Greenbelt Community Center Buildings in Greenbelt Maryland, a planned suburban community of the United States during the New Deal era of the Great Depression. A boy sketches country landscape. Sketch of a city slum. View of modern communities of Greenbelt constrasted with slum areas in industrial areas elsewhere in America. Children run in a community building. A child plays as his mother sits on the lawn. Residential houses in modern planned cooperative community. Children at playgrounds in modern community buildings. Contrasting view of children playing at alleys in slum and tenement area near factory mills. Men and women walk in slum area. Clothes hung on lines. Back in Greenbelt, children bicycle on paths in community. Aerial view of planned Greenbelt community.
U.S. Civilian Public Service camp number 3 (Camp Patapsco, in Elkridge, Maryland), run by the American Friends Service Committee of the Quaker Religious Society of Friends in the United States. A sign reads ‘Civilian Public Service Camp No.3’. Building at the camp. Conscientious objectors who choose public service in lieu of military service, arrive and are checked into the camp. The U.S. flag flutters from a pole. The arriving personnel talks to a man at the entrance. The new arrivals pose.
U.S. Civilian Public Service camp number 3, for conscientious objectors, administered by Quakers of the American Friends Service Committee, in the United States. Camp number 3 is Camp Patapsco, in Elkridge, Maryland. Men use lawn mowers outside the camp buildings. Men work in a garden and over the camp houses. A man uses a mower. A man reads from a book. View of camp houses. Men making roof repairs. New recruits arrive at the camp.
President of the Provincial Government of the French Republic General Charles De Gaulle reviews midshipmen in Annapolis, Maryland during World War II. The midshipmen march with rifles in hand. General De Gaulle is greeted by Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt at Hyde Park in Chicago, Illinois. He places a wreath on former United States President Franklin D Roosevelt's grave and salutes.
A junior boxing match in Annapolis, Maryland. Two boys boxing inside a ring. Journalists take photographs. A referee stands close to the two young boxers, who are children of Navy men. Junior boxers take swipes with gusto and oversized gloves. Family members and other Navy children watch the match outside the ring. Boy stands up from his corner and knocks his opponent. The referee restrains a boy before resuming the fight. Junior boxers fight. Junior boxers hug each other after the fight. A boy rush to his parents after the boxing match.
Newsreel clip entitled "Ball Players Train in North" shows major league baseball teams holding spring training in 1943. Teams were not allowed to travel south to Florida because of World War 2 travel restrictions. First part of clip shows men (presumably baseball players) riding in a horse and buggy along a tree-lined road. Giants seen running on field and meeting with manager and Hall of Fame outfielder Mel Ott. Players pose for camera, all wearing long sleeves. Closeup of Giants Hall of Fame pitcher Carl Hubbell. Giants players seen throwing at posters of Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler and Hideki Tojo -- Leaders of the Axis powers during the war. Players look at the posters after throwing; note patriotic war patch on Giant player's sleeve. Clip shifts to Washington Senators training camp the same year. Coach and renowned baseball clown Nick Altrock leads players in warmup drills. Players warm up in outfield, near what looks like a heating plant. Closeup of Senators pitcher Dutch Leonard throwing. Closeup of Senators owner Clark Griffith (in overcoat) talking with manager Ossie Bluege. Closeup of Bluege. Players marvel over of 7-foot player Richard Ahrens, who was signed by the Senators that spring as a possible publicity stunt; he never appeared in a minor or major league game. Washington players pretend to warm themselves up by small campfire on the field. Another shot of Altrock. (Note: There is no indication where these clips were taken but the Giants trained in Lakewood, New Jersey that spring and the Senators trained in College Park, Maryland. )
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