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A teacher gives swimming lessons to young women in a YWCA pool in Harlem, New York

A woman writes a letter to her mother. The woman writes about the various courses offered at the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA). Young women at a YWCA swimming pool. Young women swimming in the pool. An African American woman seated at the edge of the pool, instructing the girls. Women learn backstroke swimming. The swimming instructor talks to the girls, demonstrating a swimming stroke.

Date: 1940
Duration: 52 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675063289
Family outing at beach, Coney Island, New York

Family group at beach in Coney Island. Ladies well dressed in fashions of the day, sit on edge of boardwalk protected by beach umbrella and parasols. A very young child also fashionably dressed stands near them under the umbrella. A young man in suit and tie, wearing a straw hat, chats with one of the women. On the sand, several older children in swimming attire, of the period, play with one another. Surf can be seen in the background. (Edison Company, 1898)

Date: 1898
Duration: 29 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675065290
High school students and college girls work in Victory gardens in Brooklyn, New York and other American cities

A film about youth in the United States producing food for war during World War 2, to aid the war effort. High school students seated in an auditorium. They are briefed by a man. A student talks to a teacher about a summer garden job . Students are taught to operate a tractor. A college girl operates a corn picking machine. A college girl drives a tractor. Tractor trolley loaded with corn. Women take out the corn from the tractor trolley. High school students pick orchard crops from trees in California. The students put the crops in crates.

Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 6 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675067307
Sergeant R. L. Bose demonstrates reliability of Air Service parachutes at Mitchel Field on Long Island, New York.

Sergeant R. L. Bose demonstrates reliability of Air Service parachutes and disproves a theory that a man falling 500 feet or more loses consciousness. Civilians and military spectators watch the demonstration. Views from the airplane as Sergeant Bose free-falls from 3000 feet, delaying his chute opening until 1500 feet. Some of his free fall in slow motion. He makes a routine parachute landing. Spectators and an ambulance come as a precaution to his landing point.

Date: 1930
Duration: 1 min 16 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675068847
Cadet Jack Kramer pairs with Alice Marble to defeat Lt. Don Budge and Mary Hardwicke by a 6 to 4 score in tennis in New York.

Cadet Jack Kramer, Alice Marble, Lieutenant Don Budge and Mary Hardwicke standing together. Spectators seated in stadium of Madison Square Garden to watch a tennis match. Cadet Jack Kramer pairs with Alice Marble to play the match with Lt. Don Budge and Mary Hardwicke. Cadet Jack Kramer pairs with Alice Marble to down the other team by a 6 to 4 score.

Date: 1944, March 16
Duration: 46 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675071250
USS Pensacola battles high wind and waves in New York

USS Pensacola cruiser underway under Brooklyn Bridge. The war ship battles strong wind while being tested for speed. The war ship has to make qualifying speed record in high wind and high waves. Gun turrets of the cruiser in view. Smoke rising up from smokestacks. Men aboard the USS Pensacola.

Date: 1930, March 12
Duration: 41 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675041974