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Early 1900s car traffic on streets of New York City; car usage in America versus rest of world

Demand of Automobile in the United States. Shows a photograph (ca. 1900) of a policeman ordering a horseless carriage off New York City streets. Picture of men on horseless carriage and on bicycles. Views of traffic of 1910's and 1920's cars and other vehicles on busy, traffic filled streets of New York City, as a police officer directs traffic between the lanes of automobiles. Figure shows that out of 26 million of automobiles, 77% is in the U.S. and 23% in rest of the world.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1920
Duration: 1 min 14 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675071726
Close-up views and still photos of faces of various Americans in the early 1900s

Ordinary people, immigrants, and citizens of the United States in the early 1900s. An old woman, a man with a hat, a man with a cigar in his mouth. His son reads a book. A farmer with his wife. A woman in her traditional dress and a father with his daughter on a chair. Credits for the documentary.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1930
Duration: 1 min 56 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675021238
Advances in early 1900's transportation and workers' living conditions in New York City, United States

'Wheels of Fortune' depicts how the inter-development of the automobile and the public road system (1897-1927) caused the growth of suburban areas. View of two men as they ride a tandem bicycle for two on a city street. A horse carriage approaches a house. A woman gets off and climbs the steps to a house. Women on bicycles in the countryside wearing late 1800's early 1900's fashions. They stop to look at blossoming trees by the roadside. Next scene shows workers seated outside a factory. They eat lunch from packed dinner pails. View of high density tenements and slums of New York City with laundry hanging on clotheslines and the Brooklyn Bridge can be seen in the distance. View of railroad tracks running immediately beside closely packed tenement buildings of New York City residents.

Location: New York City USA
Date: 1927
Duration: 2 min 0 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675031458
Europeans go through immigration processing at Ellis Island in the early 1900s

Mix of period footage circa 1910, retrospective interviews in 1975, and some still images. European immigration in bad travel conditions to America. View from rail on deck of a ship in heavy seas. An elderly European immigrant recalls his experiences of the journey on ship to America. Ship in Atlantic Ocean. Picture of European immigrants on ship deck. Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. Early 1900s period footage of immigrants arriving at Ellis Island and disembarking from ship, then walking with luggage for processing at Ellis Island. Some immigrants peer across New York Harbor at the skyline of New York city. Scene change to 1975 and views of interiors of a no longer used building in Ellis Island. Names of persons carved on walls. A man shares his experience as an immigrant passing through Ellis Island, and then as an immigration inspector reviewing new immigrants as they arrived.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1910
Duration: 5 min 27 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039771
European immigrants enter the United States through Ellis Island circa 1900

European immigration to America from 1880 to 1914. Elderly European immigrants recall their experiences to interviewers in 1975, between montages of still photo images circa 1900: Pictures of immigrants after they reach America. Faces of immigrants with sad look. Old men with long beards. Large number of immigrants waiting for immigration check at Ellis Island. Immigrants walk with heavy luggage and crying children. Immigrants seek passage. Special officers hired to communicate with immigrants easily.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1975
Duration: 3 min 30 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039772
European immigrants go through health examination at Ellis Island circa 1900.

Describes European immigration to America from 1880 to 1914. Elderly European immigrants recall their experiences to interviewers in 1975. Still photo montage scenes circa 1900: Immigration officer with a woman. Large number of immigrants wait for immigration check at Ellis Island. Children lined up. Immigrants at port and going through health examinations. During physical examination, immigrants with disease of Trachoma marked and segregated. In 1975 an old lady describes her experience of being misdiagnosed with Trachoma and almost sent back to Russia. She was reexamined and allowed to remain in America.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1975
Duration: 2 min 44 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039773
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