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Scenes of devastation from the "Long Island Express" Hurricane of 1938.

Scenes from the New England Hurricane of 1938 (or Great New England Hurricane) (or Long Island Express) (or The Great Hurricane of 1938). Hurricane hitting U.S. Eastern Seaboard on September 21, 1938. The Coast from New Jersey to New England felt its effect. Cars and people drenched with water in streets. Policemen wade through hip deep water. New York is whipped by 70 mile-an-hour winds and the raging sea pouring tons of water far inland. A man retreats from a dock as waves pour water on him. Outcome of hurricane shows broken ships, downed trees, and devastation at the water front in coastal areas including Atlantic City, New London Connecticut, and Long Island. Firemen in New London Connecticut battle fires. Aerial view of destroyed shoreline and beached boats in New London. Broken cars crushed by fallen trees. Crowds gather to look at damage as a lone sentry guards against looting. Boats along the Atlantic Coast are destroyed. A boat is seen on a road in front of Merkel's Delicatessen. View of a train that was derailed by the hurricane on Long Island. Shot of a car that was carried far off a roadway and impaled on an upright beam.

Date: 1938, September 21
Duration: 1 min 53 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039207
Various Buildings, Monuments and Landmarks of United States.

Views of various projects depicting man's creative engineering skills across the United States, including: The Indian Serpent Mounts, Ohio; Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Headquarters, Connecticut; Mackinac Bridge, Michigan; Green Bank Radio Astronomy Antenna, West Virginia; Tanker "Manhattan" in the Northwest Passage; Chicago's Marina Towers, Illinois; NASA launch complex 39 in Cape Canaveral, Florida with a rocket in place; Watts tower, California; John Hancock Building, Illinois; Washington Monument; Dworshak Dam while under construction, Idaho; Newport Bridge, Rhode Island; U.S. Steel building, Pennsylvania; Mt. Glory Arch Bridge under construction in Wyoming; Johnson Wax Headquarters building, Wisconsin; Boeing 747 Factory Building Complex, Seattle Washington; A model of the proposed New Orleans Super Dome in Louisiana; Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel; Dulles International Airport, Virginia; Tyrone Guthrie Theatre, Minnesota; Westinghouse Headquarters building, Pennsylvania; Rio Grande Gorge Bridge, New Mexico; Gulf Life Tower, Florida; Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church, Wisconsin; a paddle style River boat on the Ohio River; an artist depiction of the under construction Mobile River Highway Tunnel, Alabama; the Westinghouse Desalinization Plant, Florida; Model of master plan for the city of Gary, Indiana; Gulf Oil's "Big Brutus" crane at work on a dig site (The 160-foot tall coal shovel known as the 1850-B was designed and built by Bucyrus-Erie in Hallowell Kansas, for the Pittsburg & Midway, or P&M Coal Mining Company. It is the only one of its kind ever built. The mining company was purchased by Gulf Oil in 1963, and subsequently went under The Chevron Mining umbrella); Knights of Columbus headquarters building, Connecticut.

Date: 1970
Duration: 2 min 29 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023512
Growth of interstate highways and road systems in the United States improving commerce and jobs

Gene Edward, General Manager and President of a truck sales and service company speaks on importance of new roads for his business in Kansas City. Sign board of Interstate Connecticut highway 91 (I-91) in Hartford, Connecticut. Work in progress building an overpass of I-91 in Hartford, with buildings of downtown Hartford, including the Travelers Tower, visible in background of highway construction site. An engineer looking through binoculars, mounted on a tripod stand. A crane moving material to a bridge in construction. Worker moving and working over the bridge in construction.

Date: 1956
Duration: 1 min 50 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023854
Sepp Bradl of Austria sets a new world record with a 400-foot ski jump on the Austrian Alps in Kulm.

Ski-flyers at a ski leap or ski jumping competition in Kulm Austria. Competitors climb atop a hill in the Austrian Alps. The competition begins. The ski-flyers take a long start and jump over the slope. Spectators watch the event. Officials monitor the weather and wind conditions. Some competitors like Roy Sheerwood of Connecticut fail to execute a successful jump. Photographers click pictures. Sepp Bradl of Austria executes a 400-foot leap on his third try to set a new world record.

Date: 1953, March 12
Duration: 1 min 25 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675020729
President Warren G. Harding enters a car in Washington DC.

United States President Warren G. Harding in Washington DC. A building, a car on a road and a park. A crowd gathered on the street to greet the President. President Harding with others enter a car. Cars move on a road in front of a building. The British Embassy (1300 Connecticut Ave NW Washington, DC 20036, USA). Buildings, statues, and historic houses in Washington DC. Men walk on a street and enter a house.

Date: 1921
Duration: 3 min 17 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675021535
America test fires the M65 atomic cannon in the Nevada Test Site; 1953 East German uprising and Trieste Crisis in Europe

Major events of the year 1953. The first atomic artillery test fired in United States on May 25, 1953. The M65 atomic cannon moving in the Nevada Test Site (specifically Frenchman Flat). A mushroom cloud rises after the M65 Atomic Cannon, sometimes called Atomic Annie, is fired and atomic bomb explodes. The M65 atomic cannon test is done as part of the Upshot–Knothole series of nuclear tests. East German uprising of 1953 (“Volksaufstand vom 17. Juni 1953”). Riots in East Germany against the increase in work quotas and withholding of American food. East German police escort a man away during a riot. People protest in streets as police try to crush the revolt. A stack of StarLac boxes bound for East Germany with sign in front. Sign reads “First Food Relief Shipment to East Germany by M.S.A. United States Lines S.S. American Inventor”. East Germans line up to receive food relief from the United States. An East German woman receives a food aid pack from the United States. The Trieste Crisis of 1953. Sign in front of a house reads “Trsta ne damo”. Officials inspect a car in the United Nations Security Council-controlled Free Territory of Trieste. Students riot in the streets of Trieste over the issue of Adriatic area between Italy and Yugoslavia.

Date: 1953, December 24
Duration: 1 min 24 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049147