View of the Joan of Arc Junior High School building at 154 W 93rd Street, on the upper West side of Manhattan, New York City. children are seen entering the building. A larger, more modern school is also shown. Camera, in upper floor classroom window, pans from playground below to interior of the classroom. Students sit at a long table where ledger books are being handed out for students to work with. Scene shifts to school library, where students are studying. A boy day dreams about his future occupation. He imagines being a cowboy; or a speedboat driver; or launching into the air in his speedboat, which transforms into an airplane, in which he does a loop. The boy is seen with his parents at a conference with the school principal. He is seen at the blackboard in a math class, and later in a classroom full of students all opening personal copies of a newspaper. He uses a saw in a woodworking class, and works at a lathe, in a machine shop. He meets with a teacher who discusses his progress.
A labor dispute in New York City. Striking elevator operators cheer their leaders. A leader addresses striking building service employees. Protesters including college girls from Hunter College who come out of a building holding banners. A child enters a tiny elevator (designed for groceries and small goods) and is hoisted up to his apartment manually by an operator. The boy's mother greets him there beside the kitchen icebox and helps him to exit the mini elevator. The mother kisses the child. A man treats the foot of another striking protestor after he developed blisters on the picket line. A man with a shotgun at a building acts as a strike breaker. Demonstrators are taken by police from a building. Police cars on a street. The demonstrators are taken away into the police cars. Some of the demonstrators hold signs like "Dillinger Gone...Bellinger going going (gone)". (The sign is comparing Frederic Coudert Bellinger, a building resident who was organizing tenants against the striking workers, to the infamous bank robber John Dillinger.) Bellinger had also shown up in tin hat and with a shotgun, and another protestor sign said, "Office of Tin Hat Bellinger". Another sign variant was, "Bellinger goes up and down, Picket goes round and round."
Scenes from the city of New Orleans in Louisiana, United States. Ruins of the old Spanish Fort at the Bayou St. John on Lake Ponchartrain, also sometimes called Fort St. Jean or Fort St. John, or Fort San Juan del Bayou. Tourists walking in the old fort area, and view of an old cannon in the fort grounds. Exterior view of the city arsenal at 615 St. Peter Street directly behind the Oabildo. The arsenal is on the site of a former Spanish prison. It was war designated in 1915 to be the relic department of the Louisiana State Museum, and dedicated as a "Battle Abbey." View inside the arsenal, where two African American men are seated on the ground with their legs in the stockades or stocks to demonstrate their operation.
The city of New Orleans in the United States. Building of the Spanish Government House. A car parked. A woman enters an iron gateway. The building of St. Louis Cathedral. Tourists walk along the grave stones of St. Louis Cemetery.
The city of New Orleans in the United States. Pedestrian traffic, street car or trolley traffic, and automobile traffic on Canal Street. Street level views and elevated views of busy Canal Street. A Creole girl in the doorway of a house. Homes along a narrow alley. A child and a man with a peg leg. Ornate iron work balconies. A woman tends to plants and flowers in a court yard. A horse drawn wagon enters a creole market area. Men and women customers in front of produce stands at the market.
The city of New Orleans in the United States. An elderly African American woman poses for the camera. Slate indicates that she remembers the slave market of Lincoln's time. Two teenage boys wrestle and a group of young men watches.
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