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Wellesley Massachusetts USA 1937 stock footage and images

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Students demolish old college building at Wellesley, making way for a new modern building.

Collegiettes wreck and demolish an historic Wellesley college building. Female students move out the furniture, smash windows, rip down doors, and build a bonfire to burn much of it. Two girls jokingly try to make calls using disconnected old telephones. The girls are destroying the building to make way for new college structure.

Date: 1931, March 23
Duration: 1 min 13 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675023632
Wellesley College girls team in training for crew races in an eight-oar shell.

Wellesley College girls boat, an eight-oar shell, is seen running on the water as the Wellesley women's team practices for competitive crew racing in 1934.

Date: 1934
Duration: 19 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040112
Education projects being constructed and developed by WPA workers to build better cities in Massachusetts, United States.

Works Progress Administration (WPA) projects to build better cities in Massachusetts, United States. Nurses visit homes. A nurse instructs a mother about taking care of babies and feeding them. She bathes the baby. Young men and women stand in a queue to continue their education, program being conducted by National Youth Administration during the Great Depression. Point of view from moving boat approaching fishing dock areas at port in Gloucester, Massachusetts. A hatchery at Gloucester, Massachusetts for catching and breeding fish. Braille plates for Braille written works and braille maps being created by craftsmen. Braille mapping at the Perkins Institute for the blind at Watertown. Close-up view of braille works being proofread by visually impaired men and women. Children take free music lessons. They learn to play piano and a vocal instrument. Shows nursery school activities: Children eat food, play at jungle gym and wash hands. Children prepare to go to sleep.

Date: 1937
Duration: 3 min 45 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675045140
Seabiscuit wins the Massachusetts Handicap horse race in Boston, Massachusetts.

The Massachusetts Handicap horse race at Suffolk Downs in Boston, Massachusetts. Spectators in the stands. The horses moving towards the starting point. The spectators cheer. The race starts. The horses running on the race track. The spectators watching the race. Seabiscuit wins the race.

Date: 1937, August 9
Duration: 1 min 15 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675069868
Demolition projects and sewing projects constructed by Works Progress Administration (WPA) in Massachusetts, United States.

Works Progress Administration (WPA) projects to build better cities in Massachusetts, United States, during the Great Depression. View of 'Closed' sign on factories during high unemployment. Jobless, hungry, and homeless American workers appear depressed. Americans stand in a queue to receive food relief. Scenes of better economic times in Massachusetts: Factories start and workers get jobs. People and families celebrate after getting employment. Streets in Springfield being paved and sewer pipe installed. WPA workers at construction work on demolition projects. Local labors use native materials in construction work. Women get jobs and work at a sewing projects. Woman designs a costume. WPA artists paint shore scenes.

Date: 1937
Duration: 3 min 31 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675045137
Recreation projects constructed and developed by WPA workers to build better cities in Massachusetts, United States.

Works Progress Administration (WPA) projects in the Great Depression to build better cities in Massachusetts, United States. Shows playground activity. Children play on playground. Near Murphy Park, children swim at a swimming pool area known as the Greenfield Municipal Swimming Pool, on the Green River in Greenfield, Massachusetts. They dive from a high diving board, enjoy low dives and slides, and learn swimming and life saving skills in the water. Two boys practice wrestling and compete in a wrestling contest as other boys and an official look on. Boys at Marble Head build ship models out of wood and show off their creations for the camera.

Date: 1937
Duration: 1 min 8 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675045138