Teachers in Chicago protest pay injustice during the Great Depression, as they had not been paid for 11 months. 5,000 instructors joined by students and parents in a march and protest as they also complained about cuts in school services. Scenes from other labor strikes across United States in 1934 including shipyard and auto industry strikes. Striking workers marching. President Roosevelt intervenes in an automobile strike. President Roosevelt on Vincent Astor's yacht for a brief fishing holiday. Men in a factory or manufacturing facility punching timecards in time clocks. New automobile cars seen in production and rolling off assembly lines. Working men eat lunch beside their posts in an assembly line factory, during a break.
A farmer stands by his new 1934 Chevrolet automobile, watching.as several African American men plow his field using horse-drawn plows. The farmer talks with one of the workers, while others continue plowing.
Scenes from a 1934 film documentary on the westward expansion of the United States in the 19th Century. The Marias River flows through the mountains in Montana. Goats and bears in the forest area of Camp Disappointment, the northernmost campsite of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. View of the Camp Disappointment monument erected by the Great Northern Railroad to commemorate Lewis and Clark. Engraved stone reads 'Farthest Point West on Captain Lewis trip up Marias River'. Car drives into portico of the Peace Arch situated near the westernmost point of the Canada–United States border between the communities of Blaine, Washington and Surrey, British Columbia. 'Children of a Common Mother' written on top of a monument. Engraved picture shows Lewis and Clark pointing towards land with boats next to them. View of the Columbia River flowing between mountains and a bridge. Aerial view of city of Portland. Steamer leaves harbor of Portland.
Rally at the Zeppelin Field, during the 6th Nazi Party Congress, Nuremberg, 1934. 6th Hitler rides around the field in an open car to the cheers of attendees. In dramatic scene, Heinrich Himmler, Adolf Hitler, and Viktor Lutze walk slowly along wide path between sea of rally participants standing silently at attention on both sides of them, as mournful music is played. A large memorial wreath is seen and several large burning flames, on pillars.
The Franklin D. Roosevelt family votes at Town Hall, in Hyde Park, New York, during the 1934 U.S. National elections. View of the Town Hall with many people gathered around it. A man explains voting procedure to President Roosevelt's mother, Sara Ann Delano Roosevelt. She enters the voting booth and exits again. The Roosevelt sons are seen in front of the voting booth. Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, the President's wife, stands in front of the voting booth. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his mother sit in the back of an open automobile. As it backs out of the driveway, the President waves his hat, and applause and boos can be heard from persons gathered around the Town Hall.
View of U.S. Army transport ship, "El Aquario," at dockside in San Francisco, California, preparing to get underway in support of the Army Air Corp Alaska Flight Project, in 1934. Views from aboard the El Aquario, as it makes its way out of San Francisco. View from amidship, forward to the pilot house. Views of surrounding scenery as the ship makes way in protected inland waters from Seattle Washington through Vancouver, British Columbia, and Southern Alaska. View on deck as the ship rolls while underway.. View in ship's dining hall during meal as she rolls slightly (not enough to upset the dishes). An isolated waterfront house seen along the way.