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Artist Georgia O'Keeffe examines her paintings in New Mexico.

Traditional crafts seen in a Native American Indian settlement in New Mexico. Dwellings and bushes. Artist Georgia O'Keefe. She picks up a prehistoric bone from the land and takes it to her house. She enters the house and examines her art. Paint brushes in a box on the table. Birds fly in the sky. She paints the flying bird. The land. Vehicles pass on the street. Paintings of Georgia O'Keefe on the wall of the house. A horse-cart passes on the street in front of a church. Painting of the church on the wall of the artist's house.

Date: 1948
Duration: 3 min 48 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675028209
Navaho artists make pottery and Indians perform ritual rain dance in New Mexico.

Traditional crafts in a Native American Indian settlement in New Mexico. Pots decorated in a house. Navaho artists make pottery. They give shapes to the pots on a potter's wheel and then put them in furnaces. Bushes and houses. The land. Mountains in the background. Indians perform ritual rain dance. Other people watch them. Dark clouds in the sky. Barren land.

Date: 1948
Duration: 3 min 53 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675028210
Technician work on a Boeing XB-47 (Stratojet bomber) at an airbase at Moses Lake, in Washington.

Technician work on a Boeing XB-47 (Stratojet bomber) at an airbase at Moses Lake, in Washington. The plane takes off from the airbase. The bomber in flight. The bomber lands back successfully.

Date: 1948, January 27
Duration: 1 min 28 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029884
An Italian Art Exhibition at the Wildenstein gallery in New York, United States.

An Italian Art Exhibition at the Wildenstein gallery in New York, United States. The Statute of San Ludovico by Donatello. Various works of Italian paintings at display. “Landscape with farmer and ox cart” by Giovanni Fattori. Ambassador Alberto Tarchiani and several other visitors present at the exhibition.

Date: 1948, January 27
Duration: 54 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029886
Views of Statue of Liberty and New York harbor, United States. Festivities in New York harbor. Exercises in Ebbets Field.

Views of the Statue of Liberty and New York harbor. An aircraft carrier moving slowly in New York harbor, past lower Manhattan. The Statue of Liberty, with many visitors walking across Liberty Island, is at base of the statue. An ocean liner billowing smoke in the distance. Passengers on deck of an excursion boat headed toward the Statue of Liberty. They are wearing warm coats. Two girls are eating ice cream cones. Views from the pilot house of the boat. Another view of passengers on the boat, with Statue of Liberty in background. Woman holds her hat against the wind. Views from stern of rapidly moving boat in the harbor. Navy boats and U.S. Sikorsky H-5 helicopters maneuver all around Liberty Island. New York City fire boats shooting torrents of water into the air in salute. Unrelated -- Near end of clip there is a brief view of men in white athletic clothes, possibly sailors or soldiers, performing bayonet drill exercise activities using rifles with fixed bayonets, at Ebbets Field (55 Sullivan Place; Brooklyn, New York) in Brooklyn, New York (home of the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team). Spectators are in the stadium. Advertisements posted on the baseball field fences, including one for Abe Stark's clothing store.

Date: 1948
Duration: 3 min 2 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675030575
Registering for the new draft at Flushing High School in New York.

Military recruitment and draft: Young men registering and answering questions at Flushing High School and Haaren High School in New York. Clerks filling out draft papers and issuing cards. Card being held by registrant. Men entering and leaving the High School. Sign above doorway "Registration for the Draft". One man pauses at a doorway to look at his new card.

Date: 1948, August 30
Duration: 3 min 17 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675034481