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Yale team wins the Annual Carnegie crew race on the Housatonic River in Derby,Connecticut.

Annual Carnegie crew race on the Housatonic River in Derby,Connecticut. Princeton,Cornell Navy,Yale and other teams participate in the crew race. The race begins. Spectators line up on river banks. People watch the race from a moving locomotive. Yale team wins the race. Princeton and Cornell teams trail behind.

Date: 1937, May 24
Duration: 1 min 8 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675073025
Coast guard vessel tows Britain's "Endeavour I" racing yacht into safe harbor in Newport,Rhode Island, during America's Cup Race.

America's Cup Racing in 1937: British racing sail boat "Endeavour" towed to safe harbor in Newport, Rhode Island, after having been missing for several days on her trip across the Atlantic before the races. Sail boat underway at sea. U.S.Coast guard personnel aboard vessel tow Britain's challenger "Endeavour I" racing yacht into safe harbor.

Date: 1937, May 24
Duration: 42 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675073026
Men point and discuss a scale model of the future Philadelphia city, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Scale model of future Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Man points at the scale model of Future Philadelphia. City planners discuss the model. A man walks through a pathway of the model. Blocks of the model are built so that they can spin 180 degrees to show an alternate plan for that block. Several blocks are spun to show different looks for the future of Philadelphia.

Date: 1947, September 8
Duration: 1 min 11 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675073037
Ship building derricks and structures. Flag raising ceremony at the U.S. Shipping Board Building in Washington DC.

Mass of ship building derricks and structures, at waters edge, viewed from boat entering channel. Members of the U.S. Shipping Board and the Emergency Fleet Corporation preparing to implement orders to commandeer all U.S. shipyards and hulls, under construction therein, for the U.S. war effort. Shipping Board Chairman, Edward N. Hurley, is at corner leaning toward the man at head of table (Rear Admiral Washington L. Capps, General Manager of Emergency Fleet Corporation ?), U.S. Shipping Board flag is raised at a shipyard building, where it flutters in wind. A number of Army soldiers present in uniform. Official addresses gathering of shipyard workers and explains the takeover and has them pledge, with hands raised, to work for the success of the war effort. Other officials speak, as well. The shipyard workers wave their hats in sign of approval. Everyone leaves to get back to building ships.

Date: 1917, August
Duration: 2 min 24 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675073061
Charles Michael Schwab and Edward N. Hurley launch the freighter USS Liberty at shipyard in Newark,New Jersey

Launching of U.S. freighter "Liberty" at shipyard in Kearny, New Jersey, during World War 1. Large crowd gather at Federal Shipbuilding Company shipyard, in Kearny, New Jersey, for launching of the freighter USS Liberty. Charles Michael Schwab, Director General of the Emergency Fleet Corporation and Edward N. Hurley, Chairman of the U.S. Shipping Board, launch the freighter USS Liberty. People hold American flags. Freighter is launched and it leaves dock.

Date: 1918, June 19
Duration: 52 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675073064
Large crowd gather for launching of USS Saccarappa at the Hog Island shipyard in Philadelphia,Pennsylvania.

Launching of the 11,190-ton freighter, USS Saccarappa, (No. 3828) built in 1918 by the American International Shipbuilding Corp., Hog Island, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Large crowd gather at the shipyard for launching. Gentleman in bowler hat advises woman about Christening ship with bottle of champagne. She smashing the bottle on the bow and the ship goes down the ways into the water. Another woman carrying a bouquet of flowers steps up to speak with her, and a man pushes her aside to allow the cinematographer to continue photographing the launching. The man, himself in the way, then ducks down to allow unimpeded view by photographers.

Date: 1918, December 22
Duration: 40 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675073068