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Still photos show America from 1876 through the turn of the century, focusing on immigrants, westward expansion, hard labor, and pioneer spirit.

Newspaper headlines from 1876 note Kansas as a territory for pioneer settlement...."Farms and Homes in Kansas!" and "To the Black Hills" Farmers with their families in front of prairie homes. Barn raising. A village along the side of a river. School children. A child's coffin. Men drinking together. A string quartet. A man making violins. Railroad construction crews laying rails, clearing rocks, and building trestle bridges, including Chinese workers and laborers during expansion or railway to the west. European immigrants on ships and just arrived on land, possibly at Ellis Island. Logging camps and loggers cutting trees. Large scale farming and market. Coal mining and other mining activities. Child coal miners and child labor. Industrial steel forging. Factory with train switch yard. Immigrant ghettos in American cities. Immigrant women sewing piece work. Immigrant children.

Date: 1900
Duration: 4 min 36 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675021236
Specialists at the Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation help the disabled and handicapped to recover.

Handicapped and disabled people at Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation, West Orange, New Jersey. A musician who met with a swimming pool accident plays an instrument with sticks. A physically handicapped boy reads a book. A man at the center is tested on Kohs block intelligence test. A woman puts on makeup after recovering from an accident. The founder, Dr. Henry Kessler talks about special training to be given to the patients to recover from disabilities. Specialists including physical therapists at Kessler Institute help the disabled recover. Disabled clients receiving therapy. A new leg is given to a woman who met with an accident and she takes her first step. Kessler specialist helps the woman to walk again properly.

Date: 1974
Duration: 4 min 1 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021549
French President De Gaulle, Chancellor Ludwig Erhard and Foreign Minister De Murville at late President Kennedy's burial.

A national television report on the burial of late U.S. President John F Kennedy in the United States. State Department correspondent Elie Abel reports on President Lyndon Johnson's reception on the occasion of John F Kennedy's burial in Washington DC. Dignitaries gathered in a room. Chancellor of West Germany Ludwig Erhard with French President Charles De Gaulle. Officers and dignitaries stand around them. Erhard and De Gaulle use interpreters to communicate. De Gaulle shakes hands with dignitaries and meets leaders of various countries. Foreign Minister of France Maurice Couve De Murville stands at a distance from De Gaulle. French Ambassador in Washington DC steers President De Gaulle across the room through the crowd.

Date: 1963, November
Duration: 8 min 2 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021632
Mao Zedong's stand on war, China's foreign policies and aggression towards neighboring nations.

Propaganda piece about living conditions in the People’s Republic of China under Mao Zedong, with images photographed by Indians visiting the country. Delegates from all over the world at an international conference. Representatives from Iraq, Canada, Romania, Australia, and Pakistan among others. Elderly Chinese communist revolutionaries pose. Mao Zedong's views (according to a narrator) are presented: He believes that war in inevitable between capitalist and socialist nations. View of a rally and military parade in China. Explosions during the Korean War in 1951 with Chinese troops in action. In Tibet, homeless, displaced Tibetan children and families after the Chinese take over in 1959 as part of Communist China expansion. Indian Army soldiers return after China's attack on India during the Sino-Indian War in 1962. View of Soviet Union Premier Nikita Khrushchev. Map of Asia depicts Chinese aggression towards its neighbors. Explosions during the Chinese aggression in Vietnam and Laos. Mao Zedong intent on risking a war with the West.

Date: 1963
Duration: 2 min 48 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021678
Former war correspondents arrive in Washington DC and meet President Truman

An American Overseas Airlines aircraft arrives in Washington D.C., United States. It is on a multi-leg journey carrying 45 former War Correspondents back to Europe for celebrations commemorating the 5th anniversary of the D-Day Invasion of World War II. Aerial views of the White House and Washington Monument, including the Main Navy and Munitions Buildings. Dignitaries get off the American Overseas Airlines aircraft. They are greeted by American officials. They meet with President Harry S. Truman at the White House West Wing. Truman speaks to the former War Correspondents.

Date: 1949, June
Duration: 1 min 25 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675022069
Former war correspondents tour Frankfurt, Germany five years after World War 2

A passenger airplane of the American Overseas Airlines in Frankfurt, Germany. It is on a multi-leg journey carrying 45 former War Correspondents back to Europe for celebrations commemorating the 5th anniversary of the D-Day Invasion of World War II. Views of Frankfurt from a moving vehicle, high atop a ridge, looking down at the city, and winery grape fields. Many Frankfurt buildings visible and the Main River running beside the city. Views of some buildings still destroyed from World War II, five years prior. Several African American U.S. Army soldiers beside cars greet the party of former war correspondents. The correspondents meet with a U.S. Army General -- possibly J. Lawton Collins or Thomas Handy. A correspondent looks out from a window at a war-damaged building in the background. A street car with the sign "Nied Hochst" arrives at a stop and civilians get into it. Exterior and interior views of the main train station, the Frankfurt Hauptbahnhof. Some cakes and pastries in a bakery. Correspondents meeting with a local Frankfurt official and his wife. Remains of a largely destroyed church, likely either Frankfurt Cathedral (Imperial Cathedral of Saint Bartholomew) (German: Kaiserdom Sankt Bartholomäus) or Katharinenkirche (the Church of St. Katherine). Views of the wrecked exterior and interior of the church. A West German flag draped over an interior balcony. Sign outside the church door indicates "Entrance to the Exhibition" (Eingang zur Ausstellung). A Germany girl selling trinkets at a market cart. German boys and girls in a market square and fair area, possibly Romerberg. Correspondents approach a booth selling cigars and cigarettes. More partially destroyed buildings in Frankfurt. Correspondents boarding a plane at Rhein Main Airbase. View of the airport terminal. Sign on a building reads 'Rhein Main Base Operations. Elev 358'. The correspondents boarding the American Overseas Airlines aircraft, and seated inside the aircraft. Aerial view of the German countryside below. Passengers sleep and relax aboard the airborne aircraft.

Date: 1949, June
Duration: 2 min 49 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675022072