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Scenes of professional, working American women in the post-war early 1950s

Film "American Working Women" Clock above Exit sign in Sonotone factory. Women, including Hazel Kennedy, assembling hearing aids. Women in wash room checking hair in mirror and applying lipstick. Women clocking out at Sonotone factory. Wide shot workers leaving Sonotone hearing aid factory, 2269 Saw Mill River Road Elmsford, NY 10523. Bank teller at White Plains Federal Savings and Loan, 182 East Post Road White Plains, NY 10601 puts away money at end of day. Man in suit who is bank Vice President looks at his watch and says goodbye to his secretary as he leaves the office. Secretary Joan Morgan applies lipstick while looking into her compact mirror and then puts on her coat. A man paces outside bank building, looking at watch. He greets his girlfriend Joan and the couple hold hands. Cancer researcher Martha Hanson puts white mice into a cage in her lab at the Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research, 1275 York Ave. New York, NY 10065. View of numbers on elevator at Sloan-Kettering as doors open. Martha passes through lobby at Sloan-Kettering. Wall engraving in background reads, "Within these walls a few labor unceasingly that many may live" Ann Maloney puts away Silver Slipper hosiery boxes at Marie's Lingerie shop. Sign on wall reads, "First Quality 54 Gauge Nylons". A tall model of a woman's leg is on the counter top. Ann puts money into cash register drawer. Woman (Hazel) driving her 1941 DeSoto Custom automobile. She picks up her husband in front of the hardware factory where he works. Husband and wife kiss in automobile. Close up honking car horn. Children run out of house and into car. Hazel parks car at 12 Curry Road Hastings-on-Hudson, NY 10706 at the intersection of Curry Road and Ronny Circle and the family enters front door of house.

Date: 1950
Duration: 6 min 28 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675025319
Working American Women at home in the 1950s; housewife and homemaker in the United States

Working American women at home using modern conveniences in the post war era. American woman puts meat loaf in oven. Man screws a towel rack into place. Housewife at oven as daughter comes in kitchen, talks to mother, then leaves. Girl and boy children in 1950s era family set dinner table. Sign 'Fellowship House YWCA'. Girl walks up path towards house. Girl irons dress. Other girl enters and she crosses room and sits on sofa. A man’s photograph is displayed behind the girl ironing clothes. College banners from Columbia, NYU and Fordham decorate the living room. Girl files her nails. A framed college graduation photo on display. Woman walks up path into house. Father sits in easy chair as she walks in and kisses him on forehead. Woman enters kitchen and takes cookie from jar. She walks to mother at sink and kisses her. Woman inserts eggbeater attachment to Mixmaster mixer, pushes button and eggbeater spins. A woman sits on her desk. Woman reads her family’s monthly bills before writing checks. A music appreciation group comprised of young people listen to music in a living room. A man talks to a woman knitting. Music record spins on vinyl LP phonograph record player. Couple sits on couch. Girl strokes a kitten in lap as they listen to music. Kitten jumps up. View of a living room console radio and a man seated in the same room reading the newspaper. Woman knits. View of a Movie theater marquee advertising movies "Angel on the Amazon" and "The Last Bandit." Young woman and young woman couple on a date stand in front of theater at the ticket box office. Boy steps to movie theater box office ticket window then takes the girl’s hand as they walk in. Scenes return to house, with young woman as she reads in bed, puts book away, turns off radio and light, and goes to sleep. Husband and wife are asleep. Wife turns in her sleep.

Date: 1950
Duration: 6 min 0 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675025320
Women workers starting day at home and then working at a factory in the United States

An alarm clock atop a radio. Young woman reaches with her hand and turns off alarm clock. Woman stretching in bed gets up, gives girl in other bed a poke, pulls cover off, puts on robe and walks out as other young woman gets up. Woman opens venetian blinds and rubs her eyes. Woman's feet getting in to slippers. Woman seated on edge of bed. She stands, stretches, yawns and walks out. Women workers busy in factory as they assemble and check tiny parts for hearing aids. Working women on break in rest room sit and read, some talk. One girl primps and adjusts her hair at a mirror, and smokes a cigarette. Nurse bandages a young woman's finger in the company infirmary.

Date: 1950
Duration: 2 min 29 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675025321
American woman as secretary

American woman works as a secretary. Bank executive dictates to secretary,she picks up phone, hands it to him and walks out to front of bank, She greets woman and escorts her into office then walks out. Girl purchases slip from salesclerk.

Date: 1950
Duration: 1 min 35 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675025322
Importance of American women as workers

Discusses importance of American women as workers in the professional work force in the United States. View of Sloan Kettering institute. Female researcher works with white mice in boxes. She walks over to male researcher talks to him as he injects white mice. Nurses assists at an operation, teacher writes on blackboard, beautician or hairdresser does a girl's hair, girl climbs on farm tractor and drives off, young woman wearing industrial welder face mask works in a factory, girl models dress fashions at a beauty pageant. Air hostess, stewardess, or airline flight attendants line up for inspection. Mother bandages son's knee in bathroom. Girl and boyfriend cross wooden bridge over brook in woods, they stop and lean on railing. Waterfall in background.

Date: 1950
Duration: 2 min 37 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675025323
Women vote for a public bill for a housing project in United States

Women vote for a public bill for a housing project in Riverdale, New York. Woman sits at table in bank, hands out information leaflets. Women pass voting leaflets near trolley or streetcar, car, bus and at railroad train station as train arrives. Women speak at a radio station. View of radio announcer at console in radio studio. Close up views of different men and women speaking on old telephones. Men and women walk into a voting room. Woman in voting booth marks ballot. Hands mark 'no' and 'yes' in ballot. Woman walks past housing construction. Man at counter of a food grocery store. Women speak to the man and to each other in the grocery store Produce on stands seen in background.

Date: 1940
Duration: 3 min 59 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675025325