Francais
Deutsch
Italiano
Refine Your Search
Harlem New York City USA 1971 stock footage and images
- Showing 7 to 12 of 28901 results
more
Hide
Bars, restaurants and night life in Harlem New York.
Nighttime scenes in Harlem, New York. Count Basie's bar at 132nd St. and Seventh Ave. in New York's Harlem. Neon sign at Big Wilt's, an African American nightclub (2294 7th Avenue New York City). Apex Beauty School stands above Big Wilt's. Neon lighted signs and marquees read "Moondog with Ace and the Kings.", The Harlem Moon bar and grill. Signs read "Barbecue" , "Chop Suey" , and "Chow Mein" Jim Moon Chinese restaurant. A sign reads "Join now NAACP Applications available here". Facades of Bermuda Bar and Silver Rail bar. Rates of fish, shrimp and chicken are displayed at the Gilmar Self Service Food Center in Harlem.
Exteriors of Cuban and Puerto Rican stores and shops in Harlem, New York City, United States.
Hispanic businesses of Harlem, New York City around 1940. Signs in Spanish on stores and shops of community from Cuba and Puerto Rico, along 5th Avenue in Harlem, New York City, including "El Siglo" books and perfumes store, and the "Casa Siegel" furniture, record, and electronics store at 1393 5th Avenue, New York City, near the corner of 115th Street (owned by Sidney Siegel). Exterior marquee of the "Hispano" movie theater. View of the storefront for the "C. Mediavilla Licores " liquor store. A resident leans out of a window above shops. View of the "Garcia & Pena" clothing store at 1357 5th Avenue, New York City.
Achievements of African Americans in art, literature, music science, and medicine in the United States, in the late 1930s and 1940s.
A film about achievements of various African American men and women citizens in the United States. A statue of Booker T. Washington, founder of Tuskegee University in Alabama. View of African American scientist and inventor George Washington Carver, as an elderly man, working with another scientist in a laboratory. African American judge of New York city court. African American explorer Matthew Henson is seen looking at a globe (he was with Admiral Peary planting the American flag at the North Pole in 1909), and an unnamed African American surgeon at work in an operating room in New York. Next scene shows famous "father of the blues" musician and composer W.C. Handy (William Christoper Handy) smiling. Next is seen the financier and publisher of the Amsterdam News, Dr. C.B. Powell (Clilan Powell) greeting three uniformed African American women during a World War 2 war bond drive, and handing them a check (close up is shown) for 25,000 dollars, dated January 4, 1942, for the war bond drive. It is from the account of the Victory Mutual Life Insurance Company which Dr. Powell also owned. The check is signed by C.B Powell and Philip M.H. Savory (Dr. Savory was co-owner of the New York Amsterdam News). The next scene shows Elise Johnson McDougald, better known as Gertrude Elise Ayer, who was the first black full-time public school principal after the consolidation of New York City schools in 1898. She was also a noted woman writer during the Harlem Renaissance. She is seated in her office at her desk, likely in P.S. 119 in Harlem, since this is approximately year 1945 and she was at P.S 119 at that time. Her name plaque is visible on the front center of the desk. Principal Ayer smiles as a woman delivers a document to her. Next is seen the African American historian, author, and professor, Lawrence D. Reddick, serving in his role as the curator of the Schomburg Collection of African American Literature. In an art studio is seen the famous "Harlem Renaissance" African American sculptor and painter Charles Alston, at work on a sculpture. Next scene shows the famous African American contralto singer, Marian Anderson, receiving a bouquet of flowers and smiling after a performance. This transitions to a view of African American orchestra conductor Dean Dixon leading an orchestra in a performance of Beethoven's 9th Symphony. Several views of different sections of the orchestra performing under Dixon's direction. Clip closes with brief shots of campuses of several historically black colleges and universities in the United States like Howard University, Hampton, Tuskegee, Fisk, Prairie View. A football game underway in one of the colleges, and view on the field as quarterback throws a pass.
African American children receive lunch and boys ride scooters at day camp in Harlem, New York City.
Milk and sandwiches distributed to African American children at Harlem Day Camp in Harlem, New York City. The children stand in a line and receive food and drink. Sign on building reads, "Childrens Aid Society of the City of New York." A group of African American boys ride scooters on the street. View of exterior of the Harlem Boys Club building.
People in a parade and office as well as residential apartments on Lenox avenue in Harlem, New York
A film about life of the African American people of Harlem in New York City during the Great Depression. A band plays in a parade. African American residents of Harlem walk in parade on Lenox Avenue. Aerial view of the parade. People watch parade from terrace of a building. A traffic policeman at work directing traffic on 7th Street. Automobile traffic and buildings on Seventh Street. People walking by touch the stump of a good luck elm tree known as the "Tree of Hope", located on Seventh Avenue (later renamed Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd.), between 131st Street and 132nd Street in New York City. The tree was cut down in 1934 with expansion work on Seventh Avenue (also called the "Boulevard of Dreams"). People wait to cross road. Elevated views of office and business buildings on 125th street. A crowded and busy sidewalk of pedestrians on 125th street. Government housing development on banks of Harlem river for a restricted lower income group.
Views of New York City and environs, especially Manhattan, in the United States.
Film begins showing location of New York City on a world globe, at the mouth of the Hudson River on the East Coast of the United States. It transitions to an aerial view of the Southern tip of Manhattan Island at the junction of the Hudson and East Rivers and slowly shows views moving Northward along the Hudson River. Piers along the Hudson are visible. Scene shifts to above those piers, looking South at the cluster of Manhattan skyscraper buildings, and beyond to New York Harbor, the borough of Queens, and Brooklyn, and beyond to Long Island in the misty distance. Next the skyscrapers are seen from Queens,across the East River. A large ocean liner is seen underway in New York Harbor, among ferry boats, barges, and tugboats. The Statue of Liberty is seen in the background. An animated map shows regions around New York and traces the Hudson and Mohawk valleys into the Great Lakes. The map is then overlaid with numerous lines representing transportation routes by lend, water, and air. View of Brooklyn Bridge, wharfs, and Manhattan skyline in hazy background. Seagoing freighters loading and unloading at New York's piers. A truck and other cargoes being moved by cranes. Passenger trains moving in the New York city area. View of the famous Beaux-Arts style Penn Station by architects McKim, Mead, and White, at West 34th Street and Eighth Avenue, in Manhattan. Train station interior crowded with travelers and commuters. Commercial aircraft taxiing at a New York area airport. Closeup of two young children watching the planes. Passengers deplaning from a large aircraft. Sign for Peruvian International Airways atop an airport building. A Swissair passenger plane being serviced. Passengers boarding a TWA Lockheed Constellation airplane. A family watching airplanes from an airport observation deck. The Lockheed Constellation starting its engines. A Douglas DC-4 aircraft taxis out and takes off, as several boys watch from the observation deck. Closeup of another group of boys watching planes from the observation deck. Aerial view of Manhattan skyscraper buildings from an overflying airplane. Traffic on streets at Times Square. The Astor Hotel at the left and the Times building straight ahead. Several other street scenes in Manhattan, crowded with pedestrians. A view residential apartment houses along Park Avenue. Views of African Americans crowding the sidewalks in Harlem. Views of "Little Italy" in the lower East side of Manhattan, where Italian restaurants and other businesses are seen. Chinatown is seen with some of the business signs in Chinese. A man of Chinese heritage reading a letter. Asian American children playing together in a neighborhood. New high rise apartment buildings are seen replacing older homes in parts of Manhattan. Mothers wheeling their children on sidewalks in one of the new neighborhoods.
CRITICALPAST.COM: About Us | Contact Us | FAQs - How to Order | License Agreement | My Account | My Lightboxes | Shopping Cart | Advanced Search | Featured Collections | Website Terms & Conditions | Privacy Policy | Links ©2024 CriticalPast LLC.
License Agreement |
Terms & Conditions |
Privacy Policy
©2024 CriticalPast LLC.
