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Animation shows evolution of skyscrapers including Empire State building nearing completion in New York City.

Empire State Building under construction in New York. Animation shows the evolution of skyscrapers in New York. Buildings in hierarchical order. Arrow shows its name and dates of completion. World 1890, Park Row 1900, Singer 1905, Metropolitan life 1910, Woolworth 1915, Chrysler 1929 and Empire State 1931. View of Empire State Building still under construction in 1931, rising above other nearby buildings. The top of the building is not yet complete.

Date: 1931
Duration: 52 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675026651
Various WWI events: German submarine Deutschland leaving US; sinking of SMS Szent Istvan; survivors of Lusitania

Variety of events in World War I years. German merchant submarine Deutschland (a British blockade buster) in 1916 in the United States (then neutral), departing New London, Connecticut on November 21, 1916 headed back to Germany carrying silver bullion. The submarine had just completed repairs following a collision with the tugboat T.A. Scott Jr. when first attempting to leave New London on November 16, 1916. The North German Lloyd Shipping Company submarine Deutschland is seen leaving the dock at New London, Connecticut. The officers on the submarine Deutschland wave. Periscope of submerged submarine is seen slicing through calm water. Sailor on an Italian destroyer blows general quarters call on bugle. Another sailor brings a telescope on deck. Next, crew members fire their deck gun at periscope in the water. Change of scene the shows the destroyer making way, leaving visible wake, astern, as crew members load and fire depth charges from the ship's stern. View of a submarine underwater. Exploding depth charges raise huge columns of water. Underwater view of submarine shows columns of bubbles nearby. View of Austro-Hungarian Battleship SMS Szent Istvan (Saint Stephen), capsizing and rolling after it is torpedoed off the Dalmation Coast of the Adriatic Sea by Italian torpedo boats on June 10, 1918. Survivors being rescued in small boats. View of a merchant vessel at dock and in a harbor. View of survivors of the May 1915 Lusitania disaster, with belongings, arriving in a harbor. Men and women with children posing. Two small girls pose among the group of Lusitania survivors.

Date: 1916
Duration: 1 min 55 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675055044
State funeral procession for British Nurse Edith Cavell.

Following a State Funeral at Westminster Abbey, coffin bearing Nurse Edith Cavell's body is carried out and put on gun carriage. Mourners attend the funeral. Mourners, sailors with wreaths, nurses and other services in procession with horse-drawn carriage move on road. Soldiers lift the coffin. Coffin transferred at a ship for its transport to Norfolk for burial at Norwich Cathedral. (This state funeral followed disinterment of Cavell's body in Belgium, after her execution on October 12, 1915).

Date: 1919, May 19
Duration: 2 min 13 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675040081
A couple boards a train at a railway platform in Pennsylvania, United States.

City trains in New York, United States. A couple, both dressed in white, walks on a railway platform. A sign on the platform reads ' Lackawanna railroad'. A steam locomotive pulls a passenger train into the station. A conductor assists as the couple boards the train. They wave from the train. The conductor helps passengers, including the woman in white and her escort, to get off the train. The man in white tips the conductor.

Date: 1915
Duration: 1 min 27 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675067291
United States cavalry forces fire artillery during training exercises prior to the punitive expedition in Mexico

At a U.S. Army training facility in the United States, Cavalry troops load and fire artillery. Soldier places hands over his ears as artillery pieces are fired across a practice range.

Date: 1915
Duration: 1 min 40 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675063755
A motor boat moves fast during a motor boat racing event in United States.

One of the Motor boats races ahead of others during a motor boat racing event in United States. Crew men in the boat operate controls. Boat splashes water as it moves forward.

Date: 1915
Duration: 8 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675024151