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Men and women at work in various factories and industries in Palestine.
Factories and industries in Palestine. Factories and industries in Palestine. A worker slides stockings onto display forms. Machinery shaking materials through fabric cylinders into trays in a factory. A worker inspects a new set of dentures. Women work in a telephone exchange. They wear headsets and operate a manual switchboard. Women tending machinery in a fabric factory. Grinding wheels creating flour. Women work on tiny articles at tables in a factory. A paper sorting machine in use.
Palestinians enter a room to listen to orchestra and woman rehearses on piano in Palestine.
Palestinians come to listen to orchestra in Palestine. Palestinian men and women enter a room. Poster on the wall reads 'The Palestine Orchestra'. Woman rehearses on a piano. Orchestra leader instructs the woman.
Teachers and students in classrooms at the Bialik Hebrew Day School in Neve Shanan, Palestine.
The Bialik Hebrew Day School in Neve Shanan, Palestine. Interior of a classroom. Children seated at desk in the classroom. Teacher writes on the blackboard. Children read and listen to the teacher raising hands. They write in their notebooks. Another teacher teaches a class of senior students. He writes in Hebrew on the blackboard. Students read from the blackboard. Photograph on the wall, of Henrietta Szold (founder of Hadassah, a Jewish women's organization of volunteers that promoted education, public health initiatives, and the training of nurses, among other beneficial programs, in Palestine).
Jewish refugees as their train departs for cities in Palestine
Jewish refugee men and women and children from Europe leaving a Palestine train station for cities in Palestine after World War II. Jewish men and women crowd the platform of a train station. They form a line as officers inspect their papers before boarding. A man on the platform speaks to a woman with children looking from the train window. An old Jewish woman walking on the train platform. Passengers begin to board the train. View of the steam locomotive train before departure. Men taking their luggage and belongings on the platform. A woman says good-bye to a child on the train. Another woman says goodbye to a man. Station officers and civilians from the platform watch the train leave the station.
Influx of European immigrants in America in search of jobs and shelter from 1880 to 1914.
European immigration to America from 1880 to 1914. A farmer and team of horses are silhouetted against the sky as they move in a field. They pull what appears to be a field kitchen and a thresher. Scene changes to men working at a drilling site. They appear to be discharging water from a well. Men with horses and rigs, lined up near a passing steam locomotive and railroad train. A dirt road in a town, cluttered with horses and wagons. Telegraph poles and lines are visible. A woman immigrant from Russia, recounts her imagined views of America being a land of milk and honey where fortunes could be easily made. View of an immigrant family. View of shanty houses clustered together around 1900. A family poses outside their rough dwelling in a city. Children pose near a huge cotton bale by a city storefront. A family poses on a rickety 2nd story iron porch on a building. Brief views of new immigrant families inside their slum dwellings. An historian speaking, notes that the East side (of New York City) had population density equivalent to that of Bombay,India.
Immigrants from Europe, arriving from 1880 to 1914, participate in the working life of America.
Two new immigrant man are seen on bunks in a tenement in New York City, where the narrator says nine out of ten immigrants arrived in the period from 1880 to 1914. Two women pose, sitting beside a sleeping child in a tenement. An immigrant speaks about the hardship of arriving in a strange land where he did not speak the language and felt "lost." He says he gradually overcame that by going to night school to learn a little English and to read and write. He says he made a nice living as a peddler, and expressed appreciation for the opportunities America gave to immigrants. In the next scene, children enjoy rides on a traveling merry-go-round visiting their neighborhood. The operator runs it manually, by turning a wheel. View of children riding and others watching on the street. Streams of pedestrians crossing a bridge across a busy city street. Pedestrians on sidewalks and horse-drawn wagons and electrified street cars moving on the street in the commercial center of a city. Workers heading home after their shift in a factory. View of workers producing products in a factory. A line of women punching a time clock at their place of work. Women working in a clothing factory. Men standing atop a shipment of steel rails for the building of a railroad. Views of rails being moved into position for a new segment of the railroad. Glimpse of a steam shovel scooping a bucket full of raw material. Black smoke rising from funnel on a steam locomotive, and also from nearby steam shovel. Iron workers on a the wide open upper floors of the 60-story skyscraper Woolworth Building under construction in Lower Manhattan, New York City, in 1911. Pilings being put in place for a new building. Riveters guiding a section of steel column into place for a new building . Views inside a heavy manufacturing plant of the W. E. & M. company in New York City. Their products appear to be large dynamos and motors. View of the Statue of Liberty on Bedloe's Island in New York harbor, with its arm appearing to hold up a full moon.
