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RMS Lusitania on her final departure from New York City, during World War I.

Passengers arrive at Pier 54 in New York City and go aboard the RMS Lusitania passenger ship, during World War 1. Passenger Robert James Timmis is seen at 1:01 into the clip on the left side of frame wearing a flat topped hat. Timmis survived the sinking even after giving up his own life vest. Charles Plamondon and his wife Mary Plamondon, of Chicago, are seen exiting a taxi. The Lusitania's flag is raised. Passengers, including author Elbert Hubbard, pose at the ship's rail. Views of passengers on the decks as the ship readies for departure. Tugs maneuver the Lusitania ocean liner into the channel, bound for Liverpool. The Lusitania was sunk 6 days later, on May 7, 1915, by a torpedo from a German U-Boat.

Date: 1915, May 1
Duration: 6 min 3 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040085
Views of night life in the South Bronx, New York City

Film starts with sounds of Latin American music. Musician's hand on stringed instrument. Numerous Neon lights on night entertainment places. News paper boys on sidewalk playfully shoving one another. Legs of walking persons Silhouetted against night lights. Women and children window shopping at night. Vendor dispensing soda drinks from his sidewalk fountain. Camera pans from above along a street of night spots. Entertainers in costumes performing on sidewalk Interior of a theater where Latin vaudeville is performed. Closeup of children as they watch the performance. Performers taking bows as audience applauds. Men playing dominos.Little girl looks at window display of children's clothes.Glimpses of Musicians and entertainers performing. More views of shop windows. An illuminated cross atop a church roof. A police or emergency siren heard faintly in background. An elevated railroad train passes noisily overhead.

Date: 1965
Duration: 4 min 19 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040523
People going to Church and to a watch a neighborhood baseball game in South Bronx in New York City.

View out front of moving subway train as it passes by in South Bronx in New York City. Families, many of hispanic, Latin American, Puerto Rican descent, in crowded streets. Families go to Church. A man washing a car. People sing and play tambourines and enjoy themselves. Children enjoy playing in water that is spraying from fountains. View of Bethany Christian Mission church with wooden cross hanging out front. View of Iglesia Pentecostal Estrella de Oriente. A man playing a guitar. Crowds gathered to watch a baseball game at St Mary's Park. Many people speaking in Spanish. An airplane passes low over the streets. Family sits on balcony and fire escape of an apartment building. A young man flies a small kite from the roof of the building. Chalk writing on street reads, Puerto Rico. Clouds gather in the sky and clothes on clothes line move with wind.

Date: 1965
Duration: 7 min 40 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040524
National Guards troops herd strike-breakers to a manufacturing plant in New Albany

Labor strikers crowd around the entrances to a manufacturing plant as National Guardsmen herd strike-breakers (aka "scabs") into the shop New Albany. Women work at sewing machines in the factory. National Guard troops guard the shirt factory. Cars parked in the street. Ambulances carry-off the injured after a clash at another manufacturing plant in Jeffersonville.

Date: 1936, January 22
Duration: 30 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675041284
President Roosevelt visits the Boy Scouts of America camp at Ten Mile River New York

President Franklin D. Roosevelt visits the Boy Scout camp at Ten Mile River, New York. The President is seen sitting in his car, wearing an Order of the Arrow sash. Order of the Arrow members help him put on a Native American Indian headdress. Scouts seated on the ground watching the presentation.

Date: 1933, August 24
Duration: 51 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675022453
Babe Ruth and TY Cobb competes in a charity golfing match in Flushing, New York

Baseball heroes Babe Ruth and TY Cobb square off in golfing match in Flushing New York as a charity endeavor for war effort. Two hold a golf-club and pose for camera before start of match. Hundreds of fans gather to see the two compete. Cobb plays a tea shot while Ruth waits for his turn. A World War II (WW2) Banner saying "USO deserves support of every single individual citizen" seen in background. Both players putt several holes and Ruth emerges winner. Starting form left shots of Ruth and Cobb.

Date: 1941, June 27
Duration: 1 min 12 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675028734