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Livelihood training offered by the YWCA trade school for African American women in Harlem, New York

Livelihood training offered by the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) for African American women in Harlem, New York. People crowded on a street. A black woman walks with a suitcase on a busy street. Street sign between Lenox Avenue (now known as Malcolm X Boulevard) and W 137 Street in Harlem, New York. A sign board amidst the street. A woman checks her map. Buildings along the sides of Lenox Avenue. Vehicular traffic on the road. The woman watching a name plaque. The plaque reads: 'Emma Ransom House YWCA'. The woman enters the house and talks to the receptionist. The woman moves upstairs towards her room. She writes a letter to her mother. View inside a cafeteria, with African American workers serving food, and African American patrons moving trays along cafeteria line, paying for food at cash register, and eating food at tables in the cafeteria.

Date: 1940
Duration: 1 min 51 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675063280
Various trade courses for African American people offered by the YWCA in Harlem, New York

African American women attend practical courses offered by the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) in Harlem, New York City. The woman writes that she joined a course in business at the YWCA. Women seated at desks inside a mock office. African American woman types on a tele typewriter. A young black woman uses a teleprinter. A woman uses a machine to stamp letters. Two women use a Teletype teleprinter. A black woman uses headphones while typing in a teleprinter.

Date: 1940
Duration: 1 min 49 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675063281
Women learn dressmaking at the YWCA in Harlem,New York.

African American women study dressmaking in course offered by the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) in Harlem, New York. The woman writes about the advantages of the programs offered by the YWCA. An African American woman teaches girls how to cut a pattern inside a YWCA workshop. Woman cuts a fabric from a pattern. A woman stitches a cut pattern. Two women sewing clothes while chatting. Other women use Singer sewing machines to make clothes. Hand with sewing machine.

Date: 1940
Duration: 1 min 9 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675063282
Women and men pressing and pleating the clothes at the YWCA in Harlem, New York.

Young African American women take various practical courses offered by the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) in Harlem New York. A woman writes a letter to her mother. The woman writes about the pressing and pleating course offered by the YWCA. Young men and women working. Two African American men pressing clothes using a steam pressing machine. Steam emanates from the pressing machine. Women ironing clothes. A woman pleats a cloth using an iron.

Date: 1940
Duration: 1 min 3 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675063283
African American women take a beauty course training provided by the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) in Harlem, New York City.

African American women train as hairdressers and beauticians in a beauty course offered by the YWCA in Harlem, New York. The woman writes about the beauty course offered by the YWCA and how the “Beauty culture is a well paying field because good grooming is important”. African American women learn to cut hair during a practical training inside a simulation salon. An African American woman paints the nails of another woman during a manicure. A woman waxes and neatens the eyebrows of a black woman.

Date: 1940
Duration: 1 min 19 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675063284
A promotional documentary film on the training, sports and recreation available to African American women in New York.

African American women take dance lessons at the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA). in New York. A woman writes a letter to her mother. The woman writes about the dance classes offered at the YWCA in Harlem, New York. Women practicing classical dance in a class. An African American girl in a long black dress beats a small drum. A young woman teaches little girls how to dance. Little girls dancing in class.

Date: 1940
Duration: 1 min 38 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675063285