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Old Roosevelt Home Movie

The clip above is from the full movie (17:41) available on the archive.



Hard to believe that film has been downloaded only 13 times. Thank you to the Roosevelt family for this national treasure.

FDR in Pittsburgh

Rare color footage of FDR visiting Pittsburgh on October 11, 1940.  According to a PG article from October 8th, he was in town to dedicate the Terrace Village housing project in the Hill District.  City and county workers were given a half-day off.  The parade route went through Swissvale, Rankin, Homestead, West Homestead, and part of the South Side.  Also apparently East Liberty (where his train arrived) and Penn Avenue downtown (from where it departed).



Also in that 10-minute silent clip is footage of Eleanor Roosevelt visiting Pittsburgh for a luncheon.

At the very beginning it looks as though FDR is manipulating his legs, perhaps loosening his braces after just getting into the car from the train? 

Here's an October 11th article from the evening copy of the Pittsburgh Press.  Lots of detail about the visit there (including the text of his speech).

Old Creativity

Old Autumn

Old Long Way Home

Occupations of Pittsburgh - in 1844

New to the archive, a book listing all Pittsburgh businesses in 1844, just before the Great Fire.  It's from the personal collection of John Quincy Adams.

There were as many umbrella makers as there were plumbers and undertakers!

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The list of taverns goes on for another page...

There appears to have been more than one African Literary Institute:

Not from the book, but an illustration from 1843: