Bulk carrier ship moving in harbor.Engine controls for a ship. Smoke from ship's stack. Steam from ships horn. Two tug boats pull the RMS Aquitania 4-stacker Ocean liner in harbor, during fog. Men on pier cast off lines of the RMS Queen Elizabeth, as she prepares to depart. Tug boat behind the ship. British ensign is raised. Passengers line the deck rails. The RMS Queen Elizabeth moves under her own power in foggy harbor. RMS Queen Mary moves in harbor with assistance from tug boats. People wave from lookout on pier. People wave from pier, as RMS Queen Mary passes.
French fliers take off in Bleriot 110 aircraft from Floyd Bennett Field, New York. French aviators Maurice Rossi and Paul Codos at Floyd Bennett Airfield. In a hangar at the field, men seen around the Bleriot 110, powered by a Hispano Suiza engine. Aviators Rossi and Codos board the aircraft. The aircraft taxis and takes off from Floyd Bennett Field to set new non-stop air record, flying from New York to Rayak, Syria in about 55 hours, and establishing a distance record of 5,657.4 miles.
Pedestrians walking sidewalks in New York City, United States, during a snow storm circa 1920 (likely February 4-7, 1920). Monument and statue of seated man in public square. Peddlers lined up along a street tending their horses and wagons in the aftermath of the snow storm . A peddler works to get his horse going on a wet, slippery, muddy dirt road. Men driving large open stake wagons, pulled by teams of horses on streets filled with water and chunks of snow. Street views in New York City with horse-drawn wagons maneuvering on sidewalks past snow banks to get on the street. Motorized car and truck traffic competing on same roads with horse drawn wagons. Heavy traffic of trucks on city street during snow storm. A crowded and busy street during the snow storm, filled with peddler wagons, pedestrians, cars, trucks, and a hobble skirt car (low floor streetcar with sliding doors at center, allowing women with tight fitting lower skirts - so called hobble skirts - to board more easily) . Text "New York" visible on lower forward panel of streetcar. Pedestrians making their way along a wide, icy sidewalk in heavy wind during the storm. Men shoveling snow. Some pedestrians are actually pushed by the wind so they slide on their feet across the sidewalk covered in frozen ice. A police officer helps a woman to cross a street. More scenes of pedestrians trying to make their way across city sidewalks during the storm, with many sliding on ice.
Prisoners at the Concentration Camp in Dachau, Germany. A young prisoner of the German Concentration Camp. 13 year old boy from Lithuania, imprisoned for 4 years, wearing a prisoner uniform. Prisoner smiles. (World War II period).
Scenes at the Buchenwald Concentration Camp in Ettersberg, Germany, 4 days after its liberation by U.S. Army forces in World War 2. Prisoners demonstrate atrocities committed by Nazi German captors: Three prisoners stand. A bench placed nearby. One man climbs on a stool and demonstrates the tying of a double looped rope around a victim's neck, designed to strangle the prisoner. The man demonstrating the victim then falls to the ground. Another liberated prisoner then demonstrates the use of a wooden club to hit the head of the fallen victim. A damaged club. Elevated view of Buchenwald Concentration Camp buildings as seen from a tower or high gate. View of some of the mounted searchlights at the camp.
Visitors board and crowd the deck of the USS Wasp (CV-18) in June, 1945, near the end of world War II. The Wasp is about to depart again, for the Western Pacific, following repairs at Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Washington. Two U.S. marines are escorting two women, and showing them an F4U Corsair airplane on the deck. Some of the visitors look up toward the camera. The aircraft on deck have been arranged for this static display. visitors are seen departing across a gangplank. Views from deck of the Wasp, of Navy personnel on the pier, below. Camera pans across the pier where spectators still stand. A few people stand on the water side of a building. A large group of visitors coming up from the hangar deck. Civilians and sailors wave at the camera. Visitors leaving the carrier on the gangplank.
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