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Nursery schools, parks and playgrounds built under Works Progress Administration projects in Chicago, Illinois

Children eat, play and sleep in a nursery school set up under Works Progress Administration project in Chicago, Illinois. People swim in a pool. Boys and girls play in swimming pools and splash. Boys in a line wait to use a diving board as a boy dives off of a high dive spring board. Children enjoy playground equipment and play on swings in a playground also constructed through WPA projects during the Great Depression.

Date: 1937
Duration: 1 min 37 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058520
Robert Irwin confesses of murdering a model, her mother and a boarder in Chicago, Illinois.

Robert Irwin confesses his crime in Chicago, Illinois. Robert Irwin after he confesses of having murdered a model, her mother and a boarder in New York three months ago. Officials escort him to an aircraft as photographers click pictures. Irwin boards the aircraft to leave for New York.

Date: 1937, June 25
Duration: 29 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058987
Albert Tangora sets a new record of typing of 141 words a minute in Chicago, Illinois typing contest.

Albert Tangora sets a new typing record in Chicago, Illinois. A number of men and women at typewriters during a competition as people look on. Many women typing in typing pool. Albert Tangora types during contest.. Tangora poses with the winning trophy after he won the competition by setting a new typewriter speed record. Tangora typed 141 words a minute for an hour during the competition on a Royal typewriter.

Date: 1937, June 25
Duration: 30 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058989
Cattle, a man and a tractor pull plows at a field in Grand Detour, Illinois to honor the inventor of steel plow.

The inventor of steel plow Major Leonard Andrus being honored in Grand Detour, Illinois. A cattle pulls a plow at a field as eight thousand men and women look on. A stone with a sculpture of Leonard Andrus on it. A man works on a wooden plow. A couple pushes a plow on a field. Models on a tractor with steel plows attached to it.

Date: 1937, June 25
Duration: 44 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058992
The pressman at the printing press creating the covers of 'Life' magazine in Chicago, Illinois.

Men work at a press in Chicago, Illinois. The printed matter is going through a roller. A man unloads paper roll from a freight car. The pressman pile up the magazine. Different printing machines at the press. Another pressman puts a fresh roll. The ink rollers. The 'Life' magazine cover being printed and in process. The cover of 'Life' magazine comes out of press. A pressman looks at the printed cover.

Date: 1937, April
Duration: 2 min 58 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675068675
A man in the press puts ink in the ink roller and prints the 'Life' magazine in Chicago, Illinois.

Men work at a press in Chicago, Illinois. An ink roller and a man puts ink in the roller. A pressman operates the printing machine. The 'Life' magazine being printed. A man works at the machine.

Date: 1937, April
Duration: 2 min 22 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675068676