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Midwest United States USA 1942 stock footage and images

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U.S. Vice President Spiro Agnew addresses the Midwest Regional Republican Committee

A speech by the United States Vice President Spiro Agnew at a meeting of Republican governors and leaders. Introduction by Governor Ray of Iowa. Vice President walks on the speaker's stand as the guests and dignitaries at the ceremony applaud. Press photographers take photographs. Agnew addresses the committee about the Vietnam conflict and about the media and its role in the conflict. Applause for Agnew from the crowd.

Date: 1969, November 13
Duration: 9 min 44 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675057053
Montage of images chronicling the settlement and development of the United States of America over many years.

The last portion of Emma Lazarus’sonnet,"The New Colossus," is shown as engraved on a tablet inside the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty. Illustrations of immigrants arriving and felling trees to build dwellings in America. Reenactments of early English, Scottish, and Dutch settlers building houses and working at crafts in New England. Italian sulphur mine workers in Louisiana. Immigrants, from France and Switzerland, planting vineyards in California and New York State. Danes, Norwegians, and Swedes, sowing seed and cultivating crops in the Midwest. Polish and Welsh immigrants in American coal mines. African Americans harvesting cotton on farm fields in the United States south, including a woman picking cotton with her baby riding on her long collecting bag. A Spaniard on horseback in the Southwest. Mexicans working in Texas oil fields and on ranches of New Mexico. Greek and Portuguese fishermen with huge catches of fish. A German technician working with fine instruments. Hungarian and Russian immigrants working in steel mills. Irish, Slavs, and Chinese, building railroads. Closeup of lumberjack's axes and saws cutting trees. A forge and a blacksmith shoeing a horse with horseshoes. A woman at work with a spinning wheel. Railroad ties and rails being placed. An antique railroad workman's locomotive and car. Men installing telegraph wire on rough poles. A early historic railroad 0-4-0 steam locomotive (appears to be one of the few replicas of "The Atlantic" which had been built in the 1830s) pulling a single small passenger train car. Cowboys on horseback rounding up steers. Herds of cattle,sheep, and pigs, bound to market. Farmers tilling soil with horse-drawn cultivators, preparing tobacco leaves for drying, and loading cotton bales. Machines spinning thread in a textile mill or factory. Fabric weaving machines at work. An early steam boat underway in a river. Early model automobile driving on dirt road. Wright Brothers' Wright Flyer airplane in flight with several persons on board. Early tractors and harvester machinery working on a farm. Glimpses of American industrial plants and transportation in rapid succession (some of it showing building of Hoover Dam and building of the Chrysler Building in New York City). Oil well drilling and a "gusher" oil well spouting oil upward. Steel mills, locomotive trains, and then a scientist in a laboratory working with beakers and a solution. Dynamite charges blasting away sides of mountains and gorges, and scenes of dam construction and dams opening to allow water gushing. Large electrical control levers being thrown to run electricity, and scenes of electric transmission towers and facilities. Natural gas storage areas. Golden Gate bridge under construction and high rise skyscraper buildings being constructed, including the Chrysler Building circa 1930 while still under construction in New York City. Aerial view of New York City. Camera panning over the gravestones in Arlington National Cemetery.

Date: 1939
Duration: 3 min 33 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046104
Various people from relocation centers employed in different vocations by WRA offices in United States (WW2)

United States Relocation Program for Japanese-American civilians in World War II. A Japanese couple walks in Midwest. Building and houses at the Relocation Center. Civilians leave the Center and War Relocation Authority (WRA) offices provide employment to them. A Japanese man works in crop of corns and check corn bugs in Illinois. Another works with machine in a factory. A Japanese nurse gives medicine to a woman lay on bed in women surgical ward of a hospital. A man operates tractor in a field. A boy works on machine in a factory to make kitchen equipment.

Date: 1943
Duration: 2 min 6 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675026112
Film describing social character of United States in decade leading up to World War II

Film describes American society in the 1930s and 40s, including World War 2. CIO (Congress of Industrial Organizations) President John L Lewis and Father Coughlin speaking. Harlem street scene. Crowd entering a subway station in New York City. Newspaper headlines posted in China Town New York. Storefronts of Greek and Italian merchants in downtown New York City. Signs seen include 'Grande Deposito Dolio Doliva,' and 'Anthony Coulapides, manufacturer of high grade cigarettes.' Hebrew writing and star of David seen on side of building. Buildings with Spanish language signs in New York. A parade float with Virgin Mary depiction. Wide shot of a vineyard. View of a water wheel turning at a mill. Boys skinny dipping. 1930's and 1940's era cars on deep snow covered roads of an American town. Homes in deep snow. People recline on a beach in Florida in winter while on the same day in New Hampshire people ski, some pulled by horses. Skiers on slopes. People slip while walking across a street during a blizzard. A boy takes removes an apple from an icebox (early refrigerator). Dust storms in farm country of the rural Midwest during the dust bowl. Man races across a field toward a barn as a dust storm bears down on it. A farmer leads his horses out of a corral. A farm is destroyed by dust storms during the dust bowl. A family piles their remaining things on a farm truck and abandons their farm destroyed by the dust bowl. A poor family in a shack in the River Mississippi Valley area.

Date: 1939
Duration: 2 min 42 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675053398
Cows are milked and milk products are manufactured in a dairy in the Midwestern United States.

The Midwestern United States. Animation of a map show divisions of the United States and the middle states. Animated map shows people from different parts of world coming to the Midwestern United States. Animated map depicts distribution of population in urban and rural areas. Animated map shows industrial belt, corn and hog belt, soybean belt, hay and dairy belt. Cattle graze on a field. Farm machinery in operation on a field. A machine used to load hay. Hay transported in a truck. Cattle in a dairy barn. Milking of cows in the dairy barn. Milk poured in cans. Milk bottles are packed. Butter and cheese manufactured in a dairy.

Date: 1942
Duration: 3 min 0 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675057909
Automobile assembled on an assembly line and farm machinery driven out of a factory in the Midwestern United States.

The Midwestern United States. A harvester in operation. Cattle and hogs in a pasture. A truck driven on a road. View of buildings and industries. Workers assemble automobiles in an assembly line. Farm machinery driven out of a factory. Machinery loaded on flat cars to be transported to other parts of the United States. Animated map shows materials imported to the Midwestern United States from other parts. Cattle on a field. Automobile and pedestrian traffic on a road. Interiors of a factory. Corn in a tractor. Box cars used for transportation. Children play in the garden of a school. Children go to school. Students in state universities. People on yachts. Various paintings and books. Exteriors of the Lincoln Log Cabin. Lincoln's tomb and a statute of Abraham Lincoln.

Date: 1942
Duration: 3 min 22 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675057912