A film about New Orleans in Louisiana. A Spanish Cruiser named Infanta Isabel from Cadiz and a freighter named Selene Holland in the harbor. Various ships, tugs, freighters, barges with cranes in the harbor. The 3 mast sailing ship or barque SV John H. Kirby of New Orleans at port (this is shortly before SV John H Kirby was sunk by the German armed merchant raider SMS Wolf in December 1917 during World War I)
A film about New Orleans in Louisiana. A British merchant ship with a naval gun aboard it (anti submarine defense in World War I) in New Orleans harbor. Various steamships in the harbor including Lisboa, Oxen Sverige and Malfalda Norge.
Two High School boys stand on a New York city street. Tenament buildings are behind them. children play on the sidewalks and in the street including one riding a home-made roller skate box scooter with the number 2 on it. The boys walk past many children. They are making not of buildings with inadequate fire escapes. Scene suddenly shifts to a boy standing on a bridge overlooking railroad tracks. He is annotating a map or buildings along Lexington Avenue in Manhattan. Next, the student is seen presenting information about this matter and engaging in a discussion about it with classmates. Later, a student spokesman is seen presenting findings about housing inadaquacies to an assembly of people. Local people demonstrate in the streets, carrying banners decrying current conditions. Scene shifts to new housing projects with playgrounds and seemingly better conditions for the residents. Children are seen running in Central Park. A woman (teacher) with children on a ferry boat looking at the skyline of lower Manhattan. (World War II period).
American gas mask laborers in New York City are rewarded a matinee prize for their speedy work in New York during World War I. The women war time production workers stand in a group wearing hats. The women in a truck riding on a street. The women wave to the onlookers on the street and the truck has a sign reading, "Champion Team. U.S. Gas Defense Plant." The women stand outside a theater. The women enter the theater for the movie show.
American Army forces heading to France during World War 1. U.S. Army troops embark from Newport News, Virginia for France in 1918 during World War I. View of the Newport News harbor. USS Madawaska in the foreground. Other ships in the background. The troops with their supplies embark on USS America. They walk up a gangplank. The troops on the deck of USS America. The troops climb on the mast.
U.S. 105th Field Artillery and 2nd Battalion Pioneers aboard USS America and USS Madawaska in Newport News, Virginia leave for Europe in 1918 during World War I. U.S. troops aboard USS America. The ship leaves from the Newport News. The troops of 2nd Battalion Pioneers and 105th Field Artillery aboard USS Madawaska. The troops on the deck wave.
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