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Youthful baseball pitcher, Ed Cereghino, signs contract with New York Yankees organization

Newsreel clip on 17-year-old Ed Cereghino accepting a $50,000 bonus to sign a contract with the New York Yankees organization in 1951. View of Cereghino signing the contract with Yankee scout Joe Devine (in suit) and Cereghino's parents watching. Cereghino tosses a baseball with his father over a fence with barbed wire. Announcer notes Cereghino will be joining the Yankees' minor-league club in San Francisco, the Seals, managed by former National League batting champion Lefty O'Doul, seen at right. Cereghino pitches his first game for the Seals with his parents in the stands. He loses, but gets a kiss from his mother afterward. (Note: Cereghino would pitch eight years in the minor leagues but never make to the Yankees or any other major league club.)

Date: 1951, July 5
Duration: 51 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675022183
View of the San Francisco harbor, United States.

View of the San Francisco harbor, United States. Vessel passes under the Golden Gate Bridge which is still under construction.

Date: 1935
Duration: 25 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675022205
Activity at Los Angeles harbor, United States.

Workers unload goods from the vessel at Los Angeles harbor, United States. View of equipment and ropes on the freighter. Huge heap of copra (dyed kernel of the coconut) lying on the ground.

Date: 1935
Duration: 1 min 2 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675022206
Contrasting views of San Francisco circa 1906 and 1934

Scenes from 1934 movie about Westward Expansion of the United States at end of the 19th Century. View of San Francisco harbor with a steamer passing in the background. Inserted scenes from 1906 film of Market Street taken from a cable car headed toward the Oakland Ferry. It shows hectic uncontrolled vehicle and pedestrian traffic in the street. Change of scene shows current (1934) views of San Francisco from a vantage point above the city.

Date: 1934
Duration: 1 min 44 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675022657
Administration of Los Angeles County Relief Administration (LACRA) relief commodities

Los Angeles County Relief Administration (LACRA) women workers work in an office administering the free distribution of relief commodities during the Great Depression. They create punch cards on large punch machine and place them on sorting tray. The cards are distributed and tabulated in a device that gives detailed reports of the relief commodities. Workers work in the storeroom. View of produce boxes labeled 'Not to Be Sold'. Workers load the boxes onto trucks.

Date: 1935, February
Duration: 1 min 29 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023047
Los Angeles County Relief Administration (LACRA) workers run a Toy Loan Exchange at the Manchester School

Library card at a Toy lending "library" reads 'Toy Loan Exchange'. At the Manchester School, Los Angeles County Relief Administration (LACRA) workers issue these cards to track toys given to needy children during the Great Depression. Boy seated on bench with a girl, tries to fix a doll's head. A LACRA worker exchanges the doll for a new one.

Date: 1935, February
Duration: 1 min 2 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023048