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Construction of an iron beam at Carnegie Steel Company's Homestead Plant in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

An iron beam under construction at Carnegie Steel Company's Homestead Plant in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania for use in New York City's Empire State Building. A huge ingot is brought to required temperature in a soaking pit at blooming mill. The ingot is picked up and put into a trolley. It is rolled into a belt and rolling operation starts. It is reduced to slab and taken for reheating.

Location: Pennsylvania United States USA
Date: 1930
Duration: 2 min 42 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675026626
Iron beams rolled into plates at rolling mill of Universal Plant Mill in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

An iron beam under construction at Carnegie Steel Company's Homestead Plant in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania for Empire State Building construction in New York City. Hot ingot at plate rolling mill. Hot iron slab rolled into cover plates for columns at Universal Plant Mill. Slabs are rolled in machine. Then it passes on a cooling table. Cold iron plates on the table.

Location: Pennsylvania United States USA
Date: 1930
Duration: 1 min 26 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675026627
Iron beams take shape of rough beam at Carnegie Steel Company's Homestead Plant in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Iron beams under construction at Carnegie Steel Company's Homestead Plant in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania for Empire State Building of New York City. Carnegie beams rolled into sections. An operator controls the rolling of the beams with a lever. Hot ingot takes shape of rough beam. Shear crops ends of beam.

Location: Pennsylvania United States USA
Date: 1930
Duration: 1 min 44 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675026628
Iron beams given final shape and length at Carnegie Steel Company's Homestead Plant in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Iron beam under construction at Carnegie Steel Company's Homestead Plant in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania for the Empire State Building in New York. Iron beam under construction at Beam and Column Finishing Mill. Iron beam rolls at machine for desired shape. Operator handles the operation with levers. Final rolling of beam. Beam is given exact specification for desired length by passing it from hot saw. Sparking due to the cutting of beam.

Location: Pennsylvania United States USA
Date: 1930
Duration: 1 min 53 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675026629
Assembling an electric locomotive at Baldwin Locomotive Works, Pennsylvania

A film regarding Electric Railroading in the United States. The assembly of electric locomotives at the Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This is a joint venture with the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Twin Armature Motors for electric locomotives being assembled. Workers at machines as they assemble the armatures into the motors. Men attach an iron chain to a motor and place in onto a part of the locomotive. Railroad cab being placed on wheels. Seen is Locomotive number 10300. This is a Class EP-3 electric Quill locomotive, Type: 2C-1-1-C2 (passenger), Drivers: 68" diameter. It displays lettering: "C M & St. P," and will run on the Milwaukee Road (Chicago Milwaukee St. Paul and Pacific Railroad). A different locomotive: Pennsylvania Railroad Class DD1, runs down a railroad track.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1920
Duration: 4 min 10 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050746
The 1930s Great Depression and the administrations of Presidents Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt, in the United States

Hard times in the Great Depression led to formation of The Bonus Army. American veterans of World War 1 march on streets of Washington DC, carrying a large poster demanding immediate cash redemption their "bonus" service certificates awarded by Congress in 1924 (but not lawfully payable until 1945). Army Chief of Staff, General Douglas MacArthur, ordered by President Hoover, to clear the Bonus Army encampments, is seen standing in a street surrounded by several U.S. Army troops. People watch from sidewalks as a contingent of U.S. Army cavalry rides down the street. U.S. Army M-1917 tanks roll down Pennsylvania Avenue in July 1932. Bonus marchers and others watch from Lafayette Park in background. Scene shifts to the 1932 Democratic Party Convention in Chicago Stadium, Chicago, where delegates cheer after nominating Franklin D. Roosevelt as their Presidential candidate. Roosevelt seen waving from the podium. Migrant farm workers seen at temporary, dilapidated dwellings in close quarters, and sitting at a campfire, some with sad and desperate faces. Migrant farm workers' cars on the road, piled high with family belongings during westward migration. Migrants riding atop an open railroad freight car. Two men share a copy of the "Epic News" newspaper (published by supporters of Upton Sinclair and the End Poverty Movement in Los Angeles and central California). Narrator describes programs of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). Construction workers ignite demolition charges during construction of Boulder Dam (aka Hoover Dam and officially so-named in 1947). Glimpse of President Roosevelt at the site in an open car, for its dedication on September 30, 1935. Construction workers engaged in building the dam. Another shot of President Roosevelt in his open car. Towers being erected to carry electric power from the dam's hydroelectric generators. President Franklin D. Roosevelt smiling broadly at the formal dedication ceremony, September 30, 1935. Controlled discharges of water through the dam. Views of the Boulder Dam hydroelectric generating station. Oil well rigs or oil derricks at work during construction at night. People at work in fabric mills or textile mills, and in a print shop

Location: United States USA
Date: 1932
Duration: 2 min 20 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036812
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