Interiors of Immigration Building at Ellis Island in New York, United States. District Director's Office showing Director Byron H. Uhl and Board members at table. Director Uhl talks over phone. Corridor with photographs of foreigners in native costumes. Corridor with door signs reading 'Deporting Division', 'Board of Special Inquiry - Hearings and Appeals', 'Witness Room', and 'Reception Hall'.
Chinese detention room at Immigration Building at Ellis Island in New York, United States. Chinese men at recreation. Young Chinese men play ping-pong, read, play Mah-Jong. Immigrants seated around the Great Hall (Registry Room) as they read and talk. A boy stands next to a woman as she knits.
Penicillin treatment of wounded American soldiers in action during World War II.at Halloran General Hospital in Staten Island, New York. Doctor packs penicillin into deep buttock wound. Nurse injects substance into a patient's arm. Doctor packs thigh wound with a penicillin.
UN delegates are seen gathering for a meeting of the Security Council at the temporary United Nations headquarters in Lake success, Long Island, New York. One of the first to be seated is Andrei Gromyko of the Soviet Union. Another delegate stops to converse with him. Camera pans across delegates settling into their respective places at large curved table. Their nations are identified by placards at each place. Attention is focused on French Delegate Alexandre Parodi, who has apparently just been elected President of the Council for the month of May, 1948. At TC: 00:54, He is seen standing with Secretary General Trygve Lie. And at TC:01:19 he gently uses a gavel. At TC:01:28, another delegate holds the gavel with him as they laugh. After a while, the delegates settle down and begin to conduct business.
Views of New York City buildings and skyscrapers on lower Manhattan from a boat in New York Bay. A schooner with sails furled can be seen passing. People walking off ferry towards building on pier.
Company F of the1st Ohio Volunteer Infantry, U.S. Army, initiates a new soldier in Tampa, Florida. A group of men bounces a recruit up and down on a blanket. Nineteen times he bounces on the blanket. This is an initiative by Company F of the 1st Ohio Volunteers during the Spanish-American War to welcome a new recruit to their unit. (Edison Company, 1898)
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