African American early jazz musician playing drums. Drummer in band seen hitting cymbal of a drum set with a drum stick. Drums are also seen. A member of the orchestra seen in the background playing another instrument.
Unemployed and poor men stand in outdoor soup kitchen line or bread line to receive bread and soup during the Great Depression in the United States. Several people stand in line with baskets in their hands to receive potatoes. Sacks of potatoes seen on the ground and a man shovels potatoes into sacks. Some people in the soup line or queue have sacks and others have wagons to haul potatoes that they receive for food relief for the jobless. Some children in families accompany their parents in the food line.
During the great depression, a sign at a food grocery store reads, "Orange and Blue Food Stamps Redeemed Here, We are Helping American Farmers Move Surplus Crops." A woman at the produce stand with a baby in arms buys oranges from the food grocer. The woman pays for the oranges with stamps.
Portola, California: A work train crashes through a trestle in a freak lumber country accident. The wrecked train over the damaged trestle. The wrecked engine and cars balanced on the trestle. A man works on the trestle.
Seven people seen sitting on poles. One man lifts up water and drinks it. A man wipes his face after wetting a cloth from a bucket.
United States President Eisenhower leaves the grounds of Hotel Gettysburg (Gettysburg Hotel, 1 Lincoln Square, Gettysburg, PA 17325, United States). A sign reads 'White House Press Room'. President Eisenhower gets out of the car and enters the Press Room. He talks about Nikita Khrushchev's visit to America. Press men take notes as President Eisenhower speaks. “Now, I would like him to see our great industrial plants and what we are doing. I want him to see a happy people. I want him to see a free people, doing exactly as they choose within the limits of not, that they must not transgress the rights of others” Eisenhower said.
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