Various buildings of New York City seen as camera pans from left to right and also shows a sailing boat at port in New York City United States. Palmer Hayden paints at New York waterfront. Dignitaries and arts supporters including Mrs Harmon at Spanish African American art painting exhibition by Pastor Argudin y Pedroso. James L Allen in his photography studio. A woman prepares a sculpture.
Looking up Broadway from 69th street in Upper West Side of New York City. Automobile traffic. Sign reads "Hippodrome". Herald Square with Times Building in distance. Point House, Hamburg American Building, Battery Place Station. Battery Park and Aquarium.
View from a rider on an elevated train of the IRT (Interborough Rapid Transit) system in Manhattan, New York City. Lower Broadway and Singer building in the distance. Buildings on sides of railroad tracks. The train proceeds along the 9th Avenue section, where at the 72nd Street Station, the Acker, Merrall & Condit building (Wine & Liquor Merchants) at 160 West 72nd Street, can be seen from the train on the Upper West Side.
Interior of a factory with a worm gear cutting machine in operation, New York City. Wheel of a machine moves. Liquid drops on wheel.
Bear resting in a wooded area is struck by a small stick that drops from a tree, and it runs into the forest. Next scene shows a black bear in a cage, sitting up and raising up its right front paw several times, almost in a waving motion.
Elevated views and busy street views of automobile and pedestrian traffic on streets of New York City in the late 1930s. A streetcar stopped in the street. A roadside news stand. Men in suits and women in dresses walking on sidewalks near office buildings and stores in New York City. Children of late primary school or middle school age walking to school. Children exiting a school bus to go to school Two boys wrestle as a group of boys gathers around and encourages them. Girls play a game like "London Bridge is falling down." Scene changes to a farm field with a farmer plowing a field with his tractor. A farmer cuts crops with a sickle. Brief view of the main street in a small town somewhere in the United States, likely east. Scene changes again to a neighborhood with nice homes and two girls play skipping rope at a house. A woman prepares toast in a electric toaster. Vegetables and food items seen on shelves of an open refrigerator in a home. Scene changes to dense urban tenements and scenes of relative poverty in New York City. Elevated view looking out over dense tenements and apartment homes. Two young women sit on sleeping cots on a rooftop 1930s cars parked on a narrow street among crowded city dwellings, and and people sit outside their houses. Kids playing "stoop ball" throwing a ball against steps of their dwelling on the lower east side of Manhattan. A movie promotion poster advertises "Yellow Jack" playing at the Loews Commodore Theatre . Children play.
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