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Families of striking coal miners seen living in a tent community after eviction from their homes.

A man wearing a cowboy hat stands near a group of canvas tents in Williamson West Virginia, where, during a labor dispute with coal mine owners, striking mine workers were evicted from their homes, and established a migrant tent community. An African American family poses for the camera outside a tent in the community, including a man, a woman, and their children. Another family is shown, with close-up view of a young, disheveled girl with a dirty face holding a small puppy dog.

Date: 1920
Duration: 31 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039648
Prison Industries Reorganization Administration (PIRA) employees review prison plans.

Prison planning at a Prison Industries Reorganization Administration (PIRA) office. PIRA officers inspect blueprints and sketches for prisons in the United States. A man views the “Sketch for a prison for the state of West Virginia” and its model sketches. Two PIRA employees view plans together. Employee wearing glasses smokes a cigar while conferring with colleague over blueprints. Man reviews a plan for a prison and answers the telephone. A female employee receive instructions, hands out a blueprint to her supervisor. Two female employees discuss blueprints together. View of a diagram chart “Vermont Turn-over in the Prison Population 1935”. View of a graph chart “District of Columbia Growth of Prison Population 1920-1937 Daily Average for Years Ending June 30th”.

Date: 1937
Duration: 3 min 40 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675078709
Great flood of the Potomac River near Washington DC after heavy rains add to melting of ice and snow

The working of weather bureau in the United States. Snow covered shores of the Potomac River at Great Falls, west of Washington DC, following 15 inch snowfall in February 1936. Two people walking on a high snow covered bluff near the Great Falls. The frozen Potomac River, covered with ice. View of the Memorial Bridge spanning a totally frozen Potomac River, with the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument in the background. Views of the river carrying chunk of snow and ice as a thaw begins the breakup. Man photographs a woman next to a guard rail at the Potomac River, covered in chunks of thawing ice and snow. Frozen ice chunks flowing under the Memorial Bridge. Narrator describes flood beginning with heavy rainwall in Shenandoah River valley on March 17 and March 18, 1936. Scenes of Western Union Telegrams detailing reports of rain in the west from various towns in the Shenandoah foothills. One from Romney , West Virginia notes rainfall of 5 inches.

Date: 1936, March
Duration: 3 min 29 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675062895
Availability of mineral resources in Northeastern States of United States.

Mineral resources in Northeastern States of the United States. Animated map depicts the availability of petroleum and natural gas in western part and coal in State of Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Railroad cars loaded with coal moving out of a coal mine tunnel at the Warden Mine, founded 1925, near Douglas Hollow in Elizabeth Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. View of quarry area in Northeastern region of USA. Men work on marble quarries.

Date: 1942
Duration: 49 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675060051
"By Request Department" shows scenes of soldiers' home towns for soldiers deployed overseas in World War 2; views of several American towns circa 1945.

Busy streets of the cities in the United States. A woman officer at a desk of Army-Navy Screen Magazine's "By Request Department" addresses U.S. soldiers overseas during World War 2, and says they will show views of various American home towns by request. Busy intersection along Capitol Street in Charleston, West Virginia. 1930s automobiles on roads and American citizens walking on city streets. Next scene shows the main street of Wytheville, Virginia with cars, pedestrians, and shops. Next scene is of main street area in Fall River, Massachusetts. Buildings seen on either sides of the streets and buses at bus station depot. Next view is of Springfield Street, looking toward Market Street in the center of Newark, New Jersey. Main streets of Winslow Arizona, with citizens dressed in Western wear, and then a main intersection in Tucson, Arizona, where a paper boy sells newspapers on a street corner.

Date: 1945
Duration: 1 min 52 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675056101
U.S. 80th Division men greet L. M. Brett who is appointed as the president of the association in Charleston, South Carolina.

U.S. 80th Division reunion in Charleston, West Virginia. Veterans soldiers from World War 1 of the U.S. Army 80th Division take food. African American cooks prepare barbecue and other food at an outdoor grill cooking area. The veterans eat pork ribs and other food and greet each other. U.S. Army Brigadier General L. M. Brett appointed as the president of the association is greeted by his colleagues. General Jamison former Commander of 159th Infantry Brigade in France congratulates L. M. Brett.

Date: 1920
Duration: 52 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675067395
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