View of crowd of 200,000 supporters during Franklin Roosevelt’s presidential campaign in Newark, New Jersey, during the Great Depression. Crowds clapping as former New York Governor, Al Smith, endorses Franklin Roosevelt. “The best way to bring back prosperity, the election of Roosevelt, Garner and the entire Democratic ticket!” Smith concludes his endorsement to the roaring cheer of the crowd.
Presidential tour of proposed Gateway National Recreation Area in New York and New Jersey. U.S. President Richard M. Nixon, standing in front of the Presidential Aircraft at Newark Airport, Newark, New Jersey, with Governor William Thomas Cahill, of New Jersey, Governor Nelson Rockefeller, of New York, Mayor Kenneth Allen Gibson, of Newark, and Mayor John Lindsay, of New York City. The President's helicopter maneuvering over the proposed Gateway National Recreation Area. President Nixon speaking about the project in Hangar 14 at Newark Airport, Newark, N.J. Seated on the stage are: Governor Cahill, Secretary of Interior, Rogers C.B. Morton, Governor Rockefeller, Mayor Gibson, and Mayor Lindsay. The President shakes hands with the Governors and Mayors after concluding his remarks.
Spectators watch as Charles A. Lindbergh and his wife, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, arrive by car at the Newark, New Jersey airport, where they are to try out a new Lockheed Model 8A Sirius ( Altair ) airplane, the first model equipped with retractable landing gear. Mrs.Lindbergh climbs into the rear cockpit and closes her canopy. Colonel Lindbergh converses with a Lockheed official as he climbs into the front cockpit. The aircraft taxis out and takes off. (Note: This is not the Lindberghs' airplane. This aircraft displays "NR-119-W" on its tail. It was actually purchased by the U.S. Army Air Corps as USAAC Y1C-25, number 32-393, and was damaged beyond repair in a belly up landing accident at Wright Field, Ohio, in June, 1932.)
Long Dance Grind in Dreamland Park Pavilion, Newark, New Jersey. Joie Ray teamed with Alice Krug of St Albans. Contestants dance in pavilion. Audience watches and claps. Man shaves while his partner holds the mirror and water container. They come to table and eat food. Tired men and women lean on their partners. A woman carries another woman and put her on bed. Man carries his partner. A woman gets a letter which reads 'Ludille, When are you coming home? Children are crying for you.' A man falls. A man sleeps on his partner's shoulder, while she reads newspaper.
Alfred Samuel Smith popularly called Al Smith gives a speech in Newark. Light decoration on a road. Cars move around. A huge crowd gathered at a place. Al Smith speaks on microphone. Crowd cheers and raise hands. People wave and raise American flags. Flags formed of lights and top curvature of gate also decorated with lights. Two posters on each side of a gate. Eminent people sit on chairs on a stage.
Post-war home front activities in New Jersey, United States, shortly after the end of World War II. Locomotive train running on railroad tracks through the main street center of Passaic New Jersey. The Great Falls of the Passaic River is seen (now part of the Paterson Great Falls National Historical Park) with a power generating facility in the foreground. Views of various industries in the Passaic area, some deriving power from the falls. Factory workers seen outside a large industrial factory as they enter it. Narrator notes that the factories are being converted to peace time production. Women seen working in a textile mill. View of bolts of cloth, sewing, and looms. Steel mill activities. A factory making wood veneer or cardboard or thick paper. A man operates an industrial machine. Women sew clothes. Workers work on machines. View of street signs, buildings, pedestrians, and traffic with 1940s era automobiles and buses at the intersection of Broad Street and Market Street, in the Four Corners District of Newark, New Jersey. Narrator describes it as the 3rd most busy intersection in the world. Boats in Lake Hopatcong. A boat launch area at the lake and some people on the lake shore. A woman wearing a swimming cap dives into the lake from a dock.
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