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New Recreation facilities at Palisades Interstate Park in New York and new club house at Bethpage State Park

Works Progress Administration (WPA) building projects during the New Deal effort of the Great Depression: Palisades Interstate Park along the Hudson River in Fort Lee, New Jersey. A group of teenage boys hiking in the park. Groups gathered at a picnic area. Boys and girls playing outside of a new bath house building beside the park beach. View of the Perkins Memorial Tower built in honor of the former chairman of the Palisades Interstate Park Commission, and a wide view of the Palisades Interstate Park Administration Building still under construction. Scene changes to Bethpage State Park in Farmingdale New York, as 1930's cars drive in front of a newly built club house to discharge passengers. A uniformed door man stands by. Women golfers and men golfers play on the new 18 hole golf course in the park which requires no membership.

Location: New York United States USA
Date: 1937
Duration: 47 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675064813
The Works Progress Administration assists New York Police to find a robber in New York.

The WPA (Works Progress Administration) project in New York. The Bureau of Criminal Instigation, New York State Police, in the Great Depression. Scientists and technicians work in a laboratory. A scientist using a microscope. A man shoots at a mannequin or dummy. A demonstration of a thief opening a safe. A sergeant and a police officer speak about the robbery. The officer speaks to a doctor about a report. The police sergeant goes to a house and interrogates a woman and a man. The man is taken to a police station for a couple of tests. Material from his fingernail is sent to the laboratory for examination. A scientist looks through a microscope. Stains on the thief's clothes checked in the laboratory. Views of vials and beakers and experiments underway in the laboratory. Newspaper headlines read 'Tom Brown found guilty'.

Location: New York United States USA
Date: 1937
Duration: 3 min 36 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675064814
Works Progress Administration restores Fort Niagara near Youngstown, New York during Great Depression

The WPA (Works Progress Administration) project in New York. Fort Niagara near Youngstown. Offices and monument restored by the WPA. People move about in front of the French Castle.

Location: New York United States USA
Date: 1937
Duration: 24 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675064815
The Works Progress Administration builds roads in rural area connecting them to New York, during the Great Depression.

The WPA (Works Progress Administration) project in New York. The WPA constructs roads connecting rural areas to New York. A man in a rural area drives in his car with milk cans. His vehicle gets stuck in mud on a road. Workers construct roads. A rural farmer drives his car on a newly constructed road. Dynamite used to clear an area for road construction. Workers leave the area after a day's work.

Location: New York United States USA
Date: 1937
Duration: 2 min 47 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675064816
Scenes of financial district, downtown, New York City, during the 1920s.

New York City street signs identify Wall street at Broadway and Wall Street at Nassau Street. Trinity church is seen at end of street. Federal Hall with statue of George Washington in front. Front view of the New York Stock Exchange building. Crowds of commuters fill the street and sidewalks as they emerge from subway during morning rush hour. Interior and trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange as trading day gets underway.

Location: New York United States USA
Date: 1924
Duration: 51 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675065215
Charles Lindbergh takes off from Roosevelt Field in the "Spirit of St. Louis," on a solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean

Charles Lindbergh's poses next to his airplane, the "Spirit of St. Louis." Ground crew push the airplane, tail first, out of a hangar on Roosevelt Field, Long Island, New York. Its engine and nose are covered in canvas. Lindbergh shakes hands with an official. Ground crew top off the aircraft's fuel, by pouring several gallons into its tank from atop the wing. A man helps Lindbergh don his heavy flying coverall. The aircraft engine starts. Crowd surrounds the aircraft. Lindbergh climbs aboard and the "Spirit of St. Louis" starts its takeoff roll surrounded by group of people. Lindbergh makes a long takeoff roll, bouncing several times (once, quite hard) before breaking ground in a shallow climb.

Location: New York United States USA
Date: 1927, May 20
Duration: 1 min 8 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675065236
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