The New York City Hall (City Hall Park, New York, NY 10007, United States) in New York, United States. Traffic moves on the streets. View of the City Hall. Canadian and American flag flutter in wind as they hang from the City Hall.
Automat, Wall Street, and Empire State building in New York City, United States. Crowd moves through the streets. People eat at an Automat. A woman inserts a coin into an automat and gets her food at the coin operated cafeteria. A man receives coffee at the automat. Banks on Wall Street. View of the New York Stock Exchange. A flag reads 'New York Trust Company.' A sign reads 'The Chase National Bank'. People stand outside the banks. Vehicular traffic moves along the street. View of Empire State Building. Cars parked outside the building. Sign outside reads 'Spear's'
A film about state parks during the Great Depression in California, United States. A man walks on the banks of Lake Tahoe in Rubicon state park. Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) volunteers work with shovels to remove undergrowth. They clear debris from the road. A volunteer climbs down a tree. The volunteers set up a new camp site. An eroded rock in the park. CCC volunteers near a tree. The volunteers are taught about insect control and tree life.
War Parade on Fifth Avenue, in New York City, United States during World War II. United States flags raised on the buildings. The first float in the Parade is called "Death Rides" and is an effigy of Death, as a cloaked skeleton, astride a gray horse, beating Nazi swastika drums. Another float , entitled: "Pearl Harbor", depicts a Japanese man (Hideki Tojo) stabbing Uncle Sam in the back prodded by other Axis leaders, German leader Adolf Hitler and Italian fascist leader Benito Mussolini. A Boy Scout Band marches and plays. Boy Scouts of America carry massed American flags. A huge crowd of spectators gathered on the sidewalks. Jeeps and tanks take part in parade. Units of Army and Navy participate in parade. A band of bagpipers in Scottish garb. British and American flags lead contingents of British troops. Unit of U.S. Womens Army Corps (WAC) parades. Policemen all along the line of march.
U.S. Navy sailors return to civil life in Long Beach, New York after as soldiers and sailors are discharged at end of World War II. The sailors are among the first groups to be released in Long Beach on a point system. Sailors at a separation center stand in line a pay windows to receive paychecks and then attend group ceremonies to receive honorable discharge papers. Workers leave war production plants at the end of a shift. Civilians line up in cities for new jobs in post-war industries. Clothes iron presses, washing machines, and new 1946 Ford cars on assembly lines being built in peacetime economy.
A United States Army Air Force B-25 Mitchell aircraft hits a skyscraper in heavy fog in New York, United States. The Empire State Building. Several buildings along street sides. People walk on a street. Policemen on the street. The aircraft crashes into the 79th floor of the building. Firemen douse the fire using hoses. Men carry the wounded. The damaged building. Wreckage in a room. The dead body of a man in the room. Wrecked parts of the airplane. Wrecked equipment on the street. (World War II period).
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