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U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, Sara Roosevelt, and Eleanor Roosevelt, at polling place in Hyde Park, New York, 1940.

Opening scene shows a voting booth with curtains closed. U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt (FDR) accompanied by his mother Sara Roosevelt and his wife Eleanor Roosevelt are seen preparing to vote in the 1940 Presidential elections. They stand together in front of a voting booth, with curtains open showing machine inside. There is much activity around and things seem a bit disorganized. (Other persons are voting and being assisted by volunteers, all unseen. But their conversations can be overheard.) At one point the President is amused, and almost laughs. President Roosevelt speaks with a man briefly, who helps him step aside, using his cane. At the same time, Eleanor Roosevelt helps her mother-in-law enter the open voting booth, and makes sure the curtains are closed. After Sara Roosevelt leaves the booth, Eleanor Roosevelt listens to brief comment from man assisting voters, and then enters the booth and votes. She is seen backing out of the booth.

Location: Hyde Park New York USA
Date: 1940
Duration: 1 min 46 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675050191
USS Pensacola battles high wind and waves in New York

USS Pensacola cruiser underway under Brooklyn Bridge. The war ship battles strong wind while being tested for speed. The war ship has to make qualifying speed record in high wind and high waves. Gun turrets of the cruiser in view. Smoke rising up from smokestacks. Men aboard the USS Pensacola.

Location: Brooklyn New York City USA
Date: 1930, March 12
Duration: 41 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675041974
A teacher gives swimming lessons to young women in a YWCA pool in Harlem, New York

A woman writes a letter to her mother. The woman writes about the various courses offered at the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA). Young women at a YWCA swimming pool. Young women swimming in the pool. An African American woman seated at the edge of the pool, instructing the girls. Women learn backstroke swimming. The swimming instructor talks to the girls, demonstrating a swimming stroke.

Location: New York United States USA
Date: 1940
Duration: 52 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675063289
Chicken thieves steal chicken at a farm in New Jersey

Dramatized checkin theft . African American man walks behind a hen house with a sack in his hands. Another man from the window drops a chicken into the sack. The two men look around as they steal, then one walks away with the sack containing stolen chickens. The other man jumps out of the window with a chicken in his hands. Two farmers chase the chicken thieves. One farmer carries a scythe and the other a gun, which he shoots. (Edison Studio, 1896)

Location: West Orange New Jersey USA
Date: 1896
Duration: 28 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675065282
High school students and college girls work in Victory gardens in Brooklyn, New York and other American cities

A film about youth in the United States producing food for war during World War 2, to aid the war effort. High school students seated in an auditorium. They are briefed by a man. A student talks to a teacher about a summer garden job . Students are taught to operate a tractor. A college girl operates a corn picking machine. A college girl drives a tractor. Tractor trolley loaded with corn. Women take out the corn from the tractor trolley. High school students pick orchard crops from trees in California. The students put the crops in crates.

Location: Brooklyn New York City USA
Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 6 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675067307
Pacers compete in harness race on Yonkers Raceway, New York, at end of 1958 season

At the end of the harness racing season in Yonkers Raceway, a moving car carries mobile starting gate with harness racers aligned across the track behind it. The gate folds up and the starter car speeds away allowing the race to get underway. Spectators in the stands are seen dressed warmly on this cold, damp December day. The horses, and drivers in sulkies,race around the water-covered track. Narrator comments that horses were meant to run, not swim.

Location: New York United States USA
Date: 1958, December 4
Duration: 45 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675055671
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