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New York City police car driving down midtown city streets; view of other vehicles and buildings in Manhattan

Views of a vintage 1930s New York City police car on a busy street of Manhattan, New York City. At start of clip, the Columbus Circle statue of Columbus can be seen in distant background as car heads possibly down 59th Street and then down 7th Avenue. A policeman driving the car, and another cop sitting next to him looking out through the window. People walking on sidewalks, cars parked at the sides of road. Other 1930s vehicles on road including cars, taxis, trucks, and buses. A horse-drawn wagon or carriage is also seen. A corner shop with sign "Primadora" is seen. Near end of clip the car passes a Madison Square Garden entrance advertising the "National Horse Show. November 4 through November 5. International Military Jumping every night."

Date: 1939, October
Duration: 2 min 16 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675032802
New York City police officers on horseback ride along New York City street beside Central Park

Views of New York City mounted police officers riding on horse back. Policemen moving in organized two rows, led by another three policemen on three horses. The policemen ride along a Manhattan street and alongside Central Park. Vintage 1930's cars, buses, and trucks on road, people walking on footpath can be seen. Various Manhattan buildings along the street.

Date: 1939, October
Duration: 3 min 31 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675032803
New York City policemen outside the 18th precinct station in New York City.

Exterior view of the 18th Precinct station of the New York City Police at 306 W. 54th Street New York City (now known as Midtown North Precinct). Police officers exit the station building and walk in a line then halt at a place for a roll call or briefing. An officer reads instructions and gives a briefing, and then the cops disperse in various directions. The scene is repeated from different camera angles, including closeups of some of the police officers and their uniforms.

Date: 1939, October
Duration: 2 min 34 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675032804
Farmers discuss problems of the land including soil erosion and poverty in United States during Great Depression.

Opening view is in Pennsylvania: Farm houses, smoke from a chimney. Fences around barns. A farmer with his wife and child walks in a field. Haystacks in the field. The family moves towards the houses. Barren trees around the houses. Damaged and abandoned stone houses. Men and women farmers with children standing and seated on benches together outside a meeting area. Farmers discuss the problems of the eroded land during a meeting. Eroded fields due to loss of soil in Dust Bowl. Farmers walk through the eroded fields. Sun rays through the clouds. Tennessee: Dry land and dry rivers. Rain washes away the soil. Hills bare of trees and grass. Devastated salt like patches of soil with deep fissures and evidence of massive erosion.

Date: 1939
Duration: 5 min 47 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021568
African American men, women and children pick cotton in fields, Southern United States.

Southern United States: Eroded land, barren fields during the Great Depression. An African American farmer woman dries clothes on a line in a cotton field. Loss of soil from fields in dust bowl. A young African American boy, men and women farmers pick cotton. Dilapidated farm houses, shacks, and falling down houses and huts. A poor African American woman with her children. A sign reads 'Prepare to Meet God'.

Date: 1939
Duration: 1 min 31 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021569
Young girls at a farm house or dilapidated plantation house in the southern United States.

Farm houses and former grand plantation houses, now in disrepair, seen among trees during time of poverty in Great Depression. A clothes line outside a house. Entrance to a house with large columns. Plaster and paint have peeled from the columns revealing the bricks. Young girls stand by a pillar at the entrance. Eroded land near an abandoned house.

Date: 1939
Duration: 39 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021570