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Clip #: TFA-63A
Length: 10:08
Year: 1946
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1940s
Description:
An educational film about Immigration to America. Shows the origins and volume of immigrants entering the United States from colonial times until 1920, the reasons for immigration, the adjustment of immigrants to like in the U.S. and the drastic reduction of immigration caused by the Act of 1924.
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Clip #: TFA-223C
Length: 22:32
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1900s
Description:
Turn of the Century New York City scenes, including arrival of immigrants at Ellis Island, "Twenty-Three Skidoo" outside the Flatiron Building and ice skating on the frozen 59th Street Pond.
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Clip #: SF-2C
Length: 16:23
Year: 1912
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1910s
Description:
When a Red Cross worker asks a prominent small-town banker for a donation to help fight tuberculosis the banker scoffs, saying that TB is a disease of poor people in the cities, not the kind of people you find in small towns. It's not long before he finds out just how wrong he is.
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Clip #: TFA-375G
Length: 02:38
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1940s
Description:
A tour of New York City in the 1940s.
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Clip #: TFA-297A-2
Length: 4:34
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
Male students from Manhattan’s Metropolitan Vocational High School learn about every aspect of life as a sailor in a floating maritime school on the SS John W. Brown, in preparation for careers in the merchant marine, the United States Navy and the United States Coast Guard.
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Clip #: TFA-346B
Length: 8:35
Year: 1947
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1940s
Description:
A Carl Dudley This Land of Ours episode about New York City.
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Clip #: TFA-208I
Length: 10:04
Year: 1950
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
A film about the elevated trains in New York City in the 1950s
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Clip #: TFA-98C
Length: 8;03
Year: 1956
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
A tour of New York City in 1956
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Clip #: TFA-349A
Length: 13:07
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
A tour of various ethnic neighborhoods in New York City in the 1950s
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Clip #: MF-28G
Length: 3:20
Year: 1955
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
Occupational Health Services Inc. from Ashville, North Carolina takes mobile medical clinics to factories
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