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March 25, 1937, Amelia Earhart arrives aboard the Matson Liner, Malolo at the Port of Los Angeles in San Pedro from Honolulu

Amelia Earhart stands alongside Fred Noonan aboard the Matson Lines cruise ship Malolo at the Port of Los Angeles in San Pedro on March 25, 1937. She has arrived from Hawaii after her crash at Pearl Harbor's Luke Field. Newsreel cameraman boarded the ship at the Los Angeles harbor entrance to film Earhart's landing. Earhart is seen on deck with her navigator, Fred Noonan. Paul Mantz, her technical advisor holds a cigar. As the party leave the ship, Amelia's husband, George Putnam wearing the hat, is briefly seen following Earhart down the gangplank carrying her bags. Trailing behind Putnam are Fred Noonan, and Paul Mantz. On the dock, Earhart speaks to reporters. To her immediate left is Harry Manning, her radio operator, to her far left is Fred Noonan. To Earhart's right is Paul Mantz.

Date: 1937, March 25
Duration: 1 min 15 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675050176
President Franklin D. and Mrs. (Eleanor) Roosevelt attend Easter Sunday worship services in Washington, DC.

Church choir members in white robes line the sidewalk and enter St. Thomas' Parish Episcopal Church, located at 1772 Church Street, NW, in the Dupont Circle area of Washington, D.C. The President and First Lady are seen arriving in the President's 1937 Packard seven-passenger parade touring car, accompanied by several Secret Service agents, walking beside the car and others riding in a car behind. People gather along the sidewalks to get a glimpse of President and Mrs. Roosevelt. Policemen maintain cordons in front of the sightseers. The Presidential motorcade drives up to an awning-covered side entrance of the stone church. Views of the building in the background. Following the worship service, President Roosevelt poses alongside two clergy from the church: Rev. Howard Sargent Wilkinson (Rector at St. Thomas as of 1936) and Rev. Allen O. Miller, Assistant. to the rector. Mrs. Roosevelt is seen behind in a fur coat. The President uses a cane to steady himself. Later the presidential open car departs (bearing license plate with number 101). It is followed by another car carrying Secret Service agents, bearing license plate reading: "USSS" for U.S. Secret Service. (Note: The Sanctuary building of St. Thomas' Parish Church was destroyed by fire, believed to be result of arson, in 1970.)

Date: 1937
Duration: 1 min 48 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675050177
Former President and Mrs. Herbert Hoover voting in 1940 Presidential election

Herbert Hoover carries a folded ballot to a ballot box, where a woman helps him to insert it. He shakes her hand and walks away. Scene shifts to Hoover filling out a ballot, at a table. A woman is seen in the background bending over and filling out her own ballot. Hoover smiles and gets up from his chair. Next, Mrs.Hoover (Lou Henry) sits at the table filling out her ballot. She stands up and steps away.

Date: 1940
Duration: 51 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675050189
Good wishes and contributions to March of Dimes flood White House for President's Birthday, 1940

U.S. Post Office mail trucks delivering many bags of mail to the White House, Washington, DC, on the occasion of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Birthday, January 30, 1940. Inside, stacks of letters are seen and women sort through them and empty coins from many of them. (These are contributions to the March of Dimes Campaign to fight Polio, instituted by President Roosevelt in 1938.) A huge birthday cake is also seen and men shown carrying it into the White House. Camera focuses again on the stacks of postal letters and coins. Several open letters contain dollar bills, as well. Mail carriers continue to bring in and empty mail bags. (World War II period).

Date: 1940, January
Duration: 1 min 42 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675050200
Large crowd swarms outside the White House to get a glimpse of U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt.

Large crowd gathers outside the White House in Washington DC to get a glimpse of U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt. People wave U.S. flags in their hands. People chant slogan saying, 'We Want Congress'. Thousands of people swarm outside the main entrance of the White House. Some men climb on pillars at the entrance.

Date: 1936
Duration: 3 min 25 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050233
Democrats celebrate FDR's reelection to a second term, as President, during Victory Dinner in Washington DC.

James J Farley, campaign manager and postmaster-general, speaks as reelected President Franklin D. Roosevelt, stands at his side, during Democratic Party victory dinner to celebrate FDR's second term, at the Willard Hotel, in Washington, DC. Vice President, John Nance Garner joins Roosevelt and Farley, at the podium. Scenes are partly interupted, as National Anthem is played. The President's son, James Roosevelt, approaches the podium, shakes hands with Garmer, and speaks briefly to his father who hands him a paper. View from a balcony, of the celebrants in formal attire mingling and socializing.

Date: 1937, March 4
Duration: 2 min 47 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050248