Women sewing clothes for needy families as a part of the WPA program (Works Progress Administration) in Ohio United States during the Great Depression. Close up views of the women seamstress workers as they sew. Young children play with toys and engage in play activities in a nursery school or preschool built for children of working and needy mothers by the WPA. Children work with tools and hammers on projects. Children play in a wooden frame play house. Boy and girl children on swings in the nursery as a teacher watches over them. Smiling children wash up with soap and water using wash basins. One boy jokes and bumps against the girl beside him. The boys and girls lay down on cots for nap time. A boy and a girl sleeping during a nap at the school. Life Guards attend life- saving instructional classes on a beach. Lifeguards rescue a woman from the water and bring her to safety. Men put up a policeman cut out image with sign stating "Slow. School" as a safety measure near a school. People at the improved Toledo Zoo. Families look at a wall built from salvage material in the zoo. Families and children watch a monkey move across a rope ladder at the zoo. A group of monkeys in a pond. The WPA Symphony Orchestra performs in the open band shell amphitheater at the Toledo Zoo (the Zoological Park Amphitheater, Toledo, Ohio). WPA Orchestra with musicians employed through federal funds, are seated on the stage as they perform. Families indulge in swimming and relax in a community swimming pool in Ohio. A young boy climbs a fountain in the pool to take a closer look.
Crowd marching from Union Square to City Hall in New York City, to demand trucks for trip to Washington DC. People marching with banners seeking relief from unemployment during the Great Depression. Police can be seen on horseback controlling crowd. Close view of a banner which reads "Answer Bank Holiday with Rent Holiday." Women and young workers walking. Other placards, signs, and posters like, "Brighton Beach Unemployed Council" and "We want relief not military training" and "We demand hot lunches."
A film titled 'Military Airplane History'. Samuel Pierpont Langley's Tandem monoplane 'Aerodrome' at Hammondsport in New York. Langley's Aerodrome ready to fly. Men gathered on beach. Aerodrome flying over water.
The United States Naval reservists and Marines aboard landing boats at Lake Pontchartrain in Louisiana. Landing boats underway. A huge crowd at the beach. U.S. aircraft in flight overhead. The sailors seize the bridgehead. Naval landing techniques demonstrated.
Yachts and boats of millionaires at Cocolobo Cay in Florida (likely at Cocolobo Cay Club). Wealthy, well-dressed men eat hotdogs and other food items. A group of African American boys wrestle on a floating dock, each trying to be the last one on the floating dock. The wealthy club visitors sit on the beach and nearby dock and watch the boys wrestling.
United States Navy transport off coast in Aleutian Island. American soldiers move supplies and equipment from beached landing barges to the shore (World War II period).
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