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Still photos show America from 1876 through the turn of the century, focusing on immigrants, westward expansion, hard labor, and pioneer spirit.
Newspaper headlines from 1876 note Kansas as a territory for pioneer settlement...."Farms and Homes in Kansas!" and "To the Black Hills" Farmers with their families in front of prairie homes. Barn raising. A village along the side of a river. School children. A child's coffin. Men drinking together. A string quartet. A man making violins. Railroad construction crews laying rails, clearing rocks, and building trestle bridges, including Chinese workers and laborers during expansion or railway to the west. European immigrants on ships and just arrived on land, possibly at Ellis Island. Logging camps and loggers cutting trees. Large scale farming and market. Coal mining and other mining activities. Child coal miners and child labor. Industrial steel forging. Factory with train switch yard. Immigrant ghettos in American cities. Immigrant women sewing piece work. Immigrant children.
Tourists walk along a path near the Niagara Falls and water flows over the edges.
'Niagara Falls' shows the Niagara Falls in Canada and America. An animated diagram of the terrain from Lake Eire to Lake Ontario through the Niagara Falls. View of a wide river. View of fast moving rapids. The tourists on an island in the river. They walk along a path. The fall in the background. View of the falls from the river. The water falls and a bridge in background. Tourists stand at the lookout point near the edge of the falls. View of water flowing over the edge.
Nazi Germany Luftwaffe bombers bomb Leningrad's industrial area and sink the battleship Marat during the Siege of Leningrad.
The Nazi Germany attempt to capture Leningrad during the Siege of Leningrad in World War 2. A map depicts Leningrad in the USSR. German artillery bombards Kronstadt on the Kotlin Island. An artillery barrel as it is fired. Soldiers load and fire artillery guns. Smoke due to the explosions. German aircraft attack the Kronstadt harbor. Explosions in the water. A soldier mans a gun. The Soviet battleship Marat (Petropavlovsk) is hit by a German Junker Ju 87 or Stuka. The battleship enveloped in smoke. German Luftwaffe bombers in flight overhead. The aircraft bomb the industrial area of Leningrad. The bombs descend to the target area. Smoke due to the explosions.
James Meredith resumes his 'March Against Fear' from the spot where he was shot in Mississippi.
American Civil Rights Movement figure James Meredith resumes his 'March Against Fear' through Mississippi. He begins his march from the spot where he was shot a year earlier. Meredith marches ahead with his supporters and the press. Ray Rickman, who would go on to become deputy Secretary of State for Rhode Island, is seen walking behind Meredith. Men seated on a car watch the group march. African American men and women outside a building. He urges the African Americans to vote in the upcoming Gubernatorial election.
Operation Road's End, the destruction of the Japanese submarine fleet. Views from USS Everett F Larson escorting the submarines
April 1, 1946: “Operation “Road’s End.” View from the Destroyer, USS Everett F. Larson (DD-830) as it accompanies Imperial Japanese Navy submarines headed out of Sasebo Bay, headed to "Point Deep Six," (reportedly about 60 km west of Nagasaki and off the Gotō Islands) where they are to be scuttled by demolition charges and/or gunfire from the Larson or the USS Nereus (AS-17) (not seen). Captain Bell and Commander D.A. Mckee are seen on deck of the Larson with a Japanese interpreter who is issuing instructions to the skeleton Japanese crews through a megaphone. Views of the submarines underway.
Submarines of the Japanese fleet, being sunk during Operation Road's End, after World War II
Operation Road's End. Japanese submarines being sunk after World War II. A U.S. Navy Martin PBM Mariner flying boat circles over several Imperial Japanese submarines as they are being scuttled and/or sunk by gunfire on April 1, 1946, off the Goto Islands, of Japan. Smoke drifts over the water from charges ignited aboard a sub. One of the submarines explodes raising a surge of water and huge black cloud. Clear view of a U.S. Baltimore class Cruiser with two scout planes aboard. Sailors watch from the U.S. Destroyer, USS Everett F. Larson (DD-830) as a submarine slips below the surface. Another submarine explodes and sinks. Gunfire from the Larson strikes another submarine. Smoke from the Larson's guns drifts in front of the camera. Closeup of the Larson's forward 5-inch guns, turned to starboard, firing.
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