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Cars, trucks and other vehicles in snow covered areas after a storm in Chicago, Illinois.

Snow covered areas in Chicago, Illinois. Men remove snow from a path using rakes. Vehicles parked on a snow covered path in front of a building. Vehicles moving through the snow covered areas. A car covered with snow parked on a side. People getting into a car with snow on its front part. Snow covered areas in the background. Vehicles marooned on a street covered with snow. Buildings on both sides of the street. Trucks parked on a path with both sides covered with snow. People in front of a building.

Date: 1939, February 1
Duration: 1 min 21 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070054
A hippopotamus with his newly born baby in Chicago zoological Park in Brookfield, Illinois

Bche, a two ton heavy hippopotamus and his newly born baby swim in a pool at Chicago Zoological Park in Brookfield, Illinois. Bche gave birth to the baby in a pool.

Date: 1935, July 15
Duration: 27 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675058526
Nursery schools, parks and playgrounds built under Works Progress Administration projects in Chicago, Illinois

Children eat, play and sleep in a nursery school set up under Works Progress Administration project in Chicago, Illinois. People swim in a pool. Boys and girls play in swimming pools and splash. Boys in a line wait to use a diving board as a boy dives off of a high dive spring board. Children enjoy playground equipment and play on swings in a playground also constructed through WPA projects during the Great Depression.

Date: 1937
Duration: 1 min 37 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058520
Motorboats racing on Lincoln Park Lagoon for Gold Cup trophy, Chicago, Illinois.

Motorboat race on Lincoln Park Lagoon, Chicago. Motorboats racing on Lincoln Park Lagoon. Spectators in the background. Boats taking turns. Winner poses with the Gold Cup trophy.

Date: 1935, August 19
Duration: 1 min 7 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675047823
Conditions of American workers and the rise of labor unions, especially in garment industry, early in the 20th century

A large group of well-dressed men and women at an event in a park in Chicago, Illinois. Many men wear straw boater hats and many women wear bonnets. Men and women working at sewing machines in a factory of Hart Shaffner & Marx men's clothiers in Chicago, Illinois. Successive closeups of two foremen and one worker, posing for the camera. Pay envelope for a person named Herscowitz in the seaming department. Card shows pay of $1.78 for 23 hours & 20 minutes work. Men working as cutters in garment factory. Young girls, an older man, and mature women working in the factory. Several young women walking arm in arm, ostensibly in protest. Closeups of several factory workers. Group of labor protestors led by women, walking in a city street. Many workers in a protest parade in the snow as spectators watch from sidewalks. Gathering of workers dissatisfied with their union leadership. One carries a sign reading: "Our so called leaders say strike settled. This demonstration is contrary to their claims."

Date: 1910
Duration: 2 min 49 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036803
Car thief steals car and alters it to match VIN of wrecked junkyard car.

Cartoon drawing of used car lot with words "The Salvage Racket" A speeding 1956 Chevrolet Del Ray Club Coupe. Car after crash with smoke and STOP sign. A smirking man takes down notes as wrecked1956 Chevrolet Del Ray Club Coupe is towed to a junkyard. A policeman opens a file cabinet to retrieve a file and then says, "the car theft racket is one of major problems facing law enforcement today." A car pulls up near a parked 1956 Chevrolet Del Ray Club Coupe. The man in passenger seat gets out of the car. Man using slim jim to break into car and open door. Man in car uses wires to go under dashboard to hot wire car. Stolen car drives away with another following. Garage door opens and cars drive in to garage. Man wearing gangster hat drives up to junkyard and gets out of car. Junkyard owner walks through junkyard with man looking at cars. The man pays the junkyard owner in cash for wrecked 1956 Chevrolet Del Ray Club Coupe. Man uses pocket nice to cut car VIN trim tag off of car. Man opens car hood to get the car’s motor number. Close up of engine stamp pad containing number. The man closes hood and pulls out notebook and writes notes. The junkyard owner walks through piles of tires and gives the man sale paperwork. 1956 Chevrolet Del Ray Club Coupe in garage with hood open. Mechanic grinding off engine number of stolen car. Gangster throws smoking cigarette to ground and then rubs his hands together. Mechanic tears up and throw out identifying papers found in car, attaches replacement trim tag to door, and removes stickers. Mechanic throwing out papers found in car trunk. Gangster puts paperwork into his suit jacket pocket and watches mechanic work on car with arms akimbo. Police officer explains that "the doctored stolen car is now ready for market." Two cars drive on highway pass sign reading, "state line 1/2 mile". Cars parked with gangster standing by to sell stolen car.

Date: 1956, August
Duration: 7 min 10 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078756