Jewish section in New York City, United States. Sign on a store window reads 'Finklestain Machine Co.' Two signs, one is Hebrew, other is English (Orthodox Restaurant and Bakery). Jewish-American Boy Scouts take a Scout Oath. People come out of Synagogue of Congregation Rodeph Sholom (7 W 83rd St, New York, NY 1)0024, United States. Sign indicates Rabbi is Louis I. Newman. Several signs. View of entrance of Congregation Rodeph Sholom.
Street life in Jewish section of New York City, United States. Pedestrians walk along a street. Children hold on to mothers’ arms while shopping. People shop at roadside stalls. A street vendor waits for customers. Signs in Yiddish and English such as “Cohen Opticians” and “Gutraut’s Antiques-Gifts”. A shop glass window with words written in Hebrew. Exterior of “The M. Miller Printing”.
Street life in Italian section of New York City, United States. Letterings on shop windows in Little Italy, such as “Jerry & Frank Meat Market” and “Italian Groceries”. Several signs read “Neapoletan Macaroni Co. Pura Semola 205 Products”, “218 Russo Pasticceria Tripoli”, “Grande deposito d’olio d’oliva”. A shop with signs written in Greek. Pedestrians walk along a busy street. Traffic moves past roadside stalls. People shop at roadside stalls. Italian American women chatting near a greengrocer. Italian American man chews gum. A man shops for bananas, vendor wraps bananas in paper for customer. Sign at an Italian bookshop says “Libreria Italiana Musica Calendari e Dischi”.p.
Wendell L. Willkie, defeated 1940 Republican Presidential Candidate, leaves New York City, from Laguardia Seaplane Base on a Pan American World Airways Boeing 314 'Clipper' flying boat. Willkie and other passengers walk along a pier. Willkie waves his hat and boards a Pan American World Airways Boeing 314 'Clipper' flying boat. Members of crew on the pier. Boeing 314 taxis on waterways and takes off. Boeing 314 in flight. A Boeing 314 lands in Flushing Bay, New York City, and is pulled backwards to dock at the Laguardia Pan American Airways Seaplane Base. A gas tank of the New York Consolidated Edison Company is seen on the shore. Passengers deplane and walk on floating dock to terminal building.
Alien man and wife being questioned at Immigration Building at Ellis Island in New York, United States. Interiors of Immigration Building. Board of Special Inquiry Hearings and Appeals. Officers of Board question alien man and wife. Interpreter and aliens talk. District Director's Office showing Board members at table.
Interiors of Immigration Building at Ellis Island in New York, United States. District Director's Office showing Director Byron H. Uhl and Board members at table. Director Uhl talks over phone. Corridor with photographs of foreigners in native costumes. Corridor with door signs reading 'Deporting Division', 'Board of Special Inquiry - Hearings and Appeals', 'Witness Room', and 'Reception Hall'.
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