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Family and Community programs funded by the WPA during the Great Depression, in Ohio, United States.

Women sewing clothes for needy families as a part of the WPA program (Works Progress Administration) in Ohio United States during the Great Depression. Close up views of the women seamstress workers as they sew. Young children play with toys and engage in play activities in a nursery school or preschool built for children of working and needy mothers by the WPA. Children work with tools and hammers on projects. Children play in a wooden frame play house. Boy and girl children on swings in the nursery as a teacher watches over them. Smiling children wash up with soap and water using wash basins. One boy jokes and bumps against the girl beside him. The boys and girls lay down on cots for nap time. A boy and a girl sleeping during a nap at the school. Life Guards attend life- saving instructional classes on a beach. Lifeguards rescue a woman from the water and bring her to safety. Men put up a policeman cut out image with sign stating "Slow. School" as a safety measure near a school. People at the improved Toledo Zoo. Families look at a wall built from salvage material in the zoo. Families and children watch a monkey move across a rope ladder at the zoo. A group of monkeys in a pond. The WPA Symphony Orchestra performs in the open band shell amphitheater at the Toledo Zoo (the Zoological Park Amphitheater, Toledo, Ohio). WPA Orchestra with musicians employed through federal funds, are seated on the stage as they perform. Families indulge in swimming and relax in a community swimming pool in Ohio. A young boy climbs a fountain in the pool to take a closer look.

Location: Ohio United States USA
Date: 1937
Duration: 2 min 24 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675030503
Flooding and rescue work in 1937 as Ohio River Valley floods

Damage caused due to flood in Ohio Valley , United States. Newspaper headlines read: '80000 desert homes as Midwest streams rage to higher levels'. People engaged in the rescue and relief work. Men aboard small boats as they carry on rescue work in the steets of downtown Louisville Kentucky. Buildings along the flooded area. Flooded buildings in Evansville Indiana and Paducah Kentucky. Flooded farms and fields washed away. Marooned livestock atop a levy. A dog atop a car. A cat perched in a 2nd story window just atop flood waters. Aerial views of the flooded Ohio Valley heading toward the Mississippi River. View of the blasting of the so called "fuse plug" in the levy below Cairo Illinois (on the Missouri Side at the junction of the Ohio River and Mississippi River) to prevent the flood waters from destroying Cairo. An army of workmen building extensions on top of the levees near Cairo Illinois to protect it from the flood. Water lapping at the wall built by the workers.

Location: Ohio United States USA
Date: 1937, January
Duration: 3 min 31 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675062900
American astronaut John Glenn's teachers, friends and other people speak about him in New Concord, Ohio.

A film titled 'The John Glenn Story' on the life of American astronaut John Herschel Glenn Jr. He was the first American to orbit the earth in 1962. U.S. President John F Kennedy seated at a desk in his office. He says that John Glenn "is an inspiration to all Americans." A radar locates an aircraft. View from cockpit or gun camera of a U.S. aircraft firing on a Soviet MiG-15 or MiG-17aircraft in flight. An American F-86 aircraft spinning. The launch of a NASA rocket. Point of view from a moving car driving through New Concord, Ohio. Aerial view suburban houses of New Concord. Boy throws rocks into pond and runs through field. Boy running under bridge and looking through stone foundation. Boy riding a bike. Boy running through field with arms outstretched as if flying. Boy waving to train pulled by diesel electric locomotive as train runs by New Concord railroad station. Mayor Taylor of New Concord Ohio speaks about John Glenn. External view New Concord High School. Teach Harvard Steele speaks about John Glenn. External view of newly constructed John Glenn High School. First graduates of John Glenn High School during graduation ceremony. View of Glenn Plumbing building in New Concord. Muskingum College in New Concord Ohio. Shots of high school age teenage boys playing football, basketball in a gymnasium, track, and baseball. Young men do calisthenics while Muskingum coach Ed Sherman speaks about John Glenn's athletic accomplishments. Students sit on bench at Muskingum College and talk about John Glenn.

Location: New Concord Ohio USA
Date: 1963
Duration: 6 min 8 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070445
Marines and U.S. Navy reservists undergo training at the new Toledo Naval Armory in Toledo Ohio.

Toledo Naval Armory, training center for naval services in Toledo Ohio. The Armory building constructed with salvage material and federal funds through the Works Progress Administration (WPA) during the Great Depression. 'OHIO' can be seen carved on the top center of the building. Marines and Navy reserve sailors lined up for inspection by senior officers. A naval officer provides gunnery instructions to Marines and Navy reservists.

Location: Toledo Ohio USA
Date: 1937
Duration: 37 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675030501
Delegates of Pan American Congress of Journalists on tour of tire manufacturing units in Akron Ohio.

Delegates from Pan American Congress of Journalists visit tire manufacturing plant in Akron Ohio. In Brazil a man collects rubber from trees. A man tends the liquid rubber into rubber balls over fire,large balls laid on the ground and men loading rubber balls on horsebacks. Map showing route from Brazil to Akron,Ohio. Women workers prepare sheets of rubber while men pull out rubber tiers from spinning wheels and place the tires in assembly line.

Location: Akron Ohio USA
Date: 1927
Duration: 2 min 19 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Spanish
Clip: 65675030523
Street scenes in Toledo, Ohio in early 1900s; industries near Toledo like iron ore, copper, lumber

Various industries like iron ore, copper, lumber situated near Lake Superior in Toledo, Ohio. Signboard on building reads 'You will do better in Toledo'. Aerial view of bridges over Maumee River, and wide views of skyline of downtown Toledo, Ohio. People walk on Madison Street in the city of Toledo. Pedestrians walk past Hotel Madison. Busy downtown street views in the city with pedestrians, cars, streetcars. Big freight car lifted by crane. Loads of coal dumped onto a ship at harbor.

Location: Toledo Ohio USA
Date: 1916
Duration: 2 min 41 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675030541
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