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Works Progress Administration jobs at Bolling Field and in New York building give men construction jobs during great depression

Unemployed African American men and various skilled and unskilled workers get jobs through Works Progress Administration (WPA) during great depression. Men gathered near Quartermaster office at a Bolling Field construction project in Washington DC. Laborers assist in building and grading runways at Bolling Field military installation. Men clear large rocks and debris from a jobsite. Workers smooth and grade runways. A steam shovel moves earth and loads a truck. Scene changes to New York City where a housing demolition project is shown, with men dismantling housing to prepare new moderate income housing. Bricks slide sown a chute away from the building. Workers at Colonial Park in Harlem New York are seen building a new bath house to accompany a newly completed swimming pool (later Jackie Robinson Pool).

Location: Washington DC USA
Date: 1937
Duration: 1 min 44 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058298
USAF General Henry Arnold meets crew of a U.S. B-29 at Bolling Field, Washington, DC (WW2)

USAF General Henry Arnold meets crew of U.S. Army Air Forces B-29 Super Fortress at Bolling Field, Washington, DC during World War II. C-47s lined up on the flight line. General Arnold, Lieutenant General Barney Giles and Brigadier General Lauris Norstad walk on the field. Crew members lined up in front of B-29. General Arnold in the foreground. General Norstad introduces the Aircraft Commander, Lt. DO Horsfall of Kalamazoo, Michigan, who salutes and shake hands with General Arnold. Lt. Horsfall introduces members of his crew who step forward, salute and shake General Arnold's hand. General Arnold tells the crew that U.S. bombers from China bases had been unable to reach the Japanese heartland. But B-29s from the Marianas would now be able to strike places like Hokkaido and Kyushu. He dictates a message for Horsfall and crew to write on a bomb. Crew members gather around bombs as the pilot writes the message, reading: 'To the war lords of Japan we have not forgotten. The B-29s will remind you again, again and again!'

Location: Washington DC USA
Date: 1944
Duration: 4 min 29 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051679
Demonstration of Campbell Model F flivver airplane at Bolling Field, Washington DC

View of a Campbell Model F airplane from rear, at Bolling Field in Washington DC. It is a pusher propeller "flivver" airplane, costing $1500, with tricycle landing gear and twin tail design, powered by a stock Ford V8 engine, with single ignition. View of engine running and long transverse central elevator, as well as side being moved. View of steerable nose gear. Pilot and inventor Hayden Campbell in the cockpit. Aircraft taxis out and takes off (view of Capitol dome in distance). Views of the airplane's Ford V8 engine, with one spark plug for each cylinder. Removing and replacing the engine cowling. Interior of cockpit, with ignition key, conventional yoke flight controls, basic instruments in panel and long push-pull throttle control.

Location: Washington DC USA
Date: 1937
Duration: 4 min 13 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675053139
Round the world fliers meet the officers at Bolling field in Washington DC, United States.

People gathered at Bolling field in Washington DC, United States. A policeman on a bike. People gather around the Douglas Cruiser aircraft to take a closer look at them. Police officers greet round the world fliers.

Location: Washington DC USA
Date: 1924
Duration: 60 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675049054
General Arnold decorates 25 fliers at Bolling Field in Washington DC, during World War Il

U.S. Army Air Force fliers being decorated at Bolling Field in Washington DC, United States. Commanding General of the U.S. Army Air Forces, Lieutenant General Henry H (Hap) Arnold, decorates aircrew members who took part in the Doolittle Raid against the Japanese in World War 2. Lt. Gen. Arnold pins the Distinguished Flying Crosses on the airmen. A flier with his wife after receiving the medal.

Location: Washington DC USA
Date: 1942, June 29
Duration: 30 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675057757
President John Calvin Coolidge, his wife and cabinet members greet Douglas World Cruisers aviators in Washington, DC

U.S. Army Air Service Douglas World Cruisers (DWC) in the United States during their first flight around the world. In Washington DC U.S. President John Calvin Coolidge, Mrs. Coolidge and cabinet members visit Bolling Field to greet airmen as they triumphantly cross the continent. President Coolidge's car. The President alights from the car. Views of the cabinet members. A crowd at Bolling Field, awaits arrival of the fliers, who were delayed in their flight from Mitchel Field, Long Island, by bad weather. The world cruisers land in formation, in rainy conditions. Two world cruisers parked wingtip to wingtip. The fliers are congratulated by President Coolidge and U.S. Secretary of War John W. Weeks. President Coolidge, wearing a rain coat, and other personnel examine the veteran airplanes.

Location: Washington DC USA
Date: 1924
Duration: 1 min 41 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675071969
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