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Washington DC USA 1917 stock footage and images

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America mobilizes for World War I and confronts demobilization afterwards

Opening scene shows Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg. Newspaper swirls into the image, with headline announcing their assassinations. Glimpse of railways guns firing. View of a ship's bow as it sinks beneath the ocean, is covered by newspaper headline announcing the sinking of the RMS Lusitania, by a German submarine. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson at his desk. Newspaper headline reads: "U.S. Declares War !!" U.S. soldiers marching in Washington, DC, with U.S. Capitol building in background. Newspaper announces: "Yanks are Coming!" American General John Pershing on horseback leading a contingent of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF). American troops going "over the top" (charging out of their trenches) in France during World War 1. Troops firing French 75 artillery pieces at point blank range. A formation of Allied Airco (de Havilland) DH9 aircraft in flight. Bombs bursting near trenches on the front lines. Renault FT-17 tanks accompanying American infantry on the Western Front. Persons playing roles as employees in the Department of Labor when they served as the War Labor Administration in World War 1. Women in the War Labor Administration working with long paper rolls of personnel records. Women in various war effort endeavors including airplane and arms manufacturing. Men working in a wartime steel plant. Marchers and a band demonstrating for the rights of workers to organize. People celebrating the at the end of World War 1, by gathering in the streets, throwing tickertape, dancing in the streets and waving effigies of the Kaiser. Stern view of the U.S. Army Transport Ship, President Grant filled with American soldiers returning from France at the end of the war. Lettering on stern reads, "U.S.A.T. President Grant" (The ship, AP-29, was originally the German ocean liner Konig Wilhelm II, and seized from Germany on 6 April 1917.) Views of United States soldiers returning home, disembarking, and assembling on a wharf home on American soil. Department of Labor persons assisting returning soldiers and prospective employers. Views of workers on farms, and in factories.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1918
Duration: 1 min 48 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675063340
U.S. Navy troops marching at the Liberty Loan Parade, Washingtion DC during World War I.

U.S. Navy troops marching on the roads in the Liberty Loan Parade, Washington DC in USA during World War I. Three floats in the parade can also be seen. The U.S. Navy sailors putting up recruitment posters depicting a wounded being treated, another recruiting poster shows German U-boat destroyed. Another shows a woman saying "Gee, I wish I were a man. I'd join the Navy".

Location: Washington DC USA
Date: 1917
Duration: 1 min 35 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675035867
Various scenes of kidnapping, FBI investigators in tie shop, FBI car chase criminals, and the Washington National Cathedral

Robbers force a teller into a sedan before driving away from The New Hampshire Bank building at 22-26 Market Square, Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Man reads a newspaper (The Portsmouth Herald) headline reads "Teller Kidnaped in Bank Holdup." FBI agents question locals at gas station near Portsmouth, New Hampshire. View of a farm house. Police man helping in ground search gives FBI agents a prize ticket found. Close up of prize ticket. FBI Agent picks up a piece of cardboard from the ground containing tire print. FBI agents extracts a piece of cloth from barbed wire. FBI forensic investigator examines the imprints of tire marking from cardboard. View of textile mill. FBI forensic investigators analyzing cloth from Massachusetts and North Carolina textile mills. FBI forensic investigator examines piece of fabric sent as evidence. A fiber is cut from piece of fabric and added to vial of chemicals. Line of test tubes containing liquid. Signage of Kimball’s, a tie store in Boston (31 Market St, Boston, MA 02135, USA). Signage of various menswear stores in Boston selling neckties. FBI agents speak with shop clerk of tie store in Boston. Shop clerk shows a necktie to FBI agents. FBI agents show shop clerk mugshots to identify a suspect. FBI agents inside car watching building. FBI agents observe a street. FBI agent answers a telephone inside a car. Black car trails behind a convertible on highway and over a bridge. An FBI agent confronts a suspect paying at a toll booth. Black car chases convertible as FBI agent clings to passenger door as the driver attempts to dislodge FBI agent from his car. POV through windshield exiting towards Portsmouth. Convertible car swerves past a truck. Car crash as convertible hits a truck of hay. FBI agent gets up and arrests the driver. Crashed truck in flames. View of the U.S. Department of Justice (950 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20530, United States). J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, speaks from his desk. View of an American school. American flag waving. People sitting on stone stairs outside the Washington National Cathedral in Washington DC. View of the Washington National Cathedral bell tower in Washington DC (3101 Wisconsin Ave NW, Washington, DC 20016, United States). View of a church’s bell towers. View of the United States Capitol in Washington DC. Statue from the United States Capitol stairs. “Eternal Vigilance the price of liberty” inscription below statue. “The End”.

Location: Washington DC USA
Date: 1951
Duration: 5 min 31 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078870
Presidents Woodrow Wilson and William Howard Taft with other officials dedicate the Red Cross Headquarters in Washington DC

Dedication ceremonies for the new American Red Cross Headquarters building in Washington DC. The President of United States Woodrow Wilson and the former President William Howard Taft with other officials, including Jean Jules Jusserand (French Ambassador to the United States during World War I) dedicate the new Red Cross Headquarters building. Scenes from a parade of uniformed Red Cross women and vehicles. Officials stand and greet each other at the end of cermonies at 17th and D Street, NW, Washington DC.

Location: Washington DC USA
Date: 1917, May 12
Duration: 43 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675067971
Mass arrest of hippie anti-war demonstrators during the 1971 May Day Protests in Washington DC

Hippie protesters walking through the streets of Washington, D.C. as they join the May Day Protests on early Monday morning, May 3rd, 1971 to protest the Vietnam War. A hand circles areas on a map showing the protesters’ target areas in Washington DC. View of the May Day protest manual shows Washington DC’s traffic circles and bridges for reference to protestors. Still image of United States President Richard Nixon as he says, "we’re going to see to it that the thousands of government workers, who have a right to go to work peacefully are not interfered with by those militants, those few militants, who in the name of demonstrating for peace abroad presume that they have the right to break the peace at home." View of the May 4, 1971 front page of The Washington Daily News with headline, “The Cry Today; “We Will Stay””. Traffic in Washington DC before sunrise. Seal of the Washington DC Metropolitan Police on police car door. Police officer speaks to a federal soldier, saying, "I'll start working on my men, and I'll be back very shortly." Federal troops at night in formation. Hippie demonstrators with a flag walk past a drug store at night, probably in Dupont Circle. Predawn traffic on Key Bridge at night with Marriott Key Bridge sign in background. Predawn traffic in Washington, D.C. with three motorcycle cops on standby. Soldiers on bridge, possibly the Whitehurst Freeway. Rush hour traffic on Memorial Bridge heading towards Lincoln Memorial with federal troops standing guard on bridge. Rush hour traffic over Key Bridge with Rosslyn, VA in background. Camera pans from the "Time to Save" sign on the Dupont National Bank building at 1369 Connecticut Ave. NW, to the Dupont Circle fountain. D.C. metropolitan police talk to federal troops in front of the Dupont Circle fountain. A mosaic of moving images showing demonstrations in Dupont Circle, Washington Circle, and Georgetown. Police push protestors against squad car to search and arrest them. A police officer confiscates items, such as keys, tickets, and screwdriver, from an arrested demonstrator. Arrested demonstrators raise their fists inside the police bus. Police order demonstrators to leave the area. Black police woman searches a woman hippie protester. Hippies arrested as they lean against bus with hands up. Protestor van towed away. A black policewoman conducts a search on a young woman. Demonstrators board a police bus after their arrest. Demonstrators board the back of a Hertz truck used by the police. Demonstrators detained in an emergency detention center near RFK Stadium. A radical flag flying at the detention center. A page pertaining to “Arrest and Jail” in the “May Day Tactical Manual” for participants on the 1971 May Day Protests. Police officer take photographs of arrested demonstrators standing on street with hands zip tied behind their backs. Arrested hippies smile as their pictures are taken. United States Park Police officer looks at watch while writing arrest reports. Demonstrators wave from bus as it drives away after mass arrest.

Location: Washington DC USA
Date: 1971, May 3
Duration: 5 min 45 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078915
National commission of Fine Arts members study sites for the Equestrian statues at Arlington Memorial Bridge in Washington DC.

At time of sesquicentennial celebrations of the city of Washington DC: City development planning underway by the Planning Commission in Washington DC. Animated map of Washington DC by the National Geographic Society. Statue in a park. National Commission of Fine Arts members study sites for the Equestrian statues at Arlington Memorial Bridge. The commission members are seen walking across the Arlington Memorial Bridge from the Virginia side to the Washington DC side. View of the Lincoln Memorial and 1940s era cars in traffic circle and on Arlington Memorial Bridge. Commission members examine mock-ups of equestrian statues atop pylons at the Washington DC entrance to the bridge. (In 1951, the Arts of War Sculptures, named Sacrifice and Valor, by Leo Friedlander, were erected in those positions). National Capital Park and Planning Commission personnel are seen working at drafting tables in their offices in the Department of the Interior building. The Maryland National Capital Park and Planning Commission members meets in the Lord Calvert Mansion in Riverdale for future planning. Exterior view of the Lord Calvert Mansion. Inside, the commission meets and a man points to and explains a chart on traffic control. The chart, dated September 1947, shows traffic flow into Washington DC during the "peak hour" of traffic, during which 58,000 automobiles pass through the area being studied. Elevated, aerial view from the U.S. Capitol Dome looking out across the city of Washington DC and on to the Potomac River and Virginia on the other side of the river.

Location: Washington DC USA
Date: 1949
Duration: 2 min 9 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675073229
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