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Gold Reserve Act revaluation of dollar by President Roosevelt causes influx of gold to United States and rise in prices of goods.

U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt's plan to readjust national currency via the Gold Reserve Act, conveyed at the Congress in Washington DC. The United States Congress meet at the Capitol in Washington DC. The officials seated in the hall inside the Capitol building. The House leadership and officials seated in the center during discussions related to the Gold Reserve Act of 1934. Secretary of the Treasury, Henry Morgenthau, Jr. seated at his desk signing documents. Crates of gold being unloaded from ships as overseas gold exporters sent gold to the United States where it commanded higher prices as proclaimed by the President. Two men stocking gold bars in a bank. Young African American farmers picking cotton in a cotton field. One smiles for the camera. Commodity traders busily trading commodities on on a mercantile exchange floor. Rise in prices, as a result of revaluation of dollar.

Date: 1934, January 15
Duration: 59 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675055010
A model of a coal mine set up in the Rosenwald Industrial Museum, shows the mining operations, in Chicago, Illinois.

Mining operations demonstrated in the Rosenwald Industrial Museum in Chicago, Illinois,. The Rosenwald Industrial Museum in Chicago. An elaborate full-size coal mine model set up in the museum. The equipment used for mining operations. Two men operating an equipment, to demonstrated the mining activities. The equipment works at the rock and drops the mineral deposits into a large tray. Men beside the equipment.

Date: 1934, January 15
Duration: 51 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675055013
Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan and grandson. Assistant Secretary of Navy Franklin D.Roosevelt

Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan with his grandson, John Bryant Leavitt, at his Winter home, "Villa Serena," Miami, Florida. Bryan , seated on dock, fishing with his grandson, also fishing, beside him. In unrelated sequence, U.S. Assistant Secretary of Navy, Franklin D. Roosevelt, is seen aboard a vessel in winter. The snow falling. Franklin Roosevelt with other men on the deck of the snow covered vessel.

Date: 1914
Duration: 42 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675055041
Views of ammunition depot allegedly sabotaged by Germans within the United States during World War I.

The United States of America in 1917. Scenes of Lyndhurst, New Jersey after January 11, 1917 explosion in the Canadian Car and Foundry Company in Kingsland. Suspected cause of explosion was sabotage, allegedly committed by Germans during World War I. Smoke from buildings on fire at night after an ammunition depot explodes. Flames rise high from the buildings. Widespread destruction. Debris on a railroad track the next day. People pick through devastated buildings and barren area flattened by blast. Views of crater filled with artillery shells after the explosion. Damaged window panes of buildings and a railroad car at D.L.&W (Delaware, Lackawanna & Western) Railroad Shops building at Kingsland (later Lyndhurst). DL&W railroad train car 605 parked. Railroad Shops with broken glass everywhere from explosions. Men point to shell that is embedded in the side of a railroad car. View of artillery shell lodged in a door. Next scene is from a different time and place, in Perth Amboy, in October of 1918 after an explosion at the T.A. Gillespie Shell Loading Plant made many families homeless. was called the Morgan Depot Explosion. Homeless women, children, and men sit in a town common area. The refugees eat. U.S. Army soldiers patrolling on Smith Street in Perth Amboy in front of stores damaged in the explosion. Entrance to Michaels & Co. shop among damaged stores on Smith Street.

Date: 1917
Duration: 2 min 8 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675055045
Sir Malcolm Campbell prepares to break his own speed record in his car Bluebird in New York City, New York.

Sir Malcolm Campbell prepares to break his own record in New York City, New York. Sir Malcolm Campbell, an English racing motorist, poses with his wife, Dorothy Evelyn Whittall Campbell. Sir Malcolm Campbell in Bluebird, the car in which he raced earlier at over 272 miles per hour. People gathered on either side of the car. The flags of the U.S. and Britain painted on the bonnet of the car. People on the side of the car watch Sir Malcolm Campbell. Sir Malcolm Campbell wearing motor racing head gear, seated in the driver's seat, prepares to take off to break his own speed record.

Date: 1935, February 4
Duration: 36 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675055051
American steamship Rochester and a ship with "Orleans-New York," painted on hull, set off from New York Harbor, United States

American steamship, Rochester, sets off from New York City harbor in United States, towards Europe, ignoring German blockade warnings during World War I. The American steamship Rochester, at sea, with U.S. flag painted on its side. A passenger and crew members aboard the Rochester. A steamship at sea. 'Orleans-New York' written on the side of the ship.

Date: 1917
Duration: 32 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675055061