People protest against the Soviet blockade in Berlin, Germany. A man talks to a Military Police. A group of people being permitted to enter a building. People enter the building. A giant rally in a plaza. German civilians hold German signs as they protest against the Soviet blockade.
Film on Sesquicentennial of Washington DC, released in 1950. Film segments created for presentation by Treasury Department at meeting on April 25, 1929. A portrait of the first President of the United States George Washington. Animated maps of the original 13 colonies and the 10 square mile Federal District of Columbia. View of the Chesapeake and Ohio (C&O) Canal. George Washington's landmark plantation home, Mount Vernon. Christ Church in Alexandria. Old houses on a street and a hill in Georgetown. Sketch of Suter's Tavern. Animated map shows the L'Enfant development plan and the location of principal buildings. The first section of the U.S. Capitol built on Jenkins Hill. The U.S. Capitol building designed by William Thornton and Benjamin Henry Latrobe. Sketch of the White House designed by James Hoban. Sketch of Capitol Building in 1827 with dome constructed by Charles Bullfinch.
Sesquicentennial of Washington, DC. 1929 photograph of cars parked in front of the original State and Navy Department buildings on Pennsylvania Avenue, built in the year 1800. View of the Octagon House used temporarily by President James Madison in the year 1812 and now headquarters of the American Institute of Architects. The White House completed in the year 1829.
Sesquicentennial of Washington DC. Recounting events in history of Washington, DC. Construction of the U.S. Capitol Senate and House Wing begins in the year 1856. Sketches of the House and Senate in session. Sessions of the house held in the Senate wing room. The Old Supreme Court Chamber in the Senate.
Sesquicentennial in Washington DC. Animated map of the development plan of the Treasury Department building in 1834. View of the landmark Treasury Department building. The American flag flutters in wind from a flagpole atop the building. The statue of the first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton in front of the building.
Sesquicentennial in Washington DC. Animation shows: development plan of the landmark Washington Monument in the year 1848. View of the Washington Monument. A boat underway in Potomac River in the foreground.