Prohibition agents take axes to beer barrels during Prohibition. Beer gushes out as agents destroy the bootlegged barrels. The "We Want Beer!" Parade in New York City demonstration against the 18th Amendment. Marchers carry signs that read "Taxation for Beer" View of the Statue of Liberty from below. Men look out windows in the head of the Statue of Liberty. Flood lights set to light up the Statue of Liberty. The Great Beer Parade in New York City at night. Aerial view of New York City in evening.
Walker ouster proceedings in Albany, New York. New York Mayor James J Walker along with other officials coming out of the court. Buildings along the sides of the street. Crowd gathers outside the court. Officials come out of the court after the removal hearings of Walker before Governor Franklin Roosevelt.
Life on a street in China. A crowded street. Several people walking about on a road and buildings on either sides of the road. A small girl looking at things in a shop. A vendor cooking noodles under a partially covered area. Shops closely set side by side on a street. Several things on display at the shops. Men walking on the road in front of the shops. A man milking a buffalo in front of a small building. A girl standing beside him. A baby buffalo standing beside them. Both the buffaloes held by ropes by another man. A man and a boy watching them. The man after milking the buffalo pours the milk into the vessel in the girl's hands. The man walks away with the buffaloes. A woman buying cooked food from a vendor. A vendor selling knives on a street. A man shaving a man's head seated on a path. A man getting a letter written by a letter writer on a street. Both of them seated at a table.
Hard times in the Great Depression led to formation of The Bonus Army. American veterans of World War 1 march on streets of Washington DC, carrying a large poster demanding immediate cash redemption their "bonus" service certificates awarded by Congress in 1924 (but not lawfully payable until 1945). Army Chief of Staff, General Douglas MacArthur, ordered by President Hoover, to clear the Bonus Army encampments, is seen standing in a street surrounded by several U.S. Army troops. People watch from sidewalks as a contingent of U.S. Army cavalry rides down the street. U.S. Army M-1917 tanks roll down Pennsylvania Avenue in July 1932. Bonus marchers and others watch from Lafayette Park in background. Scene shifts to the 1932 Democratic Party Convention in Chicago Stadium, Chicago, where delegates cheer after nominating Franklin D. Roosevelt as their Presidential candidate. Roosevelt seen waving from the podium. Migrant farm workers seen at temporary, dilapidated dwellings in close quarters, and sitting at a campfire, some with sad and desperate faces. Migrant farm workers' cars on the road, piled high with family belongings during westward migration. Migrants riding atop an open railroad freight car. Two men share a copy of the "Epic News" newspaper (published by supporters of Upton Sinclair and the End Poverty Movement in Los Angeles and central California). Narrator describes programs of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). Construction workers ignite demolition charges during construction of Boulder Dam (aka Hoover Dam and officially so-named in 1947). Glimpse of President Roosevelt at the site in an open car, for its dedication on September 30, 1935. Construction workers engaged in building the dam. Another shot of President Roosevelt in his open car. Towers being erected to carry electric power from the dam's hydroelectric generators. President Franklin D. Roosevelt smiling broadly at the formal dedication ceremony, September 30, 1935. Controlled discharges of water through the dam. Views of the Boulder Dam hydroelectric generating station. Oil well rigs or oil derricks at work during construction at night. People at work in fabric mills or textile mills, and in a print shop
Native American Indian dancers from Buffalo Bill's Wild West show perform the Buffalo Dance. Recorded at Edison's Black Maria Studio in West Orange, New Jersey, United States
Native American Indians perform a buffalo dance in San Ildefonso Pueblo, New Mexico. The roof of a pueblo building. Mountains in the background. Young Indian girls walk through a field. Indian men standing by. A man fills water from a tap. Native American Indian dancers climb down the steps of a building. They are from the Tewa ethnic group of Native Americans. A man plays a drum. The Indian dancers in regalia perform the buffalo dance. A group of Indian men play drums in a circle while the dancers perform. Civilians gathered to watch their performance. Huts in the background. Close-up views of the drum circle show that the drummers are also singing.
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