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Assembly of iron beam parts at American Bridge Company's Plant in Ambridge, Pennsylvania.

Iron beam under construction at Carnegie Steel Company's Homestead Plant in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania for the Empire State Building construction in New York City. American Bridge Company's Plant at Ambridge, Pennsylvania. A man shows parts of finished column with the help of a pointer. Animation shows the assembly of beam parts. Wing plates placed. Placement of cover plates. Side web section insertion. Other small parts assembled on beam. Finished beam carried by a crane and placed on a carrier truck. Workers observe the transfer.

Date: 1930
Duration: 1 min 59 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675026635
National League wins 1959 Major League Baseball All Star Game at Forbes Field, Pittsburgh

Newsreel clip on baseball's July 7, 1959 All-Star Game -- the first of two games played that year. Clip opens with view of the 35,000 fans jammed into PIttsburgh's Forbes Field for the daytime game. With score tied 1-1 in the seventh inning, the Chicago Cubs' Ernie Banks (seen in brief closeup) hits a long drive off the left field wall, runs into second for a double. Milwaukee's Del Crandall then singles to score Banks and give the National League a 2-1 lead. Fans stand and cheer as the Pittsburgh Pirates' Bill Mazeroski comes to bat. Mazeroski gets hit to left field to score Crandall. In the eighth inning, the Chicago White Sox' Nellie Fox gets a single to ignite a rally. The Baltimore Orioles Gus Triandos hits a double to put American League in front 4-3. But in the bottom of the eighth, hits by Ken Boyer and Hank Aaron tie the game. Then Willie Mays (seen in closeup) hits a long drive just beyond the reach of the center fielder. Forbes Field's ivy-covered outfield wall seen in the shot. Mays' triple scores Aaron to put National League on top 5-4. Brief view of the scoreboard. In the ninth inning, Harvey Kuenn pops up to the end the game.

Date: 1959, July 7
Duration: 2 min 42 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675055798
Two thousand women workers meet on William Penn Way in Pittsburgh to participate in the Fourth Liberty Loan Drive.

William Penn Way, in the center of Pittsburgh, is jammed with women preparing to participate in the 4th Liberty Loan Drive in that city. Sign for a business establishment, named Thompson's, is seen. In another scene a banner identfying the Naval Recruiting Station, hangs above the crowd. A view looking down from a building overlooking the scene, shows women seated at long tables streching across the street, from curb to curb, for a so-called "Trench Breakfast." Other women move between the lines of tables, to serve. After the breakfast, several speakers stand on the tables and deliver motivating talks to the women, Among those seen are a U.S. Navy Commander; U.S. Army Captain, Walter Richard Flannery (who was decorated with fhe Distinguished Service Cross for heroism in the Battle of the Marne); Navy Secretary Josephus Daniels; and Alexander P. Moore, Publisher and editor of the Pittsburgh Leader newspaper. Change of scene shows dense crowd filling street. Bunting decorates some areas and garlands hang high above the crowd, stretched from buildings on one side of the street to the other.e. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)

Date: 1918, October
Duration: 2 min 22 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675048793
American Legion State Convention ends with a parade as people dance in Scranton, Pennsylvania.

American Legion State Convention in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Young girls and children in lawn. Parade on a street as women dancing and band plays music. Open top car with officials seated in as they move past the crowds. Officials march on street and wave off the crowd. Men on a horseback. Men hold a PITTSBURGH banner.

Date: 1938, August 22
Duration: 2 min 5 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675047800
British royalty visit Washington DC in June, 1939, at the invitation of President Franklin D. Roosevelt

Opening scene shows a military parade along Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, DC, in honor of the visit of British King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. The parade is led by a contingent of mounted Army cavalry. Spectators line the sidewalks. The Capitol building is clearly visible in the background. Closeup of Cavalry passing the camera. Closeup of King George VI with President Roosevelt conversing in an open automobile. Both are formally dressed. The President wears a top hat. Riding in the back of a car are First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt and Queen Elizabeth, together with a Navy officer. Next, seen posing on the porch of the Roosevelt family home, Springwood, at Hyde Park, New York, are: First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt; King George VI; the President's mother, Sara Ann Delano Roosevelt; Queen Elizabeth; and President Roosevelt. Camera pans in closeup across the group, as they engage in friendly conversation.

Date: 1939, June
Duration: 29 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051600
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