The joint city state federal private project on rehabilitation at Manhattan, New York. Demolition crews at work during the rehabilitation program at a cluster of adjacent old-law tenements on East 5th Street (nos. 633–637) just south of Tompkins Square. They take out floors, walls, and windows of a run down building in the lower east side. The prefabricated ("prefab") kitchens and baths are lowered through the roof. Sign describes the project as "Instant Rehab. A demonstration of rapid rehabilitation." Former residents of the building are seen in front of the apartment building. Narrator says 11 families had lived in the tenement, and 15 apartments now are ready for their return. Group of officials including New York Mayor John Lindsay stand near the project. Keys of the new apartment building units are seen hung on a board. A woman enters one of the new apartments and opens a cabinet in the new kitchen.
Activities of the people in a rural mining area in the United States during the depression. View of a railroad yard filled with coal cars. Men unloading trucks with sacks. People on the porch outside a house, in what appears to be a coal mining town. A child stands on the stairs. African American children on the roof of a house. Location is likely Appalachian or southern United States.
Activities of the people in rural area in the United States (likely the south or Appalachian area) during the Great Depression. A farmer drives a tractor. Tractor pulls a plow. Farmers seated on the plow. Two children stand. A child moves on the ground. Houses in the background. A missionary discusses agriculture with a farmer. A man drives a car through water.
Activities of the people in a rural area of the south or Appalchian region in the United States during the Great Depression. Men cut trees with a saw. Men split log with an axe. Men carry a large wooden log to use the timber. A man shapes a wooden chair. Man uses a hammer and chisel to shape wood.
Activities of the people in a rural area of the south or Appalachian region in the United States during the Great Depression. Women in a library. Girls take out books from the shelves. Children play games and hold hands on a open field area. Children wash hands in a river.
Activities of the people in rural area in the United States during the Great Depression. Segment of woven fence made of wood. A man makes a table. Man stands in front of the house. Aerial view of the houses. Unemployed men loiter. Men,women and children barter at window of a cooperative store. Woman inside the corporate house writes on a paper. Men seated on ground. Includes mix of white men and women, and African American men and women. Setting appears to be a mining town in the United States South or Appalachian areas.
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