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Unemployed men living in shacks as they take to their daily chores in New York City during the Great Depression

Unemployed men in New York, United States during the Great Depression. Slum shacks in a temporary living area. A sign reads: 'City Hall'. A flag flies atop a flag pole on the terrace of a building. jobless men who have formed the community together walk outside the shacks. A man irons a cloth kept on a table. Other man get his beard shaved by a barber.

Date: 1932, August 4
Duration: 57 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675063353
Communist party demonstration in New York City during the Great Depression

Police rush to contain a Communist demonstration in New York City near City Hall during the Great Depression. Communist demonstrators confront policemen and are shoved by a cop . Policeman clubbing demonstrators in crowd. Police on horse back amongst demonstrators. Policeman escorts a demonstrator after arresting him. Policemen accost a resisting demonstrator. Cavalry police confront communist demonstrators. Communist demonstrator lying on the ground, below policemen’s legs. Communist demonstrators disperse to avoid policeman.

Date: 1931
Duration: 32 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079085
Film clip presents baseball trivia question, 1945

World War 2 era newsreel clip notes that each of the two major leagues in baseball have more than 260 men in the armed forces serving in the war. View of NY Giants pitcher Bill Voiselle (#17), Boston Braves pitcher Al Javery (#18) and others who continued playing during the war. Announcer poses trivia question -- who is the all-time National League leader in home runs, walks, runs, and three other categories? Viewers given five choices to consider while clock ticks. The answer? Not Ty Cobb -- it's the New York Giants' player-manager Mel Ott, seen hitting with his distinctive kick swing and running to first base.

Date: 1945
Duration: 1 min 6 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675025697
Profile of job and work of Commissioner of Consumer Affairs as she checks various goods and retail practices in New York City

Views of the crowning ceremony at the Miss America beauty pageant in 1945, and winner Bess Meyerson on stage. Next scene shows Bess Myerson years later as Commissioner of Consumer Affairs for New York City enters a car, car on road on streets of Manhattan, New York City. View of New York City buildings from a moving car. Views of various consumer goods, with price tags on them, people buying. Views of manual cash registers ringing up totals. Views of consumers in markets, stores, and supermarkets. Views of Consumer rights protection office, men and women at work. Women and men on phone. Consumer protection officer at a store, checking different food items. Views of items in butcher or meat department. Interior of a laboratory, food items are tested. Officials working in an office. Commissioner of Consumer Affairs in her office, various items on her desk. View of many different grocery items moving on a checkout belt toward a store cash register. Store worker lifts paper grocery bag and hands it to shopper. Consumer Affairs Commissioner walking on streets of New York City and greeting a woman passing by.

Date: 1972
Duration: 3 min 56 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032797
Men watch as policemen destroy shacks in a shanty village in New York, United States during the Great Depression

Policemen destroy shacks of unemployed men in a shanty village in New York, United States during the Great Depression. A rubbled area being demolished by police and workers. The policemen watching the area. Other men and residents standing near the damaged shacks that are being removed.

Date: 1933, May 18
Duration: 41 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076833
Unemployed men in bread lines receive tickets for food from charitable institutions during Great Depression

Unemployed men during depression seek work and assistance in New York City, United States. Men line up in a bread line to receive tickets for food. Clergy and an assistant, in front of a church, hand out food tickets to the men. Close up views of the men in the bread line, and close up view of their legs and feet and shoes shuffling forward in line. New York City policemen maintain an orderly procession. Men sit by shed in vacant lot looking at newspapers for employment opportunities.

Date: 1930, April 9
Duration: 42 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032192