Iron beam under construction at Carnegie Steel Company's Homestead Plant in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania for the Empire State Building in New York. Iron beam under construction at Beam and Column Finishing Mill. Iron beam rolls at machine for desired shape. Operator handles the operation with levers. Final rolling of beam. Beam is given exact specification for desired length by passing it from hot saw. Sparking due to the cutting of beam.
A World War II training film depicts the use of barrage balloon to damage enemy airplanes flying at low altitude during a war in the United States. Animation shows the function of upper link attached in the wire cable as an enemy airplane hits the cable. Animation shows the function of the lower link as the airplane hits the cable. The flying cable is cut. The parachute opens. The balloons attached with wire cables in sky. The results of the cable armament operation. An enemy airplane burns. Soldiers look at the airplane as it burns. The soldiers retrieve the balloon. A soldier folds the links of cable. Another soldier holds a link in his hand.
Annual straw race in Chicago, Illinois. Straw race starts. Frosh (First year college students) and older students run with straw sacks. Freshmen and upper classmen fight with each other for straw sacks. They tear their shirts off while grabbing for straw. Young men pour straw out of sacks and throw sacks over a fence. Captains of the opposing teams shake hands at the end of the match.
Boston State House in Boston, Massachusetts. golden dome of Boston State House. Upper structure of the dome
Vehicles on street in Harlem, New York City. Street is wet, but cars parked along the street are snow-covered. City transit train on tracks. Sign reads "125th street". A sign reads "Welcome Adam C Powell" at Upper Park Avenue Baptist Church. Cars pass under a bridge which reads "Passenger Station". Train at bridge. A sign reads "Grand Union Hotel Room by day or week, White Rose". Clothes for children and women at a shop. Snow outside a building. Broken window of a house. Children stand.
Views of various boats and ship at New York harbor in Upper New York Bay. Good views of New York skyline and skyscraper buildings near the harbor, as seen from a New York City Police boat. Police officers on the police boat. The boat docks and name on back of boat reads, "Police New York City Lieutenant Ronaghan". A small row boat is then put into the water from the larger police boat, and two men board the small boat and row it towards shore. A gathering of onlookers at the docks as the rowboat comes in. Police officers hoist what appears to be a covered stretcher in the air (possible victim?) and load it into a waiting police van or paddy wagon on the dock.
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