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Immigrants to America working in various hard labor jobs and factories early in the 20th century.

Point of view shot out the front of a steam locomotive railroad train as it speeds along a track in western United States. Men stacking wood lumber for boat shipment beside a canal in the early 1900s. The mill and stacks of lumber seen across the canal. Miners at a coal mine ride an open car full of coal as it emerges from a mine in West Virginia, as seen from camera riding on same coal car. Glimpse, from a passing train, of a steel mill in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Immigrants to the United States, from various European countries, at work in industrial production jobs. Men in factories; working at a power forge in a steel mill; Lumber operations: Men cutting down large trees with hand axes and sawing logs for timber in a forest, using large 2-man saws; Butchers moving sides of beef in a meat packing company. Women working in a metal parts factory (appears to be a sink faucet manufacturing company); women working in a textile spinning mill operation and stacking moving machine shelves with spools. A hose set up from a fire hydrant spraying water in a city street and children in bathing suits running underneath to play and cool off in hot summer weather. Montage of various still and moving images: Immigrant children in classrooms and in school yards. A woman instructing new adult immigrants in an English language instruction class. Immigrant workers engaged in skyscraper construction, high in the air without safety equipment. An iron worker perched atop a vertical steel beam with the Brooklyn Bridge in the background. A woman posing on a horizontal bar. Men and women posing in the surf at a beach. Beach-goers watching as a group of men create a human pyramid on the sand. A little girl with her feet in the surf. Boys in a classroom, with two of them dirty from work and another boy sleeping with his head on his desk. Mothers and fathers at home asking about what the children learned in school. A young girl leading a group of school children in reciting the pledge of allegiance (pre-1950s version of the Pledge of Allegiance is heard recited by a group of children, without the "Under God" wording that was added in 1954). Still image of a young girl employed in a fabric mill (child labor).

Date: 1910
Duration: 2 min 34 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036801
Reconstructed interiors of a saloon in the Western United States show paintings, a roulette table and slot machines of mid 19th century.

Reconstructed casinos or saloons of the Western United States showing their appearance during the mid 1800s. Interiors of a saloon bar shows a piano, paintings, tables and chairs. Poker chips and playing cards spread on a table. Close up views of a roulette table and slot machines in the saloon. Views of a jail in South Pass City, Wyoming. Tomb stones of various criminals hanged in a mining town in 1864, including those with names: Frank Paris, Jack Gallagher, Boone Helm, Haze Lyons. (These are in Boot Hill Cemetery, in Virginia City, Madison County, Montana).

Date: 1966
Duration: 2 min 17 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675075463
Destruction occurs from various natural and man made disasters in year 1949.

People suffer due to various disasters in the year 1949. Destruction in Ecuador due to the 1949 Ambato earthquake. A house falling apart during an earthquake. Rubble of houses, buildings, and churches in the Tungurahua Province. People clear the rubble and take out the dead bodies. Damage caused to livestock due to blizzard in the western plains of the United States. Dead cattle lie in the snow. A calf staggers in heavy snow. Airplanes drop fodder down to cattle for food. People gather at airplane crash site for Eastern Airlines flight 537 on November 1, 1949, after the passenger airplane, bound for a landing at Washington National Airport, had a mid-air collision with a military Lockheed P-38, and crashed beside the west bank of the Potomac River. Crash site of the Eastern Air Lines Douglas DC-4 (N88727) at Alexandria, Virginia. People moving dead bodies of passengers on stretchers. The steamer SS Noronic destroyed due to fire in Toronto harbor. View of the wrecked, smoking passenger ship. Dead bodies of the passengers being moved. People cry and mourn.

Date: 1949, December 26
Duration: 1 min 30 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051642
University of Virginia and Thomas Jefferson's statue in Charlottesville,Virginia.

Scenes from the Academical Village at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia. A sketch of the Rotunda at the University of Virginia, on a table. View of the North side of the Rotunda, and the statue of Thomas Jefferson in front of the Rotunda. View of the Rotunda (1826 University Ave, Charlottesville, VA 22904, United States). Students standing on the steps of Old Cabell Hall, with a view past a statue of Blind Homer with his Student Guide, by Moses Ezekiel, and up the Lawn toward the Rotunda South entrance. A couple walking on the lawn. Women stand and talk on the Rotunda terrace near the East Lawn. Lawn at the Academical Village of the University of Virginia. Students walking on the East Lawn steps beside the Rotunda, toward University Avenue. Three U.S. military soldiers stand with a woman in front of a statue of Thomas Jefferson, founder of the University of Virginia, located on the West Lawn. (World War II period).

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 9 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675031627
USS West Virginia and USS Idaho underway in Hampton Roads, United States.

U.S. battleships underway in Hampton Roads, United States. USS West Virginia (BB-48) and USS Idaho (BB-24) behind it, underway in the Atlantic ocean. Pan of the USS West Virginia. Crew working on the deck of the battleship. Several Curtiss SOC Seagull scout observation seaplanes seen carried aboard the ship.

Date: 1939, April
Duration: 1 min 50 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675062201
Men work on the decks of USS West Virginia and USS Idaho underway in Hampton Roads, United States.

U.S. battleships underway in Hampton Roads, United States. USS West Virginia and USS Idaho with men working on the decks. The bow of USS California with USS West Virginia and USS Tennessee in the background. Four battleships underway at the sea in a column formation.

Date: 1939, April
Duration: 2 min 37 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675062202