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Clare Booth Luce receives the Golden Medal of Achievement from Poor Richard Club of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

A member of the Poor Richard Club of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, presents a framed certificate, documenting the award of the club's Golden Medal of Achievement, to Clare Booth Luce, who stands holding the other side of the document.

Date: 1955
Duration: 23 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675044046
United States Cruiser St. Louis (C-20) being scrapped in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in accord with London Treaty.

United States Navy junks warships in accord with London Treaty in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Cruiser USS St. Louis (C-20), World War transport veteran, being scrapped. Americans dismantle the ship. Large pipes being lowered with the help of a crane.

Date: 1930, September 11
Duration: 1 min 6 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675044385
Overweight women try to lose weight under male instructors' supervision in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Overweight women undergo physical training from male trainers in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A group of women exercise while lying down and doing leg exercises to shed fat. Women wearing vibrating belts to aid abdominal muscle (abs) stimulation. An obese woman gets on a rocking wooden horse designed to simulate a horse galloping (rather like an early treadmill) while an instructor directs the heavy woman during the training.

Date: 1931, March 2
Duration: 56 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675044394
A U.S. Navy PV-3 helicopter is being demonstrated in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

A United States Navy PV-3 helicopter in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The PV-3 helicopter with a capacity of 10 passengers on a field. Rotor blades rotate. Men and women board the helicopter. The helicopter lifts off and in flight. Twin rotors of the helicopter rotate while it is in the flight.

Date: 1945, August 7
Duration: 1 min 17 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050683
A group of women with short hair display various hair styles and a barber trims hair of chimpanzee in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Convention of Beauty Culturists ban short hair in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A group of women (still in flapper era from the 1920s) with short hair or bob hair display various hair styles. A barber trims hair of a chimpanzee named Bridget seated in a barber chair. A woman files her nails. The barber removes excess hair with a brush and shows a mirror to the chimpanzee.

Date: 1930, January 18
Duration: 1 min 41 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050772
A gun mount and a gun director are removed from United States aircraft carrier Langley in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

United States Navy aircraft carrier Langley (CVL-27) being activated at Philadelphia Navy shipyard in Pennsylvania prior to transfer to France. A yard worker sprays deck plates of the carrier. The yard workers work on the deck of the carrier. A gun director being hoisted off the carrier and being placed on flat cap on the pier. Cocoons being removed from the gun mount by a crane. The gun mount being swung outboard by a large crane.

Date: 1951, March 14
Duration: 1 min 42 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675051347