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Pittsburgh Pennsylvania USA 1938 stock footage and images

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Urban scenes of busy streets and noisy construction work in the United States

Wide view of skyline of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Various scenes of activity in busy urban cities: A street crowded with pedestrians walking. View of pile driver in operation. Construction worker uses a jackhammer. Pedestrians on their way to work cross a street. A police traffic officer, wearing sunglasses, directs traffic. A wrecking ball hits a brick wall. Man pushes a clothes trolley as he crosses a street. Man operates a loader. A man buys a pie through an automat door. An African-American man eats a hotdog sandwich. A man, wearing glasses, finishes his drink and buys a newspaper. A front end loader scoops and unload rubble from demolished building. Men entering a building through a glass revolving door. Buses pass by near a train. San Francisco Cable Car climbing up the road. A wrecking ball hits a brick wall. Close up of a woman’s eye open. A woman’s vital signs being examined by a doctor to study her stress level. She has a cuff on her arm, possibly for measurement of blood pressure.

Date: 1971
Duration: 1 min 15 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079011
Westland Mine coal miners return to work after end of walkout of 400,000 miners called by United Mine Workers.

At start, the film shows coal miners riding on electric-powered open railway cars at the Westland Mine in Pennsylvania, owned by the Pittsburgh Coal Company. The miners wear hats with lights on them. A train of open hopper cars filled with coal is being pulled by the last railway car carrying miners. Scene changes to above ground where a string of minecarts filled with coal are emerging from the mine into a railroad yard. Closeup of large chunks of coal in the hopper cars. Another view of filled mine carts being pulled out of the mine. View of full-size open rail cars lined up underneath an overhanging wooden tipple discharging coal into them. Closeup from underneath the tipple showing coal dropping into full size open hopper cars. Next, a long train of full hopper cars are seen moving along a railroad track, being pushed by several electric-powered locomotives. They pass on tracks near other cars being loaded with coal. A miner writes: "Mon Dec 9," with chalk on a brick structure. (This is the day the miners returned to work, following announcement by United Mine Workers President John L. Lewis, on December 7, 1946, calling an end to a walkout of 400,000 coal miners that he had called on November 20). Two 2-8-2 Mikado steam locomotives owned by the Montour Railroad pull a long train of coal cars. View in background of duplex homes of the coal town in Westland, Pennsylvania. Next scene shows elevated view of city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, from approximately Duquesne Heights area, with distant view of downtown buildings, and steel bridges over the three rivers area (Monongahela River, Ohio River, and Allegheny River). Next scene shows many industrial smoke stacks emitting smoke. Final scene shows a train of empty hopper cars returning to the coal mines.

Date: 1946, December 9
Duration: 3 min 33 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675060482
Immigrants to America working in various hard labor jobs and factories early in the 20th century.

Point of view shot out the front of a steam locomotive railroad train as it speeds along a track in western United States. Men stacking wood lumber for boat shipment beside a canal in the early 1900s. The mill and stacks of lumber seen across the canal. Miners at a coal mine ride an open car full of coal as it emerges from a mine in West Virginia, as seen from camera riding on same coal car. Glimpse, from a passing train, of a steel mill in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Immigrants to the United States, from various European countries, at work in industrial production jobs. Men in factories; working at a power forge in a steel mill; Lumber operations: Men cutting down large trees with hand axes and sawing logs for timber in a forest, using large 2-man saws; Butchers moving sides of beef in a meat packing company. Women working in a metal parts factory (appears to be a sink faucet manufacturing company); women working in a textile spinning mill operation and stacking moving machine shelves with spools. A hose set up from a fire hydrant spraying water in a city street and children in bathing suits running underneath to play and cool off in hot summer weather. Montage of various still and moving images: Immigrant children in classrooms and in school yards. A woman instructing new adult immigrants in an English language instruction class. Immigrant workers engaged in skyscraper construction, high in the air without safety equipment. An iron worker perched atop a vertical steel beam with the Brooklyn Bridge in the background. A woman posing on a horizontal bar. Men and women posing in the surf at a beach. People at beach watching as a group of men create a human pyramid on the sand. A little girl with her feet in the surf. Boys in a classroom, with two of them dirty from work and another boy sleeping with his head on his desk. Mothers and fathers at home asking about what the children learned in school. A young girl leading a group of school children in reciting the pledge of allegiance (pre-1950s version of the Pledge of Allegiance is heard recited by a group of children, without the "Under God" wording that was added in 1954). Still image of a young girl employed in a fabric mill (child labor).

Date: 1910
Duration: 2 min 34 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036801
The processing and transportation of iron and coal along the Mississippi river on steamboats in the United States

The activities around the Mississippi river in the United States. Smoke from steel mills and factories of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Wheeling, West Virginia. A crane lifts the iron ore. A crane lifts coal. View of factories spewing smoke and ash. Hot, molten iron being poured, with flames and sparks shooting outward as it is tipped to pour. Cotton bales on a conveyor. Making of cotton thread. Workers work on cotton bales. The cotton bales being loaded onto barges and a steamship. The steamboat in the Mississippi river travels to various places. Brief scenes of various known city views including St Paul and Minneapolis Minnesota; Davenport Iowa; Moline Illinois; Cincinnati; St. Louis; Omaha; Kansas City; New Orleans.

Date: 1937
Duration: 2 min 32 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032222
Delegates of Pan American Congress of Journalists tour iron mining and steel manufacturing units in the United States.

Delegates of Pan American Congress of Journalists visit iron mining sites in Minnesota. Cranes digging mines and iron ore is loaded on the trains. Train passes through mountains. At the harbor a ship named GENERAL ORLANDO is being loaded with iron ore via elevated chutes. The delegates observe operations at steel industries in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Date: 1927
Duration: 4 min 35 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Spanish
Clip: 65675030524
Fourth Liberty Loan Parade, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. American celebration and parade in London, England

Several separate scenes from World War I. Brief glimpse of 4th Liberty Loan parade in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, during the First World War. The Liberty Loan Committee with group of persons standing in front of their stand. Employees of Heyl & Patterson Inc. carry a banner announcing 100% subscription in the 4th Liberty Loan drive. Sign on street pole tells directions to the American Locomotive Pittsburgh works. Scene changes to London,England, where British Army drummers stand and play in front of a YMCA building. People in crowd behind them wave American flags. Americans, including YMCA workers, soldiers, sailors, nurses, and English friends celebrate in a parade,accompanied by a British Army band and escorted by London Bobbies (policemen). Revelers ride in cars bedecked with American flags. Many ride on Army trucks. U.S. officers ride in staff cars. Another change of scene shows a U.S. Navy cinematographer hand cranking his motion picture camera, while standing in an open car. The car has a sign on its side reading: "Photographic Division, U.S. Navy." Another sailor sits in driver's seat while a third keeps pedestrians clear from the camera line of sight.

Date: 1918
Duration: 1 min 17 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675035866