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Panorama of wreckage along waterfront in Galveston Texas, United States, following hurricane of September 8,1900.

Panorama of hurricane damage to waterfront in Galveston in Texas, United States. A large schooner lies on its side in the harbor. Several boats seen in water. Black smoke from a smokestack of a boat. Several men standing on the docks. Erected tents seen.

Location: Galveston Texas USA
Date: 1900, September 8
Duration: 60 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675040602
Hawaiian surfers surf on waves in Hawaii in the early 1900s.

Hawaiian surfer young man dances on beach in his own hula imitation style, and jokes around for the camera, while his fellow surf riders stand with surf boards in the background. Group of surfers enter water and paddle surfboards away from shore. Surf rider throws himself on the board and rides waves. Surfers surf together on waves. Footage of early surfing taken from a boat paddled out into the water and from the beach.

Location: Hawaii USA
Date: 1917
Duration: 4 min 0 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023082
Short film describing why Europeans emigrated to America around 1900

f Opening image shows handwritten letter written by an imigrant to the U.S. from Europe. Camera pans over various outdoor scenes of the United States, as voices of men and women in the background extols marvels of America. A map of Europe is shown as narrator describes the problems in European countries. A woman sowing seed by hand on a European farm. European farmers using shovels to spread something over a plot of land. A farmer walking behind a plow pulled by a single horse. An old man tells how the land they had in Europe wasn't enough to feed their family of three, So his father decided to come to America (probably in the period from 1880 to 1920).

Location: United States USA
Date: 1975
Duration: 2 min 14 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039765
Elderly immigrants recall their experiences of painful and horrible journey on sailing ships to America around 1900.

European immigration to America. Elderly immigrants recall their experiences of painful and horrible journey in sailing ships. Opening scene is view from aboard a sailing ship plunging through ocean waters. Next, a man who was an immigrant from Europe being interviewed, discusses his travel difficulties. He talks about crossing the Atlantic in the Steerage. Camera pans across an illustration of passengers in Steerage, suffering with sickness and smell. Next, a woman immigrant mentions being sea sick, all the way. She says her mother feared that she might be thrown overboard if the ship's crew saw how sick a child she was, so she hid her daughter. Next, camera pans briefly over a drawing of travelers in Steerage. Another woman immigrant also remarks about the sea sickness and terrible conditions.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1975
Duration: 1 min 36 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039769
European immigrants come to America in sailing ships on difficult passage across the Atlantic ocean circa 1900

Opening scene is view from aboard a sailing ship in rought waters of the Atlantic ocean. Next, a man who was an imigrant from Europe being interviewed, tells how travelers in Steerage didn't want to move because the ship was rolling and shaking so badly. In between views of persons being interviewed, the camera pans and shows closeups of travelers lying about on the deck of a sailing ship, in good weather, so they could get some fresh air and sunshine. (A woman immigrant notes that they were forced to do this by the crew.) Another woman talks about prevalence of head lice and delousing procedures.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1975
Duration: 2 min 51 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039770
People, automobiles and horse-carts move along 'grand canyon' of Chicago, Illinois, United States in the early 1900's

Pedestrians walk, vintage automobile cars and trucks pass by, and horses pull carts along "grand canyon" of Chicago at LaSalle and Jackson streets intersection. Buildings and shops can be seen in the background and flanking the Chicago city street traffic.

Location: Chicago Illinois USA
Date: 1916
Duration: 29 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023760
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