Nearly 75,000 New Yorkers throng Broadway to watch French President Vincent Auriol’s welcome parade towards the City Hall (City Hall Park, New York, NY 10007, United States). Parade of soldiers carrying flags of United States and playing drums, march on lower Broadway. At the New York City Hall, Mayor Vincent Richard Impellitteri confers a Distinguished Service scroll on the French president. Impellitteri is awarded the French Legion of Honor by President Auriol. Photographers take pictures of the ceremony. The French president and the Mayor Impellitteri along with other officials come out in the gallery of the hall and shake hands as soldiers parade down the street and crowds cheer them on.
A film titled 'Skyscrapers of New York City, from the North River'. Views from boat traveling South on the Hudson River toward the ocean. West shoreline and piers of lower Manhattan seen. Large modern ocean liner at pier. Docked boats seen. A tug with a "C" on the stack passes by. Several small steamboats come into view. The Pennsylvania Railroad piers and the Lehigh Valley Railroad piers seen with docked car floats. Several piers seen. Skyscrapers and shoreline seen. Trinity Church visible near Wall Street. Pennsylvania Railroad piers seen with barges docked. United Fruit Company occupies New Pier I. Views of New York City Aquarium and Castle Garden (Battery Park).
Grossinger's Catskill Resort Hotel (Grossinger Golf Course Liberty, New York, 12754 United States) in the Catskill Mountains, in New York, United States. A sign "Grossingers". Guests arrive at the hotel in cars. They enter the hotel. A man signs in a register at the reception. A woman and a young girl talk to each other. People seated in the lobby. Mrs. Grossinger greets new guests in the hotel lobby. She smiles.
Marchers parade on the streets of Manhattan, New York City, to promote support for continuation and expansion of the WPA (Works Progress Administration), part of the New Deal Federal programs enacted in the administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt during the Great Depression. The parade is led by a group of well-dressed men in business suits. It includes a brass band and many marchers carrying banners and signs. (A boy is knickers, on roller skates moves about near the front of the parade.) A woman walking alongside the marchers, carrying a canister, solicits contributions from spectators on sidewalks. The following are among the many banners and signs seen: "Workers Alliance-Greater New York"; "Yorkville Workers Alliance"; "On to Washington, January 15th, for the Continuation and Expansion of W.P.A. (Furriers Joint Council)"; "Stop! Mass Lay-offs on WPA (Fur Floor Boys and Shipping Clerks Union)" A big part of the march takes place on 8th Avenue. (A Department of Sanitation worker with broom and barrel on wheels is seen cleaning the edge of street near curb.) A float with popup figures of WPA worker, housewife, and farmer, is seen with another figure holding an ax over the WPA workers head. Writing on the float reads: "A blow to WPA is a blow to all" Finally, view towards backs of marchers is shown, near end of the parade.
The role of women as active community members in Monroe, New York, in the United States. A young woman works with children and teenage kids clearing a lot that will become a new playground. They clean and remove garbage and debris, which is put into the back of a pickup truck with sign on the door "John C. Hunter, Monroe, New York". Young woman gets inside the vehicle and two boys climb into the back of the pickup truck to hold the trash down. The vehicle moves past on the road. People line up for voting outside a hall. A woman shops for clothes in a rummage shop or thrift store. Women examine lily plants in a garden nursery. A woman in an office talks to two Girl Scouts in uniform, and hands them some stacks of magazines. A woman stands near a church organ and sings in a church choir. A woman lying on a bed in a clinic donates blood, as a laboratory technician and nurse stand by. Other women seated at a table in a hall write information about voters as they show up at a polling place to vote. A woman enters a voting booth and closes the curtain behind her.
The German airship LZ 129, Hindenburg, in flight silhouetted over buildings in the New Jersey-New York metropolitan area. View of the Manhattan skyline, New York City.
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