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New Haven Railroad celebrates 50 years of electric locomotive operation

New Haven Railroad celebrates 50 years of electric locomotive operation. New Haven Railroad demonstrates its historic first 'electric locomotive' with a maximum speed of ten miles an hour against its latest streamlined rail train.

Date: 1938, May 11
Duration: 33 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675041312
Sixth-grade boys refuse to play with a Jewish boy in New Haven,CT.

Documentary by Harmon Foundation titled "If a boy needs a friend". Shows efforts by a teacher and the Young Men's Christian Association to fight antisemitism and children's hatred and discrimination against Jews. Shows Sixth-grade boys in New Haven, CT refuse to play with a Jewish boy. Group of boys on playground climb hands up a stick to see who picks team members first for a baseball game. Captains of each team choose teams, selecting boys one at a time. One boy, a Jewish boy, is not picked. He asks a captain if he can be on that boy's team. The boy says no because he is Jewish. The boys begin pushing the Jewish boy to chase him away, and he turns and leaves sadly. Scene changes back to school administration office. Teacher provides a list of the offending boys from the Willard School. She asks help from male secretary of the New Haven YMCA. Secretary promises teacher to send a qualified leader from a club.1940. (World War II period).

Date: 1940
Duration: 1 min 53 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675028784
Museum Photo portraits of American pioneer settlers of Hawaii, in the 1820s.

Photographic portraits,in a museum, showing with names and travel information about early American pioneer settlers in Hawaii. Includes photographs of the so-called "Pioneer Company" that arrived at Kailua, on the Brigantine Thaddeus, after 164 days at sea, from Boston, Massachusetts, landing at Monolala, April 19, 1820. Likewise, photos of settlers in the "Second Company" are shown. They arrived on the Schooner Aclife, from Tahiti, on February 4, 1823, and other who arrived on the Ship Thames, sailing 158 days from New Haven, Connecticut, arriving at Honolulu. Among pioneers identified are: Samuel Ruggles and his wife, Nancy; Artemas Bishop and Mrs Della (Stone) Bishop; and Mrs Clarissa Richards.

Date: 1937
Duration: 2 min 5 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675046030
Volunteers at the Seaside Regional Center help mentally disabled children to prepare for community life.

A map of Connecticut, on which Director Bert Schnikel points regional centers such as Hartford, New Haven and the Seaside Regional Center Waterford, on the Long Island Sound. Mr Fred F Finn, Director of Seaside Center points out the importance of family in a mentally disabled person's life. Volunteers take care of children. A volunteer helps a girl to take medicine. The volunteer strokes the face of the child. And the child makes faces. Children play outside on a tractor ride. People get into a car and the car drives away. Mentally disabled children from Mansfield and Southbury come to "Seaside Regional Center for the Mentally Retarded" to prepare for community life. A boy puts on a television and sits down to watch it. A woman hands things to a girl. Volunteers help children to walk. A mentally disabled girl holds a book in her hands. A postcard sent by a normal sibling of a mentally disabled boy. Children play in snow. A boy sits on a seat while a man bends. A mentally disabled boy plays with his brothers. A couple talks about their mentally disabled child while he sits nearby.

Date: 1969
Duration: 7 min 53 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033424
Operations of early switchboards.

Operation of early switchboards. Pages of book showing early switchboard. Man operating switchboard. The first switchboard for commercial telephone service installed in New Haven, Connecticut. A man operating and talking into telephone and other man listening. Men operating switchboards.

Date: 1926
Duration: 3 min 26 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039598
Newsreel 'New Haven Conn., Eli Swamps Crimson 19-0, in the 51st Game of Annual Grid Classic.'

Rain drenches huge crowd of spectators during football match. Several people in the crowd carry umbrellas. Bob Lassiter passes to Parker and paves way for a score. Walter Levering leads the Yale team. The football team of Yale wins against the match against Harvard at Yale Bowl in New Haven. Yale team in the muddy field scores, 19 points against zero points scored by Harvard.

Date: 1932, November 21
Duration: 2 min 3 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040750