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View of levees, homes along with the construction of a canal and boats at a dock in New Orleans, United States.

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'.

Date: 1923
Duration: 1 min 22 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675067370
A crowd at a shipyard in Newport News, Virginia during the launching of aircraft carrier Hornet (CV-12), during World War II.

The launch of aircraft carrier Hornet at the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, Newport News, Virginia. Aircraft carrier Hornet under construction at a shipyard. The bow of Hornet with the American flag. Scaffolding for construction. The christening of the aircraft carrier Hornet by Mrs. Frank Knox, wife of the Secretary of the Navy. The new aircraft carrier slides down the ways into the water. A crowd in the foreground. Several people holding umbrellas. Shipyard scaffolding in the background. The carrier anchored in the James River. Two tugs near the carrier.

Date: 1943, August 30
Duration: 32 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675068883
Charles Seymour Whitman speaks to the Liberty Bond subscribers and school children parade on a street in New York City.

New York Governor Charles Seymour Whitman speaks to the Liberty Bond subscribers at Wall Street in New York during World War I. The subscribers of the Liberty Bond crowd in Wall Street. New York Governor Charles Seymour Whitman speaks to the subscribers. Other officials on a platform speak to the subscribers. The school children parade holding posters and U.S. flags. The poster reads 'Lend'. People on either side of the street view the parade. Alpine French soldiers getting ready to join the Liberty Loan campaign. The soldiers stand holding guns. An officer briefs the soldiers. The soldiers stand at attention.

Date: 1918
Duration: 1 min 15 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675069481
USAAC Martin B-10 dropping relief bundles to stranded flood refugees in Manchester, New Hampshire.

The flooded areas after the Smith Paper Company dam has been opened in Manchester, New Hampshire. A bridge over the Merrimack River The top of a house floating under the bridge. A power plant surrounded by water. Two U.S. Army Air Corps Martin B-10s flying over New Hemisphere River and mountains. The crew aboard B-10. The B-10 dropping relief bundles to stranded flood refugees in New Hampshire.

Date: 1937, May 16
Duration: 35 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675069585
Olympic skaters perform at Rockefeller Center ice rink in New York.

The U.S. Olympic Figure Skating Team show their skating skills at Rockefeller Center in Manhattan, New York City. Olympic pair skaters, Yvonne Sherman and Robert Swenning, of the New York Figure Skating Club, demonstrate a pair lift and side-by-side spirals. Spectators watch them performing. Richard Button of the Philadelphia Skating Club and Humane Society performs 2 axels, and a flying camel spin into a back sit spin, changing into a forward scratch spin. (These are shown in slow motion to better show his movements.) New Yorker Eileen Seigh performs 4 split jumps, 3 axels and a forward sit spin into a final scratch spin. (Note: Eileen and Dick trained with Gus Lussi in Lake Placid. The pairs team, Yvonne Sherman and Robert Swenning were pupils of Pierre Brunet, a former French National champion, who , with his wife Andree, were World pair champions ).

Date: 1947, November 6
Duration: 1 min 37 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675069644
Refugees and displaced persons arriving in New York from aboard the SS Marine Flasher, arriving from Bremerhaven Germany

Arrival of displaced persons and refugees of World War 2 in New York, after the war. Men, women, and children arriving at New York City on May 20, 1946 after a voyage that departed Bremerhaven Germany on May 11, 1946. People greet relatives at the dock in New York. Two young men and a girl stand together and show the concentration camp tattoos on their arms. The tattoo numbers are A9496 on the young man with the hat, A13889 on the girl, and B3073 on the young man without a hat. The young man with tattoo B3073 is Berel Gola (later called Bernard Gola) a 20 year old Jewish man from Poland. He had been imprisoned by the Nazis at Treblinka and at the Auschwitz Concentration Camp, where he received the tattoo. A woman and a man holding a young girl stand. Women holding children stand by. A man holding a young child. People debarking from the ship. People crowd at the dock. They meet their relatives. People stand behind a fence. A woman greets her relative. An emotional woman cries when reunited with relatives.

Date: 1946, May 20
Duration: 1 min 39 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675069856