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Boxers Jimmy McLarnin and Barney Ross practice for welterweight boxing championship.

People watch Jimmy McLarnin skip rope, dance, and practice footwork in Atlantic City as he trains for his May 28, 1934, boxing match with Barney Ross. Ocean in the background on shore of Atlantic City. Closeup of Mclarnin in boxing gear practicing punches. Next scene shows his challenger, Barney Ross, practicing in the ring with a punching bag as people look on, in upstate New York. Clip ends with view of Barney Ross in a suit smiling for camera.

Date: 1934, May
Duration: 39 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040111
Montage of scenes reflecting life in the United States during the decade of the 1920s, following World War I

Baseball great, Babe Ruth starting to trot around the bases after hitting a home run. An inverted stunt biplane, N57323 with "EM Avery" readable on fuselage while flying inverted. A wing walker is strapped under the airplane (on top wing, now underneath). The airplane rolls over into upright position, trailing white smoke to be more easily seen by spectators on the ground. A 1920s jazz band comprised of African American musicians playing in a night club. A couple and then four women, dancing the Charleston. Point of view (POV) from moving car driving along Broadway in New York City at night, surrounded by neon light signs including some like the Winter Garden Theatre and the Rivoli Theatre. A flagpole sitter atop structure behind an RKO Keith's Advertising sign. Closeup of the man on his perch. A room full of women sewing garments in a factory. Wealthy, formal dressed couples at a city supper club, where an orchestra is playing. Exhausted couples clinging to one another on dance floor during a marathon dance contest. Gangsters firing a machine gun from window of a moving car. Charles A. Lindbergh steps past a policeman, to board his Ryan monoplane, "Spirit of St.Louis,"at Roosevelt field, Long Island, New York, on May 20, 1927. View of takeoff roll. Registration number "NX-211," visible atop the right wing. Manhattan ticker tape parade welcoming Lindbergh back to New York City, following his successful solo transatlantic flight. Charles Lindbergh speaking at a microphone. Traders on floor of the New York Stock Exchange during era of frantic stock market speculation. Money counted out at bank teller window. Labor strife at the gates of a Massey-Harris Company plant, with workers fleeing attacks by men with clubs hired by the company. Boy workers pose for a photograph While narrator mentions Child labor Act declared unconstitutional (1922). A girl worker. Boys employed as coal miners. Workers installing body panels on cars and working on engines in automobile production and assembly lines. Partially completed vehicles driving out of an automobile factory. Babe Ruth rounding third base and coming to home plate after hitting a home run in a baseball game.

Date: 1927
Duration: 1 min 48 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675063341
Vehicles driving from New York City to New Jersey through the Lincoln Tunnel

View of New York City apartment building. A man reads a book while sitting on apartment stairs. A bus driving on Port Authority Bus Terminal bridge. Sign with flashing arrow reads “Lincoln Bridge” A grocery store with sign reading, “Leon Feder Italian-Spanish-Greek-American Groceries”. Men working at a gas station with gas pump in foreground. A billboard for Alfred Felson for Service trucking behind sign pointing to Lincoln Tunnel with warning sign “Trucks keep right”. Cars and buses moving towards Lincoln Tunnel (Lincoln Tunnel, New York, NY 10018, United States). A police officer directs traffic. Buses lined up near Lincoln Tunnel in front of Hertz vehicle lease building with Empire State building in background. Vehicles enter the Lincoln Tunnel. Cars driving inside Lincoln Tunnel as seen from a vehicle. New York bus 66 driving through tunnel. Vehicles emerge from the Lincoln Tunnel, slowing down as they pass through toll gate. Approaching a toll gate as seen from a moving car while officer gives toll ticket. Distant view of New York City skyline from car driving in New Jersey. A Suburban Transit Corp Bus number 298 driving towards New Brunswick after emerging from Lincoln Tunnel. Vehicles passing through an overpass. Cars approaching the New Jersey Turnpike tollgate. Road signs read “You have left the Turnpike. New Jersey Maximum Speeds- 25 mph built-up areas, 50 mph open area” and “Slow down and live!”. Several scenes show various 1950s cars driving on highways and roads.

Date: 1960, June 1
Duration: 3 min 3 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675079725
Skyscrapers and government buildings along Lower Broadway in Manhattan, New York City in 1920s.

Documentary about buildings of New York. The buildings and skyscrapers along lower Broadway. A dirigible airship floats overhead. The busy street with vehicles, streetcars and crowds of people walking. The New York City Hall (City Hall Park, New York, NY 10007, United States), built over a hundred years ago. The high-rise Manhattan Municipal Building (1 Centre St, New York, NY 10007, United States). The James A. Farley Building housing the United States Postal Service (421 8th Ave, New York, NY 10001, United States) on Eighth Avenue. The Flatiron Building (175 5th Ave, New York, NY 10010, United States) stands on edge of busy crossroads.

Date: 1925
Duration: 1 min 46 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036357
Travelogue of northeast and mid Atlantic regions of United States in the mid 1980s.

Presents travelogue of regions of United States. Pictures show sites located in New York, New England and Mid Atlantic States. In Manhattan, views of Statue of Liberty, Brooklyn Bridge, aerial views of New York City skyscrapers, plane flying in sky over Manhattan skyline, including view of Twin Towers of World Trade Center. Monuments, shopping areas, Carnegie Hall, pedestrians in New York City. A door man closing a door on a taxi cab. A trainer teaches aerobics dance class to students in typical 1980s exercise fashions. Times Square and clubs and theaters of Broadway at night with lighted neon signs. Elevated view of Lincoln Center main plaza at night. A man and woman at a restaurant toast and clink glasses of wine. Night time aerials of skyscrapers in New York City including Empire State Building with colored lights at top. View of Niagara Falls. Yacht at river in Boston. Buildings in the background. People in boats and outside cafe. Downtown Boston landmarks and buildings. Fishing boats providing Lobster. Horse-drawn carriage, beaches, casinos and State House in Pennsylvania. Amish carriage pulled by a horse on roads in Pennsylvania. View of Atlantic City beach and casinos and hotels. Monuments in Washington DC including White House, Washington Monument, Statue of LIncoln in Lincoln Memorial, U.S. Capitol building viewed from grounds of Washington Monument. View of fossils inside Smithsonian Natural History Museum. Spirit of '76 and space vehicles seen in Air and Space Museum. Planes on tarmac at Washington National Airport with Jefferson Memorial and Washington Monument in background. Travelers at airport rental car counters for Hertz and National. Small hotel or Inn in Virginia. Virginia countryside and view of Monticello. People in historic costume on horses, with carriages, and on foot in Colonial Williamsburg.

Date: 1986
Duration: 4 min 37 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039833
U.S. Labor strife - strikes and lockouts in the clothing industry in the 1920s

Post-World War 1 United States marked by labor-management strife and strikes, especially in the garment industry. Clothing workers are seen busy at their jobs in a factory in New York City. A man is seen symbolically closing and locking a steel door (narrative refers to a company "lockout.") Footage of police officers and crowd of laborers on New York City street. Police try to maintain order as crowds fill garment district streets in protest. Montage of persons awaiting a June 1921 decision by the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Kings County. Narrator announces that Justice James C. Van Siclen, has granted an injunction (against all picketing by the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America). Narrator quotes Van Siclen's opening statement in the decision: "The court must stand at all times as the representative of capital, of the captains of industry..." View of Sidney Hillman, leader of the Amalgamated union (ACWA) sitting with other union members. View of a bustling New York City street lined with tenements and pushcarts in the lower east side of Manhattan. A man washing his face at a sink. A woman preparing a meal over a stove. Four children sharing a large bed. A gathering of idled clothing workers in a school room setting. Some in art classes. Dancers entertaining locked out workers. Young people presenting a puppet show. Narrator states that the lockout lasted 6 months, but the union prevailed. View of pleased union members.

Date: 1921
Duration: 2 min 56 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036809