A laundry in operation in the city of Chicago, Illinois, United States. Shirts being starched as girls run a collar and cuff starching machine. The shirts piled up on a table. Dampening machines in operation during dampening and ironing process. Women workers mend torn garments and replace missing buttons as they work on sewing machines.
Operations at a commercial laundry plant in Chicago, early in the 20th century. Shirts being fed into a washing machine. Collars being ironed. Racks of collars. Ironed collars being fed through a humidifying machine. The collars pass through shaping and finishing machines. Baskets of finished collars. Women workers assort and assemble collars and shirts. On a Saturday afternoon laundry delivery trucks being loaded. The trucks leave to deliver the laundry. A man returns laundry to a private residential house.
Trees and gardens on the property of Luther Burbank, the famed horticulturalist in Santa Rosa California. In his experimental gardens are seen roses in bloom. Also a walnut tree, and a garden with a greenhouse connecting to the back of Burbank's home. A gardener with a watering can walks beside a raised garden bed. A Monkey Puzzle pine tree is seen with Luther Burbank inspecting it and walking beside it.
Lumber industry in the United States. Logs of wood being loaded onto flat cars. A locomotive pulling logs in mountains. Driving mechanism of the locomotive at work. Men roll logs of wood on a boom. The logs being rolled into a conveyor lift to a mill.
Life of people in California, United States. An automobile driven in open country. A rocky shore as waves break at the coast. A man examines a mast of a Chinese junk off Santa Catalina Island. Automobile traffic on a city street. Pedestrians on a sidewalk. Cars driven along a mountain road. A man mixes a meal with a wooden pestle in a wooden bowl.
Scenic views in the early 1900s of the Rocky Mountains in the United States. Tourists go up and down a flight of stairs on the side of the South Cheyenne canyon wall near Colorado Springs, Colorado. The Seven Springs waterfall of the South Cheyenne Creek is seen, with tourists and a burro at the bottom of the canyon. (Now known as the Broadmoor Seven Falls.) View of the deep gorge cut by Seven Falls. A 1000 feet high granite gorge. A man walks over a deeply eroded rock formation over snow and ice (has appearance of glacier) west of the foothills as the mountains become steeper. Steel beams over a railroad track in a canyon beside a river at the mouth of a mountain tunnel.