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Traffic and pedestrians along Myrtle Avenue in Brooklyn, New York. Sidewalk displays of goods
Brooklyn borough of the New York City. Traffic along Myrtle Avenue in Brooklyn. Pedestrians cross road. Shops and sidewalk displays in commercial district. Pedestrians walk along the sidewalk. Frankfurter and corned beef sandwich stand on corner of Pitkin Avenue, featuring Brooklyn Dodgers Sandwich for 15 cents. Outdoor market along curb of street. Customers buying fresh fish.
Jam packed stands with cheering baseball spectators at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, New York.
Brooklyn borough of New York City. Exteriors of Major League Baseball park Ebbets Field located in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn. A man hands out programs in front of the stadium. Stands are packed with cheering Brooklyn Dodger fans. A little girl stands next to a little boy wearing a Dodgers baseball uniform. A man calls out in the stands and has his hat pulled down around his ears, by another spectator. Fans seen yelling and cheering, sometimes happy with plays on the field and sometimes angry and upset with the players and with other fans.
New York Yankees win baseball World Series against Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn New York.
Newsreel clip entitled "Yanks Win Series." Highlights from game 7 of 1952 World Series in which the New York Yankees beat the Brooklyn Dodgers to claim their fourth straight Major League Baseball championship. Clip opens with fans pouring into Dodgers' Ebbets Field and cheering in the stands. Closeup of Dodgers shortstop Pee Wee Reese (#7), who hits single to left in fifth inning, scoring Billy Cox. Closeup of Yankees outfielder Mickey Mantle (also #7). Dodgers pitcher Joe Black throws. Mantle hits home run to put Yankees ahead, runs around bases as fans cheer. Shots of Dodgers' fans looking nervous. Dodgers second baseman Jackie Robinson hits popup with bases loaded in seventh inning. Yankees second baseman Billy Martin races in to make shoestring catch. Dodger fan in hat looking disgruntled. Yankees mob relief pitcher Bob Kuzava after he gets the final out in the ninth inning to clinch the series. Yankees manager Casey Stengel celebrates in clubhouse.
Achievements of African Americans in art, literature, music science, and medicine in the United States, in the late 1930s and 1940s.
A film about achievements of various African American men and women citizens in the United States. A statue of Booker T. Washington, founder of Tuskegee University in Alabama. View of African American scientist and inventor George Washington Carver, as an elderly man, working with another scientist in a laboratory. African American judge of New York city court. African American explorer Matthew Henson is seen looking at a globe (he was with Admiral Peary planting the American flag at the North Pole in 1909), and an unnamed African American surgeon at work in an operating room in New York. Next scene shows famous "father of the blues" musician and composer W.C. Handy (William Christoper Handy) smiling. Next is seen the financier and publisher of the Amsterdam News, Dr. C.B. Powell (Clilan Powell) greeting three uniformed African American women during a World War 2 war bond drive, and handing them a check (close up is shown) for 25,000 dollars, dated January 4, 1942, for the war bond drive. It is from the account of the Victory Mutual Life Insurance Company which Dr. Powell also owned. The check is signed by C.B Powell and Philip M.H. Savory (Dr. Savory was co-owner of the New York Amsterdam News). The next scene shows Elise Johnson McDougald, better known as Gertrude Elise Ayer, who was the first black full-time public school principal after the consolidation of New York City schools in 1898. She was also a noted woman writer during the Harlem Renaissance. She is seated in her office at her desk, likely in P.S. 119 in Harlem, since this is approximately year 1945 and she was at P.S 119 at that time. Her name plaque is visible on the front center of the desk. Principal Ayer smiles as a woman delivers a document to her. Next is seen the African American historian, author, and professor, Lawrence D. Reddick, serving in his role as the curator of the Schomburg Collection of African American Literature. In an art studio is seen the famous "Harlem Renaissance" African American sculptor and painter Charles Alston, at work on a sculpture. Next scene shows the famous African American contralto singer, Marian Anderson, receiving a bouquet of flowers and smiling after a performance. This transitions to a view of African American orchestra conductor Dean Dixon leading an orchestra in a performance of Beethoven's 9th Symphony. Several views of different sections of the orchestra performing under Dixon's direction. Clip closes with brief shots of campuses of several historically black colleges and universities in the United States like Howard University, Hampton, Tuskegee, Fisk, Prairie View. A football game underway in one of the colleges, and view on the field as quarterback throws a pass.
Crowds in Times Square, Manhattan, New York City, monitor returns during night of 1940 U.S. National Elections
Crowds in Times Square, Manhattan, New York City, on election night, November 5, 1940, gathered to watch returns displayed on the Times Building. View of people in crowd, illuminated by search light beam as they cling to a street sign post. Behind them can be seen lights of the Rialto Theater and various other neon signs.Men are seen on elevated platform, maneuvering search lights to shine on various parts of the crowd. A sign showing Uncle Sam and message: "No third term." People in crowd milling about. Marquee of New York movie Theater. Mounted police thinning out the crowd in places. Moving lights on Times building report results from Hudson County, New York. And they spell out:"Roosevelt leading in States having a total electoral vote of 442." "McNary concedes." "Wilkie retired at 1:30 AM with announcement he would have no further statement until he awakened." Part of another announcement reads:"Republican leader refuses to concede election."
Eads Bridge over Mississippi River; Brooklyn Bridge construction in New York; Williamsburg Bridge construction fire damage
Host Lee Marvin. The Triple span arch Eads Bridge at St. Louis, connecting St. Louis and East St. Louis, Illinois. View of the bridge spanning the Mississippi River. View of the Eads Bridge with the St. Louis Arch in the background. Boat passes under the bridge. Aerial views of the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City. Portraits of John Augustus Roebling, then of his son, Washington, and his wife Emily Warren Roebling, and the story of how he gave her his instructions on how to build the bridge by tapping on her arm, due to his caisson illness. Views of the Brooklyn bridge from various angles. Early moving image footage of the nearby Williamsburg Bridge, still under construction and not yet completed, shot in 1902. The scene shows recent fire damage to the Williamsburg Bridge. Next scene shows September 22, 1899 Edison footage of the Brooklyn Bridge taken aboard a moving train moving toward the bridge.
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