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Influx of foreign immigrants add to total population in Northeastern States of the United States.

Animated map of Northeastern United States bounded with Middle States and Southeastern States. Map depicts geographical condition of Northeastern States. Map marks States of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. Map shows Northeastern settlement during colonial period by Scotch, English, Dutch, Germans, and Swedes. Also shows influx of French Canadians during early 19th century and immigrants from different countries occupying urban Northeastern centers. Map explains the population occupying region.

Date: 1942
Duration: 2 min 50 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675060048
Traffic stranded by the Great Blizzard of 1947 in New York City

The Great Blizzard of 1947 hits New York City in the United States. Program host Dennis James introduces. A snow-covered bus drives through 1947 blizzard in New York City. Snow covers the William Tecumseh Sherman Memorial at Grand Army Plaza in New York City. A taxi cab turns a corner through heavy snow. Pedestrians struggling through blizzard as they walk. Sedan slipping and hitting curb. Heavy snow falling through spot light. Aerial view of New York City skyline after blizzard, including Central Park, and St. Patrick’s Cathedral. Parked cars on the street covered in 26 inches of heavy snow after snowstorm. Parked city buses blocking street in New York City after snowfall. Heavy snow covers ships in New York Harbor and railway tracks. Stranded passengers drink hot beverages inside a subway train car. Snow removal in New York City by snowplows after the blizzard. New York City. Times Square covered under heavy snow, with only a few people. Men shoveling snow from their cars. Park Ave. at E. 77 street sign. Dennis James wraps up the program by advertising the United States Marine Corps.

Date: 1947, December 25
Duration: 3 min 1 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078923
Examples of Italian-American mutuality. Italian restaurants and marble show rooms in New York City, United States

Italian influence in American life. in A showroom of "Italian Marble Mosaic", in New York City. Interior of the showroom. Street level views of Manhattan buildings under construction with Italian marble being used for their exteriors. View of Empire State Building (20 W 34th St, New York, NY 10001, United States). Aircraft from various airlines at New York Idlewild airport. DC-4 and DC-6 aircraft of Eastern Airlines, SAS Scandinavian Airlines and Pan American Airways. Passengers disembark from an Linee Aeree Italiane (also known as Alitalia) aircraft. An orange airport police car on the tarmac. Linee Aeree Italiane office in Manhattan, with prospective tourist travelers. The Italian Ocean liner, "Cristoforo Colombo" in the Hudson River, is passed by the ferry boat "Weehawken" of the New York Central System. The Cristoforo Colombo docking and unloading Italian goods. Men bring Italian fabrics into the Manhattan shop of Italian designer, Anthony Blotto, where they are examined and admired by women. Anthony Blotto and his staff create women’s fashions from the fabrics, which are modeled in his salon. View of Empire State Building. Sign for Toffenetti's Restaurant (151 W 42nd St, New York, NY 10036, United States) is shown. Many neon lighted signs on New York City streets at night.

Date: 1956
Duration: 2 min 21 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Italian
Clip: 65675041848
Infantry units march, and floats are seen, during War Parade on Fifth Avenue in New York City, United States (WW2)

War Parade on Fifth Avenue, in New York City, United States during World War II. United States flags raised on the buildings. The first float in the Parade is called "Death Rides" and is an effigy of Death, as a cloaked skeleton, astride a gray horse, beating Nazi swastika drums. Another float , entitled: "Pearl Harbor", depicts a Japanese man (Hideki Tojo) stabbing Uncle Sam in the back prodded by other Axis leaders, German leader Adolf Hitler and Italian fascist leader Benito Mussolini. A Boy Scout Band marches and plays. Boy Scouts of America carry massed American flags. A huge crowd of spectators gathered on the sidewalks. Jeeps and tanks take part in parade. Units of Army and Navy participate in parade. A band of bagpipers in Scottish garb. British and American flags lead contingents of British troops. Unit of U.S. Womens Army Corps (WAC) parades. Policemen all along the line of march.

Date: 1942, June 13
Duration: 1 min 55 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675053916
People throng to cathedrals and participate in the Easter parade in New York City

New Yorkers celebrate Easter Sunday in different churches across the city. A woman GI presents 'By Request' for the Army Navy Screen Magazine' in the United States. GIs from New York request a glimpse of Easter. A large crowd lines the sidewalk, Roman Catholic churchgoers enter the St. Patrick's Cathedral (5th Ave, New York, NY 10022, United States). Civilians and women GIs among the crowd. Cars pass by on the road outside the St. John's Cathedral (1047 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY 10025, United States). Episcopalian GIs enter the cathedral. Women GIs pose on the cathedral steps. A Gi kisses a woman GI. People emerge from the cathedral. Mount Olivet Baptist Church: Good Friday and Holy Week Service banners at the cathedral entrance. African American families emerge from the Mount Olivet Baptist Church (201 Malcolm X Blvd, New York, NY 10027, United States) in Harlem. An African American man with his two little girls. The Easter parade on 5th Avenue. Policemen keep vigil. Women in elaborate coats and hats. GIs and young boys in the parade. American industrialist Henry J Kaiser and his wife. Easter flowers on display. New York girls and children.

Date: 1945
Duration: 1 min 52 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675031224
The Philippines under Japanese occupation, liberation by allied forces, Philippine Independence ceremony.

The Philippines under Japanese occupation, liberation, and subsequent granting of independence by the United States in World War 2. Bodies of Filipino and United States soldiers killed during the Japanese invasion of the Philippines. Captured American, Filipino, and Australian soldiers raise their hands after the Fall of Corregidor. United States General Jonathan M. Wainwright negotiating the surrender of The Phillipines with Japanese General Masaharu Homma in 1942. Brigadier General Lewis C. Beebe and Major Thomas Dooley are seen to Wainwright's left. An American warship firing during the United States Pacific campaign to defeat Japanese occupying forces in the Pacific. United States soldiers get off an amphibious landing craft during the U.S. retaking of the Philippines. United States General Douglas MacArthur arrival in Leyte Gulf with a retinue consisting of Philippine President-in-exile Sergio Osmeña, Lieutenant General Richard Sutherland, Philippine Brigadier General Carlos P. Romulo, Major General Courtney Whitney, Philippine Sergeant Francisco Salveron and CBS Radio correspondent William J. Dunn in Palo, Leyte, the Philippines- a fulfillment of his promise to return to the Philippines. General Douglas MacArthur speaking at the Independence Day ceremony in Manila on July 4, 1946. “America never wavered in that purpose. America today redeems that pledge.” Says General MacArthur. United States Senator Millard Tydings, the co-sponsor of the Tydings–McDuffie Act (a law that provides independence to the Philippines after a 10-year transition as a Commonwealth) attends the ceremony. Paul V. McNutt, the United States High Commissioner of the Philippine Commonwealth (later the first United States Ambassador to the Philippines), reads the United States President Harry Truman's official proclamation of Philippine Independence. Filipino elites and United States dignitaries watch the ceremony in the Independence Grandstand (a temporary structure built in front of the Rizal Monument). Manuel Roxas being sworn in as the first President of the Philippines after gaining independence from the United States. The Philippine national anthem, Lupang Hinirang, plays in the background. High Commissioner McNutt lowers the United States flag from the flagpole as President Manuel Roxas raises the flag of the new Republic of the Philippines. A celebratory parade following the Independence ceremony takes place, which includes floats from various provinces in the country. A float with signs reading: "Let's Produce and Rebuild,". "Mountain Province" float with women wearing formal Filipino Baro’t Saya gowns. "The City of Manila" float with soldiers. "The University of the Philippines" (UP) float featuring two women dressed as allegorical figures and sign saying, “The University of the Philippines At the Service of the State”. "The Division of City Schools" float features two Filipinos in traditional attire in front of a Statue of Liberty model. A float, likely belonging to the National Library of the Philippines, with children and a huge book model. The Chamber of Commerce Philippines float contains a machine gear model and small models of an aircraft and a ship. American soldiers marching, carrying the United States flag. A military marching band play. Filipino soldiers marching with the Philippine flag. Military aircraft in flight above the Independence Grandstand in Manila.

Date: 1946, July 4
Duration: 3 min 3 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079150