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Street scenes on a snowy day in Harlem, New York City.

A police car is parked crosswise in center of snow-covered street. A sign of the New York City Housing Authority at the construction site for the "Alexander Hamilton Houses" in Harlem, New York City (The 21 story buildings were completed in 1965 and are at 2446 Adam Clayton Powell Boulevard , New York, NY). Snow at open area. Several high-rise apartment buildings are seen. Free-standing signs advertise prices for pork chops and frozen foods. Several closed and apparently out of business storefronts are seen. A Cleaner's shop. A sign reads "Manny's Billiards". A restaurant named "Little Jim's" selling “fish and chips” and “chicken and chips”. “Alicia’s” hairstylist shop front. Two children pass by the shop. A hair stylist shop. A sack outside a laundry shop. A religious shop named “Eastern Star” sells hosiery and different types of perfumes such as “Compelling”, “Cleopatra”, “Come to Me”, “Love Perfume” and “Money Perfume”. Religious store also sells a “Lucky Seeing Eye Cross!” and "Learn to see things past." Sign for "Daniel's Billiards". Coca Cola advertisement flanking store sign. Pepsi Cola advertisement also seen in window. View of "Rena's French Dry Cleaners" shop. Sign in window advertises stain removing. Two African American children holding a bottle. They smile and point at something in the distance.

Date: 1963
Duration: 3 min 14 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675035558
Bars, restaurants and night life in Harlem New York.

Nighttime scenes in Harlem, New York. Count Basie's bar at 132nd St. and Seventh Ave. in New York's Harlem. Neon sign at Big Wilt's, an African American nightclub (2294 7th Avenue New York City). Apex Beauty School stands above Big Wilt's. Neon lighted signs and marquees read "Moondog with Ace and the Kings.", The Harlem Moon bar and grill. Signs read "Barbecue" , "Chop Suey" , and "Chow Mein" Jim Moon Chinese restaurant. A sign reads "Join now NAACP Applications available here". Facades of Bermuda Bar and Silver Rail bar. Rates of fish, shrimp and chicken are displayed at the Gilmar Self Service Food Center in Harlem.

Date: 1969, February
Duration: 2 min 1 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675035565
Views of Harlem Boys' Club in New York City.

Camera pans over name of new "Harlem Boys' Club" and then to inscription on building reading: "The Children's Aid Society of the City of New York." A small African American boy walks along the sidewalk and pauses to look up at the building. The scene is repeated with another take. Closeup of the boy. observers in the background. A girl enters new building, with cornerstone reading: "AD 1940." Several boys and girls of elementary school age enter the building, one at a time. African American children playing on swings in a play ground. A man pushes a small child on a swing. An apartment house directly across the steet from the playground. View across the playground of the swings and houses across the street. A very small boy walking on the playground.

Date: 1940
Duration: 2 min 46 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675035569
Sweepstakes, raffle, sports betting, bingo and other forms of gambling in New York City.

Dramatization shows people gambling and betting in different ways, and shows scenes from a casino in New York City. A group of men huddled together throwing dice (playing craps) and betting cash on the game. A man holds a glass of wine while gambling. View of punch card lottery tickets and gambling scrip for a game of chance. A New York Journal American newspaper front page story about "Sweeps Winners" (sweepstakes). Front page held up of the "Daily Racing Form" newspaper. Two men in suits and hats examine the newspaper, and discuss the newspaper. One of the men is smoking a cigar. He communicates his bets to the other man, a bookie (bookmaker), who takes notes on a notepad. A board atop a quilt reads "To be raffled off at the church supper Friday evening". A woman comes and pays another woman for a raffle ticket. A display reads "Church parlor Friday night - Play bingo - money prizes!" A man and four women play bingo. One of the women excites as she wins. A newspaper heading reads "Bingo banned by Lutherans in New York Churches". Slate states that the various forms of gambling lead to crime and delinquency as people learn to get something for nothing. Two boys sneak up in front of a storefront and steal fruit from a stand in front of the shop. The shopkeeper sees the theft, comes out, and yells after the thieves.

Date: 1939
Duration: 2 min 15 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675035679
Views of 5th Avenue by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and of elevated railroad trains in New York City

Traffic along 5th avenue, passing in front of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1000 5th Ave, New York, NY 10028, United States) in New York City. Seen are several horse-drawn carriages and wagons, automobiles, and a double-decker bus. Pedestrians walking on the sidewalk, and a large American flag flying in front of the Museum. Scene shifts to sequence shot from front car POV of an elevated train, in the New York rapid transit system, passing between buildings, and passing below higher elevated train tracks. POV view changes to the rear car of the train showing retreating scenes, behind the moving train. Two trains, going in the opposite direction, pass on either side of the photo train. One of those stops at a station. A third train follows closely behind an earlier one.

Date: 1916
Duration: 1 min 18 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675035690
Documentary about geography, large river bridges and skyscrapers such as Woolworth building of New York City in 1920s.

Documentary about geography of New York. Slate indicates New York has the largest bridges in the world. Views of the Brooklyn Bridge. Cargo liners below the bridge and crossing the bridge. The Manhattan Bridge and skyscrapers of Manhattan, New York City behind is visible at a distance. Another bridge over river Hudson, under construction. A man and woman standing on a high observation platform of a skyscraper, looking over at the tower of Woolworth Building, the tallest skyscraper in America.

Date: 1925
Duration: 1 min 17 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036355