Funeral of Italian conductor Arturo Toscanini at Saint Patrick’s Cathedral (5th Ave, New York, NY 10022, United States) in New York City. Street level, exterior view of St. Patrick's Cathedral. View of interior of the cathedral, as the funeral mass is being conducted. The altar and numerous candles lit for the famed conductor. A statue of the Virgin Mary and candles in an altar. Pallbearers carry the coffin from the cathedral and place it into a hearse. The back of the hearse covered with floral tributes.
Armistice celebrations in New York City. Large smiling and jubilant crowd gathers on roads and sidewalks. Ticker tape and ribbons float in air down from skyscrapers and buildings. Cars and trucks on the road. The Flag of United States on a building. Happy, cheering, raucous crowd. Men in crowd tip their hats. Clock on road shows time as 35 minutes past 2. Cars on road. People stand beside roads and cheer.
Employment for African Americans in the Great Depression provided by Works Progress Administration (WPA) Projects in New York, United States. Unskilled workers gather at construction site. Workers work at improvement projects. They pick rocks and put on truck. Crane in the background. Worker on picker, it picks mud and put it on dumper. Workers work on road and drive leveler, dumper on site. Workers on WPA housing demolishing project break down old houses and construct comfort sanitary apartments. Skilled workers work on swimming pools and bath houses at Colonial Park.
Employment for African Americans in the Great Depression provided by Works Progress Administration (WPA) Projects in New York, United States. African American students in an adult school write in a note book. Teacher writes on blackboard. Young men and women learn Spanish from a volunteer from Nation Youth Administration. Boy learns work of a lab assistant and work on a machine. Men and women learn clerical work of filing, checking and new work as abstraction. A woman learns typing.
Employment for African American citizens provided by Works Progress Administration (WPA) Projects in New York, United States, during the Great Depression. Rehabilitation program for African American women. Women in household or housekeeper training school learn cooking, making salad and baking. Woman sprinkle salt on salad and pull out a plate from oven. Women learn to make bed. They spread sheet over bed and cover pillows. Women in health education program learn first aid for children. Nurse demonstrates to fold child in a blanket with a dummy. Woman gives food. Women in a sewing room work on sewing machine. Man and woman put clothes in boxes.
Employment for African Americans provided by Works Progress Administration (WPA) Projects in New York, United States, during the Great Depression. African American men and women of an art song group learn classical music. They sing chorus. William Lawrence sits on piano and sings along.
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