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Works Progress Administration jobs at Bolling Field and in New York building give men construction jobs during great depression

Unemployed African American men and various skilled and unskilled workers get jobs through Works Progress Administration (WPA) during great depression. Men gathered near Quartermaster office at a Bolling Field construction project in Washington DC. Laborers assist in building and grading runways at Bolling Field military installation. Men clear large rocks and debris from a jobsite. Workers smooth and grade runways. A steam shovel moves earth and loads a truck. Scene changes to New York City where a housing demolition project is shown, with men dismantling housing to prepare new moderate income housing. Bricks slide sown a chute away from the building. Workers at Colonial Park in Harlem New York are seen building a new bath house to accompany a newly completed swimming pool (later Jackie Robinson Pool).

Date: 1937
Duration: 1 min 44 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058298
Washington Press Corps and news about President Johnson, after assassination of President Kennedy

U.S. President Lyndon B Johnson on the Cover of Newsweek magazine, December 9, 1963. Members of the Washington Press Corps covering news and events from the White House under the new President, Lyndon Johnson. Members of the Press pick up news releases and attend a news briefing in the White House. Views of many members of the press and media in conversation and during setup activities for a press briefing in the White House. Views of motion picture camera crews preparing cameras for the event.

Date: 1963, December 9
Duration: 1 min 18 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675044248
Indian PM, Indira Gandhi visits New York and a Gurudwara in the United States.

Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi visits United States for better understanding and friendship between the two countries. Ships underway crossing under a New York City bridge with Manhattan skyscrapers in the background. Car traffic and taxi cabs on streets of New York City. Mrs Gandhi being greeted by New York City Mayor Edward Koch at the Helmsley Palace Hotel (455 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10022, United States). She meets Indian scientist, leading Businessmen, and prominent women. On Sunday morning, she visits a Gurudwara. People of Sikh community outside the Gurudwara, a Sikh place of worship. People and Sikh Granthi perform religious rituals. Indira Gandhi makes a speech in Hindi. She talks about the Sikh community in Gurudwara.

Date: 1982
Duration: 2 min 15 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675045040
Soldiers of 2nd New Zealand Division at the Battle of Monte Cassino, Italy, in WW II.

The Battle of Monte Cassino. Aerial view of the town and abbey in Italy. During an exercise west of Cassino, near Monte Camino, New Zealand gunners fire British 6 Pounder Antitank gun and a captured German Pak 40 75mm antitank gun, Views of the anti-tank men loading and firing their weapon. Smoke rises due to the firing. As part of the exercise, Infantry of 24th Battalion, 2nd Division,New Zealand Expeditionary Force, advance with fixed bayonets and one fires a machine gun. Group of New Zealand soldiers stand near a jeep and a destroyed U.S. Sherman tank of 756th Tank Battalion, amidst destroyed buildings in the north of Cassino. Several New Zealand soldiers smile for the camera. (World War II period).

Date: 1944, March
Duration: 1 min 33 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675046252
New members of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) take an oath during a ceremony in Stone Mountain Georgia.

Ku Klux Klan (KKK) members rally at a ceremony in Stone Mountain Georgia, USA. Members of the KKK group walk. Men, presumably new inductees, walk in a line, each with one hand on the shoulder of the person walking in front of him, and each with a partial mask covering their eyes. They all sit. New members raise one of their hand to take an oath for membership in the group. A KKK member wearing a mask holds the flag of the U.S. A new inductee kneels and the KKK official in mask puts his hand on his head. The man then kisses the American flag. Hooded KKK members clap as new members are recognized. KKK members hold a cross. They gather around a fire. Ku Klux Klan members stand beside a burning cross.

Date: 1925
Duration: 41 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675065209
Dr. Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Watson's contribution towards the New York-San Francisco telephone line in the U.S.

Telephone line construction between New York and San Francisco in the United States. A picture of Dr. Alexander Graham Bell talking into a telephone while opening the New York-Chicago telephone line on October 18, 1892. Several men standing beside Dr. Bell. A donkey with a saddle on it. A man loading the donkey with devices. The man leading the donkey which is carrying the devices to be fitted on a telephone post in a hilly area. Several men erecting telephone posts while laying lines joining New York and San Francisco to the Bell System in 1915. View of a bear climbing down a telephone post. A picture of Dr. Alexander Graham Bell attending the opening of the transcontinental telephone line in New York on January 25, 1915. Several AT&T executives sitting on both sides of Dr. Bell. Dr. Bell repeated the historic first sentence transmitted on March 10, 1876, "Mr. Watson, come here; I want you", on the telephone to Mr. Watson in San Francisco. A picture showing Thomas A. Watson, Dr. Bell's assistant in 1876, at the opening of the transcontinental telephone line. Mr. Watson replied to Dr. Bell, "It would take me a week this time, Dr. Bell".

Date: 1926
Duration: 2 min 7 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675066327