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WPA laborers work at various development programs in New York City, United States.

Works Progress Administration (WPA) projects in New York City during the Great Depression. Aerial view of New York City as a plane flies by and clouds part to show Manhattan island below. Buildings and skyscrapers of New York City as seen from river and harbor views, with some ships and tugboats seen. Trucks on roads of Governor's Island at tip of Manhattan. An older home seen under renovation and reconstruction. View of the Brooklyn Navy Yard with WPA workers busy building and improving new roads and shops and warehouses near the docks. A bulkhead construction project is shown at Sheepshead Bay in Brooklyn, to reclaim land from the waters of the Bay. The work includes construction of a new Boulevard and sanitary and sewer system improvements. View of the front entrance of the Beaux Arts style Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House on Bowling Green at the tip of Manhattan. Pedestrians and WPA workers are seen in front of the building. WPA laborers on an unidentified Manhattan street (with elevated railway running in background) are busy removing old street car rail lines from the streets, in sections, and loading them into truck beds to haul away. Large public swimming pool and bath house construction projects are shown, influenced by city planner and avid swimmer Robert Moses (scene possibly shows McCarren Park pool - note archway seen under construction). WPA workers are seen building the new East River Drive, including highways, walks, and flanking parks. Construction workers seen building the roadway, with the Williamsburg Bridge in the background. A model of the project is shown with the new drive from Grand Street to 14th Street. Camera pans down from the Empire State Building to show the roof of the New York Public Library teeming with WPA workers as they remove the old corroded copper roof and replace it with a new metal roof. View of busy Manhattan streets below the workers, including a street car passing by.

Date: 1936
Duration: 3 min 4 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675062811
Churches of Harlem and East Harlem in New York City.

A big building in Harlem, New York City. Rain and snow are falling. Bethel Gospel Pentecostal Assembly (2 E 120th St, New York, NY 10035) at Harlem, New York City. The New York Ephesus Seventh-day Adventist Church (101 W 123rd St, New York, NY 10027, United States). The Ebenezer Gospel Tabernacle Baptist Church (227 Malcolm X Blvd, New York, NY 10027, United States). The Religious Training Institute of America's board informs about the courses and timings at institute and information to contact Reverend P.G. Neil. A Schaefer beer billboard advertisement shows woman named Marva Revis, the Miss Beaux Arts winner of 1963, holding two 6-packs of beer and reads "... When you're having more than one". Views of Mount Olivet Church (201 Malcolm X Blvd, New York, NY 10027). Moore's Temple. Saint Mary's Catholic Church. A Jewish synagogue entrance is also seen, with Hebrew words at the entrance door.

Date: 1963
Duration: 2 min 6 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675035551
New York Airways launches helicopter flights in Manhattan, New York

New York Airways inaugurate a new helicopter air service in New York City shuttling between New York City airports and the heart of Metropolitan New York. Men stand in front of the helicopter before boarding. Passengers boarding the helicopter flight. A New York Airways helicopter taking off from the West 30th Street Heliport in West Manhattan, New York City.

Date: 1958, May 29
Duration: 46 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029302
A man and a woman talk in the light of a kerosene lamp in the United States. Also shows the 1893 DeWitt Clinton replica locomotive and train in operation.

The world struggle for oil is depicted. Use of components of oil in homes and in railroads in the United States is shown. A dramatization shows the effect of a kerosene lamp on social life. A woman seated in a chair near a table in a room. A kerosene lamp in a corner. A man opens the door of the room and walks in. The woman gets up and welcomes the man. They both walk to a seat and sit down. Another woman enters the room. The man stands to greet her. She increases the light of the lamp and then leaves the room. The man decreases the light of the lamp. The man and the woman talk. The 1893 replica of the 1831 DeWitt Clinton steam locomotive is shown in operation with its three carriage train, in New York City. The DeWitt Clinton was the first railroad locomotive to operate on the Mohawk & Hudson Railroad in New York. The reproduction seen here was built in 1893 by the New York Central Railroad for the Columbian Exposition in Chicago. This footage was shot on July 17, 1921 when the DeWitt Clinton train was preparing for a trip to another exposition in Chicago. On this day it ran several times from 96th to 116th streets in New York City. New York Central employees are seen on the drain, dressed as passengers would have been in 1831. This replica was later displayed at Grand Central Terminal in New York City, and is is now on display at The Henry Ford museum in Dearborn Michigan. It was acquired by Henry Ford in 1934, in an agreement with the New York Central that it would continue to travel to events on occasion.

Date: 1921, July 17
Duration: 2 min 50 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050526
New York City Hall, City Hall Park, and New York Stock Exchange in Manhattan, New York

New York City Hall (City Hall Park, New York, NY 10007, United States) in Lower Manhattan, between Broadway, Park Row, and Chambers Street. View across City Hall Park to the City Hall. The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE, 11 Wall St, New York, NY 10005, United States) building with a flag flying on top is shown. The New York high rise buildings. 1942.

Date: 1942
Duration: 45 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675035776
Marilyn Rich performs stunt on rings attached to helicopter, to promote Clothes For Korea campaign

American acrobat Marilyn Rich performs stunts while hanging from a helicopter to promote the ‘Clothes For Korea’ campaign during the Korean War. Marilyn Rich hands bundle of donated clothes to helicopter pilot. The Hess’s Department Store-sponsored helicopter takes off from Palisades Park, New Jersey, with Marilyn Rich riding under the helicopter, holding onto rings attached to ropes beneath it. The helicopter in flight over the New York skyline. Another helicopter equipped with pontoon flies nearby. The female stunt artist shows stunts on the rings, passing by various New York City skyscrapers of the New York City skyline. The helicopter and Marilyn Rich passes near the Statue of Liberty.

Date: 1951, August 27
Duration: 44 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675071433