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Statue of Liberty at Liberty Island, New York and ships in New York harbor.

A New York Port Authority helicopter with pontoons is seen as it takes off. Aerial views of the New York City skyline in the late 1950s, the Statue of Liberty, the George Washington Bridge over the Hudson River, tugboats in the water, the ocean liner SS United States, and view approaching the Greek freighter Isbrandtsen on a small boat, with a uniformed port worker or officer preparing a docking throw rope.

Location: New York City USA
Date: 1958
Duration: 37 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675039792
Race horse named "On and on" wins the Brooklyn Handicap in New York, United States.

Brooklyn Handicap horse race in New York, United States. 37,000 spectators gather to witness a thrilling Brooklyn Derby on a muddy track as rain pours down at Aqueduct Racetrack. "On-and-on" wins the $7,000 purse in the Brooklyn Handicap after defeating close competitor Greek Star.

Location: New York United States USA
Date: 1960, August 1
Duration: 1 min 19 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675042262
Chief Justice Warren Burger swears in President Richard Nixon and Spiro T Agnew during inaugural ceremony in Washington DC.

President Richard Nixon's inauguration ceremony at United States Capitol Building in Washington DC. President Nixon, Mrs Agnew holds bible as Chief Justice Warren Burger swears in Vice President Spiro T Agnew. Greek priest says a short prayer. President and the Vice President at his side. Guest watch the ceremony from stand. Mrs Nixon holds bible as Chief Justice Burger swears in President Nixon.

Location: Washington DC USA
Date: 1973, January 20
Duration: 3 min 49 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675043650
Families and loved ones give blessings and farewells to sailors in Greece.

The annual departure of the Greek sponge flotilla in Greece. Sailors make preparations for sponge flotilla before leaving for the 7 months voyage for hunting sponge. Sailors near sponge. Men carry things on ship. A priest performs a ritual ceremony. A mother blesses her son and greets him. A fleet of ships departures. Families and loved ones give heartfelt farewells.

Location: Greece
Date: 1954, April 15
Duration: 54 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675044579
A large crowd gathers to celebrate opening of 5th (Victory) Liberty Loan drive by William MacAdoo in New York.

Former United States Secretary of Treasury, William Gibbs MacAdoo, opens the postwar 5th (Victory) Liberty Loan drive in New York City. A large crowd gathers, on Wall Street in the financial district, to watch the event. Decoration in the area for the purpose of celebration. MacAdoo addresses the crowd from a decorated podium. The scene is embellished by a large pyramid of German military helmets topped by a statue of Nike, the Greek Goddess of victory. An Army officer (not wearing headgear) addresses the crowd. A U.S. Army band, in uniform,is seated on steps, playing music. An Army bugler blows his horn from the balcony of a building. The Met Life Tower landmark skyscraper, located at One Madison Avenue, is visible behind him. U.S. Navy Admiral William Sims speaks to the crowd.

Location: New York City USA
Date: 1919, April 21
Duration: 1 min 27 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675045967
Montage of images chronicling the settlement and development of the United States of America over many years.

The last portion of Emma Lazarus’sonnet,"The New Colossus," is shown as engraved on a tablet inside the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty. Illustrations of immigrants arriving and felling trees to build dwellings in America. Reenactments of early English, Scottish, and Dutch settlers building houses and working at crafts in New England. Italian sulphur mine workers in Louisiana. Immigrants, from France and Switzerland, planting vineyards in California and New York State. Danes, Norwegians, and Swedes, sowing seed and cultivating crops in the Midwest. Polish and Welsh immigrants in American coal mines. African Americans harvesting cotton on farm fields in the United States south, including a woman picking cotton with her baby riding on her long collecting bag. A Spaniard on horseback in the Southwest. Mexicans working in Texas oil fields and on ranches of New Mexico. Greek and Portuguese fishermen with huge catches of fish. A German technician working with fine instruments. Hungarian and Russian immigrants working in steel mills. Irish, Slavs, and Chinese, building railroads. Closeup of lumberjack's axes and saws cutting trees. A forge and a blacksmith shoeing a horse with horseshoes. A woman at work with a spinning wheel. Railroad ties and rails being placed. An antique railroad workman's locomotive and car. Men installing telegraph wire on rough poles. A early historic railroad 0-4-0 steam locomotive (appears to be one of the few replicas of "The Atlantic" which had been built in the 1830s) pulling a single small passenger train car. Cowboys on horseback rounding up steers. Herds of cattle,sheep, and pigs, bound to market. Farmers tilling soil with horse-drawn cultivators, preparing tobacco leaves for drying, and loading cotton bales. Machines spinning thread in a textile mill or factory. Fabric weaving machines at work. An early steam boat underway in a river. Early model automobile driving on dirt road. Wright Brothers' Wright Flyer airplane in flight with several persons on board. Early tractors and harvester machinery working on a farm. Glimpses of American industrial plants and transportation in rapid succession (some of it showing building of Hoover Dam and building of the Chrysler Building in New York City). Oil well drilling and a "gusher" oil well spouting oil upward. Steel mills, locomotive trains, and then a scientist in a laboratory working with beakers and a solution. Dynamite charges blasting away sides of mountains and gorges, and scenes of dam construction and dams opening to allow water gushing. Large electrical control levers being thrown to run electricity, and scenes of electric transmission towers and facilities. Natural gas storage areas. Golden Gate bridge under construction and high rise skyscraper buildings being constructed, including the Chrysler Building circa 1930 while still under construction in New York City. Aerial view of New York City. Camera panning over the gravestones in Arlington National Cemetery.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1939
Duration: 3 min 33 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046104
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