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Clothing merchant Louis A Cumonow distributes warm overcoats to needy people in Kansas City, Missouri.

Warm overcoats being distributed to needy people in Kansas City, Missouri by local merchant Louis A. Cumonow. People standing outside a store during the Great Depression. Buildings in the area. Mr. Cumonow distributes warm overcoats to people.

Location: Kansas City Missouri USA
Date: 1935, December 4
Duration: 25 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675076825
People get employment, development of canals, roads and airports under the WPA projects in Missouri, United States.

WPA Development works in Missouri, United States during the Great Depression. Smoke stacks of a factory under halt. Depressed and discouraged men in public places of Missouri. Under the Works Progress Administration (WPA) projects, people work in agricultural farms and in factories. People lined outside a shop to purchase milk and eatables. Girls play in a park. A happy family. Streets paved in St. Louis and county roads surfaced. Gravel quarried by labors. The Joplin airport graded and surfaced by horse drawn rollers.

Location: Missouri United States USA
Date: 1937
Duration: 3 min 1 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036887
Underground water survey for farmers and repair of sewers by Works Progress Administration Projects in Missouri, United States.

Development works under the Works Progress Administration (WPA) Projects in Missouri, United States. A Missouri farmer uses an ancient divining rod to search for underground water. Geological survey of underground water by experts, under WPA project during the Great Depression. Survey machines and experts work in a field to test the availability of underground water in the field. equipment drill tube wells. Experts in a laboratory test the minerals and salts in available water. Public health improvement works in St Louis. Construction and repairs of sewers by workers. New built homes in the area.

Location: Missouri United States USA
Date: 1937
Duration: 2 min 3 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036892
Audio only. Executive Morton T Jones talks about his role as a businessman and his belief in God on a radio program in the U.S.

Audio only. 'This I Believe', Radio Network Program. Essay on an insurance executive, Morton T Jones. He was in the insurance business all his life. After graduating from the University of Missouri and serving in World War I, he joined his father and brothers at the RB Jones and Sons Insurance firm. He then became the managing director of the same firm. In 1929, with other businessmen he organized the Kansas City Fire and Marine Insurance Company. Morton also served as President of the Kansas City Chamber of Commerce. He talks about his role as a businessman and a church song that helps him deal with his daily problems. He states his firm belief in God and how that faith and wisdom guides him. He also talks about the importance of the human element in companies and quotes Winston Churchill.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1950
Duration: 4 min 21 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675052691
Aviator Charles Lindbergh takes off in 'Spirit of Saint Louis' on solo transatlantic flight.

Aviator Charles Lindbergh takes off on solo transatlantic flight from Roosevelt Field in New York. Charles Lindbergh poses with his mother in front of his plane 'Spirit of Saint Louis'. Charles Lindbergh then dons heavier flying suit and boards the plane. The "Spirit of St. Louis" hits a few bumps on takeoff roll and then gradually completes a shallow takeoff.

Location: Long Island New York USA
Date: 1927, May 20
Duration: 33 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675074467
Historic aviation scenes. Wright Brothers; Louis Bleriot; Theodore Roosevelt; Seaplane; biplane crash

Views of various historic early aircraft. The wright Brothers, assisted by ground crewmen, prepare a Wright Flyer for takeoff. The aircraft is placed into position on a catapult track. Men turn the propellers, and the engine is started. A large weight is dropped from a tower to provide thrust to the catapult, and the aircraft takes off and makes a low pass over the field. An early Bleriot flying machine, with box kite characteristics, takes off and flies over a field. A U.S. Army officer walks past two men working on a Wright Flyer (Wright Brother?). A Wright Flyer takes off and flies over a field. Theodore Roosevelt steps from a Wright plane after flying with Archibald Hoxsey at an airshow at Kinloch Field in St. Louis, Missouri on October 11, 1910. Roosevelt shakes hands with a man as several officials stand nearby. Views of two early airplanes in flight. Louis Bleriot in cockpit of his airplane, turns propeller by hand. The Bleriot XI airplane under full power, held back by ground helpers, and then let go for take off. An early monoplane in flight. An early airplane maneuvers and turns. An early seaplane lands on a body of water. A biplane plunging to earth and crashing.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1910
Duration: 1 min 28 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675074471
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