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Circa 1800 landmarks: State and Navy Department buildings on Pennsylvania Avenue; Octagon House; the White House, Washington,DC

Sesquicentennial of Washington, DC. 1929 photograph of cars parked in front of the original State and Navy Department buildings on Pennsylvania Avenue, built in the year 1800. View of the Octagon House used temporarily by President James Madison in the year 1812 and now headquarters of the American Institute of Architects. The White House completed in the year 1829.

Date: 1949
Duration: 36 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675073216
Newsreel restrospective produced following the death of President Franklin D. Roosevelt (WW2)

Opening scene shows the White House in Washington, DC. Scene shifts to President Roosevelt seated, ready to address the Nation by radio. View of the statue of Abraham Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC. FDR with his entire family posing, in front of the family home "Springwood" at Hyde Park, New York. Roosevelt, when Governor of New York, seen in a sail boat, in 1929. FDR in his car at his Institute for Rehabilitation in Warm Springs, Georgia. He is speaking with a man associated with the Institute, who then greets several polio victims in wheel chairs there. Crowds celebrating Roosevelt's election, in Times Square, Manhattan, New York City, in 1932. Roosevelt, at the Democratic Headquarters at the Biltmore Hotel on November 8, 1932. He is standing, supported by his son James, as he remarks: "It looks my friends like a real landslide this time." Aerial view of the U.S. Capitol. FDR taking the oath of office on March 4, 1933. Brief view of New York Stock Exchange trading floor. A man looking at stock market ticker tape. A group of people raising a National Recovery Administration member flag. Glimpse of "Springwood" and then view of President Roosevelt sitting next to his mother, Sara Ann Delano Roosevelt. Next, as Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt sit in the garden, their grandchildren, Anna Eleanor Dall ("Sistie") and Curtis Roosevelt Dall ("Buzzie") come past riding horses, with granddaughter Sara, behind them on a pony. FDR pets the pony and talks with Sara. FDR being nominated for a second term as President, in the 1936 Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. President Roosevelt, riding in an inaugural motorcade as he begins an unprecedented 4th term as President in 1941. Glimpse of President and Mrs. Roosevelt in an open car. West point cadets marching in the inaugural parade. Military trucks towing artillery pieces in the parade. President Roosevelt speaking at the dinner of the White House Correspondents' Association at the Willard hotel in Washington, DC, March 15, 1941. He extols the virtues of Winston Churchill and the British people. And he promises that America will supply them with the war materiel they need in World War II (This is known as the Lend Lease Speech.)

Date: 1945
Duration: 4 min 5 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058021
Pennsylvania Avenue and proposed models of its north and south side in Washington DC, United States

View of Pennsylvania Avenue. Cars drive on it. Dome of Capitol building in background. Signs on shops read 'Rooming House' and 'Tattooing'. Model of the South side of Pennsylvania Avenue. Model for the north side of Pennsylvania Avenue. View of the Washington monument

Date: 1929
Duration: 3 min 40 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675025683
"Smiles" O' Timmons, disabled daredevil, dives from 100 ft. at the Annual Firemen's Convention in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

"Smiles" O' Timmons, who has lost and arm and a leg, climbs a ladder at the Annual Firemen's Convention in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and then performs stunt in which he dives from a height of 100 feet into a small pool containing water only 4 feet deep.

Date: 1929, August 21
Duration: 1 min 3 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675035085
Veteran Wheelmen's Association celebrates its 53rd anniversary in Gwynedd, Pennsylvania.

The eve of 53rd anniversary of the Veteran Wheelmen's Association celebrated in Gwynedd, Pennsylvania. Man wearing suit and hat, stands beside a woman. The man is smoking a pipe. Close up of the man.

Date: 1929, October 16
Duration: 23 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675050354
Pilot Juan de la Cierva disembarks autogyro and demonstrates his flight over the English Channel in Bryn Athyn,Pennsylvania.

Autogyro arrives in Bryn Athyn,Pennsylvania after its first United States flight. Autogyro taxis and takes off from field. 'G-AAKY' written on side of autogyro. Autogyro with pilot Juan de la Cierva in flight over the English Channel. Pilot disembarks autogyro and demonstrates his flight.

Date: 1929, August 24
Duration: 52 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675072932