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.
Unemployed men in Newark, New Jersey during the Great Depression. Disturbance at railroad and dockyard being brought under control by policemen on horseback. Train and ships in background. A sign reads 'No men wanted'. Men sleep on park benches. A man holds a sign reading 'Unemployed'. Men sleep in doorways Sidewalk soup kitchen. View of shacks and an order by the Department of Health declaring them unfit for human habitation and ordering them vacated at once. Order is signed by Charles V. Craster, M,D, D.P.H., Health Officer.
Films of the Newark New Jersey Fire Department responding to fire alarms. Two segments are seen.The first shows a Hook and Ladder truck coming out of the firehouse of Hook and Ladder Company Number 1. It is followed by a pumper from the Engine Company and another truck full of firemen. They are all led by Chief Kiersted with his driver in a four-wheel open two-seater horse-drawn Victoria carriage. After a pause, the second segment shows rear of a passing Hook and ladder and then a succession of other firefighting vehicles, including another Hook and Ladder, 3 smoking pumpers, and several trucks filled with firemen. There is light snow visible on the ground in this segment. Spectators watch with great interest from the sidewalk. (Edison Company, 1896)
American aviator Robert Nietzel Buck boards his aircraft in Newark, New Jersey for the junior transcontinental air speed record. Robert Buck board his PA-6 Pitcairn Mailwing named 'Yankee Clipper'. Yankee Clipper taxis and takes off.
Hundreds of orphan children stand in long queues outside the Branford Theater in Newark, New Jersey. Children donated free movie tickets by Warner Brothers. Children wave at the camera.
Salem Barrack demonstrates his miniature 'Ornithopter', a flying machine, at the Newark Airport in New Jersey. The elastic powered plane makes a successful flight of several minutes.
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