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People of Nova Scotia experiencing hard times in the 1920s.

Map showing Nova Scotia, Canada, the USA, and Atlantic Ocean. Fishermen, farmers and miners of Eastern Nova Scotia, living in poverty in the 1920s. People walking past mine shaft; a woman in her home preparing salt cod and fried potatoes for an old man and young boy. Children poorly clad. Rocky unproductive soil with sheep grazing among the rocks and stones. Worker in cap standing in front of factory stacks belching black smoke. Farmers working on road repair crews to supplement their meager incomes. Women doing the farm work without help. Miners leaving the shaft site and the slum housing in which they live. Children in the slums. Non-plastered brick houses, some with wooden roof are seen.

Date: 1922
Duration: 3 min 50 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023745
The St. Louis Cardinals beat the Philadelphia Athletics in the World Series baseball championship game played in Philadelphia.

The World Series baseball championship game being played in Shibe Park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A crowd in the stands. U.S. President Herbert Hoover watches the game between the St. Louis Cardinals and the Philadelphia Athletics. The game in progress. The crowd cheers in the stands. The St. Louis Cardinals beats the Philadelphia Athletics with a score of 5-2. The crowd on the playground after the game is over.

Date: 1931, October 5
Duration: 2 min 21 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675075506
Philadelphia beats Chicago to win the 1929 World Series at Shibe Park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Camera pans across the stadium at Shibe Park, in Philadelphia, during the 5th game of the 1929 World Series, between the Philadelphia Athletics and the Chicago Cubs. It focuses on U.S. President Herbert Hoover, standing in private box of Athletics part-owner,Tom Shibe, with First Lady Lou Henry Hoover, at his right. Mrs Harry Mackey, and her husband, Philadelphia Mayor, Harry Arista Mackey, are standing to the President's left. Patriotic bunting is placed on the railing in front of them. Scene shifts to the infield viewed from right center field. Views of infield as play is underway. Athletics' Miller hitting a stand-up double and Haas rounding the bases with a home run that helped the Athletics to beat the Cubs by 3-2 in this 5th and final game of the series.

Date: 1929, October 14
Duration: 1 min 23 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675050353
The USS Philadelphia transferred to the Brazilian Navy and recommissioned the Barrosa (C11), at Philadelphia Navy Yard.

A ceremony aboard the light cruiser, USS Philadelphia, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A Brazilian dignitary shakes hands with U.S. naval officers. The deck is completely filled with U.S. and Brazilian sailors and honored guests. A Catholic Priest blesses the newly commissioned ship. A U.S. Navy Admiral gives a speech. A sailor hoists the Brazilian flag on the mast of the former USS Philadelphia, now the Brazilian Barrosa (C-11) . The Brazilian official gives a speech. View from across the docks, of the Barrosa.

Date: 1951
Duration: 43 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Portuguese
Clip: 65675044013
Chile Flag is raised to fore top of the USS Brooklyn and USS Nashville docked at Philadelphia Naval Base in Philadelphia.

Activities aboard a ship docked at Philadelphia Naval Base in Philadelphia. Ships in Reserve Fleet Basin. USS Brooklyn (CL-40) light cruiser in the foreground. Stern view of USS Brooklyn and USS Nashville (CL-43). Camera pans over ships, including the heavy cruisers USS Louisville CA 28, USS Augusta CA 31, and USS Portland CA 33, in the Philadelphia Navy Yard. United States and Chile Naval officials with State Department representatives on deck of USS Brooklyn. Navy band plays. American flag lowered and the Chilean Flag is raised aboard the USS Brooklyn. Chilean flag raised aboard the USS Nashville. United States Navy Rear Admiral Roscoe E Schuirmann hands ships papers to Chilean Ambassador Felix Nieto Del Rio. Chilean flag fly at masts of the USS Nashville and USS Brooklyn. Chilean officers inspect. Ambassador Del Rio and Vice Admiral of the Chilean Navy, Immanuel Holger come up gangway of USS Brooklyn. Rear Admiral Schuirmann greets them. Yni Louis Rivas Voisin and Yoeman Felix Labbe of the Chilean Navy raise flag aboard USS Brooklyn.

Date: 1951, January 26
Duration: 3 min 17 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675072495
Men point and discuss a scale model of the future Philadelphia city, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Scale model of future Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Man points at the scale model of Future Philadelphia. City planners discuss the model. A man walks through a pathway of the model. Blocks of the model are built so that they can spin 180 degrees to show an alternate plan for that block. Several blocks are spun to show different looks for the future of Philadelphia.

Date: 1947, September 8
Duration: 1 min 11 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675073037