
2 Items in This Collection
1) Building the Fire Line
Demonstration film about how to use a fire line to retard the advance of a forest fire. Detailed description by Albert Steg in the Collections folder.
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2) Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe and New York World's Fair, 1939--home movies
Color home movie footage of the 1939 New York World's Fair, including the NTG Congress of Beauty and Sun Worshipers Colony, and of a burlesque performance at Billy Rose's Diamond Horses...
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Steg, Albert Collection

Collection Identifier(s)
Albert Steg Collection, 2567

Credit: Albert Steg Collection, Northeast Historic Film. Burlesque performers in NTG's Congress of Beauty at the New York World's Fair, 1939.

Primary Format and Extent
1 film reel and 1 video cassette

Collection Date Range
1939;1952

Summary
The Albert Steg Collection consists of one 16 mm. film print and one Betacam SP video cassette. The film, Building the Fire Line, was produced by the United States Department of Agriculture in 1952. The video cassette contains footage transferred from a 1939 16 mm. home movie, including scenes from the 1939 New York World's Fair and a burlesque performance at Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe nightclub in New York.

Biographical/Historical Notes
Albert Steg is a freelance archivist and film collector living in Cambridge, MA.

Repository
Northeast Historic Film

Availability
Access is restricted; consult repository for detail.

Condition Governing Reproduction and Use
Authorization to reuse and/or reproduce must be obtained from Northeast Historic Film. See http://oldfilm.org/content/stock-footage-licensing for more information.
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