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Eleanor Harris Christens Liberty ship in honor of her deceased husband John P Harris at Savannah, Georgia.

The decorated Liberty ship SS John P. Harris (2877) at Savannah, Georgia. Mrs Eleanor Harris christens the Liberty ship in honor of her deceased husband, John P. Harris, who had been Senator from Pennsylvania and a pioneer movie exhibitor. The ship served the U.S. Army Transportation Service (USAT). It was built by Southeastern Shipbuilding Corporation of Savannah Georgia.

Date: 1944, September 13
Duration: 32 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675034858
Operatic contralto Ernestine Schumann-Heink sings at the Treasury building to help raise funds for United War Work campaign

Famous opera singer Ernestine Schumann-Heink sings at the Treasury building (1500 Pennsylvania Avenue NW #1428, Washington, DC 20220, United States) in Washington DC during World War I, to help raise funds for the United War Work campaign drive. A large crowd is seen gathered at the building. Schumann-Heink and other dignitaries are seen at the decorated balcony talking to the crowd in support of the United War Work programs in World War 1.

Date: 1917
Duration: 34 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675035205
President Dwight D Eisenhower addresses foreign students at the White House in Washington DC.

President Dwight D Eisenhower arrives to address the American Field Service students from different countries at the White House (The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW Washington, DC 20500) in Washington DC. Foreign students applaud for President Eisenhower. Journalists take photographs of the president using cameras. President Eisenhower waves at the students. Elvie Nicolopoulou, an American Field Service student from Greece, smiling. The President outlines his principles for the Geneva conference. “Try helping to spread the understanding that will lead to the peacefulness of your own lives to those who will come after.” President Eisenhower said in his speech.

Date: 1955, July 15
Duration: 1 min 17 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675035502
President Dwight D Eisenhower and Clare Booth Luce pose for photographers in Washington DC.

United States President Dwight D Eisenhower and Clare Booth Luce on occasion of her appointment as United States Ambassador to Italy. They pose for photographers at the White House (1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20500, United States) in Washington DC.

Date: 1953, May 4
Duration: 24 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675035728
Views of California's San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco from a cruise ship promotion

Promotional documentary titled 'By The Way of Panama - California The Golden'. Describes views of California to be seen on a cruise from New York, via Panama. The sea shores of California with rocks and sand. A passenger ship sailing in the harbor of San Diego. Views of the San Diego Harbor. The ship, called the "Pennsylvania" reaches harbor of Los Angeles. The buildings and streets of the city of Los Angeles. A Hollywood film studio with shooting underway. Luxury homes of LA. The ship moves on to San Francisco. The harbor of San Francisco including Alcatraz Island in background. Views of the surroundings from a high ridge in San Francisco.

Date: 1931
Duration: 3 min 1 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675035925
Views of Manhattan Island, New York, from a sight-seeing boat on the Hudson River, in 1919.

View from a sight-seeing boat on the Hudson River at New York City, showing Grant's Tomb on a bluff above, circa 1919. (The tomb of President Ulysses S. Grant, in Riverside Park was completed in 1897. In the background, to the North, can be seen the Claremont Inn and Hendrik Hudson apartments. Following a slate reading "Hudson River," the film captures the scenes as the boat moves south along the Hudson. Grant's Tomb is still seen at the extreme north end of the view. But a cluster of tall apartment buildings dominates the bluff above the river. Closeup of a U.S. Pennsylvania-class Armored Cruiser anchored in the Hudson river, with small boats around it and men boarding her from them. Apartment buildings on Riverside Drive in the background. View progresses close to Manhattan Island, where Pier 7 of the U.S. Army Transport Service is seen with ships docked on either side. A docked ship emits heavy black smoke from one of its funnels. A commercial ferry boat passes in front of the camera vessel. More views of ocean-going ships docked on the Hudson river side of Manhattan. Smoke is coming from some of their stacks. The Hudson Terminal with the Singer Building and City Investing Building in the background. The Singer Building tower dominates the center of the view and the taller Woolworth Building is seen to its left (North), at 233 Broadway. Next are views of the Battery on the tip of Manhattan. The large low round structure in the foreground is the Castle Clinton housing the city aquarium. The prominent tall building behind it, to the left, is the Whitehall building at Battery Place. As the camera pans south around the tip of Manhattan, some sight-seeing boats are shown, docked at the waterfront.

Date: 1919
Duration: 1 min 54 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675036353