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A waterfall in the Catskill mountains of New York State

Library of Congress Slate states that this Edison film of July 31, 1897, was restored in 1996, from the Paper Print Collection. The scene is named: Waterfall in the Catskills. It depicts Haines' Falls in the Catskill Mountains, New York. (Filmed by Edison Company, June 1897, and copyrighted July 31, 1897)

Date: 1897, June
Duration: 33 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675071526
Spectators seated in the stands cheer for riders during the Suburban Handicap horse race in New York, United States.

Paper print. Very early motion picture documentary. The Suburban Handicap in New York, United States in the year 1897. Riders mounted on horseback move through the race course before the race. The race begins. Spectators seated in stands cheer for the riders. Jockeys pet their horses after the race.

Date: 1897
Duration: 1 min 37 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675073430
Thoroughbred horses racing at Sheepshead Bay Race Track in New York, United States.

Paper print. Early motion picture documentary. A horse race at Sheepshead Bay Race Track in Brooklyn,New York,United States in the year 1897. Thoroughbred horses racing at the track. Spectators seated in the stands. Jockeys pet their horses after the race.

Date: 1897
Duration: 38 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675073431
Advances in early 1900's transportation and workers' living conditions in New York City, United States

'Wheels of Fortune' depicts how the inter-development of the automobile and the public road system (1897-1927) caused the growth of suburban areas. View of two men as they ride a tandem bicycle for two on a city street. A horse carriage approaches a house. A woman gets off and climbs the steps to a house. Women on bicycles in the countryside wearing late 1800's early 1900's fashions. They stop to look at blossoming trees by the roadside. Next scene shows workers seated outside a factory. They eat lunch from packed dinner pails. View of high density tenements and slums of New York City with laundry hanging on clotheslines and the Brooklyn Bridge can be seen in the distance. View of railroad tracks running immediately beside closely packed tenement buildings of New York City residents.

Date: 1927
Duration: 2 min 0 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675031458
Scenes of New York City buildings and of the New York World's Fair in 1940

From the Ford Motor Company produced film, "Scenes From the World of Tomorrow" documenting the 1939-1940 World's Fair in New York City. View of buildings of the New York World's Fair of 1940. The Brooklyn Bridge. Aerial view of Manhattan Island, New York City. Skyscrapers of New York City including the Chrysler Building and the Empire State Building. New York Harbor and ships in the harbor. View of the buildings of the New York Worlds Fair in the distance in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, as seen from high in a skyscraper of New York City. The Fair's Trylon and Perisphere stand out. People walk along the sides of fountains and waterways at the fair. Crowds milling about, bands marching, dancers performing. Flags of many nations flying on the flag poles. Celebration of the 150th anniversary of George Washington, as the first President of the United States and a statue of George Washington. A bus moves on the street. Fountains and a small bridge near a waterway. Pavilions of nations of England, Japan, and Italy. The USA building and some of the buildings of U.S. States including Maine and Florida. Fountains and waterways of the fair. Woman and two girls eat ice cream cones. A Raymond Loewy - designed S1 experimental streamlined locomotive created for the Pennsylvania Railroad. Pavilions of American Telephone & Telegraph and of United States Steel Corporation, also of Westinghouse, Goodrich, Chrysler, and General Motors.

Date: 1940
Duration: 4 min 9 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675028517
New York State Governor Franklin Roosevelt (FDR) swims in pool; Mayor Jimmy Walker arriving in New York Court to answer corruption allegations

New York State Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) swims with family and friends in swimming pool, installed in an old greenhouse in the New York State Executive Mansion in Albany, New York (138 Eagle St, Albany, NY 12202, United States). Franklin Roosevelt laughs and passes a ball while swimming. View of New York State Supreme Court Building in Manhattan, New York City (60 Centre Street New York, NY, United States). With his entourage, Franklin D. Roosevelt climbs the stair to enter the New York State Supreme Court Building. Flamboyant New York City Mayor Jimmy Walker enters the New York State Supreme Court Building, to answer allegations of corruption before the investigative Seabury Commission of Judge Samuel Seabury. Courtroom full of people watching the investigation into corruption within the administration of Mayor Jimmy Walker.

Date: 1930
Duration: 1 min 14 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079077
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