Employment for African Americans provided by Works Progress Administration (WPA) Projects in New York, United States, during the Great Depression. African American men and women sing in a choir. Juanita Hall directs the song. A man plays piano. Men and women stand near piano and sing the gospel spiritual song ''Ezekiel Saw the Wheel". The Director conducts and sings along with the choir.
President Woodrow Wilson voting in the Presidential election on November 7, 1916, in Princeton, New Jersey. He is seen walking with an entourage, along the sidewalks of Chambers Street, past the entrance to G.A. Rule Real Estate offices, where men on the steps, remove their hats in acknowledgement and respect. The President and his party continue on to the old firehouse, that has been set up as a polling place. After greeting people there, President Wilson enters to vote. He comes out of the building after casting his ballot and doffs his hat to the camera and people in the vicinity. The scene shows American soldiers at an army camp casting their ballots in the election. They huddle around tables where there names are checked on voter lists and they receive ballots. One soldier is seen sealing his ballot before depositing it in a ballot box. Camera focuses on a ballot table with soldiers crowded around it. The final segment of the film contains completely unrelated footage of British women in the United Kingdom working in an industrial operation during World War 1. Some are seen at a railroad siding, clearing up scrap beside open rail cars. They use wooden wheel barrows with wooden wheels. Two women push a load of steel rail parts on a small flat rail car. In another location at the plant, women push a flat rail car loaded with lumber to a spot where several other women remove and stack it. Many steel railroad wheels are lined up in the background. The camera focuses on women pushing railroad axles, assembled with wheels, along tracks, toward a building in the rail yard. Two women touch-up paint on the side of a railroad car, as another woman (supervisor) watches. Back at the area of stacked lumber, two women fabricate something using a saw and hammer and nails on lumber placed atop wooden saw horses. Another woman wields a hammer in the background.
American Jewish Congress parade and demonstration against Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany, in New York City, United States. March participants walking on trolley tracks. They march with flags and signs in hands. A sign reads: 'Hitler Cease Barbarism'. One person carries a Jewish (Israeli) flag
Ninth National Convention of the Communist Party USA held in New York City, 1936. State delegates are seated in areas marked by State Name Placards. Huge banner shows likeness of Party leader Earl Browder and words: "Against Hunger Fascism War" Some delegates carry a large floral hammer and sickle display and other flowers through the hall. Massed flags display the hammer and sickle. Bright lights sweep over the hall illuminating sections of delegates as they wave their respective State placards.
Men, women, and children of Astoria, New York holding American flags parade the streets to celebrate rituals of Greek Orthodox Easter. Accompanying them is Archbishop Athenagoras and his fellow church clergy dressed in elaborate liturgical vestments. Congregation heads inside St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Cathedral (30-11 30th Dr, Queens, NY 11102, United States). Overhead shot of Archbishop with holy cross and other clergy with lit candles in center of thousands of attendants. 11 April 1938.
Zinc company's ambulance stands outside the zinc mine of Franklin,New Jersey.Rescue squad arrives carrying an injured miner on stretcher.Stretcher is put in the ambulance. Ambulance arrives at company's hospital.
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