View of Franklin Roosevelt’s Colonial Revival Little White House (401 Little White House Rd, Warm Springs, GA 31830, United States). Franklin Roosevelt sits at round table with his family- son James Roosevelt, daughter Anna Roosevelt Halsted and wife Eleanor Roosevelt. Roosevelt family sit together in portico of Little White House. Franklin Roosevelt enjoys music as he sits with fiddlers and banjo players of Georgia. He tells the musicians, "I'd like to hear you play a Soldier's Joy." Hand strums guitar. Banjos being played. Old musician plays violin. Musicians play violin. Musical band play folk music as Franklin Roosevelt listens.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt speaks at the dedication of Techwood Homes (Techwood was a slum clearance project to build twenty-three brick and concrete buildings to house 604 families and 308 Georgia Tech students. It also included forty-two concrete buildings with 677 apartments at Atlanta University) at Georgia Tech University. The President is seen delivering his dedication speech, entitled, “The Meaning of Progress," at Grant Field on the Georgia Tech campus in Atlanta, Georgia, before an audience of 50,000 people. He remembers the day, eleven years ago, in 1924, when he first came to Warm Springs, Georgia. He speaks about those days of so-called prosperity in America, when speculators profited and there was a "fool’s paradise” before "the crash", and the citizens were left "holding the bag." He reflects on the disaster and gloom from 1929 to March 3,1933, and reminds the audience of his administration’s subsequent actions to re-open closed banks and establish insurance for bank depositors. He speaks of the efforts of Government to find gainful employment for people out of work.
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt driving his grandchildren in his personal Ford Phaeton automobile. They drive into a cornfield near Warm Springs, Georgia, where they observe farmers loading cornstalks into a horse-drawn wagon. The President watches them from the car, as his grandchildren jump out and join the farmers in throwing the corn stalks into the wagon.
United States President Franklin Roosevelt visits Warm Springs, Georgia for his annual stay at Little White House. A crowd gathers at the train car carrying FDR. Close up of children waving to FDR. Crowd along a road as Roosevelt's limousine leaves the railroad area. President Roosevelt waves to the crowd. Children clap for him. A guard next to a sign that reads, 'This is the Little White House. It is Occupied. The public is requested to view it from the hill. Please do not intrude' FDR's car travels on the highway.
St. Louis Cardinals baseball team practices at spring training, 1938, in St. Petersburg Florida. Shots of team warming up in stadium. Shot of pitcher Paul Dean posing with his brother, Hall of Fame pitcher Dizzy Dean. Closeups of Dizzy Dean smiling, throwing. Shot of Cardinals manager and Hall of Fame second baseman Frankie Frisch. Cardinal player hits fly ball, palm trees in background. Outfielder and Hall of Famer Joe Medwick catches ball. Two young boys intently watch the action. Pitcher Lon Warneke (#18) throws. Outfielder Pepper Martin (#1) bunts and races down to first base. (Note: Dizzy Dean, who had a sore arm, would be traded to the Chicago Cubs just before the start of the 1938 season.)
Baseball's St. Louis Browns hold spring training in San Antonio Texas, March 1938. Players play catch, throwing baseballs to each other, as they lean out open windows of their hotel. One of the baseballs falls to the ground. One player gets doused with water by players in window above. Several players warm up their throwing arms on the field, where trees and outfield wall ads are seen in background. Two young women field grounders gently bunted by a player with a bat, standing several feet away, on home plate. Close up shot of Browns manager Gabby Street. Shot of unidentified Browns players. Players take practice swings from batting cage.
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