Refugee children, displaced children, and war orphan boys and girls arrive in New York harbor, United States during World War II. The European refugee children aboard the passenger ship Serpa Pinto as they arrive in New York to begin a new life after fleeing war and persecution in Europe. Children, including many Jewish children, from much of war torn Europe, including Poland, Czechoslovakia, Spain and Germany disembark from the ocean liner operated under the auspices of the United States Committee for the Care of European Children (USCOM). A group of children poses for camera. Red Cross provides food and fresh milk to refugee children. The children eat the food.
Broadway and Union Square in Manhattan, New York City on 8 July 1903. Trolley cars filled with passengers. Trolley cars move on tracks. Passengers get off and, on the trolleys, or street cars. Broadway and 42nd Street viewed from the newly constructed Times Building (1 Times Square Manhattan, New York 10036). The newly constructed Astor Hotel (One Astor Plaza, New York, NY 10036, USA) visible below with flag flying over its roof.
Wendell L. Willkie, defeated 1940 Republican Presidential Candidate, leaves New York City, from Laguardia Seaplane Base on a Pan American World Airways Boeing 314 'Clipper' flying boat. Willkie and other passengers walk along a pier. Willkie waves his hat and boards a Pan American World Airways Boeing 314 'Clipper' flying boat. Members of crew on the pier. Boeing 314 taxis on waterways and takes off. Boeing 314 in flight. A Boeing 314 lands in Flushing Bay, New York City, and is pulled backwards to dock at the Laguardia Pan American Airways Seaplane Base. A gas tank of the New York Consolidated Edison Company is seen on the shore. Passengers deplane and walk on floating dock to terminal building.
Harlem River Houses in New York City, United States. An African American woman pulls a stroller along street. New residential apartment buildings in the background. Sign on new housing buildings reads 'Harlem River Houses' and name of President Franklin Roosevelt is also seen on sign. African American children playing in a fountain of the neighborhood apartment community.
Jewish war veterans parade in New York. Buildings along the sides of a street. Men march on the street. They protest against German Chancellor Adolf Hitler and Nazi persecutions. New York elected officials are seen watching the demonstration, including New York Mayor John P. O'Brien. Aerial view of the demonstration.
Jobless and unemployed people rush for jobs in the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in New York, United States as unemployment benefits are cut back during Great Depression. Buildings along the sides of a street in New York City. People gather on the street in long unemployment lines awaiting their chance for a job. Women using typewriters to type job applications for lines of men. Men engaged in construction of buildings in New York City. Views of foundation and excavation work, and brick layers laying brick.
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