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Dignitaries, police officials and children dig the ground for Golden Gate Fair Police building in San Francisco, California.

Dignitaries, police officials and children at the event of digging ground to start construction of Golden Gate Fair Police building in San Francisco, California. Buildings at the water front of San Francisco. Dignitaries arrive at the entrance of a building. Senior Police officials shake hands with the dignitaries. Small children dig ground with shovels to start the construction.

Date: 1938, August 8
Duration: 60 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675037142
People watch as electric-welded vessel SS American Leader is launched at harbor in San Francisco, California.

A $200,000 ship, the SS American Leader, is launched at a dock in San Francisco, California. People at dock watch the launching ceremony. Streamers on the electric welded ship as it slides down into sea and sails. Other boats and tugs in the bay near the ship can also be seen.

Date: 1940, October 16
Duration: 31 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675037161
Nisei, the Japanese Americans develop rubber extraction from guayule plant at Manzanar Relocation Center in California.

Nisei, the Japanese Americans of second generation, at relocation centers (internment) during World War II. A Japanese-American grows guayule plant generally grown in Mexico and Texas, experimentally at Manzanar Relocation Center in California. Japanese-American scientist at a laboratory in the relocation center invents methods to extract more rubber from guayule plant. Dried and ground plant at the laboratory. He makes production equipment from old automobile parts. A man paints old parts and modifies them for use. Rubber extracted from guayule plant rises to the surface as the container gets filled with the chemical. The scientist stretches the rubbers so made to check its quality.

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 52 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675037177
Oil drilling using whip stock method being carried out in Huntington Beach in California.

Oil drilling being carried out at the base of an oil derrick in Huntington Beach in Southern California. Oil being drilled using the whip stock method at the shore of the Pacific Ocean. A number of oil derricks are seen as cars pass by them.

Date: 1938, December
Duration: 1 min 45 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675037514
A forest of oil derricks at Signal hill in Huntington Beach in California.

A forest of oil derricks is seen at Signal hill in Huntington Beach in California. Oil drilling being carried out using whip stock method in the region.

Date: 1938, December
Duration: 38 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675037515
Official visitors travel aboard the boat, "Warden Johnston" to Alcatraz island in California, United States.

Official visitor talks to Officer and shows identification to him . They board the boat called 'Warden Johnston' and speak to the officers as they take down notes. Boat sails across the San Francisco Bay in California. As the boat nears an island a chimney and a tin roofed building with ALCATRAZ written on it is seen.

Date: 1947
Duration: 1 min 5 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675037521