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Washington DC USA 1929 stock footage and images

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President Herbert Hoover greets visitors from Texas on the White House lawn in Washington DC.

President Herbert Hoover meets political and business leaders from Texas on White House lawn (in the days following the September 7, 1929 launch of the ship USS Houston at Newport News Virginia). President Hoover shakes hand and poses with delegates. Among those seen are R.B. Creager, Judge Higgins, the President, Houston Mayor Walter Monteith, Senator Garrett and Senator Connolly. Colonel R.C. Kuldell invites President Hoover to visit Houston Texas.

Date: 1929, September 11
Duration: 28 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675052213
Circa 1800 landmarks: State and Navy Department buildings on Pennsylvania Avenue; Octagon House; the White House, Washington,DC

Sesquicentennial of Washington, DC. 1929 photograph of cars parked in front of the original State and Navy Department buildings on Pennsylvania Avenue, built in the year 1800. View of the Octagon House used temporarily by President James Madison in the year 1812 and now headquarters of the American Institute of Architects. The White House completed in the year 1829.

Date: 1949
Duration: 36 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675073216
Luncheon at Bolling AFB celebrating the 1929 flight endurance record of Fokker airplane named Question Mark, and 1963 speed record of a B-58 bomber.

Opening scene shows large group of retired Air Force officers seated at a number of tables in the Bolling Air Force Base Officers' Club. Closeups of General Carl Spaatz, Lieutenant General Ira Eaker, Lieutenant General James Ferguson (Deputy chief of staff for research and development at Headquarters Air Force), and Major Sidney J. Kubesch (who, in October 1963, was aircraft commander of the B-58 bomber that set a speed record, flying 8,028 miles from Tokyo to London in 8 hours, 35 minutes and 20.4 seconds). Old time aviators, Colonel Harry Halverson and aviation mechanic, Sergeant Roy Hooe, who both flew on the Question Mark, are also seen. Closeup of a model B-58 Hustler bomber sitting on a luncheon table. Closeup of a model of the Fokker C-2A "Question Mark" next to old log book. ( This clip also shows two unidentified women participating in the luncheon.)

Date: 1964, January 29
Duration: 2 min 9 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675027444
Lincoln Memorial, McMillan Plan and Cherry Blossoms in Washington DC, United States.

View of Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC. McMillan plan of 1901. President Abraham Lincoln's statue at the Lincoln Memorial (2 Lincoln Memorial Cir NW, Washington, DC 20002). Cherry Blossoms at Tidal Basin on the bank of Potomac River in Washington DC.

Date: 1929
Duration: 1 min 29 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675025679
Buildings plans, history, and topography of the City of Washington DC, United States.

Picture of first U.S. President George Washington. Map shows location of the City of Washington DC. President Washington's home at Mount Vernon. View of Christ Church in Alexandria where President Washington worshiped. View of old house in Georgetown. View of Suter's Tavern. Map shows Major Pierre Charles L'Enfant plan of the Washington city, its topography and the growth of the city. Picture of Capitol building.

Date: 1929
Duration: 5 min 16 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675025671
Autogyro takes off from Pitcairn field and flies over Lincoln Memorial,Washington Monument and White House in Washington DC.

Flight of autogyro from Pitcairn Field in Philadelphia to Washington DC. American aviation inventor and pioneer Harold F Pitcairn sits in the cockpit. The autogyro taxis across a grassy area. The autogyro in flight over Washington DC. The autogyro in flight over Lincoln Memorial,Washington Monument and the White House.

Date: 1929, May
Duration: 56 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675072957