View of a meat distribution warehouse in the New York City meat packing district. Workers offload meat from incoming delivery trucks and load meat slabs into others. One truck has sign painted on it's side reading: "Jos. Kenney & Co. Inc. Purveyers of Fine Meats 401 W 14th St." Men move the meat on hooks suspended from conveyor tracks.
Point of view (POV) street scenes from a moving automobile along 125th Street in crowded area of Harlem, New York City, between 7th Avenue and 8th Avenue, and between Fifth Avenue and Lenox Avenue. Pedestrians along a crowded street. Store signs include "Windsor Drugs" (276 West 125th Street), "Record Shack" (272 West 125th Street), "Dilrich Provisions" (5 West 125th Street) and "Liggett-Rexall" (86 West 125th Street, on corner of 125th Street and Lenox Ave). Cars and trucks double-parked. Outdoor sidewalk fruit and vegetable stand, with signs above reading:" Checks cashed."
Burning of Standard Oil Company tanks at Bayonne in New Jersey. Fire triggered by a lightning strike during a thunder storm, which caused Naphtha tank No. 7 of Standard Oil Company's plant to explode. People on street in Bayonne, with sky darkened by the heavy smoke rising high above the town. People evacuate area threatened by the fire. Horse-drawn wagons carrying goods, follow wheel tracks in the street. Several men with bicycles. Two men pull a wagon loaded with bedding and furniture.
A film titled 'Bargain Day, 14th Street, New York', in United States. A view of many tightly packed people crowding in front of 'Rothschild Company 5 and 10 cent Store'
A film titled 'Move On'. View on New York City street of several pushcart vendors gathered to sell their goods (possibly lower east side of Manhattan). Fruit and vegetable carts in the foreground. Vendors congregate closely along sidewalks and interfere with traffic. Policemen approaches swinging his night stick to keep them moving. Elevated railroad train tracks seen in background. Lots of horse carriage and wagon traffic.
A film titled 'At the Foot of the Flatiron'. View of a windy day near the Flatiron Building at 5th Avenue and Broadway in Manhattan, New York. City. The pedestrians seen passing in the street clutching hats and skirts against the wind. One man looks back at the camera and the wind takes his hat.
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