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U.S. Army personnel and women greet, dance, and enjoy the American Theatre Stage Door Canteen in Washington DC.

Entrance to an American Theatre Wing Stage Door Canteen in Washington DC during World War 2. Army personnel dancing with women war workers. A soldier meeting a woman named Phyllis Hood. The man and the woman seated at a desk and talking. They dance. Men seated at tables in a canteen. They are being served food. Cars passing on streets of Washington. Several new, temporary office buildings along the side of the street, built for wartime demand. A filled, busy Washington DC restaurant. A hotel lobby where the hotel desk turns away a client, pointing at some people seated in lobby chairs asleep who cold not get a room. U.S. Capitol building in the background in one shot, and the Executive Office Building in another shot, with a newer temporary building in the foreground.

Date: 1943
Duration: 1 min 18 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076688
War workers and buildings of Washington DC during World War II

Clip compares Washington DC to an industrial boomtown where the big business is government, during World War 2. Men and women working in offices. A young woman seated at a desk and doing clerical work. Identification cards of civilian women working for the U.S. Army. Pedestrians and workers walking on a street of Washington DC. Buildings along street sides. People at the entrance of Union Station. A woman identified as Phyllis Hood joins others in a Diamond Taxi cab leaving Union Station. Woman exits the taxi and looks at various buildings as she seeks a place to live in Washington. Boards on buildings read: 'No Vacancy', 'No Rooms' and 'Filled Up'. Wearing a fur coat and hat, she stops and sits on her suitcase, removes a shoe, and rubs her tired feet. She talks to a police officer on a traffic corner, who directs her to the U.S. Office of Information. She is seen inside the main hallway of the Office of Information. They direct her to an availble room at the former French Embassy building at the intersection of 16th Street and Kalorama Road NW in Washington DC, by Meridian Hill Park. She enters the building which that narrator says serves as a hotel for girls. She talks to a receptionist in the main hall lobby and then ascends the stairs. Phyllis Hood along with two other girls seated inside a room. They talk amongst themselves and relax. Woman hangs nylon stockings from a hanger to dry. The women going to sleep at night and turning out bedside lights. A large room with an operations maps, and clocks on the curved wall showing time in various international cities.

Date: 1943
Duration: 4 min 35 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076699
Naval transport ship (AP-23) leaves New York harbor carrying deported German and Italian Consular officials to Lisbon

U.S. Navy West Point Class Troop Transport (AP-23) (Formerly the ocean liner, SS America ) backs out of Pier 61, in New York City, with help of tug boats. The ship carries deported German and Italian Consular officials to Lisbon, including A.V.Yannelli, Italian General at Johnstown, Pennsylvania. Several of Yanelli's friends, and reporters linger at the entrance to Pier 61. Several taxis and a truck loaded with baggage arrives. Men, women and children are seen with their baggage. The ship proceeds down the Hudson River, carrying 137 Italian citizens and 327 Germans from the closed consulates of those nations. The transport ship is underway at 2:55 PM on July 16th, bound for Lisbon Portugal

Date: 1941, July 16
Duration: 3 min 4 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675064215
Dr. Arnold Gesell demonstrates 28 week old child's ability to pick up large blocks at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.

American Pediatrician Doctor Arnold Gesell demonstrates with a toddler at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. Doctor Arnold Gesell with a 28 week old baby in an enclosed area. Onlookers watch from outside. Doctor Arnold Gesell demonstrates child's ability to pick up blocks. Doctor Gesell places large blocks and pellets on the table. Toddler picks up large objects but cannot pick up the small pellets.

Date: 1946, January
Duration: 4 min 36 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675064242
Dr. Arnold Gesell places ring, block and pellet in front of a 28 week old child at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.

American Pediatrician Doctor Arnold Gesell demonstrates with a toddler at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. Doctor Arnold Gesell with a 28 week old baby in an enclosed area. Doctor Arnold Gesell demonstrates child's ability to pick up blocks. Doctor Gesell places blocks on the table. Toddler picks it up and put it in his mouth. He places a ring tied with a string. Child tries to hold the string but fails. Toddler holds ring and puts it in his mouth. Doctor Gesell places small pellet in front of the baby and the child cannot get a grip of the pellet.

Date: 1946, January
Duration: 2 min 5 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675064243
Dr. Arnold Gesell places ring, block and pellet and bell in front of a toddler at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.

American Pediatrician Doctor Arnold Gesell demonstrates with a toddler at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. Doctor Arnold Gesell demonstrates child's ability to pick up blocks. Toddler picks it up and put it in his mouth. He places a ring tied with a string. Child tries to hold the string but fails. Doctor Gesell places blocks on the table. Toddler holds ring and puts it in his mouth. Doctor Gesell places small pellet in front of the baby and the child cannot get a grip of the pellet. He places a bell in front and toddler picks it.

Date: 1946, January
Duration: 4 min 32 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675064244