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Exhibiting Spanish African American Art of Afro-Cuban painter Pastor Argudin y Pedroso in a museum in U.S.
Pastor Argudin y Pedroso's paintings displayed in an exhibition at the Harmon Foundation, 140 Nassau Street, Manhattan, New York City. Mrs. William E. Harmon and others at exhibition of Spanish African American art. Viewers include Arturo (Arthur) Alfonso Schomburg. Artist Richmond Barthe is seen among the crowd, and possibly also Beauford Delaney.
Police repair old toys for distribution to poor children at Christmas; crowds of shoppers in New York City
Police paddy wagon pulls up to a building and policemen unload donated toys. View inside a workshop where police volunteers repair and repaint toys to make them ready as gifts for poor children at Christmas during the Great Depression. Several boys and girls watch the men at work and view tables piled high with toys. Scene changes to streets of New York City filled with pedestrians, shoppers, and automobile traffic during busy holiday shopping season. View inside a large multi-level department store filled with crowds of busy shoppers looking at items in display cases, walking through, and riding escalators to other levels.
Malvin Gray Johnson paints in the United States. Also New York City subway scene.
An African American artist opens his coat in United States. R W Lindsey prepares a fish sculpture with a child. A woman studies a book. Richard William Lindsey at a class observes students' paintings. Malvin Gray Johnson comes with a board, sits and paints. Paintings at a wall. W Ellisworth Artis prepares a sculpture. People at an exhibition of Spanish African American art. Next scene appears unrelated, and shows pedestrian traffic on a busy New York City street, with many men and women walking on the sidewalk beside stores and shops. Next scene shows a stopped subway train at a station in New York City. Men and women and a few police officers exit the train onto a crowded platform, as other riders wait to board the railroad train. Next scene returns to an art studio view, with African American painters at work. Final scenes show a Harmon Communities map depicting Long Island in New York, and view of a train passing slowly through a switch yard area or marshaling yard.
Dignitaries including Mrs Harmon at Spanish African American art painting exhibition by Pastor Argudin y Pedroso in United States.
Various buildings of New York City seen as camera pans from left to right and also shows a sailing boat at port in New York City United States. Palmer Hayden paints at New York waterfront. Dignitaries and arts supporters including Mrs Harmon at Spanish African American art painting exhibition by Pastor Argudin y Pedroso. James L Allen in his photography studio. A woman prepares a sculpture.
The Tammany Hall, City Hall and Municipal Hall of the City of New York City.
The buildings, architecture, and busy streets of Lower Manhattan, New York City. The Tammany Hall (44 Union Square E, New York, NY 10003, USA), City Hall (City Hall Park, New York, NY 10007, United States) and the Manhattan Municipal Building (1 Centre St, New York, NY 10007, USA). Pedestrians and cars in Lower Manhattan. 1934.
New York Urban Planner, Robert Moses, at his desk in New York City
Robert Moses,controversial visionary urban planner of bridges, highways, and worlds fairs, inter alia, for New York City, from the 1920s through about the 1960s. He is seen at a desk in his office, wearing shirt and tie, but no jacket. A large map of Greater New York, including New Jersey and Long Island, is on the wall behind him. He makes and receives telephone calls. Scene shifts to another office, where he appears wearing a jacket. He reviews papers containing planning ideas including sketches. Mr. Moses annotates some of the documents.