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A harness racing contest at Empire track in Yonkers, New York

Large crowd gathers to witness a harness racing at Empire track in Yonkers, New York. Trotters stand behind the start line and race starts. Trotters try to race ahead of each other. Owner of the winning horse.

Location: Yonkers New York USA
Date: 1950, May 1
Duration: 56 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675048290
Manhattan Municipal Building and gathering of Mayor's Committee of Women on National Defense, in New York City

Skyline of New York featuring the newly built Manhattan Municipal Building rising high in the sky above other nearby buildings. A huge bell Liberty Bell-like replica in a nearby park with a sign that reads "Mayor's Committee of Women on National Defense." A man addresses the spectators together with a woman in a red cross-like uniform (likely Mrs. Millicent Hearst, wife of William Randolph Hearst and Chair of the committee, formed during World War I). Two U.S. Navy sailors also stand on the podium. Traffic moves on a street with flag decorated buildings in business district.

Location: New York City USA
Date: 1918
Duration: 40 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675048438
Paper pulp food dishes made from logs of wood in Purdys, New York.

Logs of wood from Birch, Maple and Beech trees piled up in Purdys, New York. Men and women make paper from the logs of wood at a factory. Rolls of paper stacked up as men and women work on machines. Paper converted into paper pulp, food dishes and finished product packed in cartons.

Location: Purdys New York USA
Date: 1931, August 13
Duration: 1 min 7 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675048704
Huge Model of battleship is focus of Victory Loan Drive in Manhattan, New York City

A 250 foot model of a battleship is center of attention for Navy recruitment and Victory loan Drive, in Union Square, New york City. Women Navy Yeomen (F) of the U.S. Navy Reserve, line the decks of the "ship." People are walking around the ship during the entire time. The women yeomen wave to the crowd. A large sign above reads: "Men wanted for U.S. Navy, apply here." Sign on the stern reads: "Speed the Navy's Victory Loan Ship to victory..." and advertises a Victory Loan Show, to be held April 21, 1919. On the ship's top deck, a yeoman(F) types at a telegraph machine,as another turns a cros-shaped signal. Several yeomen (F) pose on the deck, nearby. View from the ground of Photographers on the stern deck taking pictures of the assembled women yeoman. Scene shifts to aboard the ship, where the Yeomen (F) stand in formation in a double row around the foredeck. Facimile guns are seen. The yeomen salute two Naval officers, in unison. Panning closeup of the yeomen and the ship's guns. The yeomen adjust their formation with eyes right. They execute close order motions at the direction of a Naval officer. Another officer carries a Yeoman recruiting poster to the foredeck. The yeomen continue their maneuvers and then are dismissed from formation. Several are given brooms and put on a show of sweeping the foredeck. Sailors are packed into a smaller boat nearby with a sign reading: "Buy Liberty Bonds at this Battleship."

Location: New York City USA
Date: 1919, April
Duration: 3 min 39 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675048788
U.S. Sailors sign up double their subscriptions during Victory loan drive in New York City

A U.S. Navy Ensign, enlists sailors to increase their allotments for Victory bonds. Sailors are assembled at a Navy Supply Depot, in New York City. Ensign A D Leveridge calls for volunteers to double their subscriptions during a Victory Bond Drive. They volunteer, en masse. Next, they are seen at the Altar of Liberty, on Fifth Avenue and Madison Square, where Lieutenant Commander WD Loveridge and other U.S. Naval officers and women volunteers process their requests. LCDR Loveridge and Ensign Leveridge, converse in front of the group of sailors. Scene shifts back to the Supply Depot, where sailors stand in formation. a woman Yeoman (F) delivers a report about the bond subscriptions to Ensign Leveridge, who salutes and presents it to LCDR Loveridge. He and the Yeoman (F) present it to a Navy Commander, who reads and returns it. The ensign and Yeoman depart as LCDR Loveridge stands before the formation.

Location: New York City USA
Date: 1919
Duration: 1 min 43 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675048789
German and Hungarian citizens march supporting the World War I draft in New York City

Draft and mobilization activities for WWI in 1918. Decorated floats, band, German and Hungarian citizens march in a parade in New York City, United States. Men carry American flags and banners that read 'Born in Germany made in America' in the parade to support draft under selective service system.

Location: New York City USA
Date: 1918
Duration: 3 min 12 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675048799
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