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Family and Community programs funded by the WPA during the Great Depression, in Ohio, United States.

Women sewing clothes for needy families as a part of the WPA program (Works Progress Administration) in Ohio United States during the Great Depression. Close up views of the women seamstress workers as they sew. Young children play with toys and engage in play activities in a nursery school or preschool built for children of working and needy mothers by the WPA. Children work with tools and hammers on projects. Children play in a wooden frame play house. Boy and girl children on swings in the nursery as a teacher watches over them. Smiling children wash up with soap and water using wash basins. One boy jokes and bumps against the girl beside him. The boys and girls lay down on cots for nap time. A boy and a girl sleeping during a nap at the school. Life Guards attend life- saving instructional classes on a beach. Lifeguards rescue a woman from the water and bring her to safety. Men put up a policeman cut out image with sign stating "Slow. School" as a safety measure near a school. People at the improved Toledo Zoo. Families look at a wall built from salvage material in the zoo. Families and children watch a monkey move across a rope ladder at the zoo. A group of monkeys in a pond. The WPA Symphony Orchestra performs in the open band shell amphitheater at the Toledo Zoo (the Zoological Park Amphitheater, Toledo, Ohio). WPA Orchestra with musicians employed through federal funds, are seated on the stage as they perform. Families indulge in swimming and relax in a community swimming pool in Ohio. A young boy climbs a fountain in the pool to take a closer look.

Date: 1937
Duration: 2 min 24 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675030503
Marines and U.S. Navy reservists undergo training at the new Toledo Naval Armory in Toledo Ohio.

Toledo Naval Armory, training center for naval services in Toledo Ohio. The Armory building constructed with salvage material and federal funds through the Works Progress Administration (WPA) during the Great Depression. 'OHIO' can be seen carved on the top center of the building. Marines and Navy reserve sailors lined up for inspection by senior officers. A naval officer provides gunnery instructions to Marines and Navy reservists.

Date: 1937
Duration: 37 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675030501
The air-sea search undertaken to find the American aviatrix Amelia Earhart in the Pacific Ocean.

The disappearance of American aviatrix Amelia Earhart in 1937. A smiling Amelia Earhart stands with a man, possibly Fred Noonan. Earhart and crew loading up an airplane parked in a hanger. May 20, 1937, Lockheed Model 10-E Electra taking off from Oakland, California bound for Miami, Florida on the first leg of Earhart's second attempt at an around-the-world flight. Earhart and her navigator disappear during the flight and are last heard from on July 2, 1937. A huge air sea search is undertaken to find them. An aircraft carrier underway at sea. Airplane parked on the flight deck. Bi-Planes fly in formation during search.

Date: 1937, May 20
Duration: 47 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675063220
Glass block walls at printing plant of American Education Press in Columbus,Ohio. Views of offices and printing press.

Newsreel shows glass bricks or glass blocks used to build big plant marking new era in building material. Shows employees and workers at American Education Press with walls and partitions made of glass blocks in Columbus,Ohio. Printing press machinery turns out paper with glass walls in the background. View of newspaper printing machines at work.

Date: 1937, July 28
Duration: 60 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675038440
Steel workers union block the railway track during a strike in Warren, Ohio.

Steel workers union on strike in Warren, Ohio. Workers outside the factory. They block the railway track. A train on the track. Employees stand on railway tracks. Aircraft in flight and lands at the factory. Employees unload material from aircraft and load it into a truck. Workers work on various machines in a factory.

Date: 1937, June 7
Duration: 1 min 24 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033975
Hunters shoot rabbits at Joe Mott's farm in Shelby, Ohio.

Hunting party at a large farm in Shelby, Ohio, owned by retired former brewmaster Joe Mott. Men and women talk at Joe Mott's huge farm, which he opens to hunters every year (after he was repeatedly denied access to hunting grounds on private farms when he was younger). Men roam around the farm fields as they hunt for wild game. A man fires a rifle. Dogs bark at a cat sitting on a tree top. Close up view of the treed cat. Everyone gathers to drink coffee after the hunt and examine the rabbits killed during the hunt. The hunters and wives laughing together. An old couple laughs as the woman holds a dead rabbit by its ears.

Date: 1937, December 2
Duration: 1 min 10 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675057738