Unemployed men in Newark, New Jersey during the Great Depression. Disturbance at railroad and dockyard being brought under control by policemen on horseback. Train and ships in background. A sign reads 'No men wanted'. Men sleep on park benches. A man holds a sign reading 'Unemployed'. Men sleep in doorways Sidewalk soup kitchen. View of shacks and an order by the Department of Health declaring them unfit for human habitation and ordering them vacated at once. Order is signed by Charles V. Craster, M,D, D.P.H., Health Officer.
USS Triton submarine successfully completes the first submerged circumnavigation under Captain Edward L Beach. USS Triton in water. A helicopter flies Captain Edward L Beach to the White House where he receives the Legion of Merit from the President Eisenhower. Photographers click for pictures. USS Triton enters the home port of New London, Connecticut. The crowds cheers. A navy officer meets his wife. A sailor with children.
College students operate a railroad system in Princeton, New Jersey. The graduate students take up the study of model trains. They work on a control system. The model of the railroad and trains shows a train during a cross over. The students operate the entire railroad system.
Parachute jumpers jump from a U.S. Navy K-class blimp in Lakehurst, New Jersey. A parachutist in front of a navy blimp. Personnel stand near a ladder. The blimp in flight. Navy Parachutists inside the blimp. View of pilot and looking through blimp windshield with pilot at the controls. Paratroops jump one after another. View from jump hatch as each man jumps and their parachute opens in flight. Two navy blimp airships in flight. A parachutist looks out from the window of the blimp. An aerial of a delayed parachute opening and buildings. Safe landing by the parachutist. A tower in the background.
Airplane lands and people run towards it to receive Wrong Way Douglas Corrigan in New Orleans, Louisiana. Corrigan with escorting police passing in between crowd. Corrigan in car escorted by motorcycle police as he waves towards the people.
People have fireworks in hand during night parade at Mardi Gras celebrations in New Orleans, Louisiana. King Hermes on a big float. Various other floats follow one after other carry people in different costumes. King and Queen of Hermes at Hermes ball. People dance at gala.
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