Refine Your Search

New York City United States USA 1938 stock footage and images

- Showing 55 to 60 of 37703 results
Window cleaners clean windows of skyscrapers like the Empire State of Building and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

Life of a Manhattan window cleaner working on skyscrapers in New York City, United States. The New York skyline. Views of landmark buildings and skyscrapers of Manhattan, New York City. Skyscrapers showing dirty windows. A window cleaner walks on Fifth Avenue, Manhattan. He enters the Empire State Building (20 W 34th St., New York, NY 10001). He enters an office in the building. He attaches a safety belt and steps out of a window. The window cleaner cleans the exterior of the window. Another window cleaner cleans a shop window and wipes the glass. Views of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1000 5th Ave, New York, NY 10028, United States). A window cleaner places a ladder and climbs it up to reach a window. He cleans the window. A window cleaner cleans windowpanes. The window cleaner cleans exterior of the window and gets into office. He goes away after completing his work.

Date: 1945
Duration: 6 min 15 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675072164
Lord Mayor of Liverpool, Edwin Thompson, meets Mayor Jimmy Walker in New York City Hall during official visit

Lord Mayor of Liverpool, Ald. Edwin Thompson, talks with New York City Mayor Jimmy Walker while walking out of the New York City Hall (City Hall Park, New York, NY 10007, United States) during the Lord Mayor’s visit to improve trade relations between Britain and the United States. The Lord Mayor of Liverpool, the British commercial delegation, Mayor Walker, and other officials pose together for a group photograph outside the New York City Hall.

Date: 1931, May 2
Duration: 1 min 8 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675078525
The funeral procession of former New York City Mayor John Mitchel arrives at a chapel in New York City.

The funeral ceremony of former New York City Mayor John Purroy Mitchel in New York City. A horse-drawn caisson followed by Theodore Roosevelt and other funeral participants arrives at a chapel. Pallbearers carry the casket of John Mitchel into Saint Patrick's Cathedral (5th Ave, New York, NY 10022, United States) in Manhattan, New York. Troops lined up in the background. Former United States President Theodore Roosevelt and other funeral participants enter the chapel. Interiors of the chapel. The pallbearers carry the casket out of the Cathedral, followed by a group of priests and the funeral participants.

Date: 1918
Duration: 2 min 6 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675061486
Beatification Ceremony of Mother Cabrini at chapel in New York.

Beatification of Italian American religious sister Frances Xavier Cabrini (Francesca Saverio Cabrini) in New York. Devout Roman Catholics file past the glass coffin bearing the relics of Mother Cabrini, at the chapel in Mother Cabrini High School (701 Fort Washington Avenue Manhattan, New York City, New York 10040 United States). A wax mask of Mother Cabrini’s face covers the saint’s skull. Priest in the chapel during Mother Cabrini's Beatification Ceremony. Nun in Black habit kneels in front of her coffin.

Date: 1938, October 16
Duration: 32 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675043736
German newspapers at a book stall in an area inhabited by Germans in New York, United States.

Area inhabited by Germans in New York City, United States. German newspapers at a news stand or book stall. The exterior of a bookstore showing German signs. People pass in the foreground. Theatre marquee sign in German say “ZWEI LUSTIGE ABENTEUER. H RUEHMANN H KNOTECK. EXTRA PANAY BOMBING EXTRA” (“TWO FUN ADVENTURES. H RUEHMANN H KNOTECK. EXTRA PANAY BOMBING EXTRA “ IN English) at the 86th St Garden Theatre, and “DIE UFA FILMOPERETTE DER BETTELSTUDENT F KAMPERS IDA WUEST” at the Europe Theatre. A person buys a ticket from a movie theater box office. Movie theater admission price in German “Erwachsene 20 Kinder 15” (“Adults 20 Children 15” in English). German sign boards in front of shops, including at address 242 for the Yorkville Camera Exchange and the Yorkville Clothes Shop in Upper Manhattan.

Date: 1938
Duration: 1 min 2 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675074843
Montage of images chronicling the settlement and development of the United States of America over many years.

The last portion of Emma Lazarus’sonnet,"The New Colossus," is shown as engraved on a tablet inside the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty. Illustrations of immigrants arriving and felling trees to build dwellings in America. Reenactments of early English, Scottish, and Dutch settlers building houses and working at crafts in New England. Italian sulphur mine workers in Louisiana. Immigrants, from France and Switzerland, planting vineyards in California and New York State. Danes, Norwegians, and Swedes, sowing seed and cultivating crops in the Midwest. Polish and Welsh immigrants in American coal mines. African Americans harvesting cotton on farm fields in the United States south, including a woman picking cotton with her baby riding on her long collecting bag. A Spaniard on horseback in the Southwest. Mexicans working in Texas oil fields and on ranches of New Mexico. Greek and Portuguese fishermen with huge catches of fish. A German technician working with fine instruments. Hungarian and Russian immigrants working in steel mills. Irish, Slavs, and Chinese, building railroads. Closeup of lumberjack's axes and saws cutting trees. A forge and a blacksmith shoeing a horse with horseshoes. A woman at work with a spinning wheel. Railroad ties and rails being placed. An antique railroad workman's locomotive and car. Men installing telegraph wire on rough poles. A early historic railroad 0-4-0 steam locomotive (appears to be one of the few replicas of "The Atlantic" which had been built in the 1830s) pulling a single small passenger train car. Cowboys on horseback rounding up steers. Herds of cattle,sheep, and pigs, bound to market. Farmers tilling soil with horse-drawn cultivators, preparing tobacco leaves for drying, and loading cotton bales. Machines spinning thread in a textile mill or factory. Fabric weaving machines at work. An early steam boat underway in a river. Early model automobile driving on dirt road. Wright Brothers' Wright Flyer airplane in flight with several persons on board. Early tractors and harvester machinery working on a farm. Glimpses of American industrial plants and transportation in rapid succession (some of it showing building of Hoover Dam and building of the Chrysler Building in New York City). Oil well drilling and a "gusher" oil well spouting oil upward. Steel mills, locomotive trains, and then a scientist in a laboratory working with beakers and a solution. Dynamite charges blasting away sides of mountains and gorges, and scenes of dam construction and dams opening to allow water gushing. Large electrical control levers being thrown to run electricity, and scenes of electric transmission towers and facilities. Natural gas storage areas. Golden Gate bridge under construction and high rise skyscraper buildings being constructed, including the Chrysler Building circa 1930 while still under construction in New York City. Aerial view of New York City. Camera panning over the gravestones in Arlington National Cemetery.

Date: 1939
Duration: 3 min 33 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046104