1936 Miss America beauty pageant at the Steel Pier (1000 Boardwalk, Atlantic City, New Jersey, U.S.) in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Contestants at Miss America pageant walk down a ramp. 1936 Miss America winner Rose Coyle from Philadelphia being crowned. Rose Coyle poses after winning the pageant.
African American life in South Carolina, United States. Front of a 1936 Plymouth P2 car. A Black child cleans the 1936 Plymouth P2 car. African American child smiles while wiping the car. Black child uses cloth for cleaning. Houses in the background.
Excerpt from film about 1936 Olympics in Berlin. Athletes from different countries carrying flag of their country come on to the field at the opening ceremony of 1936 Berlin Olympics in Germany.
The working of weather bureau in the United States. Snow covered shores of the Potomac River at Great Falls, west of Washington DC, following 15 inch snowfall in February 1936. Two people walking on a high snow covered bluff near the Great Falls. The frozen Potomac River, covered with ice. View of the Memorial Bridge spanning a totally frozen Potomac River, with the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument in the background. Views of the river carrying chunk of snow and ice as a thaw begins the breakup. Man photographs a woman next to a guard rail at the Potomac River, covered in chunks of thawing ice and snow. Frozen ice chunks flowing under the Memorial Bridge. Narrator describes flood beginning with heavy rainwall in Shenandoah River valley on March 17 and March 18, 1936. Scenes of Western Union Telegrams detailing reports of rain in the west from various towns in the Shenandoah foothills. One from Romney , West Virginia notes rainfall of 5 inches.
Soviet Russian steamer Soyuz Vodnikov, also spelled SojusVodnikov (later renamed Kreml’ during 1938), returns to the Soviet Union. Shot up and damaged parts are seen on the deck of the motor tanker ship due to a fascist attack. (The ship had been moving supplies from the Soviet Union into Spanish Morocco, and, on November 13, 1936, it was chased and detained by Spanish Civil War Nationalist forces at Ceuta harbor, on suspicion of delivering arms to the Republican loyalists. It was freed on November 17, 1936, after which it went to Terneuzen, Netherlands for repairs, and then on to the Soviet Union.) The ship is seen nearing a Soviet harbor. Soviet officers on board inspect the ship. The crew members are given a warm welcome on their return. The crew arriving on the harbor dock are welcomed with flower bouquets and hailed for their bravery.
Famous passengers aboard ocean liner SS Manhattan bound for Hamburg Germany. The USS Manhattan underway at sea on July 15, 1936 en route to the 1936 Olympics. Athletes play a shuffleboard game aboard the ship. Jesse Owens, an American track and field athlete, Glenn Cunningham, and other famous persons aboard the ship. The passengers disembark from the ship in Hamburg. They are welcomed by German officials.