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New bridge built in Petersburg and flood walls rebuilt by Work Progress Administration.

A raging flood in 1936 in West Virginia. Flood waters seen moving swiftly. WPA Workers during the Great Depression are seen building a new bridge at Petersburg West Virginia, spanning the South Branch of the Potomac River. Car crosses the bridge. New flood walls and dikes built by the WPA are shown, created to prevent recurrence of losses in future floods.

Location: Petersburg Virginia USA
Date: 1937
Duration: 50 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051769
Public Improvement created by Work Progress Administration in West Virginia during the Great Depression.

View of elderly people and orphan children entering a building. WPA or Works Progress Administration Public Improvements show new log houses at Mercer County Industrial Park, a commune or community helping men, women, and families affected by the depression. Women milk cows. Man plowing a field with two horses pulling a hand plow, to provide food for the common community. Line of men with hoes work in a garden. Scenes from Camp Fairchance at Low Gap in Boone County West Virginia (South of Madison and Danville) shows totem poles at the camp entrance, a boy blowing a bugle, boy orphans waking up in a bunk house and girl orphans eating together in a dining hall. Young girl children sewing. Children playing, swimming in a nearby stream or lake, and marching behind a band on the grounds of the camp. Camp buildings seen in the background. Trumpeter on wood frame lashed tower blows bugle as American flag is lowered.

Location: West Virginia USA
Date: 1937
Duration: 2 min 0 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051770
United States Postal service employees at work, and methods of handling mail.

Pages of Domestic Postage Rates and Postal Information document. A postal employee closes the black door of a mail truck. Employee at the post box in street. Truck passing on road. People arrive at Parcel Post. People queued up at Postal Savings and Money Orders counters. Men sorting mail sacks. All types of mails sorted by postal employees. Mails on conveyor belt. Bundles of letter and various parcels. Letters without an address.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1943
Duration: 3 min 4 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051772
Postmaster General James A. Farley at desk.

Various post offices across the nation. Postal employees at work. Shows a flying plane, men riding sleds, a boat by a ship, and a moving railroad train by which mail is transported. U.S. Capitol building. Postal trucks lined up at the Capitol. Shows Postmaster General James A. Farley at desk in his office. Farley signs a document.

Location: Washington DC USA
Date: 1943
Duration: 2 min 12 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051775
Secretary of State, Cordell Hull in his office.

Guns mounted at fort. People on hand-pulled rickshaws. Boats at shore. U.S. flag and seal of U.S. Consulate General. Shows an officer entering the office. Civilians in street somewhere in Middle East. Seal of Embassy of United States. Cars parked outside building. Various officers and women inside building. Capitol dome. Secretary of State office. Cordell Hull at desk. Hull going through documents and talking over phone. Battleships underway at sea. Newspaper headlines read 'Hull Says Nations Must Spur Trade To Achieve Peace'. Hull speaking to few men. Hull walks out of the building after collecting a newspaper.

Location: Washington DC USA
Date: 1938
Duration: 3 min 22 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051776
Recruitment and activities of young officers in the Department of State and Foreign Service Officers Training School

Secretary of State office, Cordell Hull seated. Applicants take written and oral examinations for recruitment in Department of State. Door sign 'Appointments : Dept. of State'. Selected candidate sworn in before joining. Successful candidate at probationary service, signs documents. People awaiting their turns in Passport registration office. Foreign service officer listens to a man and checks his passport. Door sign of 'Foreign Service Officers Training School'. Candidates attend protocol classes. Young diplomats seated around table. Cordell Hull addressing. Name of U.S. officials on wall plaque. Officer talking to a foreign family in U.S. Consulate. Other officer talks to a man. Ship at sea. Diplomat talks to a Navy officer and plan the evacuation of U.S. citizens from Spain during Spanish Civil War. Refugees board ship. Cordell Hull talks to a diplomat.

Location: Washington DC USA
Date: 1938
Duration: 5 min 29 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051777
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