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President Mrs. Warren G. Harding meet two thousand postmasters from all parts of the country, Washington DC.

President Warren G. Harding, and his wife Florence Harding, pose in the White House garden with crowd including U.S. Post Office postmasters from across the country. President Harding tells Mrs. Harding they are being filmed on movie camera. She looks toward camera and raises her right arm with hand in a fist, in an enthusiastic gesture, and smiles. Two bearded postmasters talk in front of the White House. Film slate says they are "from Gopher Prairie," (perhaps a reference to an unnamed small town in the U.S., or to Sauk Centre, Minnesota, after which Sinclair Lewis' fictional town of "Gopher Prairie" was modeled in his then-popular novel "Main Street"). A puppy dog emerges from a mailbox on the ground.

Location: Washington DC USA
Date: 1921
Duration: 42 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675052454
Film illustrating participation of African Americans in U.S. history from Colonial times to after the Civil War

Opening scene shows African American congregation in church, during World War 2, listening to their preacher speak about liberty. Closeup of the Minister speaking. As he refers to the seed of Liberty taking root in Boston, a plaque on the gate of the Granary Burial Ground of 1660 is shown reading: "Within this ground are buried the victims of the Boston Massacre, March 5, 1770." The gate swings open revealing the cemetery. Next, an illustration of British Redcoats shooting into a crowd on that occasion is shown. Closeup of the illustration shows an African American, named Crispus Attucks, falling as the first victim of the gunfire. A monument to him on Boston Common, is then shown. Closeup of the monument. Excerpt from a film about the Revolutionary War shows reenactment of the battle off Concord. The 221-foot granite obelisk at Bunker Hill, Boston, is seen, marking the site of the first major battle of the American Revolutionary War. A musket is seen with a sign attached reading: "Gun belonged to Peter Salem, a colored man who carried it at Lexington, Concord, and Bunker Hill, and with it shot Maj. Pitcairn." (Refers to Major John Pitcairn, a Scottish Marine officer, killed at the battle of Bunker Hill.) Illustration and painting of Peter Salem with his musket in the company of other patriots, is shown, as well as a glimpse of a mass reenactment of the battle of Bunker Hill. Next is seen the famous 1851 oil-on-canvas painting of Washington Crossing the Delaware, by the German American artist Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze. Closeup of one oarsman, identified as African American, Prince Whipple. Film Reenactment of the ragtag American army at Valley Forge in the snow, shows their suffering. Among them is an actor in the role of African American, Salem Poor, who had purchased his freedom from slavery and fought with Washington's army. A bell ringing and the American flag of 13 stars signifying the 1776 Victory. Film reenactments of pioneers including whites and African Americans working together, felling trees and building forts and barns, and the like. Scene shifts to a man of war ship under sail firing a salvo from its cannons. This is followed by illustrations of Commodore Perry in the battle of Lake Erie, during the War of 1812. In a dory with Perry is a black man named Tyler Thompson. War ships exchange gunfire. Narrator cites Perry's famous words of victory: "We have met the enemy and they are ours." Scene shifts to a painting of American general Andrew Jackson and his troops, at the Battle of New Orleans, in 1815. A battle reenactment shows a black American soldier participating. Postwar view of American ship building activity. View of a large sailing vessel. Cannon fire ushers in the Civil War in 1861 as Confederates fire on Fort Sumter. Images of combat are overlaid by the statue of Abraham Lincoln in his memorial at Washington, DC. Next, settlers are seen heading West in a wagon train. Camera focuses on a black couple who are part of the wagon train. White and African American men work side-by-side building a railroad. An early steam locomotive races along the tracks. .

Location: United States USA
Date: 1945
Duration: 3 min 18 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675077350
Aerial view of the Fort Lesley J McNair, the Jefferson Memorial, Washington Monument and Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC.

Aerial views of Washington DC monuments and the surrounding area in the United States. Aerial views of the Fort Lesley J McNair. The Jefferson Memorial, the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial.

Location: Washington DC USA
Date: 1964, February 12
Duration: 1 min 40 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675075809
Fort Marcy wins the Washington DC International Horse race in Washington DC, United States.

Washington DC International Horse race in Washington DC, United States. Horses running on turf ground. Spectators applaud and cheer during the race. 'Fort Marcy' wins the derby winning over 'Damascus'.

Location: Washington DC USA
Date: 1967, November 14
Duration: 55 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675044211
A U.S. Army 10-inch Coastal Defense gun demonstrated in Washington State, United States

Opening scene shows muzzle of a 10-in coastal defense gun as it rises on its disappearing carriage. The following inscriptions are etched into the end of the barrel: "12IV No.28 ORD Dept. U.S.A. M 1895 Watervliet Arsenal 1899." This gun is installed on an M1901 disappearing carriage at Battery Worth, Fort Casey, Coupeville, Whidbey Island, Washington. View from the side, as the gun rises from below the battery and fires. Shell raises a great splash near a target flag in the water. Views from different locations around the gun as it fires several times. (World War II period).

Location: Coupeville Washington United States USA
Date: 1940, June
Duration: 30 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046132
The Selective Service System (SSS) holds a draft lottery to induct men into the Vietnam War.

The December 1, 1969 Draft Lottery for the year 1970 is held at the United States Selective Service headquarters in Washington, D.C. The draft lottery is led by General Lewis B. Hershey, Selective Service Director. The ceremony begins with a benediction, and then an official pours slips of paper containing birth dates into a glass bowl. Congressman Alexander Pirnie of New York draws the first birth date. He declares the date, September 14, and another man pastes the birth date next to a number on a board. Members of the Selective Service Youth Advisory Committee draw additional birth dates and the board is filled out with the draft sequence.

Location: Washington DC USA
Date: 1969, December 1
Duration: 32 min 2 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036675
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