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American President Woodrow Wilson embarks a ship at Brest in France after signing the Treaty of Versailles.

American President Woodrow Wilson departs from Brest in France after signing the Treaty of Versailles. President Wilson descends from the stairway at dockyard to the pier, as he prepares to board the ship SS George Washington for his return trip to the United States. Officials gathered around him. Naval officers salute the President.

Date: 1919, June 29
Duration: 55 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675064455
French Marine minister Cesar Campinchi and wife launch the battleship Richelieu in Brest, France

French battleship Richelieu launched in Brest, France. French Marine minister Cesar Campinchi arrives with other officials for the inauguration of the French battleship Richelieu. Sailors on deck of the ship. Sailors stand in formation on deck. Madame Mons, the wife of one of the workers in the arsenal who took part in the construction of the boat, cuts the ribbon and launches the battle ship. Officials look as the battleship leaves the dock. Sailors on rail of the ship. Cesar Campinchi takes a protective mask while welding. Other officials stand around him.

Date: 1939, January 30
Duration: 58 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675068178
Nurses and U.S. soldiers and officers outside a hospital building in Brest, France during World War I.

U.S. soldiers and officers in Brest, France during World War I. A church. Two nurses walking with a wounded, recuperating soldier in crutches on a path in front of a hospital. Bushes lining the path. Patients and the nurses sitting in a garden. A statue of Mother Mary behind them. A few army officers beside the nurses. The officers and the nurses among the trees in the garden. A nurse walking with the soldier in the crutches. A few nurses and officers outside a building. A nurse and a soldier seated at a table. Other nurses and officers standing around them. Several nurses sitting under trees in a lawn outside a building. Officers walking on the path behind the trees.

Date: 1918
Duration: 2 min 9 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675070085
Brest France in World War I. People walking through Porte Foy and on the Cours Dajot by Coysevox statue, La Marne

U.S. soldiers in Brest, France during World War 1. Soldiers and other men walk through Porte Foy, across a road. The soldiers standing and talking. A group of civilian men and a soldier standing on on the Cours Dajot.,beside an iron fence protecting the La Marne statue by Antoine Coysevox. One of the men smokes a cigarette. The soldier and the men smile.

Date: 1918
Duration: 48 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675070086
U.S. servicemen with adopted French orphan children in Brest, France at close of World War I.

United States military soldiers in Brest, France during World War I. U.S. soldiers seated on a sidewalk in front of a building. A woman brings a French orphan boy. The boy smiles and salutes standing beside the soldiers. Another boy dressed in soldier's clothes smiles standing beside the woman. The woman lifts the clothing from the boy's back to show scars. A few American officers posing on a path. A few of them seated and a few of them standing. French officers stand holding hands to make an archway for children to pass through. Young orphaned French boys and girls move in columns under the officers' hands. United States Army and Navy men standing on the side watch the children. A girl holding a kitten. A large group of U.S. soldiers seated holding adopted orphan children. United States troops holding girls seated on a lawn. One of the girls has a doll.

Date: 1918
Duration: 1 min 38 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675070087
French firemen and U.S. troops extinguish fire at a theatre in Brest, France soon after World War I.

Fire in the The Wilson Square - Champ-de-Bataille Square municipal theatre (located in the Place Wilson) in Brest, France. The architect was Antoine Choquet de Lindu. People on the street outside the Theatre during the fire. French firemen and U.S. troops (immediately post World War 1) arrive in trucks to fight the theater fire. The fire fighters extend water hoses from the trucks and from manual pumps to the building. Men climb up ladders to the first floor of the building. Men standing on the balcony of the first floor holding the hoses. Broken windows of the ground floor in view. Men break windows on more doors. They position hoses and spray water from hoses through a window of the first floor. Firemen go up and down the ladder. A huge group of men outside the building operating a see-saw manual water pump. (The theater was completely destroyed and rebuilt in wood at the Place de la Liberté.)

Date: 1919, May 3
Duration: 1 min 52 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675070088