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Grain elevators demolished under Works Progress Administration projects in Chicago, Illinois

A grain elevator burns in a fire near Chicago during the Great Depression. The complex of buildings in flames. A huge tower at the site, in flames, and falling into a river. Men demolish old derelict buildings that are fire hazards, under Works Progress Administration project in Chicago, Illinois. Children play at a playground after demolition of old buildings. A group of boys playing baseball or softball at a newly cleared lot.

Location: Chicago Illinois USA
Date: 1937
Duration: 1 min 11 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058519
Nursery schools, parks and playgrounds built under Works Progress Administration projects in Chicago, Illinois

Children eat, play and sleep in a nursery school set up under Works Progress Administration project in Chicago, Illinois. People swim in a pool. Boys and girls play in swimming pools and splash. Boys in a line wait to use a diving board as a boy dives off of a high dive spring board. Children enjoy playground equipment and play on swings in a playground also constructed through WPA projects during the Great Depression.

Location: Chicago Illinois USA
Date: 1937
Duration: 1 min 37 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058520
Laura Ingalls non-stop coast-to-coast U.S. record flight; also Margaret Waley found guilty in Weyerhaeuser kidnapping

Aviatrix Laura Ingalls in flight gear. Her aircraft, Lockheed Orion 9D Special, NR14222, takes off from Floyd Bennett field in New York. It sets a new nonstop flight record of eighteen hours and twenty minute flight from east coast to west coast in the United States. Ingalls was the first woman pilot to cross the U.S. non-stop from east to west. Next scenes are unrelated to Ingalls' flight: A group of men and women jurors walking on sidewalk in Tacoma Washington, during trial of Margaret Waley, wife of Harmon Waley, for her involvement in the kidnapping of young George Weyerhaeuser (nine year old heir to thriving Weyerhaeuser Company timber business in Washington state). Kaufman Leonard Company furniture delivery truck seen behind the group as they walk. The group of men and women seen entering a building. Next scene shows 9 year old boy George Weyerhaeuser holding closely to a man and avoiding cameras as he is led on the sidewalk, likely before or after giving testimony. Next scene shows 19 year old Margaret Waley, flanked by a man and a woman as she walks on the sidewalk, likely to or from court. Final scene is a group of men and women, possibly including the jurors in the case, posing on the steps of a building in Tacoma, Washington.

Location: Tacoma Washington USA
Date: 1935, July 12
Duration: 54 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675058524
A hippopotamus with his newly born baby in Chicago zoological Park in Brookfield, Illinois

Bche, a two ton heavy hippopotamus and his newly born baby swim in a pool at Chicago Zoological Park in Brookfield, Illinois. Bche gave birth to the baby in a pool.

Location: Brookfield Illinois USA
Date: 1935, July 15
Duration: 27 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675058526
National Guardsmen use gas bombs to disperse lumber mill strikers in Tacoma, Washington

'Strikers battle guardsmen as bayonets flash'. Lumber mill strikers clash with National Guardsmen in Tacoma, Washington. Guardsmen use cold steel and gas bombs to disperse strikers. Strikers set a jeep ablaze in the street.

Location: Tacoma Washington USA
Date: 1935, July 15
Duration: 1 min 2 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058527
People find ways to escape the heat in Chicago, Illinois

'Chicagoans seek heat relief as mercury mounts '. People in swimsuits on the beach at Lake Michigan in Chicago. Men and women crowd the beach. Skyscrapers of Chicago are seen from the background. Children enjoy a shower as a fireman sprays them with a hose. Children holding each other while dancing in the shower.

Location: Chicago Illinois USA
Date: 1935, July 15
Duration: 47 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058528
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