Excerpt from Kefauver Hearings. Senate's Kefauver Committee investigating crime and interstate commerce. Panel including Chairman Kefauver (Tennessee) in the hearing along with other committee members Herbert R. O'Conor (Maryland); Lester Hunt (Wyoming); Charles Tobey (New Hampshire); Alexander Wiley (Wisconsin). Close views of each member of the committee as various witnesses take the stand and address the committee. Estes Kefauver adjusting his glasses. The committee takes testimony from attorney George Levy of the Nassau Trotting Association, who is interrogated by the Committee's Chief Counsel, Rudolph Halley. .
Pastor Argudin y Pedroso's paintings displayed in an exhibition at the Harmon Foundation, 140 Nassau Street, Manhattan, New York City. Mrs. William E. Harmon and others at exhibition of Spanish African American art. Viewers include Arturo (Arthur) Alfonso Schomburg. Artist Richmond Barthe is seen among the crowd, and possibly also Beauford Delaney.
Germany celebrates completion of the widening of the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Kanal (aka Kiel Canal) allowing dreadnought warships to navigate directly between the Baltic and North Seas. German Stern view of a German Nassau-class battleship near the canal. Camera pans across the water showing several other large ships and buildings in background. German Naval officers celebrate the completion of the wider canal. Ice forming on the bow of a German warship as it plows through the North sea in Winter. Sheets of ice covering the sides of other warships. German warships forming lines as they practice battle maneuvers. The Crown Prince William and Prince Joachim of Germany along with other young men and women.
New York City street signs identify Wall street at Broadway and Wall Street at Nassau Street. Trinity church is seen at end of street. Federal Hall with statue of George Washington in front. Front view of the New York Stock Exchange building. Crowds of commuters fill the street and sidewalks as they emerge from subway during morning rush hour. Interior and trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange as trading day gets underway.
Stock prices decline in New York City, United States, during the Great Depression. People gather outside the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) after a wave of selling causes stock prices to drop sharply. Buildings along the sides of street in Wall Street area. Cars parked and some cars driven on the street. A sign reads: "Nassau St" and another says "Wall St". Rain falling in the area. People walk holding umbrellas. Buyers and sellers among traders on the floor of the stock exchange shouting and jockeying to be heard. Traders watching results on price boards and transacting inside the building of the stock exchange. People assemble outside the New York Stock Exchange building.
Men and women cross a street in the financial district of Manhattan, New York City during World War II. Some couples are seen walking together. A group of United States Navy sailors and Army officers are seen. A truck and a taxi drive on the road. Pedestrians and cars at the intersection of Pine St. and Nassau St. with The Soldiers' Monument, or the Memorial for the Unknown Revolutionary War Heroes, visible in the Trinity Churchyard in the background.