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United States Navy battleships, cruisers, submarines and aircrafts engage in battle maneuvers on Navy Day

United States naval battleships, cruisers, destroyers, aircrafts and submarines engage in battle maneuvers on the occasion of Navy Day in United States. (World War II period).

Date: 1940, October 23
Duration: 1 min 29 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058280
Unemployed African American workers get work in offices and as musicians and painters thanks to the Works Progress Administration

Unemployed African American citizens in America during the Great Depression. Close up views of many idle, sad, and dejected African American men and women out of work, in lines, during the depression. A man looks at a bulletin board of an employment agency at 165 W 131st St in New York City. African American men and women stand in a bread line or food relief or unemployment line in United States. They get jobs through Works Progress Administration. African Americans working at factories, in classroom teaching, in offices typing, as an accordion musician, as a painter in a studio, as a bricklayer, and in an industrial kitchen. Views of smiling, happy African American workers, both men and women.

Date: 1937
Duration: 1 min 40 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058297
Works Progress Administration jobs at Bolling Field and in New York building give men construction jobs during great depression

Unemployed African American men and various skilled and unskilled workers get jobs through Works Progress Administration (WPA) during great depression. Men gathered near Quartermaster office at a Bolling Field construction project in Washington DC. Laborers assist in building and grading runways at Bolling Field military installation. Men clear large rocks and debris from a jobsite. Workers smooth and grade runways. A steam shovel moves earth and loads a truck. Scene changes to New York City where a housing demolition project is shown, with men dismantling housing to prepare new moderate income housing. Bricks slide sown a chute away from the building. Workers at Colonial Park in Harlem New York are seen building a new bath house to accompany a newly completed swimming pool (later Jackie Robinson Pool).

Date: 1937
Duration: 1 min 44 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058298
African Americans swim at a pool constructed through Works Progress Administration in United States

African Americans swim in a pool constructed through Works Progress Administration in United States during the Great Depression. Children play and enjoy on various swings at children's park.

Date: 1937
Duration: 60 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058299
African American children at a nursery school in United States during Great Depression

African American children at a nursery school in the United States during the Great Depression. They play, eat, sleep and undergo medical check ups. Adult African American citizens learn to read and write. African American men and women in Harlem New York attend a Spanish language class. Many African American citizens get employed through Works Progress Administration (WPA) and are seen performing land record indexing jobs, filing, and typing with typewriters.

Date: 1937
Duration: 1 min 40 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058300
African American women under go household training, health care training under Works Progress Administration in United States

African American girls learn household chores at a household training institute set up by Works Progress Administration in United States during the Great Depression. African American women making pastries inside a kitchen. A woman cuts a dough with a diamond-shaped cookie cutter. She coats the cookie with butter. An instructor watches the woman bake cookies. Black woman prepares a salad. Another woman takes a tray of muffins out of the oven. Two African American women turns a mattress over. They make a bed together. An African American nurse demonstrates using a dummy. The nurse massages the baby dummy’s legs. African American nursing students demonstrates with a patient. They put a patient to bed and serve food. They also undergo health care training and learn first aid, child and sick person care. African American and White women sewing together during a class. An African American woman helps a White man put clothes into a bin. A Black woman wearing glasses sewing a dress.

Date: 1937
Duration: 1 min 43 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058301