Pedestrians creating havoc by jaywalking in the midst of streaming traffic on busy streets in New York City, United States. Several trapped in middle of the street with trafffic passing them on both sides. In accord with a new city anti-Jaywalking ordinance, a policeman nabs one jaywalker and writes him a ticket (issues a summons) for the offense.
U.S. Naval officer William Anderson is conferred the Legion of Merit in Washington DC, United States. U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower present at a ceremony in the White House in honor of William Anderson completed a submerged transit across the North Pole aboard U.S. Navy submarine USS Nautilus . President Eisenhower and Anderson with military personnel and government officials. Photographers taking pictures. Several officials seated. President Eisenhower presents the Legion of Merit to William Anderson. The President shakes hands with him. William Anderson shows the course of his voyage on a map. 'Cruise of the Nautilus' written on the map. Anderson smiles. The submarine in water. Water splashing against the submarine.
Allied air raid on Hamburg, Germany during World War II. United States 8th Air Force aircraft take off from an airfield in England. The aircraft in a formation flight. Bombs are released and impact the ground. Smoke rises as the bombs detonate. Aerial photographs depict industrial plants, docks being destroyed by the aerial bombings. Aerial gunners fire at enemy fighter airplanes as they return to home base after the mission. Damaged aircraft return after the mission A wounded being placed on a litter. Royal Air Force aircraft take off for aerial bombing at night. The aircraft in flight as they drop bombs over Hamburg at night.
A funeral procession in Harlem, New York, United States for slain African American communist Alfred Levy and communist Gonzalo Gonzales, killed a day apart in altercations with police and Garvey movement participants. A large number of people on streets during the funeral procession for the two communists. African Americans and whites march in the procession carrying banners and flags. A banner reads 'A mass funeral demonstration'.
The Federal Prison, or United States Penitentiary, Atlanta, located in Atlanta, Georgia. Exterior view of the federal prison in Atlanta. Smoke rises from smoke stacks. Interiors of the prison with cell blocks. Footage from early in the 20th century.
A laundry in operation in the city of Chicago, Illinois, United States. Shirts being starched as girls run a collar and cuff starching machine. The shirts piled up on a table. Dampening machines in operation during dampening and ironing process. Women workers mend torn garments and replace missing buttons as they work on sewing machines.
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