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Charles Augustus Lindbergh lands in the Spirit of St. Louis and is greeted by Henry Ford in Dearborn, Michigan.

The Spirit of St. Louis at the Ford Airport in Dearborn, Michigan. Spectators run as the Spirit of St. Louis lands. The aircraft taxis. Henry Ford greets and converses with aviator Charles Augustus Lindbergh. Ford introduces Lindbergh to the other officials. Charles Lindbergh at the back seat of a Ford automobile surrounded by a crowd. A procession of guests in touring cars.

Date: 1927, August 10
Duration: 2 min 26 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675031944
Police and U.S. military patrol streets to control the crowds and extinguish burning auto during race riots in Detroit Michigan

Detroit Race Riot in Detroit, Michigan in June 1943, during World War 2, and early in Civil Rights movement. Police disperse crowd from the street. Army patrol walks down the street in section of city. Two soldiers in front of the "HH Bowles Radio Service" store, with paint marked sign "colored" written on the store window, consistent with Jim Crow segregation practices, to identify it as an African American run business and discourage whites from patronizing it. Five U.S. soldiers holding light machine guns patrol on the street. Soldiers cross street. White youths exit from patrol wagon or paddy wagon and appear to be joking around. The youths pose in front of the patrol wagon. Police bus being driven. Views of U.S. Army tent camp in a field in Detroit. Firemen spray water on a burning automobile set on fire during the racially motivated riot. Smoke all around the burned vehicle. People stand on street and watch.

Date: 1943, June
Duration: 1 min 33 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675032040
Pickets attempt to stop the reopening of the Newton steel plant by non-unionized workers in Monroe Michigan

Approximately 120 strikers confront 1000 non-unionized workers and try to stop the reopening of the Newton steel plant in Monroe Michigan. Initially ,the pickets, armed with clubs and rocks, are able to prevent non-union workers from driving into the plant. The strikers are then outnumbered and scattered after being confronted by forces armed with tear gas. The picket line breaks and cars begin driving through to the plant. Strikers continue to fight, attempting to pull non-union workers out of their cars. The strikers are again attacked with tear gas, and they run into an orchard. The strikers cars are overturned or pushed into the river. The National Guard is summoned by Governor Murphy to take over and restore order. A union spokesman gives a speech, declaring that the union will get into Monroe eventually.

Date: 1937, June 10
Duration: 2 min 56 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675028726
A Ford car Model-N and Model-T driven in Greenfield Village, Michigan.

Early models of Ford Motor Company at Greenfield Village in Michigan. A Ford car Model-N of 1905. Man comes and checks radiator of car, cranks and polishes head lamps. He gets on to the car and adjusts his goggles. He drives the car on muddy road. Man stops the car, gets down and remove wood log from road and get in again to drive. A family travels in Ford Model-T touring car. Luggage on running board rack.

Date: 1914
Duration: 1 min 20 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675026578
A worker spends time with his family and has dinner after working in an automobile factory in Detroit, Michigan.

A film about workers in automobile factories in Detroit, Michigan. A man walks to his car in a parking lot. He gets in and drives off. Two little boys, the man's sons, play beside a residential street. The man pulls up to them in his car. The children run to the car. The father puts them in and drives off. The car pulls up at a curb. The man gets out lifting one child and carries another to the house. Inside, woman housewife and two girls are seen working in the kitchen to prepare dinner. The father walks in and kisses the wife and the girls. He puts the youngest boy on the floor and walks out. The father in an undershirt washes up. The two girls set the dining table. The family at the dining table as the father walks in. They say grace and eat. The two girls wash dishes.

Date: 1950
Duration: 2 min 40 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675067509
Daily activities of an automobile worker's family at their house in Detroit, Michigan.

A film about workers in automobile factories in Detroit, Michigan. A 1950s father sits in a living room chair. He is reading a paper as boys in the family run in and jump on him. The boys take the paper. He gets up and takes the boys towards a bed room. The father puts a small boy in a crib and tucks him in. He kisses the boy and walks out as the light goes out. The little boy in the crib fakes sleep and opens eyes. The boy jumps around the crib. The father puts the small boy in the crib and switches off a light. He walks back to the boy jumping in the crib. He tucks the boy in and walks out. The mother in the family is seen reading a newspaper. A girl reads sitting on a floor. Other girl sits by a radio turning the dial. The husband walks in and approaches his wife.

Date: 1950
Duration: 1 min 45 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675067510