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Students study in universities and farmers do weekly shopping in the Northwestern United States.

The Northwestern United States. Cars driven on a road. Trading centers in the United States. Grain elevators on farms near a road. Cattle and livestock shipping yards. 1930s and 1940s Automobile traffic on a main street in a small town of the western United States. Farmers do weekly shopping, going in various stores and shops. Sign "Barnard's" seen on one shop. Children in front of a school building. Students in a university. The clock tower with the "M" on it is Main Hall at the University of Montana in Missoula. Mount Sentinel is seen behind it. Fruits, vegetables and other articles on ships. Cattle and sheep in a field. Wheat fields. A harvester in operation on a field. Wheat is separated by a thresher.

Date: 1942
Duration: 1 min 31 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675057907
Slate quarry in the southern Appalachian mountains

Man rides horse on dirt road in the southern Appalchian Mountains of western North Carolina or eastern Tennessee. 1930s era car drives past. Group of men working at a slate quarry. Using large sledge hammers, they hammer wedges into crevices and pry up large pieces of slate. A man puts a piece of slate into position for a building project.

Date: 1935
Duration: 1 min 17 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675023117
Dust Bowl of 1930s. Farmers abandoning their homes with their families

Lewis Thaddeus Nordyke, newspaperman and author, who lived through the Dust Bowl in Dalhart, Texas, recounts how some people "stayed and prayed" in hopes of rain, always looking forward to "next year." Views of drought stricken land and sand covered houses during dust bowl in Great Depression. Scenes of farmers packing up their families and abandoning their homes. Some wear handerchief masks over their faces to protect against dust. Families load belongings into the backs of towed carts and trucks, leaving their homes. (Between 1935 and 1939, 350 thousand people left their homes in the dust bowl. Many migrated west toward California.)

Date: 1936
Duration: 1 min 47 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032608
Scenes of Washington DC, and people working inside various Federal buildings and government offices in Washington DC (WW2)

A World War II documentary titled 'Boomtown DC', a part of 'This is America' series, compares Washington DC to an industrial boomtown where the big business is government. 1930's and 1940's cars parked along a tree-lined street in a Washington DC neighborhood with homes visible. A cat jumps down from a wall behind a neighborhood home, with the U.S. Capitol seen in the background. Scene changes to U.S. Capitol building exterior close up. Close up views of souvenir stand trinkets in Washington DC, including banners, snow globes, and postcards of buildings and monuments of the city. View on the National Mall in Washington DC toward the Lincoln Memorial, interrupted by temporary wartime elevated walkways erected between buildings of the rapidly expanding Navy Department on either side of the National Mall. Smoke stacks from the chimneys of a factory superimposed over various images of buildings in the city. A woman exiting a voting booth, followed by a man entering the same voting booth and closing the curtain. A US Army guard standing outside the White House. Exterior of the newly built Pentagon War Department building in Arlington Virginia. Sign "War Department" on the War Department building at 21st and Virginia Avenues. Exterior view of a Navy Department building, then exterior view of the Treasury Department building. Close up view of hands holding and flipping through a stack of IRS individual tax return documents, then of hands sorting through a stack of U.S. government bonds. View of the Justice Department, and then view of sign on the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Scientists in a laboratory operate various equipment and run tests. A scientist near some beakers and test tubes in the lab. Scientists look through microscopes. View of underground rifle range in the FBI building as personnel practice marksmanship. View toward shooters on the range during firing, and toward targets. US Army guard in front of the State Department building. Exterior view of the Department of Labor building and sign. View of the U.S. Office of War Information building (OWI) with sign "US Information" inscribed in large letters on the top of the building (possibly the "Temporary V Building" of the OWI?) Exterior view of the Supreme Court Building. View of Declaration of Independence document on display. Exerior view of U.S. Capitol, then view of House of Representatives in session. U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt seated at a desk signs a document. Citizens and workers walking on streets of Washington DC. Sopme people enter the Department of Agriculture building. Men and women enter the Office of War Information. Civilian and military hats being hung on a hat rack. Hand reaches for a 1940's era telephone. Women filing papers, views of filing cabinets. Close-up of 1940s era typewriters in use.

Date: 1943
Duration: 4 min 34 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076698
Development of roads, rural school system, camps, and preservation of monuments in Ohio in 1930s

Hogs at a farm in Ohio. Farmer loads pigs into truck in order to transport them to the market. The truck gets stuck in a muddy road and the farmer is unable to free his truck. The hogs get tired and jump out of the truck adding to the farmer's complications. Demonstrates problems with low quality road system for farmers getting from farm to market. Federally financed road construction shows workers during the Great Depression as they reconstruct and level rugged roads under the Farm to Market Roads Program. Various machines used for the purpose of building new roads. A farm truck drives across a smooth road. A school bus approaches a new consolidated school building using the developed roads. View of an older rural school house in Ohio that is no longer used as a school due to school consolidation under the Works Progress Administration or WPA program. Two boys play on a see-saw in front of the school building. Children wearing shorts get off the school bus. View of main entrance of OYO Boy Scout Camp in West Portsmouth, Ohio. Boy Scouts view a knot tying demonstration as they sit outside the newly constructed Block House log cabin, built with federal funds under the Civil Works Administration, at the camp located in the Roosevelt Game Preserve. Views of the camp Headquarters building at Camp OYO. View of buildings of Old Fort Recovery, built by General 'Mad' Anthony Wayne, and restored by WPA.

Date: 1937
Duration: 2 min 10 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675030502
Alexander Graham Bell at 1916 ceremony; Telephone manufacturing at Western Electric Company plant in Chicago

A film titled "The world's telephone workshop". Opening scene shows ceremony on March 10, 1916, with Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, unveiling a plaque at the invention site of the telephone in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. The plaque, at 109 Court Street, states "Here the Telephone was Born, June 2, 1875" and it notes that it was placed by The Bostonian Society and the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company. Alexander Graham Bell tips his hat to the crowd as they celebrate the unveiling. View of Western Electric Company plant in Chicago as smoke emerges from chimneys. Turbines in coal power plant. Massive group of thousands of American workers gathered together, from all walks of life, who are employed in the telephone industry.

Date: 1930
Duration: 4 min 37 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675038284