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The Gae Foster Girls of the Roxy Theatre practice their dance routines on the Roxy Theatre's rooftop

The Gae Foster Girls of the Roxy Theatre in New York City practice their dance routines on the Roxy Theatre rooftop. New members of group perform initiation rites in the sun. A bird's eye view of the Foster girls practicing on rooftops.

Date: 1938, April
Duration: 40 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675028780
Unemployed men in bread lines receive tickets for food from charitable institutions during Great Depression

Unemployed men during depression seek work and assistance in New York City, United States. Men line up in a bread line to receive tickets for food. Clergy and an assistant, in front of a church, hand out food tickets to the men. Close up views of the men in the bread line, and close up view of their legs and feet and shoes shuffling forward in line. New York City policemen maintain an orderly procession. Men sit by shed in vacant lot looking at newspapers for employment opportunities.

Date: 1930, April 9
Duration: 42 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032192
A ship and warehouses at the docks in Manhattan.

A stationary ship off the New York shoreline. Manhattan, New York City skyline with tall skyscrapers in view. Warehouses in the dock area.

Date: 1965
Duration: 1 min 2 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675033341
The U.S. Air Force demonstrates how aerospace monkeys and chimpanzees respond to commands during simulated altitude changes.

Aerospace tests on monkeys and chimpanzees at the New York Academy of Sciences in New York City. The U.S. Air Force demonstrates how aerospace monkeys respond to commands during simulated altitude changes as would occur in space travel. An airman near technical equipment and systems. A chimpanzee in a seat. An officer observes. Monkey in a cage. Airman at controls of a machine that reads 'A Performance Task for Maintaining Behavior'. The chimpanzee in a reclining chair. His image on a close circuit television. The chimpanzee seated in a chair explores the controls.

Date: 1967, September 29
Duration: 49 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033689
French Marshal Joseph Joffre visits the United States during World War I and is cheered at Joffre Day celebration.

A massive crowd on city streets of New York gathered to cheer Marshal Joseph Joffre of France on his visit to the United States during World War 1. (This is likely the New York City "Joffre Day" celebration on May 11, 1917). Cars move in between the crowd. People carry U.S. flags. Marshal Joseph Joffre talks with a man during his visit to United States. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)

Date: 1917, May 11
Duration: 34 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675035251
Lives of typical immigrants to the U.S., early in the 20th century

Tenements and open-air markets, part of life for many new immigrants, in Manhattan, New York City, early in the 20th century. Brief footage of elevated view of street likely in lower east side of Manhattan. Series of still images: Children pose on a fire escape platform. Merchants with pushcarts line the street. Men open a fire hydrant that spews water into the street. Men place cups in the stream. Children wade in the water. Many small children seen on the sidewalk. A boy tries to drink the last few drops from the hydrant, after it is turned off. Boys stand in an alleyway, near garbage cans. A boy at home preparing to wash in a basin. A boy holding a puppy in an unsanitary tenement apartment. View of Italian immigrant family members crowded into a Mulberry Street tenement. In contrast, a group of well-to-do young women are seen outdoors dressed in white, carrying parasols, as they learn social etiquette. A young woman, in a carriage, with a chaperone. Two well-dressed, mature women, conversing. A family, including several children, all engaged in needle work at home, for a pittance in wages. Men and women at sewing machines manufacturing clothes in a crowded "sweat shop.".

Date: 1905
Duration: 1 min 51 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036800