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A girls soft ball team practice during their training in Hodges Field in Memphis, Tennessee.

Soft ball teams doing their training in Memphis, Tennessee. The girls of a soft ball team stand together. They practice in a field. A car parked in the background. A girl throws a ball and another one hits it. A board reads 'Hodges Field'. A girl catches the ball. A girl applies compact powder on her face and starts playing.

Date: 1938, March 23
Duration: 53 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033967
Newsreel titled 'King Cotton Holds Court' depicting a spectacular night parade by civilians in Memphis, Tennessee.

Newsreel titled 'King Cotton Holds Court' depicting a spectacular night parade by the civilians in Memphis, Tennessee. The civilians enjoy the ripening of their staple crop -- Cotton. Floats depict King Cotton and his Queen. The spectators hail the King. Several floats carry fancily dressed participants of the parade. One float catches fire and is engulfed in flames. Men point fire hoses at the fire.

Date: 1946, May 20
Duration: 1 min 4 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036132
An aircraft crashes while a trick landing and being stripped off in Memphis, Tennessee.

An aircraft crashes in Memphis, Tennessee. The aircraft takes off from a field and in flight. It comes in for a landing. It crashes while trick landing in a field. People rush towards the aircraft and gather around it. The aircraft after being stripped by souvenir hunters.

Date: 1934, October 8
Duration: 42 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675042756
United States soldiers survey the damage after an air crash in Memphis, Tennessee.

An air crash in Memphis, Tennessee. The wrecked aircraft, a Douglas DC-3 (USAF C-47B 44-76366), along the hillside where the plane struck. The damaged wheel of the plane. United States soldiers look at scattered wreckage of the plane on a tree. Soldiers survey the damage caused to the aircraft. Various parts of the wrecked aircraft lay all over the 200-yard area.

Date: 1947, December 16
Duration: 35 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021111
Downtown Memphis Tennessee buildings, park, and port with river boats on the Mississippi River

The skyline and business district of Memphis Tennessee. A horse-drawn cart coming down a wide boulevard. Factories and various buildings. River boats with paddle wheels; and also barges at docks of the Mississippi River beside the city. Wording "US Mail" visible on the side of one river boat. Smoke billowing from the stacks of the steam ships. A little girl wearing a hat and feeding pigeons in a park.

Date: 1917
Duration: 1 min 29 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023079
The Harahan Bridge in Memphis, Tennessee.

The Harahan Bridge in Memphis, Tennessee. Railway track over the cantilvered truss bridge with a steam locomotive pulling train cars across the bridge. Armed guards in World War I era U.S. Army uniforms guarding the bridge as train approaches. A river boat passing underneath on the Mississippi River below the bridge . Men stand next to railway track.

Date: 1917
Duration: 45 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023081