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A service station to check cars under Works Progress Administration projects in Chicago, Illinois

Scenes of car accidents and car crashes in the 1930s. A 1930s sedan plunging off of un unfinished roadway; several scenes of cars crashing into each other. A car plunging off of a cliff and smashing into a cliff wall as it falls. A train crashing into a car parked on railroad train tracks. Views of smashed cars in wrecks. Service stations set up under Works Progress Administration project in Chicago, Illinois during the Great Depression to check cars for mechanical defects and safety problems, in order to reduce incidents of accidents. WPA workers in a work coat labeled "CPD" check cars at an annual safety inspection station. A worker applies a sticker to the inside right windshield of a car certifying that it passed the inspection. Views of Chicago landmark buildings in the background.

Date: 1937
Duration: 1 min 1 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058518
Grain elevators demolished under Works Progress Administration projects in Chicago, Illinois

A grain elevator burns in a fire near Chicago during the Great Depression. The complex of buildings in flames. A huge tower at the site, in flames, and falling into a river. Men demolish old derelict buildings that are fire hazards, under Works Progress Administration project in Chicago, Illinois. Children play at a playground after demolition of old buildings. A group of boys playing baseball or softball at a newly cleared lot.

Date: 1937
Duration: 1 min 11 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058519
Nursery schools, parks and playgrounds built under Works Progress Administration projects in Chicago, Illinois

Children eat, play and sleep in a nursery school set up under Works Progress Administration project in Chicago, Illinois. People swim in a pool. Boys and girls play in swimming pools and splash. Boys in a line wait to use a diving board as a boy dives off of a high dive spring board. Children enjoy playground equipment and play on swings in a playground also constructed through WPA projects during the Great Depression.

Date: 1937
Duration: 1 min 37 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058520
A hippopotamus with his newly born baby in Chicago zoological Park in Brookfield, Illinois

Bche, a two ton heavy hippopotamus and his newly born baby swim in a pool at Chicago Zoological Park in Brookfield, Illinois. Bche gave birth to the baby in a pool.

Date: 1935, July 15
Duration: 27 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675058526
National Guardsmen use gas bombs to disperse lumber mill strikers in Tacoma, Washington

'Strikers battle guardsmen as bayonets flash'. Lumber mill strikers clash with National Guardsmen in Tacoma, Washington. Guardsmen use cold steel and gas bombs to disperse strikers. Strikers set a jeep ablaze in the street.

Date: 1935, July 15
Duration: 1 min 2 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058527
People find ways to escape the heat in Chicago, Illinois

'Chicagoans seek heat relief as mercury mounts '. People in swimsuits on the beach at Lake Michigan in Chicago. Men and women crowd the beach. Skyscrapers of Chicago are seen from the background. Children enjoy a shower as a fireman sprays them with a hose. Children holding each other while dancing in the shower.

Date: 1935, July 15
Duration: 47 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058528