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Ferry operating into Liberty Landing Train Station and Ferry Terminal, New Jersey

View from upper deck of a ferry boat entering the terminal at Liberty Landing Train Station and Ferry Terminal, New Jersey. It approaches and reverses engines as it is about to touch the pier. It noses in gently and attendants set ramp in place using hand wheels. Once secured, passengers debark and enter building. Two men move baggage from the ferry.

Date: 1948
Duration: 1 min 43 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675078221
Passengers boarding the Swedish Ship M.S. Gripsholm in Jersey City, New Jersey, for repatriation to Japan during World War II

At beginning, film shows officials checking identifications of persons preparing to board the Swedish Ship M.S. Gripsholm, for repatriation to Japan during World War 2. Clerks check names against lists. Several woman passengers look over a railing or the ship watching others boarding. Ship's crewmen sort through bundles of passengers' belongings in the cargo hold. Closeup of two little boys on deck. A big boy escorts two smaller boys walking directly to the camera. More views of boys and closeup of a little girl on deck. Some closeups of boys on deck and watching tugboats in the Hudson River. Laughing boys running toward the camera. Boys at ship's railing looking at the Manhattan, New York City, skyline across the river. View from pier of persons boarding the ship by a gangplank to upper deck. View from the pier of passengers side by side at the ship's railing. A Nurse takes a newborn baby aboard the ship. Red Cross personnel assist a young woman boarding. More views of passengers boarding, including one on a litter. Another passenger being brought aboard on a litter. A Red cross woman accompanies a man and woman on the deck. Four young men and some family members at ship's railing with Manhattan skyline in background. Swedish flag flies near some families at the railing. A mother and daughter in matching dresses walk with the father carrying a small child. Closeup of little boy and girl. Baggage being brought up the gangplank.

Date: 1943
Duration: 3 min 46 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675058287
United States President Woodrow Wilson at his Summer White House, Shadow Lawn, in New Jersey

United States President Woodrow Wilson and his party enter a car and leaves the White House in Washington DC for his Summer White House (or "Summer Capitol"), Shadow Lawn, in Long Branch New Jersey. Well-wishers at the White House stand and wave as the car departs the dirt road driveway of the White House, and a 2nd car with a security detail follows. View of Shadow Lawn, the estate of Joseph Benedict Greenhut. (The estate shown here was originally built in 1903 by John A. McCall of New York Life Insurance Company. He sold it to Greenhut. It was later destroyed by fire, and a mansion belonging to F.W. Woolworth President Hubert T. Parsons was built on the site. That estate is now part of Monmouth College). Large group of people gathered on the front lawn of Shadow Lawn to hear President Wilson speak at a 1916 campaign event. He is introduced and then approaches the podium as people cheer. The estate and podium area at the front of a soaring exterior portico is decorated with many American flags and swags.

Date: 1916
Duration: 1 min 26 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675041218
Constrruction of the Holland Tunnel that connects New York to New Jersey.

View, from inside the mouth of a rough earthen tunnel, showing Actor Lee Marvin speaking about Clifford Milburn Holland, who was Chief Engineer on the project to build a tunnel under the Hudson River, linking New York and New Jersey. View inside construction work area. The project's chief designing engineer, Ole Singstad, explains the problem of ventilating the exhaust fumes from cars traversing the tunnel. Scenes of workers down in the tunnel during construction. Governors Arthur H. Moore, of New Jersey, and James Walker, of New York, shake hands at the boundary of their two states, inside the Holland Tunnel,under the Hudson River, during a project completion ceremony. Interestingly, they stand on each other's side of the boundary as they shake hands. Motorcycle policemen escort some of the first cars through the tunnel at its opening. View from rear of a car traversing the tunnel, of other cars following. Engineer Singstad speaking more about the tunnel ventilation.

Date: 1927
Duration: 1 min 23 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023507
British royalty visit Washington DC in June, 1939, at the invitation of President Franklin D. Roosevelt

Opening scene shows a military parade along Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, DC, in honor of the visit of British King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. The parade is led by a contingent of mounted Army cavalry. Spectators line the sidewalks. The Capitol building is clearly visible in the background. Closeup of Cavalry passing the camera. Closeup of King George VI with President Roosevelt conversing in an open automobile. Both are formally dressed. The President wears a top hat. Riding in the back of a car are First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt and Queen Elizabeth, together with a Navy officer. Next, seen posing on the porch of the Roosevelt family home, Springwood, at Hyde Park, New York, are: First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt; King George VI; the President's mother, Sara Ann Delano Roosevelt; Queen Elizabeth; and President Roosevelt. Camera pans in closeup across the group, as they engage in friendly conversation.

Date: 1939, June
Duration: 29 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051600
Harbor Lights depicts New York Harbor.

Our own United States film 'Harbor Lights' pictures New York harbor. Ship Elizabeth and other vessels navigate into New York Harbor. Freighter passes by with Statue of Liberty in the background. Cunard sign.

Date: 1935
Duration: 58 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675022200