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Work Progress Administration projects in West Virginia during the Great Depression.

Shows 'Closed' sign on gate of a factory during depression. Jobless men sitting idle on benches. A young man asks another man for some money. People with signs and banners on road including a sign "Unemployed, will take any job." Desperate unemployed men going through trash looking for food or anything of value. Men sleep in doorways. Men in soup kitchen lines and waiting for handouts and relief. Manufacturing factory whistle blows and men are seen going to work. Smoke stacks working again at industrial area. Men shoveling field. Men and women entering a factory. Men in a pay line to receive pay at a factory. Smiling faces of people. A parent tossing a young boy into the air playfully. A young girl drinking milk. A man handing bags of food groceries to a happy wife. Pictures of bottles of milk and plates of breads. People enjoy a swimming pool. Children play on a merry go round and on a see-saw, as seen from child's point of view on the ride. A couple holding kids. A tall building under construction and surrounded in scaffolding. Construction of Tri-County airport at Clarksburg. Men working to build the runways. A plane taxis on a completed runway beside them. A man working to seal abandoned mines to prevent pollution of the water supply. Construction of a retaining wall is shown at Richwood Avenue in Morgantown West Virginia to prevent collapse of the roadway and homes above it. Construction shown of a hydro-therapeutic unit at Morris Memorial Hospital for crippled children, especially those suffering from infantile paralysis (polio). Children suffering from infantile paralysis in cots. Scene of construction of a new building at Marshall College (later Marshall University) in Huntington West Virginia, for an elementary training school. A new Gymnasium at Fairview High School is shown, and a new Assembly hall for the 4-H camp at Jacksons Mill. The new building for the African American High School at Morgantown is shown. View of a swimming pool, and people diving and swimming. Scene changes to a Sewing room, with many women working at sewing machines powered by foot pedals, and making garments for needy families. View of a Nursery school, and a small black child being bathed in a bath tub. Children playing in the yard of the nursery school.

Location: West Virginia USA
Date: 1937
Duration: 3 min 25 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051766
Contribution of WPA federal buildings projects in Ohio, United States, during the Great Depression.

From a film titled "A better Ohio". Scenes of Great Depression period in the United States: Idle men, closed factories, men searching through trash, sleeping on sidewalk. Scenes of post depression recovery: Smoke from factories, lines of workers, ample food, happy families. Views of Works Progress Administration (WPA) projects in Ohio: Airstrip construction of runways at Cleveland Airport; construction of Dayton Airport runways and aerial view of the Dayton Airport area; pipe capping and sealing work at abandoned coal mines to prevent pollution of local water supply; remodeled orphanage in Defiance, Ohio, with orphan children playing on the grounds of the Defiance County Children's Home; repaired and updated buildings at the Home for Sailor's and Soldier's Orphans at Xenia, Ohio; newly built dairy farm at the Sailor's and Soldiers Home; Rebuilt wing of the old people's home for care of the elderly in Napoleon, Ohio; view of the newly constructed tuberculosis sanatorium in Toledo, Ohio (the William Roche Tuberculosis Hospital). Scenes of fast moving flood waters during flood of Spring 1936 in Ohio. Flood water rushing past flooded buildings. WPA -constructed dams, levees, and retaining walls are seen during building process. African American and white workers seen digging together with shovels on the project. New trees are planted at the sites.

Location: Ohio United States USA
Date: 1937
Duration: 3 min 30 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675030500
Lower Yellowstone Falls at the Yellow Stone National Park in Wyoming USA.

Views of valley leading to the lower Yellowstone Falls, with the falls seen in the distance. View, from below, of park visitors standing on a viewing platform. Series of successively closer views of the falls, themselves.

Location: Wyoming United States USA
Date: 1936
Duration: 1 min 24 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675050297
The Niagara Falls after the collapse of a rock shelf between Prospect Point and Luna Island in New York.

The Niagara Falls in New York, United States. The Niagara waterfall after the collapse of a rock shelf between Luna Island and Prospect Point. Water falls with smoking chimneys in the background. Water falls down a great height.

Location: New York United States USA
Date: 1931, January 22
Duration: 39 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058954
Destroyed and badly damaged land area and people resettled in the Great Plains, United States.

Families are resettled by the resettlement administration in the Great Plains, United States. Animated map show the Great Plains with an area of 4,00,000,000 acres. It shows 4,00,000,000 acres of destroyed and 2,00,000,000 acres of badly damaged land. 5,800,000 acres is retired from use, 65 land projects, $21,400,000 loaned to 155,000 farmers and 4,500 families are resettled by the resettlement administration. Farmers move to the Great Plains. New houses and buildings are built by resettlement administration. Homes of the farmers on farms. View of the Great Plains.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1936
Duration: 3 min 17 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675070606
Drought affected areas of the Great Plains during the Dust Bowl in the Great Depression

'Rain for the Earth' : A documentary on emergency relief activities by the WPA (Works Progress Administration) in drought areas of the Great Plains during the Great Depression. Drought affected areas of the west and southwest in the Dust Bowl. Dark wind clouds in the sky drop burning dust. Dry land and parched soil. Dry water holes. Grasshoppers on dry grass blades, dry trees and dead corn stock. A dust storm raging. The storm engulfs the landscape including houses and roads. Cars and pedestrians on the road during the storm. Women and children fight their way through the blinding dust as they take the cattle for grazing. A farmer and his son observe the dry straw in the fields. The farmer takes the dust in his hand and lets it fly away with the wind.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1936
Duration: 4 min 32 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032592
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