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Franklin D Roosevelt campaigning in Atlanta, Georgia, during the 1932 Presidential campaign and relaxing at Warm Springs winter home

Franklin D Roosevelt's Presidential election campaign in Atlanta, Georgia. In the opening scene, New York Governor Roosevelt begins addressing a huge gathering of some 7000 people in the old Atlanta Armory auditorium, on the evening of October 24, 1932. The stage is filled with flowers donated by Atlanta florists, for the occasion, including a tall arch of flowers surrounding the speaker rostrum. Roosevelt begins his comments expressing appreciation for the warm welcome given by people of Georgia. The scene then changes, completely, and He, along with his family, are seen relaxing in his winter home in Warm Springs, Georgia. He sits with a group of musicians and listens as they play country music.

Date: 1932, October 24
Duration: 1 min 34 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049694
Fulton County Jail tower and Georgia State Capitol buildings in Atlanta, Georgia

An Atlanta police car turns onto Butler Street (now Jesse Hill Jr. Drive) from Hunter Street (now Martin Luther King Jr. Drive) and drives past the Fulton County Jail also known as the Fulton Tower at 208 Butler Street. View of the Georgia State Capitol (Capitol Square SW, Atlanta). Entrance to the Fulton County Jail at 208 Butler. Visiting hours for “whites” and “coloreds” are on display at the entrance, also known as "colored signs" or Jim Crow statutes. Sign reads “Colored visiting hours Saturdays 9 AM to 12 PM Children under 13 years of age not permitted”. Another sign reads “White visiting hours Sundays 9 AM to 12 PM Children under 13 years of age not permitted”. A door with writing that reads “Don’t block door you”. View of the tower at Fulton County Jail. Cars pass by the Georgia State Capitol. An African-American man walks down the steps outside a neoclassical mansion in Atlanta.

Date: 1960, May 23
Duration: 1 min 55 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675079713
Georgia Tech and Miami University play American football and Georgia Tech wins in Atlanta, Georgia.

Georgia Tech wins American football match in Atlanta, Georgia. Teams of Georgia Tech (Georgia Institute of Technology) and Miami University play American football game. Spectators watch the match and cheer the players. Georgia Tech wins by 14-6.

Date: 1955, September 19
Duration: 1 min 30 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675071441
Exteriors and interiors of the federal prison in Atlanta, Georgia (USP Atlanta, or United States Penitentiary, Atlanta).

The Federal Prison, or United States Penitentiary, Atlanta, located in Atlanta, Georgia. Exterior view of the federal prison in Atlanta. Smoke rises from smoke stacks. Interiors of the prison with cell blocks. Footage from early in the 20th century.

Date: 1917
Duration: 40 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675066824
Various buildings of the university and Hale Woodruff teaches students at the Atlanta University in Georgia.

A study of African American artists in sculpture, photography, painting, sketching, etching, writing and on antique in the United States. A building of Atlanta University (later Clark Atlanta University) in Atlanta, Georgia. Students, professors, and staff walk around the university campus. Harkness Hall at the university. Graves Hall and the Century Campus of the Atlanta University. Hale Aspacio Woodruff, an African American artist, teaches students in a classroom. Paintings displayed in the background. African American women walking on the campus grounds.

Date: 1937
Duration: 1 min 20 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032264
Parade, capacity crowd greet arrival of Braves major league baseball team to their new home in Atlanta, Georgia, 1966

ewsreel clip on the Atlanta Braves bringing major league baseball to the South. View of the downtown Atlanta skyline in 1966, followed by view of Atlanta Stadium. Thousands of people line the streets to welcome the Braves in a pre-game parade that proceeds South along Peachtree Street towards Five Corners, in the heart of the city. View of road sign at Peachtree and Houston streets. Banners reading "Welcome Braves." One car carries coach Ken Silvestri, Ken Johnson (#30), and Hank Fischer (#34). Closeup of them waving to the crowd. An intrepid boy watching from atop a traffic light. Boys and girls standing in front of adults on the sidewalk. One small boy sits on the sidewalk curb. The Players ride in wide 1960s-style open convertible cars and wave to the crowd. Other players seen include #19 Dennis Menke, #43 Rico Carty, and #35 Phil Niekro. Views inside Atlanta Stadium, filled with 50,000 spectators for the first game. Tony Cloninger delivers a pitch for the Braves, who would go onto to lose this game and the next.

Date: 1966, April 12
Duration: 1 min 12 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046621