A car destroyed after fire at residential area in Penns Grove, New Jersey. An old man sits with a dog on a drum. People search their things in heaps of wreckage at demolished houses.
A large crowd visits outdoor gallery of needy artists in Greenwich Village, New York City, during the Great Depression. The scene emulates a Paris street scene of people viewing and purchasing art. Crowd viewed from the street as they look at works of artists displayed for sale, on a wooden fence enclosing a construction site in Greenwich Village, New York City. Closeup of a painting depicting an Arab on horseback. View of crowd further along the street, where paintings are displayed on fences of residences in foreground and others on kiosks near trees in Washington Square park in the background. Closeup of a man at work on a canvas and another of a woman working on a still life with fruit. More visitors and paintings are seen and a view of Washington Square Arch at end of street in background. View from second story of a building, looking down on crowd looking at artwork displayed on easels set up in front of a building. A man making a purchase from a woman artist. He holds it up for the camera.
A large crowd gathers at North German Lloyd pier to welcome city's former Mayor James John Walker on his arrival in New York. Mayor Walker amongst the crowd. Car moves in crowd. Dignitaries wave from the SS Europa, a ship. Ship comes to the harbor.
Scenes from the labor dispute and uprising known as the Battle of Blair Mountain. Opening scene shows Sheriff's Deputies firing down upon miners from a hillside in Logan County, West Virginia. One of them is armed with a Model 1917 Browning machine gun. Scene shifts to group of Union miners, cleaning and adjusting their rifles and shotguns. One wears a metal Army helmet. Several more pose for the camera, holding their guns. One of them also wears an Army steel helmet. They check the actions of their weapons. Closeup of one in a steel helmet. Next scene shows miner families leaving the area in horse-drawn wagons. Change of scene shows a group of men boarding a railroad train car. An armed U.S. Army soldier in uniform stands nearby. The final scene shows Sheriff Don Chafin of Logan County, posing with U.S. Army Brigadier General Henry H. Bandholtz.
Displaced homeless people and refugees gather in grassy area near a railroad station, following explosion of the World War I shell loading facility. The T. A. Gillespie Company Shell Loading Plant explosion, sometimes called the Morgan Depot Explosion, occurred in October 4, 1918. The plant was one of the largest munitions facilities in the world at the time. Damage was extensive in the South Amboy and Sayreville area. Clip shows a refugee family posing together, sitting in the grass. Many billboard signs are on nearby fences and a grass and sidewalk area beside railroad tracks. The Perth Amboy Railroad Depot (train station) building on Smith Street is seen behind them (this building has since been moved to Lewis Street). With Martial Law imposed, the next scene shows a Coast Guard or Navy sailor on patrol to keep law and order and prevent looting in front of destroyed shopping area stores on Smith Street in Perth Amboy, including the Reynolds Brothers store (Reynolds Bros), at 134 Smith Street (also 136 Smith Street and 138 Smith Street), where the windows are blown out and debris are seen inside the store. The explosion of the Gillespie plant was one of three similar events in the New York-New Jersey area during World War 1: The Black Tom Explosion in 1916, the Kingsland Explosion in 1917, and then the Morgan Depot Explosion in 1918.
View from mountain overlooking the Ford Motor Company coal mining town where 900 miners are employed at Twin Branch, West Virginia. From mountain overlooking the scene, camera pans across Lodging and other buildings, near river, and to the town, itself. Scene shifts to ground-level where several homes and cars are seen as well as a canal. A steam shovel is seen digging near the site of a new dam. It loads earth into dump trailers pulled by Fordson tractors. Closeup of the tractors pulling their loads to the dam site, and returning empty.
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