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Immigrants from Europe, arriving from 1880 to 1914, participate in the working life of America.

Two new immigrant man are seen on bunks in a tenement in New York City, where the narrator says nine out of ten immigrants arrived in the period from 1880 to 1914. Two women pose, sitting beside a sleeping child in a tenement. An immigrant speaks about the hardship of arriving in a strange land where he did not speak the language and felt "lost." He says he gradually overcame that by going to night school to learn a little English and to read and write. He says he made a nice living as a peddler, and expressed appreciation for the opportunities America gave to immigrants. In the next scene, children enjoy rides on a traveling merry-go-round visiting their neighborhood. The operator runs it manually, by turning a wheel. View of children riding and others watching on the street. Streams of pedestrians crossing a bridge across a busy city street. Pedestrians on sidewalks and horse-drawn wagons and electrified street cars moving on the street in the commercial center of a city. Workers heading home after their shift in a factory. View of workers producing products in a factory. A line of women punching a time clock at their place of work. Women working in a clothing factory. Men standing atop a shipment of steel rails for the building of a railroad. Views of rails being moved into position for a new segment of the railroad. Glimpse of a steam shovel scooping a bucket full of raw material. Black smoke rising from funnel on a steam locomotive, and also from nearby steam shovel. Iron workers on a the wide open upper floors of the 60-story skyscraper Woolworth Building under construction in Lower Manhattan, New York City, in 1911. Pilings being put in place for a new building. Riveters guiding a section of steel column into place for a new building . Views inside a heavy manufacturing plant of the W. E. & M. company in New York City. Their products appear to be large dynamos and motors. View of the Statue of Liberty on Bedloe's Island in New York harbor, with its arm appearing to hold up a full moon.

Date: 1911
Duration: 4 min 37 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039776
Victory Parade in honor of returned African American troops from 369th Infantry, 93rd Division, pass the Public Library in New York City

Victory Parade in honor of the returned African American troops of the 369th Infantry, 93rd Division, at end of World War I (these forces were also known as the 15th New York National Guard Regiment or Old Fifteenth; and nicknamed the Harlem Hellfighters). Elevated view of African American troops and marching band (possibly that of James Reese Europe) marching past the New York Public Library in New York City, United States. Governor Smith and Mrs. Smith of New York State among the spectators in the grandstand. Huge crowd gathered to watch the ongoing parade. Sunset view of a couple standing on a bridge with background of World War 1 era U.S. Navy battleships anchored in harbor (presumably New York harbor).

Date: 1919, February 17
Duration: 5 min 5 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675022385
Charles Lindbergh traveling to New York and arrival there where he is welcomed by huge crowd after his record Paris flight

Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh with American aviators Richard Evelyn Byrd and Clarence Chamberlain before his flight to Paris. Charles Lindbergh in cockpit of aircraft. After his successful nonstop transatlantic flight, Lindbergh is seen arriving at Mitchel field from Washington. Charles Lindbergh is whisked by car quickly to another waiting flying boat biplane aircraft and he boards the rear of two seats. Aerial view of many steam ships and smaller boats seen at harbor near New York City to welcome Lindbergh. Passenger ferry with name "Bear Mountain" is seen. Amphibious plane landing. Charles Lindbergh and officials aboard the Macom, the yacht of the Mayor of New York City. View from on board the Macom as the yacht, flanked by scores of other steam and sailing ships and ferries heads for the Battery at New York City. Aerial view of city near Battery of Manhattan, with areas filled with crowds. Crowd and ticker tape parade in streets of New York City to welcome him. Views of ticker tape parade from various heights and angles. Charles Lindbergh speaking into microphone at City Hall.

Date: 1927, June 13
Duration: 5 min 27 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675041077
U.S. President Thomas Woodrow Wilson watches New York City as U.S. Navy USS George Washington approaches New York harbor.

President of the United States Thomas Woodrow Wilson aboard U.S. Navy USS George Washington approach the New York Bay after a voyage to Brest in France. U.S. President Thomas Woodrow Wilson with another officer aboard U.S. Navy USS George Washington watches the New York City. Ships on the New York harbor in the background. USS George Washington approaches the New York harbor. The Presidential party wave to the people on dock. The Presidential party leaves in staff cars.

Date: 1936
Duration: 2 min 47 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675067920
Routine activities of residents in a section of the South Bronx, New York City.

Scenes shot on a Wednesday afternoon in the South Bronx, New York City. View from car driving slowly uphill on Eagle Avenue heading towards 149th Street in the South Bronx, New York City. Among cars parked at the left side of a one-way street, is a 1957 Chevy that has been stripped of its tires and wheels. Apartment buildings line the street. Residents are out and about walking on the sidewalks. One man has the hood up on his big-fin 1960 Plymouth Fury automobile. Closeups as the camera car drives past some residents. Closed business establishments have heavy steel gates locked across their doors and windows. A sign advertising Ballantine beer is mounted on a building. Below it someone has painted message with partial words:"...Jtch Unknown Sinners." Small glass blocks have been broken out of an adjoining building. Camera pans down an apartment building on Crimmins Avenue, following path of external fire escape ladders. A number of people are gathered socially on the apartment house steps. A group of mixed age men play a game of stick ball in the street. A car turns into the street hugging the left side of the road to avoid interfering with the ballgame. Closeups of some players, as one (unseen) is recorded speaking about the game. (The narrator notes that this is filmed on a Wednesday afternoon in the middle of a "work week.") Camera pans people "hanging out," in the vicinity. Two men walk along the edge of an apartment building roof. A dog walks past a man tearing up a cardboard box. Men seated alone, on a fire escape; on a park bench; in a doorway; and on a box in front of a store. Boys playing frisbee and two with baseball gloves, playing catch. Police cars: one parked at a curb and one driving along the street. A young man wearing a sweatshirt with "Latin Crowns" written on it, goes into a building. Outside, another youth, in similar sweatshirt, does pull-ups on a bar at the bottom of a fire escape. A boy swings on the bar. Juvenile delinquency: Several boys start fighting and an older one steps in to break it up. A boy inhaling illegal drugs or chemicals from a paper bag, or using it to hyperventilate.

Date: 1965
Duration: 5 min 15 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040522
Fire consumes large North German Lloyd ocean liner Munchen (later Steuben) docked in New York Harbor, New York City

Clear aerial views of midtown and lower Manhattan, New York City 1930, but with smoke coming from Hudson River pier of New York Harbor where the North German Lloyd liner Munchen (sometimes Muenchen or München) is seen on fire, shortly after docking in New York after the voyage from Bremen, Germany. Ship emits smoke and fire at the pier. Firefighters spray water to extinguish fire. Views of the piers and slips and dock areas on the Hudson River at New York City and close up views of the firefighters battling the blaze on the Muenchen. The ship subsequently sank at dock. She was raised later in 1930, repaired in dry dock, and returned to service under the new name SS General von Steuben. The ship was sunk in 1945 by the S-13 submarine of the Soviet Union.

Date: 1930, February 15
Duration: 2 min 17 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049598