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Growth of interstate highways and road systems in the United States improving commerce and jobs

Gene Edward, General Manager and President of a truck sales and service company speaks on importance of new roads for his business in Kansas City. Sign board of Interstate Connecticut highway 91 (I-91) in Hartford, Connecticut. Work in progress building an overpass of I-91 in Hartford, with buildings of downtown Hartford, including the Travelers Tower, visible in background of highway construction site. An engineer looking through binoculars, mounted on a tripod stand. A crane moving material to a bridge in construction. Worker moving and working over the bridge in construction.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1956
Duration: 1 min 50 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023854
Workers manufacture propellers at the Hamilton Standard Propeller Corporation Plant in Hartford, Connecticut.

The Hamilton Standard Propeller Corporation Plant in Hartford, Connecticut. Workers manufacture constant speed full-feathering propellers in the plant. Columns of standing propellers. Men work on various machines. Workers use machines to curve the contours of the hydraulic propellers. They smooth the bushings, polish the blades, and check for variable pitch and blade angles. The finished propellers are moved on wheeled dollies for storage.

Location: Hartford Connecticut USA
Date: 1940
Duration: 1 min 3 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675057836
Flood refugees eating at a long table, in a temporary shelter in Hartford, Connecticut.

Reconstruction after floods in Hartford, Connecticut. Aerial view of the flooded city. Houses submerged in water. Gas tanks in water. Flood refugees eating at a long table. The refugees in a temporary shelter.

Location: Hartford Connecticut USA
Date: 1937
Duration: 52 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675069584
U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt is greeted by a large crowd in Hartford while heading for Boston.

U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt on his way to 3rd 'campaign' speech in Boston. He is greeted by a large crowd in Hartford, Connecticut. The President addresses the crowd. People take cover under umbrellas. A group of people waves to the President. The President speaks into a microphone from an open car. Other officials seated with the President in the car. Woman with a campaign sign that says "Forward with Roosevelt" A procession of cars moves along a street. President Roosevelt inspects Pratt & Whitney airplane engine factory. He also views a number of rifles and various armament on display. A crowd assembled on a street.

Location: Hartford Connecticut USA
Date: 1940, October 30
Duration: 59 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675053247
Several mentally disabled girls and a mentally disabled boy undergo training program in Connecticut United States.

Training for mentally disabled. A mildly mentally disabled boy is trained to use a high powered saw. His instructor observes from the other side of the table and handles the saw. The mentally disabled boy appreciates the patience of his supervisor. Several mentally disabled girls eat food in the dining room of a hostel, in Hartford, Connecticut, run by the Mansfield Training School. A girl enters a room and sits on a bed. Two other girls enter behind her and sit. The girl does her hair in front of a mirror. The two other girls read magazines. A group of girls in a room. The Director, "Office of Mental Retardation", Mr Schmikel speaks. A mentally disabled boy.

Location: Connecticut USA
Date: 1969
Duration: 3 min 49 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033429
Participants taking off in hot air balloon race from Catalina Island to California mainland

Five Hot air balloons preparing for a race from Catalina Island, to the mainland, California. Views of gas tanks and flames that create the hot air for the balloons. Participant, Barbara R. Keith,a 42 year old grandmother, from Hartford, Connecticut, seen wearing an inflatable life jacket and donning her helmet. She boards her balloon and tucks her goodluck mascot (a stuffed toy dog) into the gondola. she is seen rising in her balloon. Brief view of the ground and sightseers from a balloon about 50 feet in the air. Famed balloonist, Donald Louis Piccard, is seen igniting his heater and leaving the ground aboard his balloon. (Note: This was an ill fated venture. Only one balloonist successfully reached the mainland, California. The rest had to be rescued from the water. Mrs. Keith lost her life and her body was recovered days later.)

Location: Catalina Island California USA
Date: 1964, January 19
Duration: 1 min 17 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036642
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