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Women of Monroe, New York, provide volunteer services to their community

Mrs. Carter, a resident of Monroe, New York, is seen with other members of the Local League of Women Voters, as they prepare for upcoming local elections. Sign in background reads: "The League of Women Voters, non-partisan Voters Service League."The women assemble voting information packets. View of one member woman caring for several children of members, during the League meeting. League members distributing election information to homes of their neighbors. (One woman refuses to accept any voting information.) One woman places voting materials into the open window of a parked car. Another posts a campaign poster on a telephone pole. League members prepare voter lists and telephone voters. Candidates speaking at meetings arranged by the League of Women Voters. Varying reactions of women in the audience. Another view of voters in a line outside the polling place. Women of the Parent Teacher Association engaged in a local project to establish a Recreation Center for Teens. Youth square dancing at the new Teen Center and enjoying refreshments afterwards. Students viewing motion pictures about anatomy, birth and growth, provided by the Board of Education. View of faces of teenage boys and girls viewing film about human anatomy in an auditorium. Primary school children going through a cafeteria line and eating their lunch at tables. The local dentist checking teeth of school children during annual exams at school. The dentist's receptionist voluntarily looking after children in a local hospital.

Date: 1950
Duration: 7 min 12 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032770
Women participating in the life of their community in Monroe, New York.

A woman named Ann Collins is seen in a vacant lot, where she and others of the community work to clean it up so it can be made into a playground. They pick up trash and deposit it in a wheelbarrow that Ms Collins pushes to a 1947 Dodge pickup truck, parked nearby, where it is unloaded. Views of others working with rakes and shovels to prepare the ground. Some trash falls on Ms. Collins as she hands a bushel basket full to a man standing in the back of the open truck. She smiles and climbs into the cab of the truck, which has "John C. Hunter, Monroe, N.Y. Dial 2371" painted on its door. The truck drives away, with two young men steadying boxes of trash in the back. The truck proceeds along a street in the town, past parked cars of the period, such as a 1949 Pontiac sedan. Ms Collins waves from the truck cab as it drives past a street sign reading "No Littering." They pass people lined up outside a polling place, where election voting is taking place. Scene changes to the interior of a rummage shop run by local women to help the poor. Other women are seen working inside a greenhouse associated with a garden club. Next, a woman is seen handing publications to two girl scouts in uniform. A church choir, with many women, sings during a service. Closeups of the choir as they sing the hymn, "Holy, Holy, Holy" by John B. Dykes. Scene shifts to a physician and nurse taking blood from a volunteer blood donor. Closeup of the blood being collected in a glass flask. Next, citizens are seen inside the polling place where volunteers register them to vote. A uniformed police officer stands nearby as the voters make their way to voting booths. Women enter curtained voting booth and vote.

Date: 1950
Duration: 3 min 37 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032772
Joe DiMaggio and others at the funeral of Hollywood star Marilyn Monroe in Los Angeles, California.

Funeral of Marilyn Monroe. Close friends and former husband Joe DiMaggio attend the private funeral of Hollywood star Marilyn Monroe. A casket carrying Monroe's body is placed on a trolley and is taken to Westwood village memorial park cemetery. Joe DiMaggio Jr., son of Joe DiMaggio, attends the funeral. Photographers take pictures. Lutheran priest A.J. Soldan conducts a prayer service. Joe DiMaggio leaves after the funeral.

Date: 1962, August 9
Duration: 57 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675042229
Women's Club of Monroe, New York, sponsors concert to benefit the General Hospital

Mrs. Gates, of Monroe New York, a member of the local Women's Club, is seen wearing a corsage of flowers as she stands in front of the notice of a concert, sponsored by the club, for the benefit of the General Hospital. View inside the auditorium, where a solo violinist is playing on stage to a full audience. Mrs. Gates escorts a couple to their seats. Closeup of the violinist on stage. Closeup of Mrs. Gates again. Closeup of the concert poster.

Date: 1950
Duration: 1 min 15 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032771
U.S. Army soldiers load and pack leaflet bomb shells with leaflets (Monroe Bombs) in Italy.

American soldiers work in a factory preparing Monroe Bombs filled with propaganda leaflets in World War 2. They load and pack shells with cardboard cylinders containing leaflets, as well as explosive charges to detonate the bombs at altitude which would release the leaflets as part of psychological warfare tactics. The Monroe Bomb shell assembly line is shown in operation.

Date: 1945, February 21
Duration: 1 min 21 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675045535
Sing Sing football team Blacksheep wins over Monroe Bull Dogs with a score of 30-0, Ossining Village.

Sing Sing football team Blacksheep wins over Monroe Bull Dogs in Ossining Village. Football game in progress. Spectators in stand cheering. Blacksheep wins over Monroe Bull Dogs with a score of 30 to 0.

Date: 1935, September 23
Duration: 38 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675060555