United States President Franklin Roosevelt in meeting with lawmakers during the Great Depression. View of forest. A tree being felled. A Civilian Conservation Corps employee in tree after a part of it was felled. Logs being transported by train over long trestle bridge. Logs roll down to river. Civilian Conservation Corps employee surveys forest with binoculars.
Worker brushes off a pair of horses and barrels of beer. Worker transport barrels of beer. View of Broadway in New York City. Party celebrating the legalization of beer and end of Prohibition in ballrooms in New York. Couples ballroom dance as musicians play music. Lavish celebrations by wealthy citizens. Celebrations in Chicago at end of Prohibition. Nurses walking. Workmen walking. Various Americans seen working in various industries manufacturing automobiles, hats. Woman operates machine. Man working on rotating machine. Workers welding. Men digging ditch. View of steam shovel bucket scooping up dirt. United States soldiers, likely at West Point, in regalia march with American flag. Warship at sea. Flag of United States. View of U.S Capitol dome. Image of smiling Franklin Roosevelt framed by U.S. Capitol dome, with stars motif.
National Intercollegiate Rowing Regatta between the Pacific coast champion Washington Husky team (University of Washington) and Yale's Shell, held at Long Beach, California. Group of participants row boats. University of Washington crew of 8 wins four cornered duel for National Shell title. The Washington Husky team crosses the line six feet ahead of Yale's Shell. They set fast time of 6 minutes and 38.8 seconds for the 2000 meter course.
From the film, "Forests and Men. The President's Conservation Corps at Work." President Franklin Roosevelt signs a document regarding the establishment of the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. F. A. Silcox, Chief of United States Forest Service talks about the need for forest conservation. American flag on a pole. President Franklin Roosevelt visits an ECM (Emergency Conservation Work) camp. He has lunch with other officials. ECW workers and officals pose for a photograph with the President. View of the Shenandoah National Park CCC camp #3 from a hilltop, with letters "CAMP NIRA" (National Industrial Recovery Act) visible painted on the roof of one of the buildings. Woman hands over a sheet of paper to the Director of ECW, Robert Fechner. People stand outside United States Army recruitment camp and an Agriculture Department building. ECW volunteers being trained by the U.S. Army at Fort Washington in Virginia. Volunteers undergo training at camps and are sent to various forest conservation areas. Cooks cut meat. Men stand in line to receive food and are seated at outdoor tables eating food.
New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad trains collide in Atlantic, Massachusetts, injuring hundreds of passengers. Wrecked trains lie at the tracks as people throng the area to look at the accident site.
An air sled delivers mail at Grand Lake in Colorado, United States. The air sled moves down a snow covered slope at the Grand Lake. It halts and delivers mail. People read the mail.