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Unemployed get work under Works Progress Administration projects in Chicago, Illinois

'A better Chicago'. Unemployed men on the streets during the Great Depression. They sleep on the streets and stand in queues and relief lines in Chicago, Illinois. A young man asks another man for work and is rejected, but the other man gives him a coin to help him. Unemployed and hungry men digging through trash cans and sleeping on park benches and in doorways. Whistles blow at factories representing work starting again and available jobs. Men look up from relief lines and head to factories for new jobs. Men grabbing shovels and digging in the ground. Men working at steel factories. Smoke pouring from smoke stacks at factories. Men in pay line at factory to receive payment from cashier office. Happy men and women lifting up a young smiling child. Views of racks of milk bottles and full bread racks. Children slide down a slide into a swimming pool. Boys and girls playing on playground equipment and smiling. A family of a man and womand and two children walking together. Men working on sewage infrastructure projects in the Chicago area. View of projects underway to develop lakefront areas of Lake Michigan. Skyline and skyscrapers of Chicago seen in the background. View of the Field Museum and workers inside constructing fossil and zoology displays. Men working in construction to build and improve runways and tarmac areas at Chicago Municipal Airport (Midway International Airport). A plane taking off overhead above the workers building a runway. Low, roadside view of 1930s cars going by on road near Lincoln Park extension project area. View of Chicago city skyline buildings in the background. Men work at planting trees and expanding the Lincoln Park with an extension. Men with excavating machines and tractors work at the site of the former Chicago 1893 World's Fair (World's Columbian Exposition), transforming the area into the new 500 acre Jackson Park. Construction workers build a new Field House at Wilson Park. An old building is demolished to make way for a new housing development named after Jane Addams. Men building new low income housing apartment buildings for poor families on the site.

Date: 1937
Duration: 3 min 47 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058516
1920 San Francisco CA Democratic Party National Convention, James M. Cox and Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) campaigning as Democratic Party President and Vice President

Franklin Delano Roosevelt walking with James M. Cox, the Democratic Presidential candidate for the 1920 election. Supporters shake hands with the Roosevelt and Cox. 1920 Democratic Party National Convention in San Francisco. Signs say “Philippines”, “Michigan”, “District of Columbia”, “Ohio”, “Missouri”, and other US states and territories in the 1920 Democratic Party National Convention in San Francisco, California. Female Democrat supporter enthusiastically raise her arms. The woman political activist cheering at the Democratic Party National Convention in San Francisco, California. Signs with the name of US states and territories at the democrat National Convention. Franklin D. Roosevelt give speeches and smiles as he campaigns as the democratic Vice President candidate for the 1920 United States election. Democrat supporters’ parade in San Francisco showing their support for James M. Cox. A scene from a Marion, Ohio parade supporting James M. Cox and Franklin Delano Roosevelt campaigning for 1920 election. Brass band playing. Franklin D. Roosevelt and James M. Cox wave at supporters. Women, wearing hats and white dresses, and white sashes with word "Marion" on them marching in support for the democratic Party. Franklin D. Roosevelt and James M. Cox smile and wave at supporters. Eleanor Roosevelt and her children with pet dog, a German Shepherd, at Hyde Park. Eleanor Roosevelt smiles. Crowded Democratic Party campaign before 1920 Presidential election. Franklin D. Roosevelt speaks to crowd, campaigning for the Democrat Party. Democratic supporters cheer. Franklin Delano Roosevelt in car. Franklin D. Roosevelt takes his hat off as greeting, a man with roses in car with Roosevelt. Roosevelt greets his mother and goes inside their house, the Springwood estate at Hyde Park (4097 Albany Post Rd, Hyde Park, NY 12538, United States). Roosevelt speaks to the people of his hometown, Hyde Park New York. Franklin D. Roosevelt shakes hands with Hyde Park, New York residents. Franklin D. Roosevelt with wife, Eleanor Roosevelt. Franklin D. Roosevelt with his children.

Date: 1920, July 6
Duration: 2 min 59 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079075
Formal dedication of the Edison Institute, Ford Museum, and Historical Greenfield Village, Dearborn, Michigan

Huge crowd attending the dedication of the Edison Institute, Ford Museum and Greenfield Village, in Dearborn, Michigan, on a rainy October 21, 1929. The event includes a Jubilee of Lights, celebrating the 50th anniversary of Edison's electric light. People holding umbrellas, stand on platform of the Smithcreek Railroad depot, which has been moved to the village. Steam issues from antique locomotive parked on far track. An 1850 steam locomotive decorated with American flags, pulls a 3-car train into the depot, with its bell clanging. Secret Service agents step from the moving train to take up positions on the platform.U.S. President, Herbert Hoover, escorts Thomas Edison, down the steps of the train to the platform. Mrs. Hoover follows, along with Henry Ford, who moves quickly down the steps, as other notable guests also alight. The President, and Mrs. Hoover, along with Edison and Ford, enter a car and proceed in a motorcade through the city of Detroit. Tickertape is seen descending from the city buildings. A speaker stand at steps of City Hall is decorated in patriotic bunting and displays pictures of Hoover and Edison, and a sign reading: "Light's Golden Jubilee." Guests remaining at Greenfield village are taken on guided tours in horse-drawn carriages. Many who walk carry umbrellas. Among building seen are: An 1828 toll house and shoe shop;Blacksmith shop; a tintype studio of the 1880s; an 1830s post office and apothecary shop, from Phoenixville, Connecticut; the Clifton Inn, on the village green; a General store, from Waterford, Michigan; the Village Town Hall; and the Martha Mary Chapel. Interior of museum galleries, with guests in formal attire assembled for a candle light banquet, while at the Menlo Park exhibit, Edison, with assistant, Francis Jehl, re-enact the successful demonstration of a carbon filament electric light. At the same time, all electric lights in the museum and village are turned on. View of elaborate electric light chandelier illuminated.

Date: 1929, October 21
Duration: 4 min 11 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675068467
The First Ford Plant in Detroit, Michigan, USA.

Documentary titled 'The Ford Age'. Parked 1920s Ford automobiles. The First Ford Plant. Viewed through doorway an early model Ford automobile. Henry Ford drives a quadricycle, early Ford car model.

Date: 1923
Duration: 45 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675030022
Ford-Stout 2-AT aircraft parked at Ford Airport in Dearborn, Michigan during a commercial reliability tour.

Commercial aircraft reliability tour at Ford Airport in Dearborn, Michigan. Ford-Stout 2-AT (single-engined) aircraft parked at the airport. View of airfield. The aircraft parked on the field .

Date: 1925
Duration: 1 min 21 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675066111
Mansions and park in residential area of Detroit, Michigan

Large houses in a residential area of Detroit, Michigan. A two-story mansion with a sprawling lawn. A stately home with a vast garden. A woman walking in a park. A path in a wooded area of a park in Detroit.

Date: 1921
Duration: 34 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675079949