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Chefs, waiters and women working in the kitchens of the Hotel Statler in Detroit, Michigan

Chefs and employees working in the restaurant kitchen of the Hotel Statler (1539 Washington Boulevard Detroit, Michigan) in Detroit Michigan. Opening slate of film reads: "Here we are in the heart of the hotel, looking down the long line of ranges where Broiled Lobsters and Roast Chicken are done to a turn. (At lower right of slate is statement: "Produced by Ford Motor Company.") More than a dozen chefs in classic white uniforms are seen preparing meals that are being picked up by waiter in tuxedos. Another view of chefs at work. A slate reads: "If cleanliness is next to Godliness, surely this is a wonderful place to work. It is unknown, while pots and pans shine like milady's mirror." Several views of a young woman tending several large coffee pots and dispensing pots of it to waiters. Another slate reads: "System! There is enough of it here to delight a General. Note the order and precision with which everything is carried forward." Views of kitchen staff interacting with the formally dressed wait staff members who check each order before taking it on trays to the dining room. Next slate reads: "Dainty salads with sweet cream and delicious fruits, prepared by the hand of an expert."Four women are seen behind a counter, making these fancy salads and passing them to waiters. Closeup of one being prepared.

Date: 1916
Duration: 1 min 54 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675064466
Film 'Lights and Shadows in a city of Millions' shows community women helping housewives and children in Detroit.

Film 'Lights and Shadows in a city of Millions' shows poor foreigners and immigrants being taught by community workers in Detroit. Visiting nurses going on their daily rounds. Nurse gets into a house where community aid is required. Sick child lying in bed. Nurse wipes sick child's face with wet cloth. Number of children being taken care by the community. Views of the waiting room of a community health clinic, and views of a hospital ward for children, with many children in hospital beds and nurses atending to their needs. A disabled man who has benefited from community programs rolls down a ramp in a wheel chair. Inexperienced housewives are trained by community women. They teach a housewife how to bake muffins. A woman removes finished muffins from a early 1900s oven and inspects them. Two women bake together and remove more muffins form the oven.

Date: 1919
Duration: 1 min 45 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675064498
Young men given education and children taken care of by the Community members in Detroit.

Character building education for young men in Detroit. Group of young boys swimming. Young men dressed in uniform seated during a class. A Community member holds an orphan baby in hand. Young girl on bed with a doll in hand.

Date: 1919
Duration: 26 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675064499
Community women workers teach poor immigrant women how to sew; also immigrant housing problems in Detroit.

Community members teaching various things and help new immigrants in Detroit Michigan. Community women workers instruct foreign immigrant women and teach them to how to sew. Immigrant children seated in the instruction room with their mothers as they take a class. Immigrants and poor people sitting in front of tenement shacks on an empty street in a slum and poverty area. Two African American men come out of a parked car on St Antoine street where they have spent the night.

Date: 1919
Duration: 30 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675064500
Community members look after orphans in Detroit.

Community members take care of thousands of orphans in Detroit. Car halts in front of an orphanage. Board on the building reads 'Child Welfare Building'. Women and children enter the building. Young children playing in the orphanage.

Date: 1919
Duration: 42 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675064501
Community members look after blind and teach them to be self supportive in Detroit.

Community members teach blind people to become self supporters in Detroit. Blind boy operates typewriter and Dictaphone machine. Baby siting and smiling in a crib.

Date: 1919
Duration: 35 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675064502