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Monroe Michigan USA 1937 stock footage and images

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Women participating in the life of their community in Monroe, New York.

A woman named Ann Collins is seen in a vacant lot, where she and others of the community work to clean it up so it can be made into a playground. They pick up trash and deposit it in a wheelbarrow that Ms Collins pushes to a 1947 Dodge pickup truck, parked nearby, where it is unloaded. Views of others working with rakes and shovels to prepare the ground. Some trash falls on Ms. Collins as she hands a bushel basket full to a man standing in the back of the open truck. She smiles and climbs into the cab of the truck, which has "John C. Hunter, Monroe, N.Y. Dial 2371" painted on its door. The truck drives away, with two young men steadying boxes of trash in the back. The truck proceeds along a street in the town, past parked cars of the period, such as a 1949 Pontiac sedan. Ms Collins waves from the truck cab as it drives past a street sign reading "No Littering." They pass people lined up outside a polling place, where election voting is taking place. Scene changes to the interior of a rummage shop run by local women to help the poor. Other women are seen working inside a greenhouse associated with a garden club. Next, a woman is seen handing publications to two girl scouts in uniform. A church choir, with many women, sings during a service. Closeups of the choir as they sing the hymn, "Holy, Holy, Holy" by John B. Dykes. Scene shifts to a physician and nurse taking blood from a volunteer blood donor. Closeup of the blood being collected in a glass flask. Next, citizens are seen inside the polling place where volunteers register them to vote. A uniformed police officer stands nearby as the voters make their way to voting booths. Women enter curtained voting booth and vote.

Date: 1950
Duration: 3 min 37 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032772
The convicts get hot food in the Washington State Reformatory in Monroe, Washington.

Washington State Reformatory in Monroe, Washington. Warden Joseph Peter administers the improved food service for the prisoners. Warden Joseph Peter writing down notes. 'Reformatory' written on the building. Jail employees prepare food. An employee places trays of baked goods in a cart. Jail employees cooking soup on the kitchen. The food is kept hot on steam tables. Prisoners are called out from their cells. 700 men walk in lines and get hot meals in the reformatory. Men eat food and sit on the benches

Date: 1932, January 18
Duration: 1 min 57 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675054202
Major events of the 1930s include Wall Street crash, kidnapping of Lindbergh child, Hindenburg disaster, Spanish Civil War, etc.

'Retrospect' about the events that led to the present pattern of life in the United States. Host Douglas Edwards, an American television anchor speaks about the past events in America. Crowd of unemployed men gathering in bread lines after the 1929 crash and subsequent Great Depression. A man near a box of apples. The U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt addresses a gathering. The kidnapping of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., the son of the aviator Charles Lindbergh in 1932. Bruno Richard Hauptmann, a German carpenter who abducted the child during the trial. The congressmen at the formation of the Lindbergh Law. Newspapers describe the apprehension or death of notorious mafia gangster criminals, such as Dutch Schultz and Baby Face Nelson. Huey Pierce Long, Jr. a American politician addresses people. Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia appeals to the League of Nations, after his country is attacked by Italy under Mussolini. Adolf Hitler stands. Troops of the German army parade. Scenes from the Spanish Civil War in 1936-1937 as Spanish national forces battle against fascist rebel forces. Spanish Troops fire 75mm field artillery pieces. Bombs being dropped on the buildings. Spanish soldiers marching during the civil war. The Hindenburg disaster takes place on May 6th 1937: The German airship LZ 129 Hindenburg catches fire over the Lakehurst Naval Air Station in Manchester, New Jersey. Amelia Earhart the first woman aviator to fly solo holds flowers and is surrounded by people. She went missing in 1937. Cowboy philosopher Will Rogers, alone and with U.S. Vice President John Nance Garner and with aviator Wiley Post (who had patch over one eye). King Edward VIII of Great Britain, abdicating the throne for "the woman I love." People at the German-American Bund Nazi sympathizing gathering including the subduing of objectors on stage, in Madison Square Garden, New York. British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, returning from meeting with Adolf Hitler in Munich in 1938. View of Adolf Hitler. German tanks on parade in World War II. an array of artillery guns on display. Railway guns being fired in WW2.

Date: 1938
Duration: 5 min 28 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032197
Women's Club of Monroe, New York, sponsors concert to benefit the General Hospital

Mrs. Gates, of Monroe New York, a member of the local Women's Club, is seen wearing a corsage of flowers as she stands in front of the notice of a concert, sponsored by the club, for the benefit of the General Hospital. View inside the auditorium, where a solo violinist is playing on stage to a full audience. Mrs. Gates escorts a couple to their seats. Closeup of the violinist on stage. Closeup of Mrs. Gates again. Closeup of the concert poster.

Date: 1950
Duration: 1 min 15 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032771
Views of Japan and its militarism from 1937 through 1943 . Construction of B-29 bombers in the United States

Volcanic eruption and creation of island of Japan. Glimpse of map of Japan. Gardens and rivers. Two men demonstrate samurai sword techniques. Japanese soldiers advance through smoke carrying rising sun flag. Chinese suffering under Japanese military occupation. Two executed with rifles. Japanese soldiers waving weapons and red ball flags. A DC-3 aircraft flying over a Japanese Pagoda. Vies of Old Japan. Farmers at work. One manually turning a water pump with his feet. A man using a pole to propel a boat. Modern methods adopted in Japan for terraced farming. Japanese building railroads. Japanese modern locomotive on South Manchurian Railway. in 1934. A Japanese twin engine bomber taking off. The Japanese ocean liner, Asama Maru, in the 1930s. Glimpse of numerous ships in Tokyo harbor. Western style architecture in modern Tokyo buildings. Neon lights on the Grand Palace Hotel and other establishments in Tokyo. Industrial smoke stacks. Women at work in a silk factory. Finished product stamped "Made in Japan."Steel ingots being made in a Japanese steel mill using scrap iron imported from the U.S.A. Chinese victims of 2nd Sino-Japanese War. Japanese troops on parade. Dead American Marines on shore of Tarawa Atoll in the Pacific in World War 2, killed in battle. Japanese high ranking officers reviewing troops on parade. Japanese warships underway. Troops parading beneath the Imperial Palace in Tokyo. American B-25 bombers on flight deck of the USS Hornet, headed to bomb Tokyo.A crew of Doolittle's Raiders standing by their plane. B-25 taking off from the Hornet. Formation of B-25s in flight. View from bomber of smoke rising from bombing of Tokyo below. Brigadier General Jimmie Doolittle pledging to repeat bombing of Tokyo. Supply train entering a Boeing Company defense plant. United States war production workers being scrutinized as they enter the facility and punching in at a time clock. Poster in the plant picturing a B-29 bomber aircraft on a message in German describing it as an instrument for a "Destruction Battle against the Luftwaffe." Bold letters, above, in English read: "They're Promised-Let's Deliver 'em!" And, below, the words: "B-29, Super Bombers." Slabs of aluminum sheets fill a factory room. Overhead traveling cranes move them. Workers in airplane manufacturing and assembly plant use heat and brakes to shape the aluminum sheets. Multiple views of the aluminum being machined and stamped to specifications. Wings being fabricated. Relatively unskilled labor using jigs to perform the work. Woman war worker operating an overhead crane moving a wing in the plant. Views of plane parts moving across the ceiling via cranes. Women workers driving rivets into wings. Men and women employees working inside fuel fuel compartments of wings. A floor full of engine nacelles. A floor full of 2200 HP radial engines. A skeleton nose section being fabricated. Midsections and bomb bays being assembled. Workers crawling through the airframe during aircraft assembly. A woman working on a connecting tunnel. Sub-assemblies made by contractors arriving at the plant. More views of Boeing employees including young, old, men, and women, at work in the plant.

Date: 1944
Duration: 11 min 0 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046523
Joe Dimaggio and Marilyn Monroe board Pan American Airways Strato clipper aircraft in United States

American baseball star Joe DiMaggio and wife Hollywood actress Marilyn Monroe board a Pan American Airways Boeing Strato cruiser “Strato Clipper America” aircraft as photographers take their pictures in United States. The couple waves to the people and get inside the plane. Plane takes off.

Date: 1955
Duration: 1 min 9 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675038020