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USS Tennessee, BB-43, heading for Atlantic Ocean after launch from Brooklyn Navy Yard in Brooklyn, New York.

Sailors aboard USS Tennessee (BB-43) look at city buildings as the ship leaves Brooklyn Navy Yard in Brooklyn, New York. Several other vessels including a submarine chaser underway in the harbor. Officer and staff sit on deck under the deck guns. Men aboard a patrol boat. The patrol boat with the U.S. flag on bow, rushes in water. Several other vessels underway.

Date: 1920
Duration: 1 min 54 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675049929
Blizzard of 1947: New York City buried in record 26 inch snowstorm after 16 hours of heavy snow, surpassing historic 1888 blizzard

Blizzard covers New York City and areas from Maine to Washington DC. In New York, people with umbrellas and heavy coats on roads buried in snow. Cars are marooned away from homes in snow. Traffic in Manhattan at a stand-still as cars, buses, railroad tracks and roads are covered in snow. Food supply is affected. People travel on foot. Volunteers dig out snow and clear the roads. Children enjoying themselves in snow.

Date: 1947, December 26
Duration: 2 min 51 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040929
Traffic on Interstate 278 East Gowanus and Brooklyn-Queens Expressways in Brooklyn, New York.

Driver's view traveling eastbound on Interstate 278 in Brooklyn. Start at crest of Bridge over the Gowanus Canal, good view of Lower Manhattan, pass through "The Trench" section in Carroll Gardens and Cobble Hill, cantilevered roadways beneath "The Promenade" in Brooklyn Heights, ending just short of the Brooklyn Bridge exit. Good views of original 1950's and 1960's freeway signing and highway lighting hardware.

Date: 1965
Duration: 1 min 42 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675033340
Contrast between the lifestyle of hectic workdays and quiet Sundays in New York City in the late 1940's after World War 2.

"City Pastorale" shows citizens of New York City hurrying about their business during workday on a street in New York City. Vehicular traffic and pedestrians. People riding on the subway. Views of workaday foot traffic along New York sidewalk in midtown Manhattan. Macy's department store. Racks of clothes being wheeled along the streets and sidewalks. Scenes of New Yorkers in hectic activity. In contrast, are shown peaceful scenic views of New York City. Penthouse gardens. Clothes drying on a rooftop line. People entering a number of different churches in Manhattan, New York. A woman in a garden. A man and a boy sit and read newspapers in the garden. The young boy looks at the "funny papers" (comic strips). A man walks with a child on a sidewalk. Cars parked. People chatting on the sidewalk of a New York city street. The Chrysler Building and nearby skyscrapers. People taking pictures with handheld cameras at a playground. Families with babies. Children playing in a park. Quiet streets. Car drives beneath an elevated train. Men walk on a ramp. People relax on beaches. Older women gathered together on the beach talking, while boys play in the sand at the edge of the surf. A huge crowd seated in a baseball stadium and watching a game between the New York Giants and the Brooklyn Dodgers, including a shot of Giants pitcher, #36 ( Mickey McGowan ?), throwing from the mound and, in another scene, Giants #23 (Clint Hartung ?) batting and striking out. Views of the fans watching the baseball game, including some men in suits and boys sitting together in the bleachers watching the game and eating ice cream on a stick. Visitors stroll through the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Date: 1948
Duration: 6 min 2 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675054118
Snow blankets the City of New York during a snowstorm on December 26, 1947.

Snowstorm in City of New York on December 26, 1947. Vehicles and streets covered with 26 inches of snow. Two girls making a snowman. A man pushing a car covered with snow. View of many cars buried in snow. Men labor to clear streets. Tractors removing snow from streets. Snow-clad train on railway station. Man trying to pull the car out of snow using shovel. Men on hill removing snow with shovels.

Date: 1947, December 26
Duration: 1 min 49 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039184
U.S. President Roosevelt campaigns during the Presidential elections and officiates ground-breaking for Brooklyn-Battery tunnel

United States President Franklin Roosevelt campaigns in New York City during 1940 presidential election. A large crowd gathered to greet him in Newark, New Jersey. He arrives in the Presidential motorcade. Views of the motorcade driving past the crowd, as seen from a moving vehicle. Roosevelt seated in car beside New York Governor Herbert Lehman, and New York City Mayor Fiorello La Guardia. Roosevelt addresses the people as the Presidential election campaign enters its final phase. Policemen control the large crowd. People seated to hear his speech. He addresses the gathering. The President officiates at the ground breaking for the $57,000,000 Brooklyn-Battery tunnel to connect Manhattan and Brooklyn.

Date: 1940, October 28
Duration: 40 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675057821