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United States Army balloon descends in New York, United States.

Liberty Loan Drive in United States during World War I. United States Army balloon descends in New York as people gathered around look at it. A plane in flight.

Date: 1918
Duration: 40 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675048773
The funeral procession of former New York City Mayor John Mitchel passes along 5th Avenue in New York City.

The funeral ceremony of former New York City Mayor John Mitchel in New York City. The funeral procession on 5th Avenue, Manhattan, New York City shows United States Army soldiers and Navy sailors marching along the avenue and passing under triumphal arch of Washington Square (Washington Square, New York, NY 10012). A horse-drawn caisson followed by Theodore Roosevelt and other funeral participants along the avenue. A crowd lined up on sidewalks. Access to the street is blocked by parked street cars.

Date: 1918
Duration: 1 min 11 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675061485
Parades in Washington DC and New York City to promote the sale of Fourth Liberty Loan supporting World War 1

Scenes from two World War I Liberty Bond drives. First scenes are in Washington D.C.during World War I. United States Navy sailors march down the Pennsylvania Avenue. A naval band plays and men carrying American flags march down the Avenue. The United States Capitol in the background. Landmarks seen include: Post Office Building and Willard Hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue. A street car is seen and a sign advertising Kelly Springfield Tires is clearly seen from Pennsylvania Avenue. A newsboy carrying papers (newspaper boy, newsie). A truck with a banner on it to promote the sale of Fourth Liberty Loan. Sailors march and the naval band plays as they move past the Old Executive Office Building. John Phillip Sousa conducts a massive Navy brass band from the steps of the Capitol. Around 1:07 scene change to a Liberty Loan parade on 5th Avenue in New York City. A sign reads "Over the Top. The Fourth Liberty Loan Must be Made a Glorious Success. United Waist League of America." Sign on side of building for C.G. Gunther's Sons Fur Company (391 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan). U.S. Navy sailors among military groups parading on Fifth Avenue. A group of officials including United States Vice President Thomas Marshall and New York Governor Charles Whitman in coats and top hats are seen near the Altar of Liberty during the parade. With them is a U.S. Army chaplain in military uniform with a sign on him that reads "Lend !"

Date: 1918, September 28
Duration: 1 min 33 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675042479
A graph shows a sudden increase in the deaths in New York City due to 1918 influenza pandemic and other diseases.

A graph shows a sudden increase in the deaths due to influenza in New York City during the 1918 Spanish flu epidemic. Spike in the graph is shown for the 1918 influenza outbreak. Slide states "A steady decline of the death rate is shown by communities in which an intelligent public uses the results of scientific knowledge." A strata chart shows the deaths per one thousand people during the period from each of pneumonias, tuberculosis, and cerebro-spinal meningitis, and then deaths from the diseases summed. A chart at the end reads, "What sciences hope to do" and then it reads "Reduce all transmissible diseases to 0 - With the cooperation of an intelligent public."

Date: 1924
Duration: 2 min 40 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032277
World War I armistice celebrations; Allied soldiers being decorated by General Pershing

People celebrate on the streets of New York after the Germans sign the armistice agreement ending World War 1 on November 11, 1918. People cheer and wave their caps. A French couple thanks Allied soldiers for rescuing them from Germany. Allied soldiers lined up in a field in France as U.S. General John J. Pershing decorates them. Troops of the United States 42nd Division march at a parade as General Pershing reviews them. Soldiers carry American flags at the parade.

Date: 1918, November 11
Duration: 2 min 9 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675042395
America embraces marksmanship training after Spanish-American War. American troops fire weapons in World War I

The uses and importance of weapons since ancient times in the United States. Pages showing U.S Congress Act creating the National Bureau for the Promotion of Rifle Practice, 1903. Exteriors of the 71st Regiment National Guard Armory building in New York City at Park Avenue and 33rd Street. People enter the building. German troops on parade circa 1914. American troops mobilized for World War 1, and traveling on troop trains in 1918. Troops moving along a muddy road, with military supplies in wagons being pulled by horses. American soldiers firing their 1903 Springfield rifles, from a bunker in France. Americans firing a M1914 Hotchkiss air-cooled machine gun and another U.S. gun crew firing a Browning M1917 water-cooled machine gun. U.S. troops wearing gas masks, firing a trench mortar. American gun crew firing a 155mm howitzer (as some hold their ears).French troops walk past destroyed buildings above which a blimp is seen flying with French observers in a gondola suspended underneath.

Date: 1918
Duration: 1 min 35 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675065962