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Red Cross workers attending calls of people asking for their friends and relatives after a hurricane in Miami, Florida.

A documentary on Weather Bureau's Hurricane Warning Center in Miami, Florida. Aftermath of a hurricane. Women seated inside a building of the Red Cross. They attend several calls of people asking for their relatives and friends. People searching for their belongings in the rubble. Aerial view of the rubbled area. Officers discussing amongst themselves. Aircraft parked at an air base. Men boarding an airplane. The aircraft in flight overhead.

Date: 1947
Duration: 1 min 37 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076811
Works Progress Administration providing services and helping needy people in the United States during the Great Depression

The services of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in the United States. Skilled workers are hired for the libraries and school. They repair and rebind the books. Books in shelves. Traveling libraries and mobile libraries in trucks bring books to more rural areas. People enter a traveling library on wheels. Nurses visit homes of people and instructing the maternity care of the children to their mothers. A nurse bathing an infant. Braille maps being developed. The blind people are instructed about the use of the Braille maps. Trachoma eye disease patients in rural areas are examined. Nurses examine them and they are taken to WPA clinics. Group of men, women, and children wait in clinic to be seen by nurse or doctor. People including a young girl and an older man taking eye and vision tests, reading eye charts, and being examined.

Date: 1937
Duration: 2 min 5 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076821
Men seated at counters in a closed bank in Chicago, Illinois.

A bank closing during the Great Depression in Chicago, Illinois. A board reads: 'Standard National Bank' outside building of the failed bank. Cars parked outside the building. A board on the entrance of the bank reads: 'For Rent. Edwin J Nelson'. A man entering the bank. Men seated at counters in the bank. Tellers sorting through paperwork, looking frustrated, and turning to reading newspapers and books instead.

Date: 1934, January 15
Duration: 33 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076826
A demonstration by unemployed people against the state to provide relief to them in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

A demonstration by unemployed people in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Buildings in an area. Men seated on the steps of a building. Some of the men sleeping on the floor inside the building. Children seated at a table eating food. They demand immediate action by the state to provide relief funds to the unemployed suffering from the Great Depression.

Date: 1936, July 29
Duration: 34 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076828
People gather to collect water supplied from Kansas City, Missouri to the drought-stricken city of Louisburg in Kansas.

Supply of free water in drought-stricken city of Louisburg in Kansas during Great Depression. Tank cars carrying water in the area. A banner on a tank car reads: 'Free Water from Kansas City, Missouri to Louisburg, Kansas'. People gather to have water. A tank car at a rail road.

Date: 1936, August 26
Duration: 40 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076829
U.S. soldier veterans of World War 1 erect tents for the Bonus Expeditionary Force in Washington DC

The Bonus Expeditionary Force (BEF) in Washington DC, United States. Men gather outside a building. Men standing near parked trucks. U.S. Capitol building in the background. Veterans registering. Veteran soldiers erect tents and electrical lines at Fort Hunt in Virginia.

Date: 1933, May 11
Duration: 54 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076830