Brooklyn borough of the New York City. Railroad yards at waterfront, with ships in background. Tugboat pulling a loaded barge along a canal. Exteriors of Brooklyn Borough Hall. Main gates of Brooklyn College. Exteriors of Plymouth Church of Pilgrims in Brooklyn Heights. Henry Ward Beecher statue at the church, including images of two slave girls crouching at its base. Steeples and domes of various houses of worship. View of cemetery with bust of Horace Greely among the stones and statuary.
Men including George Carrington and Alvis Ward of Western Electric (subsequently of All Technical Services, and then Altec Lansing Corporation) demonstrate a patent model for a recording or sound transmission device. The wooden model has a stylus that passes over ridges of varying heights. 1936.
Equestrian statue of General George Henry Thomas by sculptor, John Quincy Adams Ward, in Washington, DC. It was erected in 1879, at Thomas Circle, where Massachusetts Avenue, Vermont Avenue, 14th Street, and M Street, NW, converge. The National City Christian Church can be seen on the circle, in the background.
A mass gathering of concerned Americans in Madison Square Garden, New York City, following news of the Kristallnacht attacks on Jews in Germany a few weeks prior. Dr. Harry F. Ward of Union Theological Seminary, and chairman of the American League Against War and Fascism, addresses a huge crowd. He speaks about the emigration of the German Jewish citizens. He states that efforts should be made for the resettlement of the German Jews and the cost should be born by the Nazi German Government. The Government should make some arrangements in this regard. He proposes a boycott of all German International commerce. The crowd applauds.
John Ward leaps from a ledge outside a hotel window in New York. He stands on the 17th floor of the hotel. People crowd in front of the hotel and look at him. Tourists in a bus look at him. After his suicide, his body is seen on the street as authorities gather. Horrified onlookers gather.
African American children playing at an apartment complex in what is today the Old Fourth Ward of Atlanta. (Now a large vacant lot at Hilliard St and Irwin St NE) A Black girl rides a tricycle while a young Black boy sits on a stone step. A Black boy nibbling on a chicken bone. Another boy approaches and smiles at the camera. A Black girl wearing sunglasses smiles. A Black little girl leans on her brother. A toddler stands along a path. An African American mother carrying her baby stands beside drying laundry on a terrace. A boy drinks water from the community water pump. Bridge abutment for Interstate 85 overpass construction seen in background. Theater posters on wall read “81 Theatre Sun – Mon – Tue May 22 – 23 -24 The Defiant Ones with Sidney Poitier and Tony Curtis Plus Inside the Mafia Regular Prices”. A Black man and a son look out a window. Man waves from a window.
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