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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.

Location: Massachusetts United States USA
Date: 1937
Duration: 1 min 8 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675045138
Byron Nelson wins Open Golf Tourney in Belmont, Massachusetts and being presented the award.

John Byron Nelson wins over Henry Picard in a Open Golf Tourney in Belmont, Massachusetts. Byron hits the ball with a club. People stand with umbrellas. It rains. Byron putts the ball in the hole. Byron and Picard shake hands. Byron being presented an award. He poses after winning the tournament.

Location: Belmont Massachusetts USA
Date: 1937, September 29
Duration: 1 min 23 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046688
Early years and Governorship of Calvin Coolidge, the thirtieth President of the United States.

A pictorial history of episodes in the life of Calvin Coolidge, the thirtieth President of the United States of America. President Calvin Coolidge. The simple farmhouse at Plymouth Notch, Vermont where Coolidge was born on 4th July, 1872. He works at his farmhouse, cuts hay, and chops wood. The Coolidge family outside their Northampton home in Massachusetts. Coolidge with his wife Grace Coolidge in a garden and at a seashore. Coolidge is elected the Governor of Massachusetts in 1918. People with the U.S. flags during the event. The new Boston police force built up by Coolidge marches on the streets. The policemen stand at attention in rows during the ceremony. A large crowd gathered to greet President Coolidge at the 300th anniversary celebration of the Pilgrims' landing in Plymouth. People wave the U.S. flags and hail the Governor. Calvin Coolidge with Grace Coolidge.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1925
Duration: 5 min 15 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675054641
U.S. Army soldiers destroy ammunition by burning it in an open field in the United States.

U.S. Army soldiers prepare to burn ammunition in the United States. Two soldiers stand near a hole in the ground. Some soldiers near a pile of wooden cartons. The hole in the ground is filled with lots of dry grass and broken wooden cartons. A soldier pouring kerosene in the hole. The soldiers covering the hole with sheets. Three soldiers near a pile of wooden cartons. One soldier opens a carton of cartridges. The covered hole burns with fumes. A group of soldiers digging the hole. Three soldiers filling a carton with cartridges. They place the carton inside the hole which is filled with broken pieces of wooden cartons. The soldiers cover the hole with sheets.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1959
Duration: 3 min 16 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675057546
Physiotherapists and speech therapists work with mentally disabled people in the United States.

Rehabilitation of mentally disabled in the U.S. A mentally disabled woman sews. A mentally disabled man drills holes in a cardboard piece. A man chisels wood. A child on a floor. A woman kneels behind it. Mr Francis Kelley, Superintendent, Mansfield Training School, Connecticut speaks about severely disabled children. A lady with a severely mentally disabled child in a tub provides him physical therapy. Several children in a cafeteria. Some children and a woman seated at a table having their food. Three children with headphones seated around a table. A lady stands near the table. Several physiotherapists work with mentally disabled children. A speech therapist works with a boy. A man with a boy. Some children and a teacher in a classroom. A man assembles a special chair. A mentally disabled child sits on ground. A woman kneels near him. The woman makes a sound with a toy. The child reacts and tries to take the toy.

Location: Connecticut USA
Date: 1975
Duration: 3 min 33 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033432
Vignette about importance and value of family members working together

Members of a 1950s American family at their places of work and sharing time at home together. Steam locomotive pulling passenger train at high speed past a railroad station, without stopping. A railroad employee arriving at office relieving another employee finishing his shift. The employee engaged in various tasks at the rail office. He places a package on platform as another high speed passenger train passes. Hills and lake in background. Scene shifts to several boys playing at a swimming hole. One lying on ground, playing a recorder musical instrument, jumps up, waves goodbye to friends, and rides away on his bicycle (past a man using a scythe). Closeup of name: "Gazette Building," on building. The boy arrives there, picks up papers, and rides off again to deliver them in his job as a newspaper delivery boy. Views of town streets and shops. Two women window shop and discuss a sewing machine on display. Change of scene to woman serving at counter in a restaurant. She serves coffee to a customer and carries milk shakes to two boys and two girls at a table. The girls discuss dresses pictured in a magazine. Next, the waitress is seen looking at a fancy dress in a shop window. Next is a classic 1950s image of a family at home in the living room: A mother, father, boy, and grandmother, in their living room at home. Both women do needlework, husband smokes a pipe and reads newspaper, and son reads lying on floor. Father and son start game of checkers, and son blows on his recorder. The housewife suggests getting a sewing machine. Her husband speaks of saving to paint the family house. Mother points out things she could make and save thereby save money. All discuss the matter, and the boy volunteers to contribute some of his earnings to the family, too. Suddenly, the waitress (older daughter in this family) appears showing them her new dress. The father objects to the purchase and the girl leaves. The family is distressed and members try to soothe one another. A phone call causes the mother and father to leave suddenly. They find their daughter distraught sitting alone on bleachers in stadium. They hug her and all leave together. They return to their wood frame home, where grandmother hugs the daughter. The family sits around the kitchen table and reconciles together, with the grandmother dispensing wisdom in the process.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1951
Duration: 12 min 31 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039051
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