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Kansas City Kansas USA 1934 stock footage and images

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Still photos show America from 1876 through the turn of the century, focusing on immigrants, westward expansion, hard labor, and pioneer spirit.

Newspaper headlines from 1876 note Kansas as a territory for pioneer settlement...."Farms and Homes in Kansas!" and "To the Black Hills" Farmers with their families in front of prairie homes. Barn raising. A village along the side of a river. School children. A child's coffin. Men drinking together. A string quartet. A man making violins. Railroad construction crews laying rails, clearing rocks, and building trestle bridges, including Chinese workers and laborers during expansion or railway to the west. European immigrants on ships and just arrived on land, possibly at Ellis Island. Logging camps and loggers cutting trees. Large scale farming and market. Coal mining and other mining activities. Child coal miners and child labor. Industrial steel forging. Factory with train switch yard. Immigrant ghettos in American cities. Immigrant women sewing piece work. Immigrant children.

Date: 1900
Duration: 4 min 36 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675021236
President Harry S. Truman addresses gathering in Kansas City during homecoming celebration.

President Harry S. Truman's homecoming to Independence, Missouri. He is being honored by the city in the auditorium of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (1001 W Walnut St, Independence, MO 64050, United States). President Truman addresses the gathering during this first trip back to his home area since becoming President. The President exits after speech. U.S. flags on the building. The President gets into his car. Photographers rush to take pictures. Views of the exterior of the Westport Men's Wear clothing store in Kansas City, owned by President Truman's lifelong friend, Edward "Eddie" Jacobson. Secret Service mill about the entrance while the President is inside. A sign above the store sign reads 'Arrow shirts." The President and his party exit the store and reenter his parked convertible.

Date: 1945, June 27
Duration: 33 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675022064
500 unemployed men line up to receive overcoats from Louis A. Cumonow in Kansas City,Missouri

Nearly 500 unemployed men line up outside 'Unemployed gateway loan and sporting co.' to receive overcoats in Kansas City ,Missouri. Louis A. Cumonow,a local merchant, distributes the overcoats free of cost to needy during the great depression.

Date: 1933, November 29
Duration: 23 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675038328
Sand storm during the Dust Bowl in Kansas City, Missouri .

Vehicles drive in Kansas City, Missouri during a dust storm. Cars driven over a bridge and other vehicles on road with their lights on during sand storm. View of sand drifts at side of road during the Dust Bowl.

Date: 1935
Duration: 15 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675043303
President Ronald Reagan and former Vice President Walter Mondale meet in their second Presidential debate in Kansas City, 1984.

President Ronald Wilson Reagan and former Vice President Walter Frederick 'Fritz' Mondale meet in their second Presidential debate in Kansas City in 1984. President of League of women voters Dorothy Ridings. Sound is absent from first minute of clip.

Date: 1984
Duration: 4 min 14 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675025599
United States President Ronald Reagan answers James Wieghart's questions in his second Presidential debate in Kansas City

United States President Ronald Wilson Reagan answers during his second Presidential debate in Kansas City to James Wieghart, the correspondent for Scripps-Howard, on how his government plans to balance the budget deficit

Date: 1984
Duration: 4 min 57 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675025600