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Children play games and receive instructions in handicraft during WPA supported play programs in New York City

Great Depression era Works Progress Administration (WPA) projects in New York City. A sign reads: 'Play Street Closed'. Children play various games and sports on a street in New York City that has been closed to traffic, under the supervision of WPA employees. A man instructs them. They play checkers, jacks, and a small court tennis game using ping pong paddles. They play round games holding hands and moving together. Children seen entering the toyery, an experimental program at the Heckscher Foundation For Children. A boy smiles as a woman in the toyery hands him a truck toy to borrow from the lending library of toys. Several children are shown trading in a toy for a different toy. Children seated in a room show each other flashcards to improve their reading skills, during remedial instruction time. Women in a Long Island City kitchen prepare school lunches for 800 needy children. A woman cook prepares a sandwich and a group of women wrap up batches of sandwiches. View of a day nursery, with a nap or rest area with small beds. A nurse in the nursery examines a child's mouth with a tongue depressor. Young children play with blocks in the nursery. They sit at tables in a dining room. Children drink milk and eat food.

Location: New York City USA
Date: 1936
Duration: 2 min 21 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675062814
West Point Cadets receive flight familiarization training at Mitchel Field, New York

West Point Cadets in flight suits, with goggles, prepare for flight at Mitchel Field, Hempstead, New York. Officer gives instruction to the cadets standing at attention. Building in the background. West Point cadets leave building. Others sit on steps of building. West Point cadets, wearing seat-pack parachutes, march down flight line. Row of parked United States Army Air Corps B-6A bomber aircraft. Cadets stand in front of the aircraft, parked with engines running, on the airfield. Cadets climb into B-6A aircraft. Interior of the Cockpit. Cadet and pilot look at map. Nose section of B-6A. Cadet in nose gunner position aims through machine gun sight. Cadet in rear radio operator-gunner position speaks into microphone. Pilot at controls checks engines and instruments. Ground crewmen remove wheel chocks and the aircraft taxi in formation to the runway, and takeoff, one at a time. Aerial view of B-6As in formation flight over Long Island, New York.

Location: Hempstead New York USA
Date: 1937
Duration: 3 min 23 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675073087
A cart filled with stones is hoisted from new railroad tunnel being dug under river. It is loaded on horse-drawn wagon.

Paper print. Turn of 20th century documentary motion picture. Tunnel workers in New York, United States. A cart filled with stones is hoisted and carried from the tunnel. Workers and engineers at the construction site of the Pennsylvania Railroad Tunnel being built between New York and Long Island. Workers enter a lift and descend to the tunnel level. When lift comes up again, they remove a cart filled with material dug from tunnel. The dig workers realize they are being filmed and begin to act up for the camera. Lift comes up bringing night shift workers from tunnel, who leave the construction site. Day shift workers and a superintendent and a foreman arrive.

Location: New York City USA
Date: 1903
Duration: 3 min 42 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675073370
Wrecked ships, cars and a train after the Great New England hurricane of 1938

Damage due to the September 21, 1938 New England Hurricane (also called the Long Island Express Hurricane) in the United States. Buildings along streets in New York City in driving rain and winds. Cars moving on a street. Rain falling in the city and deep water ponding in roads. Rubble in the area. A large tree that crushed a car. Wrecked ships and boats along a coastal port. Men look at the boats, many of which are partially sunken or aground. Aerial view of wrecked cars and other vehicles. Destroyed bridges. Wind wrecked homes on coast. A wrecked train on a railroad line, derailed off the tracks.

Location: New York City USA
Date: 1938, September 22
Duration: 1 min 10 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076799
Early 20th Century scenes in Manhattan, New York City

Dejected, sad looking immigrant worker in slum or tenement one room flat. Still image of young Nguyen Sinh Cung, otherwise known as Nguyen Ai Quoc, and later as Ho Chi Minh, leader of North Vietnam, who lived and worked in New York City in second decade of 20th Century. New York harbor with ships and tug boats. Wide view of Statue of Liberty and then closer view with workers cleaning the face of Statue of Liberty. View of Rikers Island prison, exterior and interior of cell block. Men sitting and sleeping on park benches in Manhattan. An unkempt homeless person.

Location: New York United States USA
Date: 1920
Duration: 37 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675044079
American troops aboard United States ship Thomas Barry return home via New York at end of World War II in Europe.

United States troops ship USAT Thomas H. Barry (formerly the SS Oriente) carrying American soldiers as they arrive back home in New York, United States following the end of World War 2 in Europe. Men and women on the dock welcome the troops and wave in the foreground with United States troopship Thomas Barry underway as it approaches pier 16 at Staten Island in New York City, United States. American troops aboard the USAT Thomas Barry as they return from Europe after World War II. People on the pier wave to the soldiers. Troops on board the ship shout and whistle. War brides and babies on board the ship along with the troops. United States ship SS Santa Rosa waiting to dock.

Location: New York United States USA
Date: 1945, May 19
Duration: 5 min 2 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675058760
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