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U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates the new chapel at Georgia Warm Springs Foundation

U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates the chapel at Georgia Warm Springs Foundation in Warm Springs, Georgia. Cars parked on the road side. President Roosevelt arrives at the new chapel and drives up footpath to the door. Closeup of license plate on the President's 1938 Ford convertible (with hand controls) reads 'Georgia FDR 1938'. Following the dedication service, the President is seen standing supported by door of his car, as he shakes hands with Rt. Rev. Henry J. Mikell, D.D., Bishop of Atlanta. Standing nearby are Rev. J.D.C. Wilson, Rector of St. Mark's Episcopal Church in LaGrange, Georgia, and FDR's neighbor and friend, and former owner of Warm Springs, Georgia Mustian Wilkins, who donated the funds for the chapel. Scene shifts to large group of polio victims, in wheel chairs. Closeup of President Roosevelt. Group of polio victims , in their wheel chairs, posing outside a Foundation building, with McCarthy Cottage and the E.T. Curtis Cottage in background.

Date: 1938, March 28
Duration: 36 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033790
Franklin Roosevelt (FDR) visits Springfield, Illinois and Atlanta, Georgia during his campaign to run as President of the United States

Train carrying New York Governor and Presidential Candidate Franklin Roosevelt (FDR) arrives to a huge crowd of supporters in Springfield, Illinois. Franklin Roosevelt waves at the crowd from train caboose. Train carrying Franklin Roosevelt journeys towards Atlanta, Georgia. Crowds outside the Atlanta, Georgia State Capitol (Georgia State Capitol Building, 206 Washington St SW, Atlanta, GA 30334) showing support for Franklin Roosevelt. Franklin Roosevelt laughs and smiles with supporters as he sits in a convertible car. Franklin Roosevelt gives a speech under a floral arch to his Atlanta, Georgia supporters. With such a warm welcome, Roosevelt notes to those gathered that “insofar as carrying on a campaign in Georgia to get votes, my visit to this state has not been exactly necessary!”

Date: 1932, October
Duration: 1 min 27 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079095
The Notre Dame team defeats the Georgia Tech 14-6 in a football game in Atlanta, Georgia.

A football match between Georgia Tech and Fighting Irish Notre Dame in Atlanta , Georgia. Highlights of the football game between the teams from the Georgia Institute of Technology and the University of Notre Dame. A large number of spectators cheer. Georgia loses 14-6 as Notre Dame wins the match.

Date: 1938, October 10
Duration: 36 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675059001
Two Central of Georgia passenger trains collide killing five and injuring twenty people near Ogeechee, Georgia, United States

5 people dead and 20 hurt in head on crash of passenger trains. Wrecked train cars seen after two Central of Georgia passenger trains ran into each other near a swampland curve of Ogeechee, Georgia. The accident killed five crew members due to explosion of boilers and twenty others were hurt. Rail cars and twisted metal seen at the site of the collision. Executive cars seen on their sides, one with a large hole in the rear side. A Central of Georgia crane loads train wreckage into a waiting Central of Georgia open railroad car.

Date: 1936, July 25
Duration: 54 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675037658
Football game between Georgia Tech and Navy in Atlanta,Georgia

A newsreel titled ' Georgia Tech sinks Navy' shows highlights of a football game between Georgia Tech and Navy in Atlanta,Georgia. Spectators cheer the two teams. Georgia Tech wins the game by defeating Navy.

Date: 1946, November 11
Duration: 1 min 17 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675038451
Skilled African Americans involved in demanding occupations and businesses. The National Negro Business League.

African Americans contributing to community and nation in the United States. Unnamed African Americans seen at work include: Welder; Quality control inspector; Chemist; Accountant; Machinist; fabric testing technician; White collar workers and executives; A credit manager in a major department store; and a bank teller. James Temple, Jr., and engineer with a St. Louis Public Utility, is seen in his office. Ora Higgins, Human Resources Director of one of the world's largest mail order houses, seen at her desk, interviewing an applicant. View of Willard S. Townsend, Labor Leader, and President of the United Transport Service Employees of America. Scenes of Annual Meeting of the National Negro Business League (NNLB), in Atlanta, Georgia, where its President, Horace Sutters, presents the Businessman of the year award to Samuel B. Fuller of Chicago, founder of the Fuller Products Company, who, himself, later became President of the League and owner of several newspapers, a department store and a theater.

Date: 1939
Duration: 2 min 53 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675045064