Employment for African Americans in the Great Depression provided by Works Progress Administration (WPA) Projects in New York, United States. African American students in an adult school write in a note book. Teacher writes on blackboard. Young men and women learn Spanish from a volunteer from Nation Youth Administration. Boy learns work of a lab assistant and work on a machine. Men and women learn clerical work of filing, checking and new work as abstraction. A woman learns typing.
\View of a busy streets of New York City in 1905. Horse drawn carriages ride by. Pedestrians walking. Streetcars or trolleys pass at the upcoming intersection. Brief cut to 1940s aerial view of the Catholic Saint Patrick’s Cathedral (5th Ave, New York, NY 10022, United States). 5th Avenue Street view in front of Saint Patrick’s Cathedral. Then return to 1905 footage. Women and men in Turn of the Century clothing, early 20th century fashions. Variety of different hats, top hats, derby hats, ornate hats on wealthy women in late gilded age period. Overcoats, suits, and long dresses.
The Ford family at the Lincoln purchase ceremony in New York, United States. A statue of Abraham Lincoln (Abraham Lincoln Statue, 20 Union Square W, New York, NY 10003) in Union Square. A man reads from a paper. Various scenes of the Ford family inside and outside the Lincoln Building during the Lincoln purchase ceremony. Exchange of document in an office. Henry Ford, Mrs. Clara Jane Bryant, Edsel Bryant Ford and Henry M Leland of the Lincoln motor company and his wife pose with others.
Park Avenue, New York City, United States. People and buildings in New York. Cars parked at the side of streets in front of buildings. A green light at a signal. Automobile traffic on a street. Trees along the street.
New York City during Prohibition. Flood light focuses on men as they arrive and enter the 21 Club, located at number 21, West 52nd Street, in Manhattan, New York City, United States. Two men come out of the establishment.. A door man at the entrance of the establishment. A man wearing hat comes out and talks to the door man. A limousine arrives and door man opens car door for him. A woman enters the 21 Club.
Roman Catholic clergymen attend requiem mass for late Pope Pius XI in New York City. Laymen stand beside road. Clergymen arrive at the St. Patrick's Cathedral (5th Ave, New York, NY 10022, United States) in a line. Bishop Donahue sits at a platform before catafalque. He and other clergymen perform rituals to pray for late Pope Pius XI.
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