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African American girls working at Sloss Field Nursery School, a National Youth Administration center in Alabama

NYA (National Youth Administration) girls working at Sloss Field Nursery School, an NYA center in Alabama. NYA girls caring and teaching children. NYA girl smiles. Children come out with NYA girls. NYA girl feeds them a spoon of cod liver oil and tomato juice in glasses. A child washes hands in basin. NYA girls help children wash hands in washroom. Children eating at tables. NYA girl is present at every table. NYA girls preparing children to go to sleep.

Date: 1939, April 29
Duration: 3 min 12 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675024044
Forks of Cypress plantation home and other sites, likely in Alabama, circa 1939; African American man tending a large bell.

From the U.S. Department of Agriculture documentary "The Land." A seemingly abandoned, dilapidated house at an unidentified farm or former plantation location, possibly in Alabama, during the Great Depression. Spanish moss hanging from nearby trees. Views of a different, wooden, rundown house with a front porch, possibly at a different location. Scene changes again to a third different house, this one made of brick. A lone African American man emerges from double doors of the house. He walks up to a bell, cleans it, and rings it. Distant open view in front of the bell includes a valley and river (possibly the Tennessee River in western Lauderdale County, but not confirmed.) Scene changes again to show the first house and the trees with Spanish Moss. View returns to the location with the man tending the bell. Next scene shows the Forks of Cypress plantation house in Florence Alabama, (Lauderdale County). View of the old main Greek Revival Forks of Cypress house built in 1830 for James Jackson. View of the west elevation of the house. The smokehouse is seen behind and to the side of the main house. A clothes line with clothes on it is beside the smokehouse. Chickens walk on the porch of the house, past its tall colonnade of 24 ionic columns. (Note: The house burned completely in a 1966 fire). Next scene is again the elderly African American man at the brick house location. He looks around, mumbling to himself, walks back towards the house, and pauses on the front steps. The first wooden house with Spanish moss in nearby trees is shown again. Scene returns to the elderly African American man who enters the brick house and closes the doors behind him. Film directed and narrated by Robert Flaherty.

Date: 1939
Duration: 2 min 0 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021571
The interstate highway system in America

A man rides a two-wheeled dune bike on the shoreline at Jensen beach, Florida. Cars move on multi-lane Interstate Highway. Many 1970s cars seen. Signs with distances and directions along the roadside and above the highways. Signs for Interstates 40; Hwy 95 in Virginia;Hwy 65 at Birmingham Alabama;Hwy 75 N to Atlanta and S to Macon and Florida;Hwy 80 in Iowa; Hwy 85 in Georgia; and Hwy 15 in Montana. Other destinations include: Chattanooga,Knoxville,and Louisville. Cars repaired in a garage. A car moves out of the garage and takes to the highway. Cars, bikes and buses on a highway. Cars loaded onto a car-carrier truck and transported along the Interstate Highway. A Continental Trailways bus on a highway. Point of view shot from moving vehicle driving on highways near Washington DC area.

Date: 1975
Duration: 2 min 54 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675048711
U.S. Battleships in a convoy of warships in the Pacific Ocean during World War II.

USS Birmingham in the Pacific Ocean during World War 2. A South Dakota class Battleship (possibly the Alabama) and then, North Carolina class Battleships, sail past USS Birmingham. In the background is the USS Enterprise. A fleet of U.S. warships underway at sea. Airplanes fly over an aircraft carrier.

Date: 1944, July 8
Duration: 1 min 29 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675071808
Young African American women prepare dinner, press and mend clothes, and do cleaning job in National Youth Administration Center in Alabama.

Campus of Slossfield Work Center, a National Youth Administration (NYA) Center in Alabama. African American girls in a waiting room reading books on a table. Few others sit on a bench. A lady interviews a girl for NYA jobs. African American children play in a circle. Dinner is cooked in the kitchen. It is provided to NYA youth at a cost of 5 cents. NYA youth sitting on tables as dinner is served. Girls clean the center. They press and mend clothes. Winner of the College Scholarship shows clothes she made and wears one. Women attend arts and crafts class

Date: 1957
Duration: 3 min 29 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675024041
African Americans learn to paint, catalog manuscripts and make equipment for library in a National Youth Administration center in Alabama

A girl paints window blue. A woman works on plants in beds. A boy works in a wood factory. NYA (National Youth Administration) youths preparing equipment for library at Slossfield Work Center, a NYA center in Alabama. NYA girls learn to catalog manuscripts. Two boys paint roof and wall.

Date: 1957
Duration: 1 min 32 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675024042