents by Santa Claus when a giant statue of Kris Kringle is erected in 69th Street, Upper Darby, Pennsylvania.

Christmastime celebrations in Upper Darby (bordering West Philadelphia). A 60-foot high statue of Santa Claus (Kris Kringle), is set up on 69th Street. Children dance in a circle around it and snake in and out of adjacent building. Some children are seen having pony rides in the midst of the activity. A line of students walk past and shake hands with a person in Santa costume, as adults watch from nearby. A group of younger children mob Santa, who takes it all in stride. Small children receiving gifts from Santa in his hut. Santa holds and shows a toy train to a very small child in his arms, who simply cries. The same thing happens when he tries to give a toy bear to another very small child.

Date: 1930, December 11
Duration: 1 min 47 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675052018
Labor Union movement grows significantly, but labor strife also continues during 1930s in the U.S.A.

Men work assembling transmissions on an automobile production line. John L. Lewis, President of the United Mine Workers Union, giving a speech supporting formation of the Congress of Industrial organizations (CIO). Group of workers gather to listen to a union speaker. Many wear miners hats. Cheering Union workers march in street carrying posters reading: "Long-Live the C.I.O." and "Forward with C.I.O." Leaders of the early C.I.O., Sidney Hillman, President of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America (ACWA); Philip Murray, Vice President of the C.I.O.; and John L. Lewis, C.I.O. President, circa 1938. David Dubinsky, President of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU); along with Sidney Hillman, and John L. Lewis, are seen mingling with clothing workers. View of a steel mill from workers' residential street on a snowy day. Steel worker in a mill. Deckhand and an engine man aboard a merchant ship. Roustabouts and riggers at an oil well. Nonferris metal miner in rail car. Worker in tire factory. Electrical worker. Union leader speaking to group of workers carrying banner reading: "Shirt workers, Local 128 Allentown, Pennsylvania Joint Board." Labor organizers passing out leaflets to workers leaving a factory. Labor discussions with workers at lunch tables. Draftsman preparing labor organization protest signs calling for "Sanitary Conditions" and "Fair Play." Working women singing a union song. Union workers marching and carrying signs for various causes. Man riding a bicycle displaying sign:"Don't Scab." Car overloaded with people with sign: "Come To Lafollette Labor Rally Monday, July 5, 1937." ACWA workers of Local 95, Atlas Plant. UMWA members of Lafollette, Tennessee. Miners playing cards and playing musical instruments. Miners on strike below in mine for 5 days, cheer leader. Poster encouraging Americans to travel and visit in the USA. Police and military units repel, combat, and arrest striking and protesting workers. Scenes of military uniformed men throwing tear gas grenades into crowds of workers as workers disperse. People assisting injured protesters. Police firing various weapons at protesting workers during labor protests and strikes in San Francisco. U.S. Army soldiers arresting a civilian and throwing tear gas grenades.

Date: 1938
Duration: 4 min 13 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036813
U.S. Naval Fleet Review, Christmas Day, 1918, in New York City. Presidential Yacht and U.S. warships are seen.

The U.S. Presidential Yacht, USS Mayflower (PY-1), carrying Secretary of the Navy,Josephus Daniels, makes its way between U.S. warships in the Port of New York during the Naval Fleet Review on Christmas Day, 1918, at the end of World War 2. A 4-stacker destroyer is seen briefly, to port side of the Mayflower. Later she is seen passing New York City piers, along the shoreline. The scene shifts to the USS Pennsylvania (BB-38), with her crew lining the deck and an upper triple turret turned to port. Two launches head toward a gangplank on her portside. View from boat passing the USS Pennsylvania's bow and along her starboard side.

Date: 1918, December 25
Duration: 1 min 31 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675049926
Chief Atssinniboine Boy introduces himself to Native American Indian tribal council

Chief Atssinniboine Boy introduces himself to Indian tribal council. He belongs to tribe Upper Gros Ventre from Atsena. He uses sign language to identify himself. Chief Boy wears a feather headdress among his Indian regalia. Upper Gros Ventre are also known as Hidatsa or 'People of the willow'.

Date: 1930, September 4
Duration: 15 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675025304
The chief of the Arapahoe tribe Tom White Horse speaks using sign language in Montana, United States.

A documentary shows U.S. Army Major General Hugh L. Scott and U.S. Representative from Montana Scott Leavitt meeting Native American Indian chieftains at Fort Browning in Montana to evolve methods of perpetuating the Indian sign language in 1930. The Indian chieftains seated in a Piegan council lodge for a council. The chief of the Upper Gros Venter tribe speaks using the Indian sign language. The chief of the Arapahoe tribe Tom White Horse also speaks in sign language. Rides Black Horse, the chief of the Assiniboine, uses sign language to explain what he is saying. General Scott translates the stories simultaneously.

Date: 1931
Duration: 58 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675069792
Shoppers on streets of Washington DC, and views of workers and commuters in Washington during the Great Depression.

A film depicts an impressionistic study of Washington DC on a typical Depression day. Children swinging in a park. Pedestrians, men, women, and children and Shoppers and traffic on a busy Washington DC street. G.C. Murphy 5&10 cent store is seen, and a Forsythe Shoe Store a few doors down. Women in 1930s clothing and hats. A close up of a woman shopping. A cloth store. An old man seated in a flower shop. People buy vegetables from vegetable vendors on the side of a street. A woman walks with her child and gets into a bus. African American woman brushing the hair of young girl, seated in front of a wooden shack. Various African American citizens walking. Major excavation and construction site not far from the Washington Monument, with heavy equipment being used to prepare foundations for construction. The Washington Monument in the background. Shot of womens legs and feet as they board a double decker (two level) bus. Women ascending the interior stairs in the bus to get to the upper level. Point of view shot from moving double-decker bus as it drives on streets of Washington DC and enters a traffic circle with an equestrian statue in the center. A woman on the bus does her makeup. People seated inside the bus.

Date: 1936
Duration: 1 min 9 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675069105
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