A film titled 'Skyscrapers of New York City, from the North River'. Views from boat traveling South on the Hudson River toward the ocean. West shoreline and piers of lower Manhattan seen. Large modern ocean liner at pier. Docked boats seen. A tug with a "C" on the stack passes by. Several small steamboats come into view. The Pennsylvania Railroad piers and the Lehigh Valley Railroad piers seen with docked car floats. Several piers seen. Skyscrapers and shoreline seen. Trinity Church visible near Wall Street. Pennsylvania Railroad piers seen with barges docked. United Fruit Company occupies New Pier I. Views of New York City Aquarium and Castle Garden (Battery Park).
A film about the city of New Orleans in Louisiana. Various skyscrapers in the city. Exteriors of tall rising buildings in the city. A streetcar moves. Trees in the foreground and buildings in the background. 225 Baronne Street building in the Central Business District of New Orleans, Louisiana. Artists perform. People gather to watch the performance. People look at the art pieces displayed during a Spanish Colonial exhibit at the New Orleans Museum of Art.
A film titled 'New Orleans' about New Orleans in Louisiana. Exteriors of various public buildings. The United States Court of Appeals building in New Orleans. Pedestrians, cars, horse drawn wagons and street cars on Canal Street.
Statues in New Orleans, Louisiana. Boats, dredges, piers, and buildings along Bayou St. John. An equestrian statue of General Andrew Jackson at Jackson Square (Andrew Jackson Equestrian Statue, Jackson Square, New Orleans, LA 70116, United States). Metairie Cemetery (5100 Pontchartrain Blvd, New Orleans, LA 70119, USA). A statue of General Albert Sidney Johnson of the Confederate Army. A streetcar on St. Charles Street and a residential area. An equestrian statue of General Pierre Gustave Toutant-Beauregard.
Faculty members in discussions at the Brooklyn Technical High School, 28 Fort Greene Place, Brooklyn, New York City. Students (all boys) in Brooklyn Tech's architectural course, building a wood frame house and framing boats. The school print shop where boys learn to hand-set type, operate linotype machines, and run printing presses. A teacher in a science class, where.an oversize slide rule is mounted above the blackboard. A wire model of a molecule sits on a table. Scene shifts to a chemistry laboratory, where a student shakes liquid in an Erlenmeyer flask and places it on a Bunsen burner. Other students are using microscopes. A student holds a live frog. A teacher in a lab coat enters the room with several students. Several glass tanks and cages are seen holding live specimens. Next are shown boys and girls at work on sketches and sculpture in the New York City High School of Music and Art. Scene shifts away from specialized schools, to a library in a regular New York High School, where well worn edition of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy (Divina Commedia) is shown open. Teacher is shown in a typical classroom where arts and literature are being taught along with other topics in a balanced four-year curriculum.
The city of New Orleans in the United States. View of levees and homes. Rowboats in the New Basin Canal (the first canal in the city, running between Lake Pontchartrain and uptown New Orleans). Construction workers seen building the Industrial Canal between the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain. A crane picks up beams, scaffolding and shoring on the side of an excavation. Boats at a dock. A sign reads 'Bienville Street landing'.
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