J Arthur Rank presents a print of his production Hamlet to officials of New York University for Shakespearean studies at a ceremony in New York. He hands over the print in a bag with Hamlet written on it to a man. He speaks to other men.
Eddie Rickenbacker returns from France, to New York at the end of World War I. A large crowd greets him, as he shakes hands with an officer. He shakes hands with a young boy. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
The RMS Lusitania in New York harbor during World War I. Smoke rises from the ship. A New York ferry boat moves in the foreground as the Lusitania steams in New York harbor.
Liberty Loan Drive in United States during World War I. Audiences seated as cars drive past them in New York, United States. Soldiers fire rifles from behind sand bag mounds and piles of shells. Tanks roll around the field. Eloise Mann with two men in Van Cortlandt Park. They ascend in a United States Army balloon as people look on. A pillar of smoke rises from below.
Liberty Loan Drive in United States during World War I. United States Army balloon descends in New York as people gathered around look at it. A plane in flight.
World War I Draft and mobilization activities in 1917-1918. American WWI military recruits get down from a railroad train to get to the training camp. U.S. Military officials board the seized Dutch steamer ship in New York Harbor (seized as a neutral vessel during timeframe that Dutch ships under the modus vivendi agreement with the allies were threatened by German U-boats). The ship appears to be the Nieuw Amsterdam. (Lettering behind officials as they board is clearly "Amsterdam" but there is an obstructed word before that may be "Nieuw". Several Dutch ships were seized by U.S. military officials during this same month, including the Nieuw Amsterdam). Crew on the deck of the steamer ship Amsterdam. Dutch flag flying on the ship.
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